Connecticut western news., 1900-05-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tersefy Told.

The Standard Oil company has declar- ed quarterly dividend of S10,oo0,oo0.
 Records found at Lancaster. Pa, show that Barbara Frietehie. Whittier's her oine, was born Dec. q, lT66.
 Justice kenetick. in the supreme court at Buffalo. has declared the Ford fran chise tax law constitutional.
 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad com. pany has awarded contracts for work to sost approximately S1.650.oso.
 Burglars secured S5,oo0 from the vaults of the Bank of Coulterville, Ills, a pri' vate institution, and made their escape.
 Governor Roosevelt has signed the met ropolitan election district bill and the Elsberg amendment 10 the civil service law.
 Colonel Winfield Taylor Durhin of An. ierson was nominated for governor Of Indiana by the Republican state conyen' tiun.
 Peter Marvin. aged 2s. Dennis Swee. ney. aged 23. and Lawrence Quigley aged 22. of Englewood, N. l., were drowned in 0verpeek creek on Monday.
 Freddie Tomlinson, years old, was burned to death at Trenton as result of playing with matches. The mother was badly burned in trying to save the child.
 A forest fire at Eiwood, Atlantic conn. ty. N. l.. has rendered ten families home less besides ruining several thousand acres of timber land and score of farms.
 Mrs. Anna Louise Lottridge has been freed from custody and exonerated from all blame for the death in Chicago of Millionaire Rufus Wright by the coro- ner's jury.
 Michael Murray. prominent politician of Yonkers, N. Y., and formerly mem Der of the board of aldermen. received fatal injuries in a runaway accident on Wednesday.
 Burglars broke into the postotficc at Campbell. eight miles from Corning, N. Y., blew the safe to pieces with dynn- mite and secured about SIo0 In money and stamps.
 Amos Stanley Douglas, president of the First National bank. Franklin. Delaware county. N. l.. and insurance adjustcr and inspector of New York state, has died, aged . years.
 By the explosion of a portable boiler belonging to Drake X Seatton. contract, ors, at Rankin, Pa. five men were terri bly, injured and eight others cut, bruised and slightly scalded.
 The plant of the Troy tpal Knitting company has been destroyed by fire. | Loss. S25.OO0: insurance, Si2.0o0. One hundred and twenty-five operatives arc thrown out of employment. The Dnnfee theater in Syracuse has | been burned. The dama ge will be SIO.. O00. Captain Philip Kantz was seriously injured by falling into the cellar of the burning building and may die Orders have been issued by the war de. | pertinent for the arrest of Lieutenant <. \ C. Hazard, n graduate of West Point and an officer of the First artillery. on Il charge of absence without leave.
 In a fight at Sorgogon, Albay province, on April 16 three companies of the For. l.t ty-seyenth infantry, Captain Gordon | commanding, routed a large force of in. surgents, mostly bolomcn, killing 53 Pine Run mine at Toms Creek, Wise county. Pa. Is on fire. Four men hav, been found sutfocated. and two others art known to he in the mine. The mine ha, been flooded in the hope of extinguishine the fire. | Walter Fellows, the whistler in Anna IIeld's company, has obtained a verdic, for S2.OOO against the Third Avenu. Street Railway company of New York for being thrown from n car by a cnn. | dnctor.
 Two special trains left Chicago on ths Santa Fe railroad hauling 3S Armour rc frigeratur cars filled with t.OOO.OOs pounds of timed and crated bacon con signed to the American soldiers in tn, l Philippines.
 The First battalion of the Fourteenth United States infantry. which has beer 1 in quarantine at San Francisco has land cd at the reservation wharf of the Presi dio after two years of continuous nghtinE in the Philippines.
 A eloudburst. accompanied by n higi wind, descended upon Waco. Tex, ol Friday, and the result is that eight per sons are known to have perished and property valued at many thousand dol lars has been destroyed or damaged
 While fighting a fire in a wood lot or their farm near Lawton. Mich, Mir. m, Mrs. William Brace were hemmed in b, the flames. Mrs. Brace was burned i, death, and her husband was so seyerel, burned that his recovery Is doubtful
 James S. Mckean. president of th, | Union Trust company of Pittsburg, Ii dead. He was postmaster during Pres ident Harrison's administration and wa, one of the acknowledged leaders in Re publican politics in western Pennsylya mia.
 President Mckinley will be in Can ton. O.. on July 1, and preparations ar, being made by citizens for big cel,' bration. Invitations have been sent [, Governors Roosevelt and Nash. Sena tors Hanna and Foraker, Admiral Dew ey and others.
 Mrs. William Lynch has conveyed |. her only daughter. Mrs, James |. Coo gan. all her real estate holdings in New York city. They are estimated to h, worth several million dollars, and man, of them have been in Mrs. Lyneh's fami ly for generations.
 Samuel c. Seeley. who stole S354. .OOt from the National Shoe and Leather bank, New York city. has been released from the Kings county penitentiary aft CT serving sentence of eight year which through good behavior was rcduc ed to five years and four months.
 oberlin NJ. Carter. late captain in tn, United States army. Is now in the feder al prison at Fort Leayenworth. Kan. Hi prison number is 2,6g4. and he is the DC eupant of cell No. 425. Carter will be prison bookkeeper in the harness room shoe repairing and carpet weaving shops
 The boiler makers, maehinists and oth CT expert iron workers employed by th, Baltimore and Ohio railroad at thei shops in parkershurg, W. Na., have beer notified that beginning on May l thei rate of pay would be increased to x2.3' day. This Is the highest scale since 1875.
 Charles Ingersoll of Ithaca, N. i,, hai been arrested in San Francisco on th' charge Of embedding Si5.oO0 of puhli, funds belonging to Tompkins county, N Y.. of which he was treasurer. lngersol admits his identity and says he is willin, c. return without the nr, esstty ot extra tlitiun prorecdings. He says he took tn, money to tide over temporary iinancia | embarrassment.