Connecticut western news., 1900-03-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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Solomon Roosevelt, builder of the first
 Atlantic steamers, has died at Dela-
 ware, O.
 Brigadier General Harrison Gray Otis.
 U. S. w., has been appointed breyst
 major general.
 Four hundred mules have been shipped
 from Kansas City for use by the British
 in South Africa.
 Thirteen fremen and a policeman were
 burt, none of them seriously, at a fire in
 Philadelphia Friday night. Minister Merry cabled from San Jose,
 Costa Rica, that a revolutionary invasion
 of Costa Rica was expected. Senator Hurley of Tennessee. 1t Is said. | will be a candidate for the Democratic
 nomination for vice president The business portion of Glen Hazel,
 Pa, for the second time in recent years
 was almost totally destroyed by fire on Thursday.
 Two miners were killed and cue fatally
 injured by an explosion of giant powder
 at their camp near Monongahela, Pa, on Thursday.
 Leslie E. Keeley, the inventor of the Keeley cure for the liquor habit, has
 died at Los Angeles. Dr. Keelsy was 6s years of age.
 Princess Cantacuzene, who was Julia
 Dent Grant, granddaughter of General U. s. Grant, Is Ill with typhoid fever in St. Petersburg.
 The general assembly of Virginia has passed a resolution making June 3, the birthday of Jefferson Davis, a legal holi. day in Virginia.
 The United States supreme court has denied the application of Captain 0berlin M. Carter to bring his case into that
 court. There was no written opinion. President Barrows announces a gift of S40,000 for 0berlin college from the es. tate of William Osborn of Pittsburg, who died In Floridn a few weeks ago The total United States revenue re- ceipts for January amounted to S23,- | 0l9,423, an increase as compared with the same month in 1899 of $2, ,206.672. Judge Jenkins of the United States court in Milwaukee has appointed n re- ceiver for the United States Milling com. pany, otherwise known as the flour trust. Four men were killed by being thrown from descending carriage In the Mount Pleasant shaft of the Fuller Coal com. pany in West Scranton. Pa, on Tuesday. Parishioners of the retiring pastor, Rev. Dr. van Dyke, of the Brick Presby- terian church, New York, have presented to him purse of $30,000 and a silver | loving cup.
 Under the new pension system of the Pennsylvania railroad 99S employees have been relieved from service. The | aggregate of their pensions is S200, 900 | per annum.
 Secretary Root is so we'll satisfied with II fha Ia kw ha .l from the natives of Porto Rico that he has determined to increase the number now in service.
 statement that the receipts of public funds of the Philippine Islands beginning Aug. 13, 1898, and ending Dec. 31, 1899, amounted to $6,696, ,0S0. The state department has directed the withdrawal of our claims to the islands of Caygayen, Sulu and Cibutu. all of which lie without the boundary lines laid down by the treaty of Paris. The next national convention of the Populist party will be held in Sioux Falls, s. D., on May Q. Representation Is based on the vote for General J. R. Weaver for president In 1892. The Minetto Shade Cloth company's plant at Minetto, suburb of Oswego, N. Y., was partially destroyed by fire on Monday. The loss Is placed at S200, 900 and Is fully covered by insurance. Bert Reiss, Brooklyn. lawyer, repre- senting the Venecia estate, has sent to | the state department claim for S400, 900 on the United States government grow. ing out of the Cuban insurrection. Memorial services were held in the as. sembly chamber at Trenton, N. J., on Wednesday in honor of the late Vice President Hobart. Attorney General John W. Griggs delivered sn address. The Erie telephone system, the largest in the United States operating under the Bell patents, has passed into the hands of a rival concern, the Telephone, Tele- graph and Cable company of America. Charles McNeill, wealthy land owner of Cadillac, Mich, has purchased from the Francis Palms estate of Detroit 15,- 0S0 acres of hard wood land near New bury. The consideration was $64o.0O Victor Hochenstein of Spencer, Ind, has filed a claim for S200, 900 against the Spanish government for treatment re- ceived from Spanish soldiers in Cuba while he was In the service of the Red Cross society.
 In Buffalo on Thursday Governor Roosevelt unveiled a tablet to the memo ry of the p members of the Sixty-hfth New York volunteers who died during and subsequent to service in the Spanish. American war.
 By the California supreme courts de- cision upholding the trust clause of Sen ator Fairs will his children, Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt Jr.; Mrs. Hermann oelrichs and Charles Fair, get only the income from the estate.
 Henry c. Miner, for many years a well known theatrical manager and at one time a member of congress, died suddenly at his home on Riverside drive, New York city, on Thursday. Death was caus. ed by apoplexy.
 Thomas w. Balls heroic statue of Washington, conceded to be his master. piece and the finest presentment of the first president of the United States in existence, was unveiled at Methuen, Mass, on Thursday.
 Genera. Jobn McNulta of Chicago, well known throughout the west because of his identification with the receiverships of railroads and other great corporations. died suddenly in Washington on Thurs day from angina pectoris.
 The BaldwiG Locomotive works of Philadelphia has received an order from
 the Paris and Orleans railway of France for 80 ten wheel passenger engines This
 is the first locomotive contract ever plac. ed by this railway in America. Fire destroyed three buildings of the Troy Malleable Iron works on Sunday,
 causing a damage of S150,000. Fully 1000 employees will be thrown out of work and will suffer from enforced idle. ness probably for three months. In Honolulu the health situation Is bet. ter than at any time since the outbreak of the plague. Not case has developed in the last ten days. Although the board of health Is confident that the trouble is
 over, vigilance will not be relaxed. Up to Feb. 6, the date of the last case. there
 had been 50 deaths from plague in the aI.