Connecticut western news., 1900-08-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TcrseIy Told.

caused ST5.oo0 damage.
 J. H. Wright has been appointed post. master at Nome, Alaska.
 British American union has been or ganiEed in San Francisco.
 A Texas man has been sentenced to life Imprisonment for leading a lynehing party.
 Three street railway strikers have been arrested in St. Louis charged with dy- namiting.
 The population of Providence has In. creased 3S per cent in ten years, being now 173,000.
 Honolulu's death rate has grown until a quarantine against consumption has been discussed.
 Philippine war veterans have gathered in Denver to form the Society of the Army of the Philippines.
 The India famine relief fund. contrib. uted to by persons all over the country, has reached the s2oo, 1000 mark.
 Three men were killed and four injur- ed by the explosion of a pipe In the New York Steam company's building on Mon. day.
 Comptroller Coler of New York city has refused to pay bills of certain experts in the Molineux case because they are so high.
 Additional rural free delivery service has been ordered established on Aug. Is at Constableville, N. Y., and at Chico ra. Pa.
 The steamer Clutch. from Skaguay, brings reports of the discovery of exten sive coal beds near the Dalton trail, not far from White Horse.
 Charles Roddig of Lancaster, Pa, aged about 25 years, an employee of the Union News company, was drowned while bath ing in the surf at Atlantic City.
 Several minor engagements occurred last week in Luzon. The rebels used smokeless powder, which they must nee essarily have obtained by hlibustering.
 William Gleason. a New Yorker, serv- ing four years and six months In Auburn prison for burglary and larceny, commit ted suicide by hanging himself In his cell.
 At Jamestown, O., A. c. Bingamon killed his wife and his son-in-law, James Bradley, and then committed suicide. The tragedy was the result of family troubles.
 The Geneva (N. Y.) City hospital win receive S10,0O0 by the will of the late Hon, Judge Francis O. Mason. Upon the death of two sisters of the deceased it will also receive SS0.oo0 additional. Henry Hoffman, aged 105 years, sup. posed 10 have been the oldest resident of Pennsylvania, died at his home in Butler Valley. He was born in New Brunswick. N. J. Up to within a few years he was able to work in the grainhelds. Articles of incorporation of the Peo- ple's Cooperative Ice company of New York city have been filed at Albany The company has a capital of S2o0, 900 divid. ed into 10000 shares. Of this stock Sl00,. 900 is common and S100.000 preferred. The steamer City of Seattle has arriv. ed from Skaguay with 215 passengers, 125 of whom are from Dawson. and about S200, 900 in gold dust. Skaguay had an earthquake Aug Q, the shock lasting fully minute. No damage was done.
 A passenger train on the Southern Pa. ciic road was wrecked at Iowa Station, La, Sunday evening. Several persons were killed and many injured. The trucks of the engine left the track. and the entire train was ditched except the sleepers.
 The August report of the statistician of the department of agriculture shows the following averages of condition on Aug. 1: Corn, ST.5; spring wheat. 56.4, |, oats, $50; barley, 71.6; spring rye, 76.0; buckwheat, SID; potatoes, SS.2; timothy hay. 79.o.
 A special from Managua, Nicaragua, says that the Eyre-Cragin syndicate's canal concession has been forfeited be- cause of the nonpayment of money due. | This leaves the Nicaraguan government | free to deal independently with the Unit ed States in canal matters. Charles n. Lane, the we'll known mln. CT who has returned from Cape Nome, where he has large interests, in an inter view says that from 5000 to 10000 peo- | pie at Nome are facing absolute destitu- | tion and the only possible relief Is through the United States government. The gross receipts at 50 of the largest postoi\es for July aggregate t8. .33s, ,0s3. . net increase of x253.3 1892 over July, | 1899. The largest increase, 26 per cent. was at Albany. Only nine offices showed decreases. The receipts st New York were se59,747 and Chicago s4T4.631. A letter has been received from Prince | toms agent at the Paris exposition con tainins the information that the jury of award in the college department has | granted Princeton university the Grand l Prix, which Is the highest award given | in the college department of the exposi ton.
 The war department has received the l following dispatch from Manila; Colonel Grasss. Aug. 1, in vicinity of Tayug surrendered command to Colonel Free. man, Twenty fourth United States in. fantry, consisting of a major. c captains. 6 lieutenants, l69 men, 1Oi rifles and 60
 bolos."
 Major Mansell, the British vice consul | at Van, while travelling near Elk. was | nd ktw Iraa | was wounded The consul got his party away with difficulty and his baggage was lost. The British ambassador has lodged a strong protest with the Turkish gov | ernment.
 | The records of the office of the comp
 troller of the currency show that since
 March 14 last he has approved 420 appli- | cations to organize national banks, of
 which 25T have since been organized and
 begun business. The amount of bonds
 deposited to secure circulation Is S4,- 250. .250.
 Advices received from Btlis, Asiatic | Turkey. say that 200 men. women and
 children have been mnssacred in the Ar
 menian village of Spaghank, in the dis. trict of Snssun. by troops and Kurds un.
 der Ali Pasha, the commandant of Bitlis.
 He Is also said to have ordered the vii.
 lage to be burned.
 Three steamers from Cape Nome have
 arrived at Seattle, all bringing gold and
 large numbers of passengers. The Ore
 gon brought S345, 900, the largest con
 signment of Nome gold since the discoy.
 ery of treasure in that district; the San
 Pedro brought about s15o,Ooo and the
 Charles n. Lane S5o,oO0.
 | Fourteen persons were instantly killed
 and II others, several of whom will die,
 were seriously injured Sunday night in
 grade crossing accident three miles
 east of Slatington, Pa. A passenger
 rain on the Lehigh and New England
 railroad crashed into an omnibus con
 taining 25 persons. but three of whom
 escaped uninjuree.
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