Connecticut western news., 1900-04-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
HappeninH. of the Wide World
 Briefly and TcrscIy Told.

practically wiped out hN hres
 San Jose scale has appeared in the or chards of Orleans county, N. '.
 A camel has been born in the Central park menagerie, New York city.
 Half the striking miners in the Pitts. burg district have returned to work.
 NearlF 400 new laws were passed by the New York legislature this session.
 The business portion of Ravenna. Mich, has been burned with loss of S2OO. 900.
 Governor Roosevelt has signed a bill prohibiting gsmbling on New York state fair grounds.
 Serious rioting is reported at San Juan, Porto Rico. growing out of the labor troubles there.
 Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio have voted to issue Sd, 100000 of common stock for bctterments.
 The New York preshytery has accepted the resignation of Rev. Dr A. C. Me Giffert from the ministry.
 The Kentucky court of appeals has de- cided against Governor Taylor, holding that it has no jurisdiction.
 The building trades strikers of Chicago are said to be living on the cooperative plan and able to hold out year.
 The Carnegie company will expend be- tween S1,5o0.o 900 and S2.oo0.0o0 in im. proving Conueaut (Ohiol harbor.
 Eastern capitalists have purchased T0,0O0 acres of land in northern Fayette county, Pa, for coal mining purposes.
 Six or seven lives were lost in a wreck on the Forth Worth and Denver City railroad near Charming, Tex, on wednes. day.
 sergeant and a corporal of Company l. Eighteenth infantry. were killed in a severe fight in Capiz province, island of
 Panay.
 The steamship Knight Bachelor, Cap tain Paine, has cleared from New Or leans for Cape Town with 1872 mules
 for the British army.
 The Sans Souci Opera House block and the Schaffer building at Ballston Spa, N. Y., were burned Sunday. Loss S15O, 900, insurance $50,0O0. A complete steel house has been ship ped from Philadelphia to Prince Yoshi- bito at Tokyo. and 31 locomotives and tenders were shipped to Russia.
 A few days ago the wife of James Fur man, eolored man. 60 years old, of Washington, N. l., presented him with son. He Is the father of 26 children. General c. NJ. Randall, U. $. A., com. mnnder of the department of Alaska, has sailed from Seattle for Skaguay, where he will select site for an army post. The physical laboratory, one of the largest and finest buildings of Lehigh university, at Bethlehem. Pa, has been burned. The loss will probably exceed S3O0,0OO.
 Lieutenant Gordon, with a company of the Sixteenth infantry, while scouting near Aparri. Cagayan province, engaged 250 insurgents. Lieutenant Gordon was wounded.
 Robbers shot bound, gagged and rob bed a watchman and blew open a safe at Mamaroneck. N. Y., Wednesday night after exchanging shots with n policeman at Larchmont.
 Fire in Brooklyn on Monday threw be- tween 1 200 and 1,500 men out of em- ployment and destroyed several factories. The damage is estimated at from $500 900 to S6Q0.o00.
 "Sapho" has been officially declared q proper play by the New York jury before which Miss Olga Nethersole and her as. l~Sociates were tried for maintaining a public nuisance.
 The president of the town of Samal. province of Bataar. Luzon. and another prominent native have been assassinated because they were known to be friendly to the Americans.
 The c. NJ. Matthews woodworking es- tablishment at Orange, N. l., was de- stroyed by fire Wednesday night. The boxmaking establishment of Jenkinson sS Dodd was also burned. The United States government has awarded to the Oceanic Steamship com pany a ten years contract at S2 mile for carrying the Australian and English closed mails across the Pacific. David Hammond. one of the most prominent hotel men in New York city. has died, aged about 70. He was pro- prietor of the Grand. the Gilsey. the Bristol and the Murray Hin suecessively. For the second time in three years the extensive department store of Joseph Horne X O., at the corner of Fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Pitts burg, is in ruins. The loss Is over ST. o0O,0
 William II. King Dem.) is elected over James T. Hammond (Rep) by probably 2,000 majority for the place in the Utah delegation to congress left vacant by the | expulsion from the house of Brigham II.
 Roberts.
 The will of the late Miss Addie h. Mills of Middletown, N. r., which has been filed for probate, bequeathed proper. ty worth about S3O0,000 10 the Rev. James A. O'Connor of New York for
 mission work.
 A tremendous upheaval of land is re- ported to have occurred on Nooksack
 river, ten miles west of Mount Baker.
 Wash. What had once been n valley and
 bed of the Nooksack river is now n hill 70 feet high.
 Colonel Julius Fleischmann, a million aire Hebrew. has been elected mayor of | Cincinnati on the Republican ticket. He is only 2S years old, but very popular. | For years he has successfully managed large interests.
 The pattern shop of the Carnegie Steel company at Homestead was burned down Saturday night. Numerous valuable pat
 terms and many armor plate drawings that were to be submitted to the navy de- partment were destroyed. The Compressed Air company of the borough of Manhattan, New York city.
 with a capitalization of SS,oo0.oOo, of
 which ST55,oO0 is preferred stock, has
 filed articles of incorporation with the
 secretary of state nt Albany.
 Joseph Zimmer. 2S years old, a former
 sparring partner of Frank Erne, has been arrested in Paterson for the murder of 19-year-old George Maron of Mailing ton. N. I. Yimmer admits the shooting.
 but says he did it in self defense. Mrs. Matilda s. Poucher, wife of Pre-
 lessor I. B. Poucher, principal of the State Normal school at oswego. N. Y., Is
 dead of apoplexy, aged 61. Mrs. Boucher
 was. as is her husband, one Of the best
 known educators in the eastern states. A careful inspection of all the dumrs
 on Hunker and Dominion creeks, Klon-
 sike. enables Yukon paper to estimate
 that these two creeks. with their tribu-
 tnries. will this spring clean np S4,5Oo-
 a. Three individual claims have S5oo.- Q to their credit.
 The 1.G00 miners of the Consolidation