Connecticut western news., 1900-06-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

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 The steamer Dirigo has arrived at Se- attle with $300,0o0 of gold dust from the Klondike.
 The business portion of Bloomington, Ills, has been swept by fire, with a loss estimated at nearly S2,0O0.OoQ.
 The federal quarantine at San Fran cisco. established because of fears of the bubonic plague. has been raised.
 Bunker Hill day was enthusiastically celebrated at Charlestown, five vessels of the north Atlantic squadron taking part
 Fire has destroyed the plant of the Commonwealth Mining company nt Pierce, A. T.. causing loss of $500, 900.
 The transport Thomas has sailed for Manila. She carried over 400 recruits and officers and large cargo of supplies.
 Fears are expressed at Dutch Harbor. Alaska, for the safety of the steamer Alpha, which left May 0 for Cape Nome.
 k. c. Keith, treasurer of the Chicago India famine relief fund. has just report. ed the receipt of contributions amount ing to S5,s16.
 The court of claims has decided that Admiral Sampson was in command at Santiago and that Admiral Schley was his subordinate.
 Lightning accompanying a severe storm which passed over Hampstead, N. Y., killed one man near Floral Park and in. jured two others.
 The San Francisco board of health Is preparing to raise the quarantine of Chi. natown, no case of plague having been reported for a fortnight.
 A jury in the United States district re HxN hx1l E DksAx hn S64, 900 worth of jewelry seized a year ago on charge of smuggling.
 Fifteen hundred recruits for the regular army in the Philippines are being enlist. ed and assembled in New York harbor and Columbus tO) barracks.
 Walter B. Duryea of Glen Cove, N. F., whose recovery from a broken neck is regarded as a marvel of surgery, has left the hospital in New York
 The Blossburg Oil company has struck 300 barrel we'll in the Gaines Pa.l field. This Is the fourth big producer drilled by that company In the same field.
 Eight thousand Pima Indians on tn, Gila reservation, 30 miles from Phenix, A. IT., are destitute, and like number Of Papagos are on the verge of starvation.
 A monument in memory of the organ ixers of the first Presbyterian church in this country has been unveiled in the Old Scots burial ground, near Matawan, N. l.
 Lyman c. Smith of Syracuse has an. nounced his intention of giving to Syra- cuse university an engineering depart ment to cost between $500, 900 and ST50.. 900.
 The National Building Trades council has issued an edict forbidding union workmen from seeking employment In several large cities where there are strikes.
 Two negroes were hanged, shot and burned by a mob In Mississippi, another was hanged in Louisiana for suggesting opposition to the whites, and a fourth was shot.
 The war department has received a ca. blegram from General MacArthur an nouncing the safe arrival of the transport Logan. which sailed from San Francisco on May 16.
 Mrs. Beveridge, wife of United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana has died in a sanitarium at Dansville, N T.. from heart failure. She had been i'll for several months.
 Lucretia Peabody Hale has died in Boston in her eightieth year. She was the oldest surviving sister of lsev. Ed ward Everett Hale, D. D., and, like him. was \ writer of note.
 The Washington state grand lodge oi Masons has voted not to admit liquoi dealers to membership in the order and directs present members who are in that business to withdraw.
 John Kruse, aged 50 years, a prosper. ous fruit farmer of Canandaigua, N. r., took large dose of carbolic acid and dropped dead. Dependency Is thought to have been the cause. As the result of last weeks scouting in Juzon 60 Filipinos were killed, 200 were captured, and 800 rifles, with 25,o00 rounds of ammunition, were surrendered. Three Americans were killed. Six men were killed and another fatal. ly injured on a logging railroad at Cam. nal, Pa. A train jumped the track in some unaecountnble manner and plunged down a 300 foot embankment Honorary degrees were conferred upon Lord Pauncefote, ex-Speaker Reed and President HadIey and others at the one hundred and forty-sixth annual com. mencement of Columbia university.
 The village of Moscow, Livingston coun ty, IN. Y., was the scene of fire on Sunday which destroyed every business building in the village as well as the two hotels the opera house and s number of dwell. ings.
 The general assembly of Rhode Island has elected George Peabody Wetmore the present Republican incumbent, as | United States senator over Samuel k Honey of Newport, the Democratic can. dldate.
 Private advices state that the steamer A. F. Gustin left Dawson on June 4 foi St. Michael's carrying S2.o00 900 In gold | dust. She was expected to connect with the Zealandin at St. Michaefs for San | Francisco.
 A statement prepared at the postoffics | department shows that the receipts at 60 | of the larger postofiiees during the past month were S264,919 In excess of the re ceipts during May, 1899. The increase amounted to "A per cent Colonel c. w. MacFarlane and asso | ciates of Honolulu have been granted | charter to organize the First Nationa | Bank of Hawaii, which bank will act d, | a government agent In the payment oi | Hawaiian government obligations. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont. widow oi | General John c. Fremont has met with a severe accident. In leaving the dinner l table she slipped and fell, fracturing hei hip. Mrs. Fremont Is 10 years old. and her recovery consequently will be slow. Lieutenant Johnson of the Forty-first | infantry reports the capture of General Sizon, who was General MscArthur's op Il ponent In the railroad campaign and who has recently been operating with 1000 Euerrillas in Pampanga and Bulucan l provinces.
 Justice Fursman, sitting in the crimi nal branch of the supreme court, has de nied the motion made In the case oi Samuel ]. Kennedy, the dentist sentenc ed to death for killing Dollie Reynolds iu the Grand hotel, New York city, in 1898 for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. The case will be UT before the court of appeals for review or June 20. The convicted man Is now ir | one of the death cells at Sing Sing.