Connecticut western news., 1900-02-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tersely Told.

The United Mine Workers of the west have issued an ultimatum to the opera tors, and a strike Is seriously threatened.
 A fire which for a time threatened the entire manufacturing district of Dayton. O.. resulted in damage estimated at S500,0
 A party from the American canal com mission which is headed by Rear Admiral Walker has begun a survey of the Pnna- ma canal route.
 Charles D. Macrum, formerly consul ot Pretoria, has returned to the United States. He refuses to make public his reason for abandoning bis post.
 Dr. Madison C. Peters has resigned the pastorate of the Bloomingdale Reformed church, New York city, because he does not believe it right to baptize infants.
 The depositors of the Broadway Ma tional bank of Boston, which closed sew eral weeks ago, have received the full amount of their deposits, with interest.
 Thomas J. Clayton. for 25 years presid. ing judge of the court of common pleas of Delaware county, Pa, has died nt his home in Thurlow. He was n years old.
 Fire in Norwich, Conn, burned to the ground the Hopkins X Allyns pistol shop and partly destroyed several other build. ings. Loss, S4o0,ooo. The origin Is un- known.
 Benjamin Wells Dunklee. the origi. nator of furnace heating and n man widely known in the religious world, has died in Newton Centre, Mass. He was TS years of age.
 Fred Bechtold of Aberdeen, s. D., has been sentenced to three years imprison- ment by the Russian authorities for melt ing young men subject to military duty to remove from the empire.
 "The Better Life" dramatization Of the Rev. Charles Sheldon's novel "In His Steps," by Messrs. Arthur Shirley and Sutton Vane. has been produced at the Adelphi theater in London. Rees E. Thomas, well known attor. ney of Utica. N. Y.. was shot and in. stantly killed Saturday in the Adiron. dacks by the discharge of shotgun which he had been carrying. The condition of Congressman Boutelle of Maine. who has been seriously III sew eral weeks, Is one of constant improve ment. The advices received by his friends are of the most encouraging nature.
 The annual bulletin of the New Yorl, state board of health for 1899 shows that | the number of deaths during that period was 121 ,s20. This Is $50 more than in 1898 and 4.740 more than in 1897. Sister Stanislaus, a teacher. and Mary Foley. a pupil, lost their lives as the re- | suit of a fire which destroyed the paro- chial school of St. Lawrence O'Toolc's | Catholic parish, St. Louis, on Thursday. A scouting party of the Twcnty.hfth | infantry while operating near Subig. Lu. zon, was ambushed by the insurgents. and lieutenant and three privates were | killed and two or three privates wounded. Adam Lambrccht, German farmer of | Franklin. Delaware county, N. Y.. has | been awarded gold medal by the Ger. man government for bravery displayed in | the battle of Sedan in the Franco-Ger. man war.
 Judge Lynde Harrison, one of the exec | utors of the will of the late Henry R. | Plant, has filed the inventory of the es- | tate. with the appraisal, in the New | Haven probate court. It amounts Co | S16, ,952, ,546.
 The house of George Winans. at Bou. | tonville, N. r., about five miles east of Katonah, was destroyed by fire on Fri day, and four of Winans' children, whose | ages range from 2 to years, were burn. | ed to death.
 Fire created panic Friday afternoon | in the Rose street public school In Trcn ton. A number of children were badly in' | jured by jumping out of second story
 windows, falling down stairs and being trampled on.
 Secretary Root has sent to congress an abstract of the militia force of the Unit. | ed States. It shows the total number oi men available for military duty but unor. | utA ,t. organized strength of 1O6.339. Brigadier General Kobbe's expedition | in the islands of Luzon, Deyte and Samar has occupied permanently and garrisoned | nine towns with the Forty-third and For. ty-seventh regiments and placed on the market 1S0,000 bales of hemp.
 Major Ellwood Griest, postmaster of Lancaster. Pa. and father of Secretary of the Commonwealth w. w. Griest, has died from chronic bronchitis, aged 7d years. Mir Griest had been prominent In Republican politics for many years. Rev. George F. Jenks, a Universalist | clergyman of Chelsea, Mass, dropped dead on Tuesday at Salem. He was T3 | years of age and for many years was an associate editor of The Christian Leader. the official organ of the Universnlists. | | New York state board of arbitration and mediation. there was a noticeable in. | crease in the number of strikes in the
 state during the past year, the total. 455.
 being higher than for any year since | 1891.
 | Indictments have been found against
 leading officials of the Delaware Lacka. wanna and Western railroad for man | slaughter in causing the death of seven | persons in the collision which occurred nt | Paterson, N. l., the night before Thanks. | giving.
 | The comptroller of the currency has
 consented to the reopening of the Nn. | tional bank of Port Jervis, N. Y., which | closed several weeks ago owing to the | dedication of Assistant Cashier Gold.
 smith The bank will resume business | March :.
 | Henry Walsh. an old and trusted clerl,
 in charge of the mailing department Of
 the Chicago postotiice, has been arrested by postoffice inspectors. charged with rob
 ping the mails. It k calculated that
 Walsh has robbed 5000 letters during
 the past year. | Hon. Willard Johnson has died at his
 home in Fulton, N. Y., aged so years
 He was prominent in national and state | Democratic politics during and after the
 rebellion and served four terms in the
 state assembly. He made millions out of
 contracting work.
 The cruiser lsla de Luzon has been put
 n commission at Hongkong under Com
 nander John Blocker. The Isla de Lu.
 ron was one of the Spanish fleet destroy
 I'd by Admiral Dewey in Manila bay
 The vessel, with the 1sla de Cuba, was
 raised, taken to Hongkong and repaired
 under direction of Lieutenant Hobson,
 The Union Traction company of Phila.
 delphia, which controls every street car
 line within the city limits, has notified its
 conductors and motormen. numbering up.
 ward of 5000 men, that. beginning with
 Feb. 1, it would voluntarily increase the
 wages of the men.
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