Connecticut western news., 1900-07-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Terseiy Told.

lsaGkaMnnna ana western rnllfOhh near Stroudsburg, Pa, killing two men out right.
 The secretary of the navy has selected as names for the six submarine boats Grampus, Shark, Pike, Porpoise, Adder and Moccasin.
 There has been talk lately in SwitEcr. land of an alliance with the United States. One paper has even favored join. ing the American Union as a state.
 A Union line car on the Lee avenue di. vision of the St. Louis Transit company was blown up by dynamite on Monday. Two passengers were badly injured.
 Curtis Guild of Boston, who was tcn- dered the appointment ns first assistant postmaster general to succeed Perry S. Heath. has declined to accept the office.
 The Baltimore and Ohio express from Washington for New York was wrecked near Philadelphia. It had S3.00O.0O0 in gold on board. The switch had been tam pered with.
 Bushmen from Cape Oxford. according to a letter received from sydney, were killed and eaten by cannibals on the coast of New Britain. The German govern ment is taking steps to punish the canni. bals.
 
 store and postoffice at Tuscarora, N. Y. About S25 in money and small quantity of stamps were stolen. The safe was blown open, wrecking the whole front portion of the store.
 The army transports plying between San Francisco and the cast have been again placed on war basis, with the re- suit that no more passengers not attach ed to the military establishment will be carried on those vessels.
 A Cape Town dispatch says that when the war in South Africa Is over 10000 Boers, chiefly nuturalized citizens of the Transvaal, will emigrate to the United States. Irish-Americans are arranging the preliminaries for this movement. Judge w. II. Washington of philadel- phia, a direct descendant of Augustine Washington, father of George Washing ton, is dead at Castle Creek. Hot Springs, of consumption. He was 4J years of age and a lawyer of recognized ability. Twenty persons were more or less seri ously burned, several of whom will uic by the explosion of tank of kerosene in the Mystic yards of the Boston and Maine railroad at Somerville. Mass. and property valued at S10.0OO was destroyed. Governor Roosevelt has announced that on the advice of the attorney general the charges against Comptroller coler and Judge Cowing of New York city have been dismissed. In the opinion of Attor- ney General Davies there was no basis | for the charges.
 X statement made by the division of customs and insular affairs of the war department Is to the effect that the re- | ceipts from nll sources at the Havana custom house for the month ended June 30, 1900, show a total net increase over the preceding year of S100.2SS. A telegram received by relatives an- | announces the critical illness of Captain | Coghlan. commander of the Raleigh in the battle of Manila. He had an attack of pneumonia, m operation was necessa ", and his recovery k doubtful. He is with his wife at Colorado Springs.
 The big steel plant of the Federal Steel company at Lorain, O., has been closed. throwing 1000 men out of work. IL is announced that the Bessemer plant will remain idle for about two weeks for repairs. but the blast furnaces have been closed for an indefinite period. During the past week in Luxon II | Americans were killed and 16 wounded. | One hundred and sixty Filipinos were killed during the week, and eight Ameri- cans who had been prisoners in the hands of the rebels were surrendered and 100 rifles were turned over to the United | States officials.
 Five masked robbers held up New Or. leans express train No. 1 on the Illinois Central railroad at Mayfield Creek, Ills. compelled the American Express messen- ger to open the car and robbed the safe. | The amount they secured is not yet | known. but it tx believed to have been ! many thousands of dollars. Frank Shaw, the young game poacher, who, with his father, broke out of Wind sor county (Nt.l jail and nfterwnrd held at bay and fought with their rifles the ! Vermont sheriffs, was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Dep uty Sheriff Hoffman. Sentence k with held as Shaw's counsel will appeal.
 Monday night in Madison Square Gar den Terry McGovern of Brooklyn defeat ed Frank Erne of Chicago, the light weight champion of the world, in the third round. It was hurricane fight from bell to bell. without seconds let up, except when either one of the con- testants was lying on the floor of the ring.
 Two additional surgeons have been or dered to proceed at once from San Fran Il cisco to Seattle and thence by boat to Cape Nome to assist in stamping out the smallpox now epidemic at that point | They will be fully supplied with fumigat- ing apparatus and materials and will take with them 5000 additional vaccine points.
 X discovery of scientific interest and great commercial value has been made on l mean streams of the purest water have been uncovered from 1,5o0 to 2.oo0 feet above the sea level. The water will be flumed down % the sugar plantations at lower elevations, affording an abundance for irrigation.
 Charles R. Westeryelt, secretary and treasurer of the Dime Savings bank of | Newark, N. l., Is under arrest, charged with stealing between $3S,OoO and $4O,- GOO from the bank. The arrest was made on the strength of the examination of the affairs of the bank now being conducted by State Bank Examiner Martin Lager of Ashurt Park.
 Statement of the exports of domestic products of the United States shows the exports during June, 1900. to have been us follows: Breadsuffs, S2l, ,1g4.947; In. crease as compared with June, 1899, ST. 413.OOO. Cattle and hogs. S2,SI9. .357; In. crease. S235.u0n. Provisions, $16,309,- 132: increase, Si,2I5.000. Cotton. S6.- T49.oTT: decrease. Sl,a!nnoO. Mturra oils, S5. 730. .042; increase. S2oT0oo. Foi the full 12 months of the fiscal year end ed June 20. 1900. the exports Nrre S1Gs 351. IDS: last year. $1lo,Su9,oTG. an in crease for the year of $i5,5I2,T22. l w. Swift Wright is now the prinl. minister of the republic of Santo Dumin go. The honor came to him as the Q, suit of his assistance and advice tu plrs ident Jimcncz during the rebellion in tl. island and the presidents march ugaiEs the capital. Mir. Wright Is a Loganspo,