Connecticut western news., 1900-08-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.


 Two e-year-old boys have been arrest ed at Victor, Colo, charged with wreck ing trains.
 The official count of the population of New York city under the twelfth census is 3,437, POP.
 Colorado and Wyoming forest fires were estimated to have caused $1o,oo0,- 900 damage.
 Six hundred prospectors have returned from Cape Nome with stories of destitu- ton and illness there.
 Seven persons were killed and many Injured in a train collision at Pierson. Mich, on Wednesday.
 A design has been accepted for q monument in Spencer county, Ind, over the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
 Cuban customs receipts for the first half of 1900 were over SS,o00,000, far more than in 1899 for the same period.
 A Chicago wallpaper man has commit ted suicide in order that his wife and children might receive his S2,000 insur- ance.
 Portland, Or, to ransom Arthur Ven. vile, an American prisoner from Fili. pinos.
 M. b. W ulluhn uiib otltultd w. os Larned in the championship tennis match at Newport, thus retaining the trophy.
 Three persons were killed by m explo- sion of natural gas in Chicago house missing.
 Sand island, one of the Midway group, has been recommended as a landing stn- tion for the proposed Pacific cable to the Philippines.
 Three masked burglars entered the house of R. l.. Fosburg at Pittsheld, Mass, killing the latter's daughter and wounding his son.
 Major J. V. R. Hon, surgeon, has been ordered to proceed without delay to Taku, China, for assignment as chief surgeon on General Chaffee's stan. An important medical discovery-the cause of Bright's disense-has been madc by Dr. Ovid Brown, formerly of New York and now of Rome. Colonel Victor c. Duboise, First Cali. fornia volunteers, has died after n long illness from diseases contracted during the Philippine campaign. The population of the city of Chicago according to the official count of the re turn of the twelfth census, Is as follows 1900, 1,69S,57o: 1890, 1,099, $50. At Sheboygan. Wis, eight large build ings were completely wrecked by \ tor nado, and POO small houses were blowr | down, causing loss of S300,0OO. Several minor engagements occurred last week In Luzon. The rebels used smokeless powder, which they must nee essarily have obtained by hlibustering. Stephen Peacock, son of George Pea | cock of Yonkers, and George Peacock son of Stephen Peacock of Peekskill have been drowned in the Hudson river. | Justice Frederick Smyth of the su | preme court of New York died on Sat urday at the Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City where he had been i'll for more than tw' | months.
 It is expected that Major Leo Raus seur of St. Louis will be elected com mander in chief of the Grand Army n | the national encampment week after mex in Chicago.
 James Horan and Peter Flnnnigan Q | Oswego tried to cross the railroad track in front of q fast train. Their earring was struck. Flannigan is dead, and Ho l ran Is probably fatally hurt. | Hon. David F. Day, II years old, on of the oldest and most prominent mem bers of the bar of western New Yorl | has died in Buffalo. He had been Il failing health for several weeks. | Executors of the estate of Mrs. Sa bina Beer, who recently died st Mad son, Pa, found f16,0O0 in a chest in tn house, S5,0O0 of it in gold. The hous had been vacant for some weeks. One man lost his life and three wer injured In a Are which destroyed th building occupied by the Independen Paper Stock company at l54.160 De' plaines street, Chicago; ioss, S2S,o0o. | Ferdinand w. Peck. United State commissioner to the Paris exposition, ha been made a grand officer of the Legio of Honor. Commander Woodward, s. N, has been made an officer of th legion.
 A big wallpaper manufacturing cor cern has been incorporated nt Alban under the name of the Robert Grave company of New York. Its capital stoc is 5000. 900, of which x521, 600 has bee paid In.
 The record of the plague in Manila fo the two weeks ending July T. as just rs ported to the marine hospital service, seven new cases and i've deaths. Of th new cases four were Filipinos and thre | Chinese.
 | Notification has been received of th death at Prouts Neck. Me, of John T Flower, head of the banking house O Flower & Co. of New York city sn brother of the late ex-Governor Roswe F. Flower.
 | Four additional arrests of men suspect
 ed of complicity in the dynamiting O
 street cars have been made in St. Loui, | A ,aF,ln nf ha nal
 company. Three of the men were sut
 sequently released.
 The east bound New York Centrs
 train No. 16, known as the New Tor
 and New England express, made for th
 New York Central new record Sunda,
 running from Rochester to Syracuse,
 distance of s1 miles, in 30 minutes.
 Judge Arthur B. Calef of MiddletowI | Conn.,, the oldest member of the Middl,
 sex county bar, Is dead, the cause bein
 heart disease. Judge Calef was one c
 the most prominent men In Middleton | and was also well known throughout th
 state, of which he had been treasurer. Dr. Edwin Evans, a prominent phys | elan of Rome, N. Y., has died from hear | disease after an Illness of three week. | He was in his hfty-sixth year. He wa | prominent in Masonic circles and in 1S0
 and 1899 was district deputy grand maj
 ter of the Twenty-sixth Masonic distric Sergeant "Buck" Taylor, known n
 "king of the cowboys" dashing caya
 ryman and one of the best known of th | Rough Riders, who was in the charge n
 San Juan hill and accompanied Governo
 Roosevelt when he toured New York dul
 ing the last gubernatorial campaign,
 dead.
 An extensive vein of coal has been dii l covered on the farm of 0. Newman. nea Keuka, N. Y. IL Is about 1o feet below the surface, and indications point to | deposit of considerable magnitude. Loca capital is being raised to develop tn mine. and farm property in the yicinit. Is rapidly advancing in price. General MacArthur has cabled tn war department a brief statement con corning the health of the troops In th | IL L.. n.