Connecticut western news., 1900-08-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

committed suicide at Long Branch.
 All the persons accused of complicity in the Havana custom house frauds have been acquitted.
 The cruiser Montgomery has arrived in New York harbor from service on the south Atlantic station.
 Two boys were killed by lightning at a German festival at Schutzen park, Un- ion Hill, N. J., Sunday.
 Philadelphia's population by the new census is 1,293,697, gain of 23.o7 per rent over that of 1890.
 Mrs. Phoebe w. Crabbe died in Nor walk, Conn.,, aged 103. Her death was not due to old age, but to injury.
 Robert Fitzsimmons announces that he will retire from the prize ring and start m athletic training scl.ool in Chicago.
 The steamship Tacoma has arrived at Seattle from Nome with 600 passengers and S600,0OO in gold dust, mostly from the Klondike.
 H. c. Brinker, theatrical manager, was killed at the Grand hotel by falling six stories through an airshaft in New York Sunday.
 A dispatch from Manila said that the transport California was a week over due and added that typhoid fever was prevalent in the city.
 Because his stepmother made him mind the babies and do housework Har- ry Burgess, 12 years old, drowned him. self at WiDsted, Conn.
 Dr. Ernest Schmidt, for 30 years head of the consulting staff of the Alexian Brothers hospital, died in Chicago Sun day of Bright's disease.
 Attorney General Smyth of Nebraska began taking testimony in New York to determine if the Standard Oil trust is do- ing business in his state legally.
 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,575; 1890, 1,099,S5O.
 At Sheboygan, Wis, eight large build ings were completely wrecked by a tor nado, and 2D0 small houses were blown down, causing loss of $30O,OOO.
 Joe Patchen has gone a mile on the Goshen (N. Y.) track in 2:03A, paced by a running horse. John K. Gentry made the track record of 2:O6 two years ago.
 The Republican convention of the For ty-second senatorial district of New York has renominated Senator John Raines, the author of the Raines liquor law.
 Hon. W. Fl. Cook, editor of the Mil ford (Mass.) Journal and one of the most widely known newspaper men in the state, died at his home of cancer on Sun day.
 Nathaniel Harris, a brigadier general on General Lees staff and formerly of Mississippi, is dead at Malvern, Eng land. Mrs. John Hays Hammond is his niece.
 Thomas Barry, aged 15, of Rochester, while bathing at Ontario Beach fell 90 feet from the top of the toboggan slide to the ground below, which caused his death.
 John Esson of Chicago mortally wound ed Harold H. Stridiron and killed him. self at the Hotel Vendome, in New York, Monday. Drink and jealousy caused the crime.
 The census of San Francisco as just announced in a bulletin of the census bu- reau is 342, ,7S1 against 298,997 in 1890. This is an increase of 43,7S5, or 14.64 per cent.
 Hon. Alanson W. Beard, prominent for years in Republican politics and ex- collector of the port of Boston, died at his home in that city Monday at the age of 75 years.
 It is announced that the Rogers Loco mOIlNe WOTkS dI hleTsOu, IN VIII sO into liquidation and that the plant will be closed Dec. 1, thus throwing 400 men out of work.
 There were two deaths and many pros trations from the heat in New York Monday. The climax of the hot wave was reached with a maximum tempera- ture of 105 degrees.
 The postoffice department has ordered l-l l.l.. service on Sept. 1 at Santa Ana, Cal; Ashley, Ills; Angola, Ind; Hazelton, Ia.: Coldwater and Brooklyn. Mich.
 One man lost his life and three were injured in a fire which destroyed the building. occupied by the Independent Paper Stock company at 154-160 Des plaines street, Chicago; loss, $25,000.
 George Rettinger of Rochester, aged 31, drank the contents of a two ounce bot tie of carbolic acid with suicidal intent and was found dead in his bed few hours later when his room was entered.
 President Mckinley has asked ex-Pres- idents Harrison and Cleveland to become members of the international board of arbitration provided for by the treaty framed at The Hague peace conference.
 In jail for vagrancy in Poughkeepsie.
 
 corder's court by stoutly asserting that he is Charley Ross, kidnapped from his parents at Philadelphia nearly 25 years ago.
 Riot was narrowly averted at South Beach, an ocean resort near New York, where 100 soldiers tried Monday night to avenge an attack on an artilleryman by disciplining Charles Alleny of Port Richmond.
 Captain Frank Crenshaw, wounded in battle near Manila, died in Atlanta. He told his father he was neglected on the transport Sherman and was unable to get treatment at the government hospital in San Francisco.
 Captain Wilde of the battleship Ore. gon has notified the navy department from Kure, Japan, that that vessel. which has been in dock there undergoing temporary repairs, has been fioated and will be ready for sea in week.
 While a wagon was being lowered in the Mount Carmel colliery at Shamokin, Pa., a side hook broke, causing the wag. on to dash 400 feet to the bottom. John Daubert and George Ruske, who were riding on the wagon, were instantly killed.
 Armour & Co. of Chicago have receiv. ed an order from the Russian govern. ment for 6,000,000 pounds of "beef on the hoof" to feed the soldiers of the cza1 in China. This is the largest order oi the kind in the history of the Chicago meat trade.
 Seven claims for damages against the city of New York have been filed with Comptroller Coler by colored men who assert they were clubbed without cause by the police in the recent race riots Six claims are for $15,000 each and the seventh for $25, 1000.
 The will of the late Edgar E. Duryea of the National Starch company, who died a few days ago at Glen Cove, N Y, has been filed for probate. The es- tate is estimated to be worth about $500, 900 in personal property and S60,- O00 in rpal estate Walter K Duryea