Connecticut western news., 1900-12-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings. of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerscIy ToId.

The Standard Oil company has bought out the Pacific Coast oil company.
 George Westinghouse Of pittsburg has bought large tract of mining land in Arizona.
 The agricultural department reports lO,loo.0OO bales as the probable cotton production.
 The president of Santo Domingo urges reciprocity with the United States in hts message to congress.
 W. J. Bryan will be guest of honor at inauguration of Governor Elect Jennings of Florida on Jan. I.
 The battleship Iowa and cruiser Phila- delpha have sailed from San Diego, Cal, for South American waterc.
 Fire has destroyed Iowa Agricultural college. Three hundred students in the building had u narrow escape.
 Governor Roosevelt will go to Colo. rado and New Mexico for vacation in January and stay through February.
 The annual report of the New York state treasurer shows balance greater than last years by more than S3,o00,- 900.
 Rock taken from the Blackwell's is. land quarry. New York harbor, by Com missioner Lantry has been found to con. tain gold.
 The Ohio supreme court has dismissed contempt proceedings brought against Standard Oil company by Attorney Gen eral Monnett.
 Mail advices say there are about 90 cases of smallpox at Dawson. Prompt measures have been taken for checking the spread of the disease.
 After receiving subscriptions for the relief of the famine stricken in India to the extent of S252, ,9SS the New York committee has ended it's work.
 Two attempts were made on Thurs day to hold up Chicago street cars. One of them resulted in the arrest of two men. who narrowly escaped lynching.
 Twenty persons were injured in an ac. cident on the Philadelphia. Wilmington and Baltimore railroad at Gray's Ferry station, in West Philadelphia, on Sun. day.
 Harry West. known as "Kid" West. who on Aug. 1 left New York on wager that he would walk to San Francisco in 135 days, has arrived there six days ahead of time.
 Samuel Griffen, colored man who was serving on the hattleship Maine when she was blown up in Havana har. Dor. was accidentally shot and killed in Paterson, N. J.
 . Horace ]. Hayden. second vice presi' dent of the New York Central railroad was instantly killed at his home in New York city by falling from a window tc the pavement below.
 After serving seven years of a 13 year sentence in the Eastern penitentiary James Parker of Ellisdale, N. l., has been released as innocent of the crimes with which he was charged.
 The official appraisement of the estate of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, just completed, places it's valuation at SIP, 500. 900. Of this S52, ,500, GOO is in per sonal and S20, 0,000,0o0 in real estate.
 Brigadier General Charles F. Eagan commissary general of the United State army, has been restored to duty by tn, president and placed on the retired list on his own application after 90 years service.
 The large four tnasted steel ship Astra built for the Standard oil company oi New York has been launched successful ly from the Arthur Sewall company, yard in Bath, Me. It is the largest sail ing vessel afioat.
 X detachment of the Fifth cavalry had fight with 100 insurgents south of San tn Cruz, Luzon, on Sunday. The insur gents were chased for four miles. Four teen of them were found dead. Ther, were no American casualties.
 Five Gloucester fishermen drowned, six coasting schooners complete wrecks, min, vessels sunk, eight schooners ashore and II others more or less injured through collision and loss of gear are the results of Wednesdays storm on the New Eng land coast.
 In response to Secretary Hays rep resentations through the United States ambassador in London, Mir. Joseph II Choate, the English foreign office has re, piled that the authorities at Hongkong have been unable 10 discover a Filipino junta there.
 In the midst of one of the most bitter gales that ever swept Lake Erie the iron ore barge Charles Foster, in tow of the Iron Duke, went to the bottom yester day ten miles of Erie. and eight persons were drowned, including Captain John Bridge of Cleveland.
 Captain Richard T. Ellis of the Thirty third volunteer infantry captured in tn, mountains near Barbar a large quantity of Krag, Mauser and Remington ammu milton, together with signal outfit, q printing press asd other equipment. Al of this was destroyed.
 The war department has received a dis patch from General Macarthur telling ol the surrender of 2.1S0 Katipunan insur reetos to General Young at Santa Maria Santa Maria is town of 10000 inhab itants. situated 19 miles from Nigan, ir the province of Iloeas Sur.
 The application by former Captain 0berlin NJ. Carter, U. s. A, for Il wri of habeas corpus has been dismissed by a federal court. Carter has been tnkeT back to Fort Leavenworth prison to serv' out his five year sentence for frauds iI connection with government contracts.
 The navy department has been inform ed that the, gunbont Manila has lefi Cayite with detachment of marines fol the occupation of Subig and 0longapo which temporarily have been transferred to the control of the department. Tn, | Culgoa is being used as a station ship al Cavite.
 The annual report of the commissione general of immigration shows that in tn, last fiscal year the total number of im migrants who arrived in this country wa 44S.572, of whom 23,20o came througl | Canada. or the whole number 304, 14; | were males and IA .424 females. This t \ net increase over 1899 of 136,S5T.
 Admiral Remey has informed the nav, | department that the General Alava about which vessel some uneasiness hat | been felt, as 1t was thought she would | encounter the Guam typhoon on her wa, over from that island to Cayite, has ar rived safely at Cavite with detachment | of marines and some of the Yosemite'' | officers.
 Water is being drawn from the Erie canal, and navigation for the season h at an end. Ii has been kept open nin' days longer than the time originally de cidcd on for closing m order to nllov boats that were delayed by the break al | New London to reach their destinations | The cost of repairing the break Wal about S7.0o0.
 The transport Hancock has arrive, from Manila with n cargo of the bodie of about 1.i00 sailors and sailors wh,