Connecticut western news., 1900-10-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Ter.ety Told.

shocks were felt at Kodiak, Alaska, Oct. g.
 Nearly S3s,oo0. 900 of taxes have been collected in New York city during the last 10 days.
 Seven insane convicts who broke out of the Matteawsn State hospital on Sunday have all been recaptured. Thomas F. Lane son-in-law of Senator Elect Blackburn of Kentucky, has com mitted suicide in Washington. The Grand Central station, New York city, remodeled at a cost of S1,o00,oo0, has been thrown open to the public. Neighbors searching the room of a mi ser in Hoboken, N. J., after death found money and bankbooks representing S5,- 900.
 Dwight T. Reed, United States vice consul in Madrid since May, 1899. has died and was buried in the British ceme- tery.
 The Wisconsin averaged l5.a knots for IT hours under natural draft on her return to San Francisco from the trial course.
 John Demlin, treasurer of the Calves ton relief fund, has given out statement showing that the total contributions to date are S1,o95, POP.
 The steam barkentine Morning Star has arrived from St. Michaers, bringing SI,. 100000 in gold from Dawson for the Alaska Exploration company, It Is reported at San Francisco that the crew of the missing ship Lansing has mutinied, killed the captain and settled on an island in the south seas. The population of the territory of Ari- zona as officially announced Is 122,212 against 59,620 in 1890. This is an in- crease of 62, 1892. or 104.9 per cent The Yellowstone Park Railroad com pany, capital S2,5o0. 900, has been incor- porated here, with power 10 build rail roads through the Yellowstone park. The annual statement of the Pullman Car company for the year ended July 31 shows total revenue was $1b. .o22, ,S5S; net earnings, $6,623, ,4T6; surplus. "A, ,S95 ,944.
 Henry W. Marts pleaded guilty in the United States district court to the charge of embezzling S010 while postmaster of Wildwood, N. J. He will be sentenced later.
 Fire in the Herreshoffs' shipbuilding yard at Bristol, R. l.. destroyed one of the buildings, two boats and badly dam. aged two other yachts, the loss being es- timated at S6.000.
 | ', manufacturers of stationary engines, has been destroyed by fire at Auburn, N. Y. The loss, which is covered by insurance, will reach S20.00O.
 The monthly statement of the collector of internal revenue shows that the re- ceipts from all sources during September, 1900. amounted to S23, ,s14, de crease as compared with September, 1899. of sf,o6T.071.
 The transport Grant has sailed for Ma. nila with 5o7 casuals and recruits rep. resenting every regiment of the regular service in China and the Philippines. A | large number of hospital corps men ac. companied the soldiers. The annual report of President s. NJ Rice for the year ended June 30 last shows the net profits of the Distilling | Company of America were SI29, ,T3T .31 | The net profits of the constituent com. panies were S1, ,3s7, ,1s2.T7. The strike of mule spinners at the | American Yarn company's mills In Paw. tucket. k. l.. which was begun Oct. &
 has been settled, the spinners being granted their demands for an increase oi
 about 12 per cent in wages. John Hughes, postmaster at Cnmbra, Pa, shot and killed an unknown burglar who broke into the office. There were two
 burglars, and when Hughes fired they
 ran. Later one of them was found dead
 by the roadside. His identity is not known.
 Mir. George K. Somerby, widely known | among Christian Endeavorcrs as q chorus leader and who had charge of the great chorus at the Christian Endenvor con.
 vention held in Boston three or four years ago, has died suddenly of heart trouble.
 The Baldwin Locomotive works of | Philadelphia have booked two large do. mestic orders for engines. One Is for 90
 freight locomotives for the Chicago, Bur. | lington and Quincy railroad, and the oth. CT Is for 32 engines for the Union Pacific
 company.
 Captain r. J. Mcguire and other offi
 csrs of the Sixty-ninth New York infan
 try are in Huntsville, Ala, for the pur pose of exhuming the bodies of the sol
 diers of the regiment who died there in
 1S9S-e. Twepty-onc of the regiment ars
 buried there.
 Captain Devereaux Shields, who witl
 51 men of Company r, Twenty-ninth
 regiment, United States volunteer infan
 try, was captured by the insurgents last
 month in the island of Marinduque, has
 been rescued by the American forces with all the members of his party. | Three Yale graduates have offered tc
 subscribe Sf00,o00 each to the Yale bi
 centennial fund if President Hadley cnu raise S300,000 more. This Is part of T
 sum needed for the memorial buildings
 which Yale proposes 10 put up to com
 memorate her two hundredth birthday. | In A tornado near Lodi, Tex, 1t Is re | .l aI ] were killed. Six of the dead were ne
 groes. occupying ono house. Names arc
 unobtaipsble. It is feared that number
 of persons were killed in the country tc
 the north, as many farmhouses art
 known to have been wrecked.
 The navy department has received the
 record and findings of the court which
 tried Naval Cadets John S. Abbott and
 George S. Radford on charges growing
 out of the alleged hazing of Naval Cadet | Dortch of the fourth class. The court
 acQuits the two cadets. and Secretary
 Long has approved its findings. | A detachment of 70 men of the Twenty
 fourth regiment. while engaged in repair.
 Ing telegraph wires Oct. 10 at a point
 near San Jose Nuevo Eoija province,
 Luxon. were set upon by 200 rebels and
 were overpowered and scattered. Seven
 of the Americans reached San Jose, but
 1t is probable that the remainder were
 captured.
 Charles Jones, father of Charles R.
 Jones, chairman of the Pennsylvania
 state Prohibition committee, Is dead,
 aged 70 years. Mir. Jones was one of the
 early abolitionists and took an active
 part in the work of the underground
 railroad" which was instrumental fin
 freeing hundreds of negro slaves during
 tho c!vil war.
 A verdict of life Imprisonment has been returned by the 12 men who were select vd to try Henry F.. Youtsey. formerly
 Governor Taylor's stenographer, on the charge of being a principal In the shoot. ing of Governor William Goehei in front I .l-- .l..-- LII