Connecticut western news., 1900-01-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Hsppent.as of the Wide World
 Briefly and T~rs~Iy Told.

Robert Taber
 Andrew Carnegie has promised the Col. lege of Emporia, Kan, S50,0OO for h. brary building.
 The University of Chicago has decided to use the reformed spelling In its papers and magazines.
 Miss Helen Gould has given Si,o00 to the movement to retain the Women's temple in Chicago.
 John n. Rockefeller has pledged $a,oo0 to the Dewey arch fund, which now amounts to about S2O0.0o0.
 Commissioner General Peck announces that 1000 firms of this country will have exhibits ut the Paris exposition.
 George R. Sheldon and his brother, Wall street brokers. have given Slbo.o0o to St. Paul's school of Concord, N. II.
 l.. H. Severance, formerly treasurer of the Standard OH company, has given E60,0 to Oberlin college laboratory.
 The transports sherman and Warren tForty y-ninth infantry, Colonel Beckl ar rived at Manila Jan. 2 No casualties re- ported.
 Columbia university has received from John D. Rockefeller S100.oO0 to be used for the endowment of the chair of psy- chology.
 A 10000 cubic feet gas well has been struck four miles east of Findlay, O., by operators who arc "wildcnting" in new territory.
 Fred A. Newton, paying teller of the Fidelity Trust and Guaranty company. Buffalo, Is charged with having emhez. Hled sIs,0oo.
 Six hundred employees are thrown out of work temporarily as a result of a fire at the Lyeoming Rubber works at Will Transport. Pa.
 It Is said in Washington that 2,S00 troops are to be withdrawn from Cuba and the number of military departments reduced to two.
 John Albert. famous throughout the country for his skill in the manufacture of violins, Is dead at his residence in this city, aged 0l years.
 Three persons were burned to death as the result of fire in a i've story tenc- ment at 30o East Ninety-second street, New York. last Friday. The senate committee on privileges and elections has decided by vote of 1 to to make an adverse report upon ths reso. lution to seat Senator Quay. It is reported on reliable authority that the Savannah Cotton mills, which have been idle for three years, will shortly be started up again on full time. Three armed men entered the office of the Lehigh Valley Coal company in Chi. cago, took about S1, 900 and gold watch from the cashier and escaped. Contracts will be awarded in Cleveland and Chicago this week for the construc. ton of the $500, 900 beet sugar plant to be built at North Judson. Ind. Mrs. Elizabeth Mebarry of Richmond. Ind. who gave $50 900 last week to Ohio | Wesleyan university. has added x10.0oO to her fund. thus endowing two chairs. The basis of a general treaty to replace the treaties of 17a5 and 1877 has been | drawn up by spanish Premier Silvela ana United States Minister Bellumy Storer. Heavy snow falls and slides have | blocked the line of the White Pass and Yukon railroad. and traffic to the Klon dike and other districts is suspended In definitely.
 Alfred E. Burr, the veteran editor of | the Hartford Times, Is dead. Mir. Burr was the oldest editor in the United states | in the matter of continued service on one newspaper.
 Robert 1T. Lincoln and Norman R Ream, executors of the estate of the late George NJ. Pullman. have been allotted n. compensation for their services the sum | of S425, 900.
 The president has created a military | department consisting of the territory oi Alaska and assigned Colonel George II Randall, Eighth United States infantry to command.
 In a Are at Johnstown, Pa. Thursday | night double dwelling occupied by Fred | Wesenberg and another family ten wom, | en and children were either fatally or SC riously burned.
 Commodore Farragut's flagship. th, Hartford. has been fioated out of drydocL at Vallejo. Cal. where she has been un | dergoing repairs. She is now said to be | in prime condition. The weavsrs of the Wilkesbarre lac. mills have had their wages increased 1. per cent. About $50 hands are affected | The increase was voluntary upon ths | part of the management. c. J. Hamliu has bought from his train | CT, J. F. Geers, the black 4-year-old pac ing colt Direct Hal for S10,000. This l. | probably the largest sum ever paid rol a pacer without a record. Cornelius Shew and James J. Eagan | the murderers of Andrew !. Pepper, an aged and wealthy farmer of Rush town snlp. Susquehnnna county. have beer hanged at Montrose, Pa. Governor Roosevelt has appointed Jus. tice Pardon C. Williams of Watertown as justice of the appellate division | bench, fourth department, to succeed | Justice Walter Lloyd Smith.
 General Ludlow has fined Fl Cubanc | S5 for publishing story that he struck a man in his office in the presence of tho | Spanish consul general Senor Sagrario Il The statement was pure fiction. | Brcvet Brigadier General William | Glenny has died in New York from Bright's disease, from which he had suf | fered for long time. He was 89 year, old and was born in Virgil, N. Y. | Seven additional cases of plague have | developed in Honolulu since the last ad vices. making l3 all told to date. Tn, board of health has decided to take radi | cal steps to stamp out the scourge. Two women servants were burned tt death in terrible fire that destroyed tn, palatial house of Joseph Pulitzer, at it and 12 East Fiftysthird street. Mrs. Pu litzcr's jewels were lost in the ruins.
 The union miners who have been on trial at Vienna, Ills, for several weeks | charged with the murder of Mrs. Hanna Carr, a negress, during the riot at Lau der. near Carteryille, have been acquit ted.
 Dr. William A. Hammond, former sur geon general of the army, Is dead. He
 was on the retired list at the time of his
 death, but at one time lost his position In the army, being restored after hard | fight.
 Joel G. Tyler. late teller of the Safety
 National bank of Fitchburg, was sen
 teaced in the United States court b, Judge Putnam to serve five years In Wor
 cester jail for embedding the funds oi | the bank.
 Brigadier General A. w. Greedy. chic
 signal officer of the army and arctic ex
 plorer was brutally assaulted Sunday h'
 James W. Furnace, a railroad express
 man, and lies in "A serious condition at hi
 residence.
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