Connecticut western news., 1900-10-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tersely Told.

American control in Porto Rico this year Is 7e6.
 D. s. Chat6eld's foundry in Addison. N. r., has been totally destroyed by fire; loss, SEQ, 900; no insurance. Mir. Martin c. Fosnes, who succeeded Mir. Rathbone as director general of posts of Cuba. Is Ill of yellow fever. Much annoyance has been caused the presidential household at Canton, O., by baseless rumors of a plot to kill Mir. Me. Kinley.
 A jury has been completed to try Hen ry E. Youtsey on the charge of being a principal In the shooting of Governor Goebel.
 The postoffice at Argusville, N. Y., was entered Saturday night by burglars. The safe was blown open and some money and stamps taken.
 The census bureau has announced the population of Delaware as 1S4,735 as against 16S, ,493 in 1890, representing an increase since 1890 of 16,252, or 9.6 per cent.
 The main building of the Buffalo city garbage crematory, known as the Bayne Garbage works, on William street, just outside of the city line, has been burned; loss, $S0, 900.
 Benjamin R. Campbell, a we'll known attorney of Pittsburg, has died in Cali. fornia, aged 73 years. Judge Camp. bell sank the first oil well ever put down in the United States.
 The steamer City of Seattle has ar rived at Seattle from Skaguay with ST. 100000 in Klondike treasure and 317 passengers. The Yukon river will be open until Oct. 15 or longer. At Fishers Island, N. Y., the S500,- 900 water reservoir that supplies all of the hotels and houses on the island burst without moments notice, and over million gallons of water was released.
 Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn, U. s. N., has been awarded a diploma and gold medal for the Franklin life buoy, Hichborn turret and models of war yes sells exhibited at the Paris exposition of 1900.
 Negotiations between the five Yaqui Indian emissaries and President Diaz for the settlement of hostilities now existing between the Yaquis and the Mexican government have failed to accomplish anything. killed Mile. Alberta, a palmist. with whom he was travelling about the coun try, and dangerously wounded Mrs. Elizabeth Steinbauer, with whom the couple boarded, at Columbia, Pa.
 k. c. O. Benjamin, editor of the Lex. ington lKy.l Standard and attorney for "Tallow Dick" Combs, who is accused of being accessory to the killing of William Goebel, was shot in the back by Mike Moynahan while fleeing after registra. tion quarrel.
 Alfred Eugene Crow, who was injured in an accident on July 23 on Echo bay, near New Rochelle, N. Y., when his naphtha launch Fasco exploded and his wife and son were killed, died suddenly of apoplexy in his home in Pelham road, New Rochelle. -....
 Rev. Morrell Theodore Hill, a promi- nent Methodist minister who had served as pastor at many points in New York state and who during the civil war was a member of the Christian commission at Harpers Ferry and Fort Monroe, is dead at Adams, N. Y., aged 70 years.
 The total customs receipts for the is- land of Cuba during the first eight months of 1900 were S10,672 ,02965 as against So, ,493, ,0SS.46 for the same period of 1899, according to q statement given out by the division of customs and in- sular affairs of the war department.
 The transports Sumner and Venus have sailed for the island of Marinduque, off the west coast of Luzon. carrying two battalions. The former has already ar rived there. The transport Logan will re-enforce the Twenty-ninth United States infantry, now in Martinique.
 The condition of the treasury, divisions of issue and redemption is as follows: Re serve fund, gold coin and bullion, S150,- 900 900; trust funds, division of redemp- tion, S736, 775, ,079; division of issue. S736,- 775,6T9; general fund, S227, ,536,015; available cash balance, S139, ,205,479.
 J. H. Roberts, Mark Williams, Will liam Sprague, Mrs. Sprague and Miss Virginia Murdock missionaries to Chi ma, arrived at New York on the City of Rome. They escaped from the Boxers with their lives by flight across the des- ert of Gobi, suffering great hardship.
 The Methodist church building, the general merchandise store of I. !. Lang don X Co.,, the postofhce in the latter building and J. A. Buckhardt's cottage nearby, with their contents, all at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., have been destroyed by fire. The total loss is placed at ST. OOO
 It is expected by officials of the navy department that Rear Admiral Kempd will shortly return to China in command of the American squadron to be main ta.ned in Chinese waters. Rear Admiral Remey immediately after the departure of the American troops will proceed to Manila.
 General MacArthur reports to the war department that the transports Rose crans and Argyle arrived at Manila on the 7th inst. Light Batteries c and M, Seventh artillery, Major c. c. Green ough commanding, were on the Rose crans, having sailed from San Francisco on Sept. 3.
 Rev. Charles Beattie, n. D., has just completed 36 years of his pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church of Mid detown, N. Y. During this time he has delivered 5000 sermons and made 5000 other addresses and 26,000 pastoral calls This church Is Dr. Beattie's first and on- ly pastorate.
 The New York state board of health bulletin for August shows that 1,047 deaths occurred, which is nearly the av- craze of the past years and is decrease of 600 from the reported mortality of Ju- ly. The death rate is 1S.5 against 1915 in July. No smallpox has existed in the state since July.
 Robert k. Hill, who has been on trial in the county court at Camden, N. J., for wife murder, has been found guilty in the first degree. Hill, who was extreme ly jealous of his wife, Mary, on June shot her four times and then shot him self The woman died soon afterward, but Hill recovered.
 Filipinos killed Lieutenant Max Wag- ner of the Twenty-sixth regiment of vol unteers near Pavia, island of Panay, on Monday night. A detachment of the For ty-fourth regiment, at Bohol island, ope of the Visayan group, has en ~untered a force of the enemy, killing 30 of them One American was killed.
 Eddie Mcbride. II years old, met a horrible dasth at Trenton at the hands of his playmates. He was burned alive at the stake. His companions, who were playing he was an Indian captive, built a