Connecticut western news., 1900-12-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings or the Wide woris
 Briefly and Ter.eIy ToId.

senator, has died in Washington.
 Philip D. Armour head of Armour X Co, is reported seriously i'll in Chicago.
 Dr. Richard A. Wise. a member of congress from Virginia, died at Norfolk.
 Clyde shipbuilders have ordered 1bo,- 000 tons of steel plates from the United States.
 Some 10000 French Canadians are expected to leave New England for their native land.
 It is said in Duluth that Archbishop Ireland will visit Cuba at the request of the president.
 An unsuccessful attempt has been made to rob the Nebraska state treasury in the capitol at Lincoln.
 A man supposed to be one of the gang which held up the Chicago limited was found dead in the suburbs of New Or leans.
 Andrew Carnegie will give S20,oo0 for the erection of a library building for Tus- kegee institute. The building will be erected entirely by student labor.
 On April l, 1901, the postotiice de- pertinent will establish free delivery service at Port Richmond, N. Y.; Tomp kinsville. N. Y., and Stapleton, N. Y.
 Frank NJ. Parsons of weedsport, dep uty attorney general of New York state, has resigned that place from a desire to attend to some private business affairs.
 Charles S. Francis of New York was appointed to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Greece, Roumania and Seryia.
 The International Rubber company. with an authorized capital of $30,000 900. has been incorporated in Trenton to man. ufacture and deal in rubber goods of all kinds.
 Reports to the New York state forest, fish and game commission show that hun ters killed more than 1,200 deer in the Adirondaeks during the season just closed.
 Governor Allen celebrated the holiday season by extending executive clemency to 24 prisoners in Porto Rican jails. He pardoned IT murderers and homicides and . thieves.
 E. H. Sothern, the we'll known actor, who has been laid up for some time from a serious accident that resulted in the cancellation of numerous dates, has com. pletely recovered.
 As a Christmas present to its employ ees the Syracuse Rapid Transit company has increased wages from to Q per cent,
 
 2o0 men are affected. Governor Roosevelt has announced the appointment of John Proctor Clarke of New York city to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice H. R. Beekmnn of the supreme court. The government of Chile. winch re. gently invited tenders for 400 freight cars, has accepted 300 from Becche X Co. and 100 from w. R. Grace X Co, all of American manufacture. A gang of robbers visited Plainfield N. J., broke into four houses, stole $30t worth of booty and got away without be ing caught, although in one place one oi the burglars had a narrow escape. At Sellersville. Pa, Isniah HunsbergeI | of Souderton and Joseph Bownawitz oi | Telford were killed by a dynamite ex | plosion while the former was thawinl out some frozen sticks of the explosive The monthly statement of the collec | tions of internal revenue show that dur | ing November, 1900. the total receipt, were S25.344. .2S5, an increase as com pared with November last year of SSS6, | S51.
 As a result of a trolley crash on Mon | day near the Broadway ferry, Brooklyn | an unknown woman was killed and tw, | others seriously injured, while at leas half dozen more received minor inju | ries.
 Sitka tAlaskal advices say an Indiar | outbreak is feared and that there Is mucl | excitement there. The American ma rines stationed there are under arms. Tn, | Indians are far stronger numerically thaI the whites.
 A cable message from General MacAr | thur, at Manila, announces that Captain | Montgomery n. Parker of the Eighth in fnntry died in the military hospital al Manila on the 1Tth inst. of dysentery anc | liver trouble.
 Roger Wolcott, three times governor oi | Massachusetts, died at his home In Bos ton on Friday of typhoid fever. Ex | Governor Wolcott shortly before he wa, taken i'll declined an appointment al | United States ambassador to Italy. Theodore l.. Poole. United States mar shal for the northern district of New York state and member of the Fifty fourth congress from the 0nondaTa-M Mad ison district from 1894 to 1896, died sud denly of apoplexy on Sunday at his hom' | in Syracuse.
 | Henry Zeimer, who was convicted o | subornation of perjury in connection witt II Il divorce mill recently unearthed in New York city, has been sentenced by Re corder Golf to ten years Imprisonment with hard labor.
 The appraisement of the estate of th, late II. Walter Webb shows the gross es tate to be worth $6T3, T25.T9. but the de ceased gave to his widow S11S,Oo0. whicl was not taxable leaving the taxable es tate S555, ,725.19 From this comes Si.OOO the expense of appraisal.
 Former Consul Oscar K. Williams o Rochester, who represented the uniteS l States in Manila just before and afte the war with Spain. Is charged with con spring with high Spanish officials in bold attempt to defraud the governmen of valuable mining lands.
 The postoffice at Everett, Pa. wa broken into on Thursday and the saf. blown open. The burglars secured abou $500 in stamps ard money and some per sonal papers of considerable value be longing to Postmaster Cooler. A mum Der of letters were also taken.
 As result of a conference between th, secretary of war and QuRrtermaste General Ludington 1t has been decide, that no further action can be taken witl regard 10 the return of the volunteer from the Philippines until congress shal make provision for their replacement.
 At Madison Square Garden, New Yorl city, Frank l.. Kramer of East Orange N. J., formerly amateur champion oi America, won the 25 miles professions bicycle race by a wheels length iron Bob walthour of Atlanta, who in turn finished a wheels length in front of Ton Cooper.
 Mordecai Mills. an aged man, has beer found murdered for his money at Swce Hollow. q hamlet midway between Littl, York and Bloomsbury, N. J. His cabin in which he lived alone In the noun tains. was set on fire 10 hide the evidence of the crime. Mills was 70 years old an, a veteran of the civil war.
 At Paris distillery, in Clay county Ky, four members of the Sizemore fsmI ly on one side and Henry Barrett an w. II. Young on the other engaged In desperate fight Young and one of th Sixemores were killed, and two of tn | All.