Connecticut western news., 1900-02-15

msumuon, there VAS < hoti6Sable in- crease in the number of strikes in the state during the past year, the total. 4o5, being higher than for any year since 1891.
 Lieutenant Colonel William III. n. B.n. yaurd of the United States engineer corps has died In New York. He was born in Pennsylvania and was graduated from the military academy at West Point in 1868. going into active service at once.
 Colonel Richard Thompson has died ln Terro Haute. Ind. Colonel Thompson was secretary of the navy under the Hayes administration and since the birth of the Republican party in 1856 had beeu prominent in Indiana politics. He was 9l years old.
 The war department gives out the ca- bled Statement that the total receipts of the Philippine Islands for the month of January were S55T, ,8oS. The receipts were derived from the following: Cus- toms. SI20.3o0; internal revenue. ser. GOO; miscellaneous, S39, ,S0S.50.
 AlonEo H. Failing of oswego, N. F.. IF dead. He was born in Cayuga county T8 years ago and came Co oswego at the ags of 20. He was leading mlll owner and 
 merly mayor and city chamberlain and prominent in Republican state politics.
 Rev. Louis D. Senez, rector of st Mary's Roman Catholic church in ter sey City, Is dead. He had been pastor of St Mary's for the last 70 years. having organized the parish. He was born in Paris in 1873 and was ordained 10 the priesthood in iS40 by the archbishop of Paris
 Thirty-nine young Irish-Amerlcsnn. mainly composed of commissioned and noncommissioncd officers of the Seventh regiment. Illinois national guard. and Clan-na-Gael guards, have left Chicago for New York. They win sail to Lourvn- co Marques to act as an ambulance corps for the Boers.
 A half million dollars, in addition to large sums he already has given to the cause of education. will be distributed by Dr. n. K. Pearsons of Chicago, begin ming on March l. among 14 colleges and educational institutions throughout the United States. The gifts will average generally sbo.oo0 to each college.
 Secretary of State John Hay, on behalf of the United States. and hmhssssdor Paunssfots. on the part of Great Britain. have signed e convention abroratina those features of the Clayton BulweE treaty which prevent the United statsa from obtaining and maintaining any sx- elusive control over an isthmian canal Captain E. R. Smith, Nineteenth ls- fantry, died at Zogod. Philippine Islands. Feb. 5 of gunshot wounds. Captslb Smith. who was n son of the late Unlts3 States Senator Truman Smith of Conne6 ticut. was appointed to the West Point Military academy in 1875. He got his captaincy In 1Sg5. A widow and children survive him.
 The hospital ship Missouri has reached Honolulu. The Missouri reported an exs ceedingly rough passage after leaving Nasasski. and during that trip 16 of hef passengers died, most of them from wounds received in the war and from dysentery. The Missouri had 2T2 sick and wounded soldiers on board when she started from Manila.
 William F. Miller. formerly manager of the Franklin syndicate" in Brooklyn. has returned to that city after surrender ing to Captain Reynolds. Miller ned from the police in November. taking with him. it was said. $500. 1000 which he had obtained from persons who trusted in his promise to pay o20 per cent Interest on investments in his syndicate"