Connecticut western news., 1900-01-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Sir Thomas Lipton, owner of the sham rock, has applied for membership In the Chicago board of trade.
 Secretary Root has extended the time for foreclosing Porto Rico mortgages for the space of six months.
 Ground has been broken in Rutherford county, N. C., for a cotton mill to operate 10000 or 50,OO0 spindles.
 Count Boni de Castellane and the Countess de Castellane, who was Miss Anna Gould are In New York.
 Fire on Friday destroyed a car barn of the Barnum X Bailey winter quarters in Bridgeport, Conn.,, doing S1o0,o00 dam age.
 Mrs. Luetgert, supposed to have been murdered by her husband. the Chicago sausage maker Is said to be alive in Akron, O.
 NJ. Daily, ]. Kelly and NJ. Palmer New York Central section men, were run down at Crittenden, N. Y., during heavy fog and killed
 Rev. J. Henry Sharpe, D. D., one of the most prominent ministers in the Pres byterian denomination, died at his home in Philadelphia.
 Bonds of the city of New York to the amount of $5,56S, ,4S3.90, bearing 3Ia per
 
 Comptroller Coler.
 Mrs. Mary Haskell of Needham, Mass. was fatally hurt on Monday night by burglar at the home of her sister in Franklinville, x. J. Brigadier General T. H. Stanton, U. & A, former paymaster general, has died in Omaha of a complication of liver and stomach troubles, aged 65. INI N ma Flower Taylor. Roswell r. Flowers daughter, have given $200,000 to the Flower hospital in New York city. A reduction in the wages of Pullman sleeping car conductors Is announced | The amount of the cut is said to be In many cases as much as 20 per cent. Orders have, been issued formally de- | taching Captain Sigsbee from the com. mand of the Texas and assigning him to the head of the naval intelligence bureau. According to a statement issued by the war department, the total customs re- | ceipts at-the port of Havana for the year ended Dec. 31, 1899. were S14,072, HAD.
 The papal bull authorizing the conse. cration of the Right Rev. Mgr. Sbarretti, bishop elect of Havana, has been received | by the apostolic delegation in Washing. | ton.
 Colonel Isaac l.. Ewood, the barbed wire magnate, gave each of his five chil. | dren a check for S100.000 at breakfast | Christmas day at his home in Dekalb. Ills.
 The Virginia house of delegates has | passed the Jim Crow" car bill or bill re- | quiring separate cars for whites and blacks on the railways without dissent ing vote.
 | Scarlet fever is prevalent in Suffern, Rockland county, N. Y., and the board of health has passed resolution ordering an enforcement of the law in regard to quarantine. Nine trackmen were run down on | Wednesday by 8 locomotive in the tunnel of the Lackawanna railroad near Oxford N. J., three of them being killed and one fatally injured.
 Bremen and possibly conductors and | engineers all over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad system proper are to be the subjects of a substantial wage advance dating from Jan. 1.
 | Comptroller Morgan has compiled sta tistics showing the total valuation of real and personal property in New York state to be S5.562, POI, 19S. an increase of S3T5, ,5S6, ,2S4 over that of 1898.
 Frank Fredericks, native of Rockland county. was killed in runaway while out driving at Kingston, N. Y. He was the son of the late Theodore Fredericks, a prominent resident of Haverstraw.
 Miss Mary Emma Woolley, NJ. A, pro lessor in the Wellesley college, has been chosen by the trustees of Mount Holyoke college to succeed Mrs. Elizabeth Storrs Mead as president of that institution. | m. IT.. l. blegram from General Otis stating that General Wheeler had sailed from Manila on the transport Warren for the United States by way of Guam and Honolulu.
 Edward Clifford of Jersey City, who shot and killed William Watson, superin- tendent of the West Shore road. on March 5, 1896, has been resentenced by Judge Lippincott to be hanged on Feb. Q.
 Thomas Mcdowell. aged S3, well known resident of South River, near New Brunswick, N. l., Is dead. He was the first mayor of Sacramento. He was Unit ed States consul at Melbourne under Lin- coin.
 Archbishop Corrigan has appointed Father William Livingston, chaplain of the House of the Good Shepherd in New York. to succeed Dr. Edward McGlynn as rector of St. Mary's church, Newburg, NY.
 Henry A. Hazen, professor of meteor ology and one of the chief forecasters of weather conditions at the weather bureau in Washington, has been probably fatal ly injured by being thrown from his bi- cycle.
 Martin Bergen, one of the catchers of the Boston ba seball team, killed his wife and two children and then himself at his home in North Brookield, Mass. Bergen was one of the most noted catchers in the National league.
 David Deshler, stepson of Governor Nash of Ohio. has married a young Jap. anese girl in Japan. It is said Governor Nash is displeased. Deshler is at present in the employ of the United States gov ernment in Korea.
 The steamer which was lost in St. Ma. rvs bay, on the Newfoundland coast, Jan. II was the tank steamer Hclgoland of the Deutsche-American Petroleum company. She carried crew of 30 men, all of whom were lost
 The gift of SJo.0o0 to Harvard univer- sity for the purpose of establishing a hospital and infrmary for sick students by James Stillman Of New York city has been doubled by that gentleman, making the total gift S100.uoO. r
 David Rutherford of Kokomo, Ind, has been awarded judgment of Si000 in the circuit court against David Hiley for say. ing the latter's wife from drowning.
 Captain William C. Gibson has sue ceeded Captain Sigsbce in the command of the battleship Texas. After a brief rest Captain Sigsbee will take charge oi the intelligence bureau of the navy de partment at Washington.
 The steamer Doric has landed TOO Jap apsss at Honolulu. This completed lisi