Connecticut western news., 1900-01-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

J. (. \. Blackburn has been elected United States senator by the Kentucky legislature.
 Colonel W. E. B. Hopkins, one of the leaders of the Massachusetts bar, died in Pinehurst, N. c.
 A new match company to oppose the match trust is about to commence opera tions at Paterson, \. ].
 The wages of 1.so0 employees of the Lehigh Valley Coal company at Hazl~- ton, Pa, have been raised.
 Consul Bedloe. at Canton, China, has resigned. and k. Nj. McWade of Penusyl. vania has been named to succeed him.
 General Abney IL Maury, late of the Confederate army and some time minis. ter to Colombia, has died at Peoria, Ills.
 Admiral Sehley has reported the sui. eide at Montevideo of Lieutenant Com mander F. l.. Green of the Montgomery.
 A 10 per cent increase in wages has gone into effect at the Norwalk lconnl Worsted mills. About 200 hands are em- ployed.
 United States Senator James II. Gear has been elected by the Iowa legislature to succeed himself in the United States senate.
 The National Bank of Commerce of New York city has absorbed the National Union bank and will have a capital of S10, 0,0Oo,0 900.
 Consul General Mason, st Berlin. re- ports that some of the German restrie- tions on American trade promised to be removed soon.
 The Hartford. Admiral Farragut's flag ship, has sailed from San Francisco on a cruise 10 New York in charge of Com mander Hawley.
 A pension of $50 month, to date from Oct. 2S, 1S99. has been granted to the widow Of General Guy N. Henry, who died last October.
 Fire in the large dry goods store of I. B. Wells, Son X Co, Utica. Thursday night did damage amounting to from S75.000 to Sl0o.ooO.
 Mrs. Sarah Doran Terry. who lived more than 107 years. has died in phila- delphia. She was born in pembcrton, N. J., Sept. 2, 1792.
 The Philadelphia Press says that on April I there is to be an advance of at least 30 to B cents per ton on bitumi- nous coal freight rates.
 Andrew Carnegie has offered to give $50. 900 to ottumwa, Ia., for public li- hrary if the city will agree 10 spend Sa.- 900 year to maintain it.
 Dr. Elizabeth ]. French of philadel. phia, one of the best known women phy. sieians in the country, has died at her daughters home in Boston.
 Dorman R. Eaton of New York, in a will just filed for probate. gave Sl00,O00 each to Columbia and Harvard and made many other liberal bequests.
 Three armed men entered the office of the Lehigh Valley Coal company in Chi. .lr fl I n. from the cashier and escaped.
 One of the meters in the Essex and Hudson Gas company's works in New. ark. N. l., blew up Wednesday night and caused about S25, 900 damage.
 The Mexican Electric Vehicle company, capital $500, GOO. 10 manufacture and op. crate vehicles. especially in Mexico. has been incorporated at Trenton.
 An expedition will soon leave Seattle to accomplish the difficult feat of reach. ing Cape Nome by an overland journey from Portage bay, Cook inlet. The council of administration of the New York state c. A. R. has decided that the next state encampment shall be held in Utica on May Ia and Is. Jay R. Burroughs. one of the principal organizers of the Farmers alliance nnd the Populist party in Nebraska, has died suddenly at his home in Lincoln.
 General Adolphus W. Greedy of Wash ington, who was badly injured by being thrown down his steps by a drunken man last Sunday. is very much better. The annual report Of the interstate commerce commission calls attention to the growing danger of railroad comhina. tions and urges remedial legislation. A lone rohber, masked and armed, cleaned out two restaurants in the center of Kansas City at c o'clock in the morn. ing under the glare of an electric light.
 Lloyd Lowndcs. for four years the Re publican governor of Maryland, has sur rendered the executive chair to John Walter Smith, his Democratic successor.
 General George II. Sharpe of King. ston, hrevet major general, II. \. N., has died at the home of his son-in.law in New York city. He was prominent in the civil war.
 The Presbyterian general nssemhly's permanent committee on temperance has petitioned the president against the sale of intoxieants in the nations new possesa | sions. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give | Chillicothe. Mo, S25.O00 for a public Ii. brary building if the city will provide the  | penses.
 The statement of the treasurer of Harvard university shows that gifts which were made to the university from Aug. 1. 1898. to July 31, 1899, aggregat- ed S1.544 ,s29.
 The Newark City home. a reformatory for children at Verona. N. l., was burned | Tuesday night, involving a loss of nearly | SlOO.OOO. Three hundred inmates were got out in safety.
 Thomas Egleston. who planned and | founded the School of Mines in Columbia university and who was prominent as an author of scientific works in this country and Europe. is dead. George l.. Bosler of Milford. N. r., and John k. Heise and William k. Elem. | ing of Brooklyn have formed a partner ship for the purpose of conducting a skunk farm near Milford.
 Major John B. Guthrie of the Thir. | teenth infantry has died suddenly in Buf. | falo. At the battle of San Juan Hill Ma | for Guthrie was wounded while leading his regiment up the bill. Foreclosure proceedings have been be- gun against the famous Ferris wheel ta | collect S300,00o paid to the Ferris Wheel company by the holders of 300 bonds of the value of Sl .ooo each. | General Ludlow has fined Fl cubano s for publishing story that he struck a man in his office in the presence of the | Spanish consul general Senor Sagrario. Il The statement was pure fiction. New York diamond importers have | been compelled to close thslt tactori~~ and several hundred men have been | thrown out of work because no more rough diamonds can be obtained. Rev. Francis E. Clark. D. D.. founder and president of the United Society Of | Christian Endeayor, has left Boston. ac- compauied by his wife, for his third mis. sionary tour throughout the world.