Connecticut western news., 1900-06-14
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Happenings. of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.


 The experts who examined the Ha. vana treasury have reported to General Wood that its condition Is excellent.
 Returned Alaska miners have deposited S200,000 in gold dust at the United States assay office in Seattle, Wash.
 Fears are expressed at Dutch Hsrbor, Alaska, for the safety of the steamer Alpha. which left May Q for Cape Nome.
 The old building at East Haddam. Conn, in which Nathan Hale taught school has been dedicated as a memorial to the martyr.
 Frank woolley, aged 9, son of Justice Edmund T. Woolley of Red Bank, N. l., has been drowned near Newman Springs in the Shrewsbury river.
 The San Francisco board of health Is preparing to raise the quarantine of Chi. natown, no case of plague having been reported for fortnight.
 Prominent negroes at a meeting In Philadelphia decided to organize a ma. tionsl negro party and put a negro presi. dential ticket in the field.
 Two negroes were hanged. shot and burned by a mob in Mississippi, another was hanged in Louisiana for suggesting opposition to the whites, and a fourth was shot.
 Lucrctia Peabody Hale has died in Boston In her eightieth year. She was the oldest surviving sister of Rev. Ed. ward Everett Hale, D. D., and, like him, was writer of note.
 The dedication of the new Catholic chapel at West Point, over which there has been much controversy during the past three years, took place Sunday. Bishop Farley ofiiciated.
 A boiler in Charles F. Reeds sawmill, five miles west of Fife lake. Michigan, exploded. The mill was completely wrecked. and all but two of the employ ees were either killed or injured.
 The commencement of the Teachers college, New York city, was made nota- ble by the announcement that plans have been perfected for a s1 .o00. 900 dormitory to be erected on Amsterdam avenue.
 The school children of Saratoga are en. gagged in a campaign against the tree csterpillars. actuated by the offer of reward of 20 cents a quart for the worms Hundreds of quarts have been destroyed.
 The general assembly of Rhode Island has elected George Peabody wetmore the present Republican incumbent. as United States senator over Samuel R. Honey of Newport, the Democratic can didate.
 The Great Western Tin Plate works at Joliet, Ills, employing 300 men, have been closed indefinitely. The trouble arose over the discharge of an Amslga- mated association man who was away as a delegate.
 Dr. Paul Gibier, head of the sanitari- um at Suffern. N. Y.. and of the Pasteur institute of New York city, has died from the effects of injuries received in a runaway at Tuxedo Park, N. Y. Dr. Gibier was 45 years old.
 Captain I. T. lobe, late of the United States volunteer service, has been sem fenced to two years in the penitentiary. lobe was charged with having forged transportation orders on the govern ment and personating officers.
 Three dead, three seriously wounded. many severely wounded, four cars derail- ed by dynamite and the interruption of traffic on two car lines by wire cutting were the results of Sundays rioting in St. Louis due to the street car strike.
 Governor Roosevelt has announced the appointment of Professor Cuthbert M. Pound of Cornell university to be state civil service commissioner to All the va cancy caused by the death of Commis- sioner Willard F. Cobb of Lockport. New York State Comptroller Morgan has purchased 24 acres of land at Cald- well, on Lake George, for SIP, 100. The last legislature appropriated S14,0O0 to secure the land for a public park to com memorate the battle of Lake George. The entire business and most of the residence section of the town of Virginia,
  wiped out of existence by fire. In one hours time fully 125 buildings were re- duced to ashes. The loss was $500 900. Harry Nj. Caris of Concord, N. H., has been appointed government auditor to de- termine the portion of each officer and sailor who took part in the battle of Ma nila in the bounty of $1S1 ,s30 found to be due them by the United States court of claims.
 Lieutenant Johnson of the Forty-hrst infantry reports the capture of General | Sizon, who was General MacArthur's op- ponent in the railroad campaign and who has recently been operating with 1000 guerrillas in Pampanga and Bulucan provinces.
 Naval Constructor Richmond F. Hob son of Merrimac fame, now at Manila, has been found unfit for duty because | of his physical condition. He will re- ceive leave of absence, and another constructor will be detailed to all his position temporarily.
 Paul Dwight Moody has been elected | to fill the vacancy in the board of trus- | tees of Northhed seminary caused by | the death of his father, Dwight l.. Moo. | dy. By the appointment of Mir. Moody's | son to this position Mir. Moody's last re- | quest from his deathbed is fulfilled. The secret service men have arrested | in Manila s colonel of Filipino volunteers. | They also seized a number of documents \ which showed that the headquarters of | the volunteers was within a quarter of mile of the palace, almost under the noses of the American military authorities. General Ludlow, formerly governor of | Havana, has made a report to the war department denying the recently publish | ed statement indirectly charging Brigade | Surgeon Major Davis with having ac- | cepted bribes to influence his official ac- | ton while acting as sanitary officer of the | city of Havana.
 Major General E. s. Otis, accompanied | by his aids. Captain Slayden and Lieu | tenant Stanley, reached Washington on | Monday from his home in Rochester, | where he stopped over to visit Mrs. Otis and his children. After a long interview | with President Mckinley General Otis went to West Point to report to Secrets- | " Root. | Exports at the port of Manila for the | first three months of 1900 show an in- crease of S2.050,4 ,443 over the same period of 1899. The exports for January, 1899, were S1,252,S03; for January, 1900, s55s,370; for February, 1899, SS,4se.- b6S; for February, 1900, S1,690, 731; for
 March, 1899, Ss8S.6 for March, 1900, S6. .3s2. .33s.
 The results of the campaign during the past week were nine Americans killed | including a captain and lieutenant, and
 g wounded, including two captains. One captain was captured. The Filipino loss
 Is reported to have been 220 killed, 63 wounded and 40 men and 160 rifles cap III lt..... t. N. l