Connecticut western news., 1900-10-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings Of the Wide world
 Briefly and Tsrssly Told.

Thomas F. Lane. son-in-law of Senator Elect Blackburn of Kentucky, has com mitted suicide in Washington. It Is reported at San Francisco that the crew of the missing ship Lansing has mutinied, killed the captain and settled on an island in the south seas.
 Eight former professors Of the Univer- sity of Havana have been granted pen sions of S1,200 per annum each during the term of the military occupation.
 Henry w. Marts pleaded guilty in the United States district court to the charge of embeHzling S610 while postmaster of Wildwood, N. J. He will be sentenced later.
 Frederick Feldmann, aged 60. for many years proprietor of the Schuyler House Richfeld Springs. is dead. He lived in Brooklyn for 20 years before coming to Richheld Springs.
 After living abroad of and on for nine years, which he spent in all parts of the world. Samuel l.. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain" has returned to live once more on American son.
 The submarine boat Holland has been placed in commission. She Is to be sent to the Naval academy at Annapolis so that the cadets may become thoroughly familiar with this modern weapon Of warfare.
 John Garrabrandt, the 19-year-old boy who in Jersey City on May last killed a comrade, Henry Maas, II years old, for the younger boys wages, S, has been sentenced to 80 years Imprisonment at hard labor.
 The strike of mule spinners at the American Yarn company's mills in Paw. s.,,l lynN II .A n.s . has been settled, the spinners being granted their demands for an increase Of about IF per cent In wages.
 The treasury department gives notice of the discovery of a new S10 silver cer. ti6cate. series of 1891, with portrait of Hendricks. The counterfeit Is described as a photographic print, without the silk fiber and of inferior workmanship.
 w. V. Powell. who for seven years has been grand president of the Order of Railway Photographers, has been expelled from that organization. The charge against Mir. Powell was conduct unbe. coming a member and an officer of the order.
 Captain F. J. Mcguire and other off. cers of the Sixty-ninth New York infan try are in Huntsville. Ala, for the pur. pose of exhuming the bodies of the sol, diers of the regiment who died there in 1S9S-9. Twenty-one of the regiment arc buried there.
 Alfred Eugene Crow, who was injured in an accident on July 9 on Echo Say, near New Rochelle, N. Y., when his naphtha launch Fasco exploded and his wife and son were killed, died suddenly of apoplexy in his home in Pelham road, New Rochelle.
 Miss Meta Cowles of Greene, Chenan. go county. N. Y., has been admitted to practice in the United States district and circuit courts by Judge Coxe, being the first woman practitioner in the Unit. ed States court in the northern judicial district of New York.
 The United States. according to a spe cial dispatch from Tangier, has renew. ed its demand upon the government Of Morocco for S5,00o as indemnity to the family of Marcus Azzagui. a naturalized American citizen, who was murdered by a mob at Fez last June.
 Captain Devereaux Shields, who with 51 men of Company F, Twenty-ninth regiment, United States volunteer mfan. try. was captured by the insurgents last month in the island of Marinduque, has been rescued by the American forces with all the members of his party.
 Word has been received announcing the disappearance of Harry Squires of New York, formerly of Geneva, from the gun boat Castine of the Asiatic squadron. It is thought he drew his money and then went on shore. where he was murdered Squires was a son of Cashier SQuires of the old Windsor hotel.
 A detachment of 20 men of the Twenty. fourth regiment. while engaged in repair. ing telegraph wires Oct. 10 at point near San Jose, Nuevo Eoija province, Luzon, were set upon by POO rebels and were overpowered and scattered. Seven of the Americans reached San Jose but 1t Is probable that the remainder were captured.
 As officially announced by the census bureau, the population of the state of Connecticut in 1900 is e0S,355 as com pared with a population In 1890 of 746,- 25S, showing an increase since 1900 of 162. .097, or 21.7 per cent. This is little higher rate of increase than that of the decade from 1880 to 1890, when it was 1S.S per cent.
 Hogan Sealy. treasurer of the Calves. ton relief fund, acknowledges receipt of contributions from Oct. 1 to 12, inclusive, amounting to S10S.552. This includes S125,0O0 received through Governor Say CTS and $21 .621 received through Mayor Jones. The amount previously acknowl- edged was S7S1 ,043. making the total to date S979, 9,595.
 President Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad company has awarded a con. tract for 10000 tons of steel rails, for which tho company will pay S26 ton, or a total of S3,900, 900. for the entire order. The contract, 1t is understood, Is divided among the Federal, Carnegie, Cambria, Pennsylvania and National Steel companies.
 In consequence of the recent disturb ances in Matanzas city between the pos lice and the United States troops and of the bitter feeling which has followed the Second United States cavalry has been ordered on practice marches for ten days. The troops will not be allowed to enter the city, and the provost guard will be re- stricted to Hamilton barracks and Santa Cristina.
 The west coast of the island of Leyte is in a state of turmoil. The Filipinos are actively plundering the disturbers follow. ing old tactics, raiding and attacking and then returning to the garrisoned towns. while the Americans pursue in the noun tnins. General Mojica's officers are sur rendering, and his soldiers, attempting to escape to Samar in boats, are being cap. tured and his organization broken up.
 Advices received from Iloilo, Island of Panay, under date of Friday, Oct. 12, say thut Company D of the Twen- ty-sixth United States volunteer infan- try was attacked on the previous day by a force of Tagalogs in northern Panay. The enemy, it is added, lost 20 uen killed and 40 wounded, while the Americans had two men wounded. Twenty-two prisoners and 12 rifles and a quantity of ammunition were captured. The Tagalogs were from the island of Luzon.
 The challenge of Sir Thomas Lipton for another series of races for the Amer ica's cup, which has arrived on board thn White Stnr line sfnnmar GerInnnIc