Connecticut western news., 1900-04-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerscIy Told.

Four lives were lost in a Ire at New castle, I'a.. on Tuesday.
 There were "a men injured by the ex. plosion at Riverside works, Wheeling.
 General Ludlow, late military governor of Havana, has left for the United States. IT is estimated that the surplus under the war revenue tax on July l will be S70,0O0,000.
 Mayor James NJ. Seymour CDem.D has been reelected mayor of Newark, N. J., by 2,000 plurality.
 The trial of Alfred E. Morrison, known as the dream slayer" has begun at White Plains, N. Y.
 Four men were killed and two others wounded in drunken quarrel at Wind Der. Pa, on Sunday night.
 Alexander Cooper, private in Compa. G C, Thirty-eighth volunteer infantry, was beheaded by the Filipinos on March 25.
 The engagement of Miss Alta Rockc feller daughter of John D. Rockefeller, to F. Parmalee Prentice of Chicago has been announced.
 State Chairman Franklin Murphy will succeed the late Vice President Hobart as Republican national committeeman from New Jersey.
 Ebenezer Burges Ball. the nearest sur. viving relative of George Washington, has died in Washington. He was Si years of age and unmarried.
 Mrs. Rebecca Barnes, q widow. aged S6, of Torrington. Conn.,, has been burned to death by her clothes accidentally com ing in contact with n bonfire.
 George Manager. aged S2 years, commit ted suicide in Jermyn, Pa, by blowing out his brains. The aged man had been in i'll health and was Respondent.
 A complete steel house has been ship. ped from Philadelphia to Prince Yoshi- bito at Tokyo, and 31 locomotives and tenders were shipped to Russia.
 By the death of John Halstead, n re. tired tea merchant of New York city, Cooper Union has been made a residuary legatee of his estate of over $300,000.
 The Manila American of March n con tains an account of the burning at the stake of three American prisoners in the hands of the insurgents of Panay island.
 Miss Mary Field French. aged a, a cousin of the late Eugene Field, for n number of years his guardian, has died suddenly at her home at Amherst, Mass.
 James W. Phillips, ST., one of the origi. nal California gold miners and gradu. ate of West Point Military academy, has died at Middletown, N. Y., aged 6S years. The president has announced the nom ination of John T.. V. Gridley, son of tn, late Captain Gridley of the Olympia, tt be a second lieutenant in the marin, corps.
 The state department has received off. cial information that ]. Sloat Fassett oi New York has a concession of 5000 square miles of valuable gold bearing land in Korea.
 Captain Dodd's troop of the Third cav. airy trapped 1S0 insurgents near Ben. guet. Fifty-three rebels were killed and | II taken prisoners. The Americans had one man wounded.
 The United States government has awarded to the Oceanic Steamship com pany ten years contract at S2 a mile for carrying the Australian and English closed mails across the Pacific.
 The First parish church in Concord Mass, has been destroyed by fire. Tn, church was on the site of the famou' structure built in 1712, in which the iirsi provincial congress was held in 17T5. | General Young reports that 300 insur gent riflemen and bolomen attacked tn, | American garrison at Batoc. province o I | LOG. The Americans had no casualties. Professor Arthur c. McGiffert oi | Union Theological seminary, who ha, l just had his name erased from the roll o' | the preshytery of New York, has takci steps toward becoming Congregational ist.
 Two St. Louis girls, one IS years ol, and the other 13. have fallen heir to x1. coo. .O00 each. The money is part of tn estate of Ludwig Fischer. who died ii Holland nine years ago, leaving n larg | estate.
 Lieutenant Colonel Webb c. Hayes O | the Thirty-frst infantry. son of Prcsiden Hayes. has been discharged honornbl, from the United States army at his owi request. He has been serving in the Phil ippines.
 l In the breach of promise suit hrough by Miss Nellie Lewis against Presiden Sam Strong of the Free Coinage and oth CT Cripple Creek gold mining compnnie the jury awarded the plaintiff S50,00' damages.
 The strike at the Merrick lMass. thread mill has ended by the machini fxers returning to work. the management having agreed to their demand for S2 p a day, an increase of 2b cents on the ol, scale of wages.
 The president has issued an orde merging the departments of Havana an, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, under the eommant of General Fitz-Hugh Lee, with head quarters at Quemados. The change vii take effect May l.
 Carl Claussen, one of the best knowi German newspaper editors in the Unite, States. has died in Cleveland, aged 5i years. NIT. Claussen was for severn years editor in chief of the Illinois Staat Zeitung, at Chicago.
 The navy department has signed n con tract with the Holland Submarine Torpe do Boat company for the addition o some of their boats to the navy. By tn, terms of the contract the government pays Sl50.000 for the Holland.
 The postoiiicc at Lake City, x. C., hai been re-established, and Mrs. Della n Carter, white, appointed postmaster There has been no postoftice at Lake Cit, since the eolored postmaster there wal killed by q mob two years ago.
 James B. Kellogg. the alleged head Q the E. $. Dean company. who was con victed in the court Of general sessions il New York city a few days ago, has bcei sentenced to seven years and six month in the state prison at Sing Sing.
 A statement issued by the postoflice de pertinent shows that there has been ai increase of S2,759.I15 in the value 0 postage stamps, postal cards, etc, issue' during the three months ended March s as compared with a similar period of las year.
 Frank r. Mackcy, a freight clerk al the wharf of the Upper Delaware Rive Transportation company. Is one Of hy' heirs to S3.636.000 which has beer awarded by the federal courts to the de scendants of Jacob Dehuyen, n Philadel phia patriot, who in the early days of th' Revolution loaned the government Si5O, poo.
 The resignation of the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills has been accepted by the Chicago prcsbytery. Resolutions were