Connecticut western news., 1900-12-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Happenings of the Wide World
 Brtefiy and TerseIy ToId.

The tnpe Nome mining camp has been sut on by ice from the outside world for .he winter
 Lieutenant Hobson. U. x. N., Is In a New York hospital, threatened with ty- phoid fever.
 A large shipment of potatoes. first of the kind. will soon be made from Wash ington to China.
 The annual cost to Greater New York of the eity's police department is esti' mated at Stl, ,l62,32s.
 The American Transvaal league has is. used an invitation to ex-President Kru- ger to visit this country.
 The big corn deal in Chicago has been settled by Operator Phillips making pri. vate terms with the big shorts"
 The annual report of the New York state treasurer shows a balance greater than last years by more than Ss.oo0,. GOO.
 All the members of the presidents cab inet except Attorney General Griggs have decided to remain in office after March 4.
 The official count of the vote of Idaho in the recent election shows b7,9lS votes cast. The highest Bryan elector has 2.216 plurality.
 Two children perished and three dwsR- ings occupied by miners were destroyed by means of fire in Plymouth, near Me keesport, Pa., on Tuesday night.
 Robert Winstet, assistant bookkeeper of the German National bank of New port, Ky, has been arrested for complici- ty with Frank Brown in wrecking the bank.
 Julius Scharn of Norwich, N. Y., has committed suicide. He recently pur- chased a brewery in that village for siO.. 900. and his investment had not proved a good one.
 Enraged because Albert Lane paid at. tentions to his own half sister, James Hanley, who was in love with the girl, killed Lane in the woods at Frost Valley. In the Catskills.
 The Panama Railroad company has be gun chartering steamships and seeking dock facilities at San Francisco in an- ticipation of war with the Pacific Mail Steamship company.
 The trustees of Columbia university have decided to authorize the United States government to offer tuition in Co- lumbia in any school save that of medi. cine to five Filipinos.
 The New York court of appeals has set the week of Jan. 14 as the time for the execution by electricity of William Neu- field, who murdered Annie Kronmau at 268 West Thirty-hfth street. New York city.
 Yale university has received notice from attorneys in Chicago that a legacy of S6s. 152 has been left the university. The donor Is the late John De Koven, whose executors have just divided up the estate.
 Rear Admiral Frederick c. MeNair died at his residence in Washington on Wednesday from stroke of apoplexy. He was the ranking rear admiral of the navy and the officer next in line to Ad. miral Dewey.
 As result of prosecution by the Browns Tract Guides association Lieu tenant Governor Timothy l.. Woodruff has paid fine of S250 for violating the game laws in hunting before the opening of the season.
 Miss Eugenin Washington, great. grandniece of George Washington. one of the founders of the Society of Daughters of the American Revolution and president of the Society of Founders and Patriots, has died in Washington.
 Former Governor Joseph w. McClurg aged SS years, has died at Lebanon, Mo. of hemorrhage of the stomach. He was elected governor of Missouri as n Repub- lican in 1868 and served one term. He served in congress from 1862 10 1868.
 Cornell was defeated at football on Thanksgiving day by the University of Pennsylvania. The score was 27 to c. On the same day Columbia defeated the Carlisle Indians IT to 8. The Thanksgiv- ing day games closed the football season
 Four men and one boy were instantly killed and 13 persons injured by the ex- plosion of boiler in the power house Of the Chicago and Northwestern road on Monday at Chicago. Several of the in jured are hurt so badly that they may die.
 The war department has received q dis. patch from General Macarthur telling of the surrender of 2.1S0 Katipunan msur rectos to General Young at Santa Maria. Santa Maria Is a town Of 1e,0O0 inhab. itunts, situated 10 miles from Nigan, in the province of Ilocas Sur.
 Frank Tuscani, an Italian living In Hudson street, Haekensack, N. l., was stabbed to death Sunday by John Gam. bola, a fellow eountryman. Friends of the murdered man avenged his death with stilcttos, and Gambola now lies al the point of death in tue Hackensack hos pital.
 The navy department has been inform cd that the gunhoat Manila has left Cavite with detachment of marines for the occupation of Subig and 0longapo, which temporarily have been transferred to the control of the department. The Culgoa Is being used as a station ship al Cavite.
 Nathaniel Wells, a well known chemist, has died in Washington at the age of TOT years He was long time friend of Oar win, Spencer and Huxley. Mir. Wells was strong and we'll until about four years ago. He probably held the record for voy ages around the world, having made the trip 25 times.
 Thomas J. Kinney, prominent among New Jersey Republicans and former own. CT and publisher of the Newark Daily Advertiser has died at his residence in Newark Mir. Kinney was 70 years of age. He was reputed to be worth at least S2,000, 900 and leaves q widow, son and three daughters.
 The British court of appeals has rem dered decision upholding that of a d. visional court In the suit of the attorney general versus the Jewish Colonization association claiming estate and success sion duty upon the death of Baron Hirsch de Gereuth. The crown by this decision gets upward of f1,250.ooo.
 Admiral Remey has informed the navy department that the General Alavn, about which vessel some uneasiness had been felt, as 1t was thought she would encounter the Guam typhoon on her way over from that island to Cayite. has ar rived safely at Cayite with detachment of marines and some of the Yosemite's officers.
 The division of customs and insular af- fairs of the war department has prepar- ed for publication n statement showing that the total receipts from customs sources in Cuba for the ten months ended Oct. 31, 1900. were SIS, 3,215. .4ge. while for the same ten months of 1899 they were k12, 120.991, an increase In 1900 of S1,- D94.50
 Oscar Boox, a young student of the West Point Military academy. has died