Connecticut western news., 1900-01-04

m nls spcclaI message 10 the Michigan legislature, was defeated in the senate.
 William Neufeld, charged with killing his cousin, Mrs. Annie Kronman, in New York, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to die Feb. 12
 The total customs receipts for the year at Havana exceed S11 900, 900. The high est estimate made by the war depart ment for the years returns was 9.O00.- 900.
 IL Ia reported that Ferdinand Schu- macker and IT. A. Schumacher will be at the head of a new S1 ,000, 900 cereal com psny whose mills will be located In ChI- cago.
 The will of the late John I. Blair has been probated. De Witt c. Blair, the tess tator's only surviving child, gets the bulk of the estate. There are few charitable beQuests.
 The ssigsl- Hillman Dry Goods com pany of St. Louis has filed a deed of trust to secure sll its creditors. The lla- bilities of the firm are placed at about S225, 900.
 The 1, 800 men employed by the Lehigh and wilkesbarre Coal company and the Silver Brook Goal company have been notified of an increase of per cent in their wages,
 W. R. Hill, chief engineer of the syra- cuse water department, has been ap- pointed chief engineer of the aqueduct commission of New York city, to take offce Jan. I. ...
 John Larkin, recently convicted of mur- der in the second degree for killing Sam uel Crusen in a brawl at Princeton on July {, has been sentenced to state prison for 12 years.
 The Montana supreme court has dis barred Attorney John B. Welcome. charged with bribery in connection with the election of W. A. Clark to the United States senate.
 Governor Roosevelt has appointed Jus Aces D. Nj. Cullen of Brooklyn, Judson s. Landon of Schenectady and William ID. Werner of Rochester as associate judges of the court of appeals.
 A wreck on the New Jersey Central railroad at High Bridge. N. l., Friday resulted in one death and Eve persons in- jursd. Christopher V. Hulsider, gro cer, was killed. N. Y., was blown open by burglars and the office badly wrecked. A good haul was made, though the exact amount is not yet obtainable.
 Bronze busts of Benjamin Franklin. Horace Greeley, George w. Childn. Charles A. Dana and Joseph Medill will be placed In the publishers building at the Paris exposition.
 General Edwin s. Osborne, representa- tive from Pennsylvania in the Forty ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-frst congresses. has died In Washington. He was a vet sran of the civil war and for six years was brigadier general of the nauonst guard of Pennsylvania. The transport Tartar has arrived at San Francisco after a run of 20 days from Manila and 1Sla days from Nagass- Ri. She brought a number of discharged soldiers as passengers. Company c, Ninth regiment, N. c. N. Y., has elected State Senator John Ford second lieutenant to succeed Lieutenant Charles w. Seward, who died of camp fever in the Spanish war.
 Governor Roosevelt appointed Colonel Edward Morris Hoffman of Elmira adlu- tsnt ganaraL with the rank of brisadi@r sss<s.., ,v succeed AdJutant GeneraI Avery D. Andrews, resigned. The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Dr. Constantin Herring was cele- brated in Philadelphia by the dedication of the office building erected in his honor by his son, Walter B Herring. E. c. Hodges & O., bankers and brok- CTS, of 53 State street, Boston, have sus- pended business. The firm is one of the largest In the city. Its dealings have been principally in municipal bonds. Andrew Carnegie has given $3o0. 900. to which the families of Peter Cooper and Abram s. Hewitt have added $200,- 900. for day school of mechanics at Cooper Union, New York city. The Norwalk and Fairfield (Connl | worsted Mills company, manufacturers of cashmeres and worsteds, has raised wages 10 per cent in all departments. The company employs POO hands. John c. Baldwin, who was sentenced to Sing Sing for life for the murder of | William H. Springstein at Port Jervis in | 1877, has been pardoned by Governor Roosevelt and released from prison.
 The directors of the Great Northern Railway company have awarded the con tract for the construction at Quebec of | 100000 bushel elevator, at . cost of | S25o.000, to Chapman & Go. of Buffalo. Governor Roosevelt has announced the | appointment of William Nj. Thrashcr am | county judge of Cnttaraugus county, to succeed Judge Frederick Rinse, who has been elevated to the supreme court bench.
 The new Harvard boathouse has been burned, and the launch Frank Thomson. a gift of the late president of the Penn sylvania railroad to Harvard, was badly damaged. The loss Is estimated at S3T.- | 900.
 Eddie Ray Snow, convicted of the mur- | der of James whittemore at Yarmouth. Mass, Sept. 15. 1899. has been sentenced to be electrocuted March IS. This will be the first electrocution in Massachu. setts.
 In the island of Panay Captain Brown ell's company of the Twenty-sixth volun- teer infantry gave the rebels a severe drubbing at Sala. The natives of the province of Romblon, in the same Island. | will surrender their arms. A petition has been presented In the probate court at Greenfield, Msss., by w. | R. Moody, eldest son of the late evansel. lst Dwight l.. Moody, asking that he bs appointed administrator of his fathers estate. MT. Moody left no will. Plans for a woman's hotel in New York city are about completed. The hotel when finished will cost about $500, GOO. The purpose of the hotel will bc to fur uish self supporting women first class ac- conimodations at nominal figure. Nixon Reelected Speaker. Albany, Jan. 3.-The Republican as- sembly caucus last night was presided over by James T. Rogers of Broome. The following nominations, all of which were confirmed by election today, were made: Speaker, s. Fred Nixon of Chau- tLuqua; clerk. A. 10. Baxter of Chemung; principal doorkeeper, Thomas F. Murphy of New York city; first assistant door keeper, Charles R. HoughtalinR of AL bany; second assistant doorkeepcr, Ros- well B. Warren of Washington; stenog- rapher, III. c. Lammert of Kings. The Democratic caucus of assemblymen made these nominations, Speaker, I. Franklin Barnes of Schuyler; scrgeant-at-arms. Jeremiah Burns of New York; clerk. Wii- liam Leonard of New York; doorkesper.