Connecticut western news., 1900-07-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and T~rse1y Told.

 factures were exported during May, breaking all records.
 Yale university has conferred the hon. orary degree of doctor of laws upon Eli. hu Root, secretary of war.
 Four cases of supposed leprosy have de- veloped among Idaho volunteers who have returned from the Philippines.
 The patent medicine plant of Kilmer x Co, in Binghamton. N. Y,, has been de- stroyed by fire. with a loss of Sl5oooo.
 Military prisoners at Fort Smelling, Minn., recently made a desperate attempt 10 escape. All but one were recapturcd.
 The inauguration of General Alejan- dro Rodriguez. the first Cuban elected mayor of Havana, took place on Satur- day.
 Gus Ruhlin knocked out Tom Sharkey in the fifteenth round of a hard fought battle nt Coney Island on Wednesday night.
 Miss Margaret Carberry and her father threw burglar from her room In Brook. lyn through the window to the ground, 90 feet below.
 The Democratic state convention in Hi. nois nominated Samuel Alschuler of Au- rora for governor and indorsed the Chica- go platform.
 The honorary degree of doctor of laws has been conferred by Harvard universi. ty upon Sir Julian Pauncefote. the Brit. ish ambassador to the United States.
 Amos l.. Allen of Alfred, Me, who was elected last fall to fill out Congress man Thomas B. Reeds unexpired term, has been renominated by exclamation.
 The Chicago Bricklayers and Stone Masons' union has withdrawn from the building trades council and will return to work, thus practically ending the great strike.
 Fifteen thousand dollars has been re- seived from the Kansas India famine re- lief committee and cabled to the inter ,lenominational missionary committee at Bombay.
 Four persons lost their lives in Chicago on Wednesday through the heat, and five were prostrated while on the streets or at work. The mercury reached 91 on the street level.
 James Pines. leader of the Brooklyn trolley men in the great strike of 1895 and who worked hard to prevent the un. successful strike last summer, has died in Brooklyn.
 Rev. Dr. Benjamin R. Warfeld, head of Princeton Theological seminary, comes out strongly in n letter against any re- vision of the Westminster confession of faith whatever.
 The steamer Cottage City has arrived at Seattle from Skaguay with S200, 900 in gold dust and drafts and a number of passengers from Dawson. The latter left Dawson June C.
 At Trenton Felix Englcr and Charles Smith, both under 10 years, were smoth- cred to death by the caving in of the bank of a sand pit in which the two boys, with others, were playing.
 The Republican state convention in Maine nominated Dr. John r. Hill of Au- gusta for governor by exclamation by a rising vote. A platform was adopted in. dorsing the national administration.
 An explosion in boothlack's shop . Passaic, N. l., killed two men and SO SC verely injured two others that they are n, hospitals, with little chance of recovery. Five or six others were slightly injured. One fireman was killed and II others injured and nearly $30O,000 worth Of property was destroyed in fire in the machine shop of the Best Manufacturing company on Twenty-ffth street, Pitts burg. It is said that John w. Gates, the Chi cago capitalist, has decided to drop the prosecution of the famous case of Alex ander Jester, charged with killing Gates brother 20 years ago. Jester Is 50 years of age.
 Fire, believed to be of incendiary ori- gin. destroyed the home of William Gilkes, adjoining the Clifton race track, near Paterson, N. J. Two childrcn-Sa- die, 5 years old, and Etta, 3 years old were burned to death.
 William ]. Pollock, formerly a promi. nent Republican politician of Philadel- phia and one of the 1906" who endeavor. ed 10 secure the nomination of General Grant for q third term, has died sudden ly at his home in that city.
 John S. Mathis, a member of the firm of Morris X Mathis, shiphuilders, of Camden, N. J.. was taken suddenly i'll while swimming in the Delaware river opposite the shipyard and died after be- ing carried out of the water.
 Solomon Scruggs of Chicago and Philip Hillpot of St. Louis, rival drummers for farming implement houses, quarreled over the distribution of trade at West Portal, N. ]. Both drew pistols and be. gan firing. Both were killed.
 Bishop Doane of Albany has received the honorary degree of n. n. from Trini- ty college, Dublin, which Is regarded as even a higher distinction than similar honors from Oxford and Cambridge, which he has already received.
 Oxford university has conferred the honorary degree of D. D. on the Rev. Morgan Dix of New York, the honorary degree of D. c. l.. on c. E. Norton of Harvard and the honorary degree of n. Sc. on J. M. Baldwin of Princeton.
 Nine of the insurgent leaders, including Generals Pic del Pillar, Conception, Gar. cia and Alvarez, have been released in Manila upon taking the oath of allc- glance to the government and renouncing all forms of revolution in the Philippines.
 Carpenters hotel at Ballston Spa, N. Y., has been burned. The building was frame structure owned by Obed Brown. His loss is placed at S7,o00; insured for 5000. Joseph Carpenter, who conducted the hotel. lost S5,000 on fixtures; insured for S1, GOO.
 The last of the three great epoch making events in the history of the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands 10 the United States of America took place on June II, when Governor $. B. Dole, first executiv, of the American territory. was innugurated.
 The inspection board, headed by Rear Admiral Rodgers, which accompanied the new DaltleShlp hentuShs oh heI nnhl he' ceptance trial reports the result of the Kentucky's trial as very satisfactory and equal in every respect to that of her sis ter ship, the Kearsarge. The Model aud Training school at San Juan, Porto Rico, an insular possession. has been totally destroyed hy fire, caus. ing loss of 25.000. The property was insured for S10,UO0. The fire is supposed to have been caused by spontaneous com. bustion.
 Captain John l.. Powers has been ar rested in Kentucky, charged with being m accessory to the murder of Governor Goebel. Powers at once instituted habeas corpus proceedings. He holds pardon issued by Governor Taylor while In office and was released once before on habeas corpus proceedings in Knox county. Cap