Connecticut western news., 1900-05-31

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 University of California A. Plaw of Cal ifornia beat the intercollegiate record by casting the hammer a distance of 1Bh feet O12 inch. He holds the intercoi. legiate record of 154 feet AZ inches, made at the intercollegiate games last week.
 Because they would not work with cores made by nonunion coremakers the molders employed at the various foun- dries in Buffalo quit their work. Tho total number of men involved in the strike Is about 2.000. The coremakera demand a minimum rate of S2.25 n day. The proprietors offcr S2.12h. which the men rejected.
 Scouting, small engagements and the capture of arms and prisoners continue
 daily in northern Lugon. Last weeks
 operations by the Ninth, Twelfth, shir-
 ty-third, Thirty.fourth and Thirty-sixth
 regiments resulted in the killing of a0 of
 the enemy, the taking of 1So prisoners
 and the capture of 300 rifles and quan- tity of ammunition.
 Samuel Cupples and Robert s. Brook inRs of the Cupples Woodenwnre compa- any of St. Louis have presented to Wash
 ington university, In that city, stock val
 ued at S3,0O0,o00. This makes the total
 gift of Mir. Brookings to the university
 S2,OoO000 and of Mir. Cupples ST, ,750, 600
 and the total endowment of the universi- ty about S6,oO0,0o0.
 A million dollar deal has just been con
 summnted in Philadelphia whereby the
 entire town of Frugality, Cambria conn. ty, Pa, with all It's coal and coke Inter sets, passes into the hands of a company of capitalists, of which State Senator T.
 Henry Cochran of williamsport is pres- ident. The purchase was made from Supreme Court Justice Dean.
 Twenty-two miners, 10 white aud 12 negroes, lost their lives in an explosion
 at the Cumnock coal mines, Chatham
 county, N. c. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by a broken gauge
 In a safety lamp. Forty or 60 men were In the mine at the time. Tho list of dead includes John Connolly, mine uuperin- tendent. He came from Pittsburg. The leaders in the house of represents tives have decided Co reduce the war tar
 es at the next session of.congress, and a
 resolution will be prepared today Co give l the committee on ways and means leave 10 sit during the recess of congress. The committee will meet in the autumn to prepare a measure for presentation Go l the house immediately after it convenes in December.
 Ellen Jane Brown, aged years. dauEh. ter of James Brown of Amsterdam, N. Y.. wns burned Co death Monday. She was pushed into a bonfire by a colored | boy named Lewis. The boy had built a | bonfire in a vacant lot near the Browns | home and requested the child to get fuel with which to feed the flames. When she refused to obey his command, Lewis
 snealSed up behind her and pushed her | head first into the flames.
 Major Peyton c. March, with battal- | ion of the Thirty-third volunteer infan- | try, and Colonel Luther R. Hare, with
 another part of tho Thirty-thlrd regiment. while securing the country northeast of Benguet, report they have struck the \ trail of party of Filipinos travelling in | the mountains and believe they are es- \ corting Agulnaldo. Major March Is con-
 tinuing the pursuit across an exceedingly | difficult country beyond the telegraph \ lines. ...