Connecticut western news., 1900-02-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tersely Told,

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 The coal barge Oakland went down of the New Jersey coast on Tuesday. Four men were drowned.
 The Count and Countess de Castellane sailed for Havre on Thursday aboard the French line steamship La Gascogne.
 The wife and two sons of Enoch Ste. venson were drowned in a pond near their home at Eldora, N. J., on Tuesday.
 The fight for the heavyweight champi. onship between Corbett and Jcffries will take place at the Seaside Athletic club, Coney Island, on May IA.
 Three men have lost their lives md S5O0,OO0 worth of damage has been done to property along the Hudson river by the worst freshet since 1857.
 President Barrows announces a gift of S40,OOO for Oberlin college from the es. tate of William Osborn of Pittsburg. who died in Florida few weeks ago.
 Major oskaloosa NJ. Smith. U. s. A., commissary of subsistence. has been plac. ed on the retired list, on his own applicn- tion, after more than 30 years service.
 The strike of the miners at Arnot and Landrus, Pa, has been declared of after a battle of eight months between the
 
 Mrs. Rachael B. Crane of Peekskill; N. Y., has given S50.000 to the home mis- sion board of the Presbyterian church and $5O,OOO to its foreign mission board.
 The balance sheets 10 Dec. 31, 1899, Of the American Steel and Wire company, read at the annual meeting yesterday, showed the net profits to be over SIP. 100000
 The battleship Wisconsin, now build. ing at the Union Iron works at San Fran. cisco, is fast nearing completion. She win probably be ready for her trial trip be. fore July 1.
 The New York general committee of the Transvaal war relief fund has raised so far S12,900.52, which will be forward. ed to London to be applied to the lord mayors fund.
 Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, commandant of the Charlestown navy yard, has had the offer of the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute Of Tech. nology and has declined 1t.
 The secretary of war has ordered the establishment of a bimonthly transport service between San Francisco and Ma nila. This action is due to the heavy traf- fc between the two points.
 The next national convention of the Populist party will be held In Sioux Falls, s. D., on May 9. Representation is based on the vote for General J. R. Weaver for president in 1892.
 The Nero. during its recent survey for a transpacific cable, broke the record for deep sea soundings. One sounding near Guam island marked 5,269 fathoms, only a trife short of six statute miles.
 n n & Co. of Hazleton, Pa, anthracite coal mine operators, have been notified of per cent increase in their wages, the sec ond advance in the last two months.
 The Gallaudet Home For the Deaf and Dumb at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was com. pletely destroyed by fire Sunday night. The 20 inmates were safely rescued. The loss is about S45,000, which Is covered by insurance.
 Edwin Mayo of the "Puddenhead Wil. son" company dropped dead in the Cha. teau Frontenac in Quebec. He was a son of the well known actor Frank Mayo who died suddenly in Omaha about two years ago.
 Miss Sarah Porter, head of the famous school for girls in Pennington, Conn. and sister of the late Noah Porter for mer president of Yale, Is dead at the age of S5. She established her school about | 60 years ago.
 The first class battleship Kearsarg, was placed in commission with the usual ceremonies on Tuesday at the Newport | News Shipbuilding and Drydock com. pany's yard. Captain A. NJ. Folger as. sumed command.
 IT. Fl. Wells, ex-governor of Virginia and notable figure In civil war times has died at the home of his daughter Mrs. James T. Walker, In Palmyra, N r., after long illness. He was born in Rochester in 1923.
 Mon Flung Young, Chinese doctor has been awarded SS,937 in the Kansas l circuit court against the Kansas City, St Joseph and Council Bluffs railroad be. cause the porter would not permit him tc ! ride in n parlor car.
 The engagement of Lieutenant w. w Fiscus, Nineteenth United States infan. try, now stationed in the Philippines, tc | Miss Annie Wheeler, the youngest daugh. ter of General Joseph Wheeler and au army nurse. has been announced.
 II. H. vreeland, president of the Met. ropolitan Street railway of New York city, received S100,000 valentine in the shape of check. The check was given by wealthy capitalists who practically control the Metropolitan Street railroad. District Attorney Randall of Geneset county, N. Y., has served upon William | H. Webster a notice of trial in the case | of the people against Howard c. Benham for the term oonvening at Batavia March 5. Justice Kruse will preside at this | term.
 According to the annual report of the | New York state board of arbitration and mediation, there was a noticeable in. crease in the number of strikes in the state during the past year, the total, 455 being higher than for any year sine, 1891.
 The American Sash and Door com | pany, a new corporation, with n capital stock of S6,O00,o of which S2,500, ,ooC is preferred and S3,500000 common, ha, been organized in Chicago. The com | pany was incorporated under the laws oi New Jersey.
 | Provost Harrison of the University oi | Pennsylvania has announced that gift I of $25,000 has been made to the univer sity by Mrs. Thomas McKean of Phila selphia. The gift is made in memory oi Mrs. McKean's father, the late George | A. Wharton.
 The Royal Geological society has given to Mir Grove K. Gilbert, geologist of the | United States geological survey, the Vol iaston medal. annually awarded for the most important geological discoveries This is the third time the honor has gone % the United States.
 Governor General Wood has granted permission to the Spanish War Museum company to examine the wreck of tho Alfonso XII, in the harbor of Mariel. tc determine the practicability of raising her, with the object of utilizing her steel hull as a merchant vessel.
 The remains of so soldiers were bur jed at the National cemetery at Arlington on Tuesday with the usual military hon ors. Most of these men lost their lives ir Cuba during and since the Spanish war The remainder died in the military serv | ice in Porto Rico