Connecticut western news., 1900-02-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 BrIeay and TerMeIy Told.


 eighth regiment, has reached Manila.
 The circulating libraries of Scranton, Pa. have been closed by the board of health.
 The Canajoharie (N. Y) National bank has closed, pending examination as to solvency.
 Ky the overturning of a lamp by a dog two hotels at North Beach, N Y., were destroyed.
 A sword and silver service have been presented to Commander Wainwright at Washington.
 The antitrust conference win meet in Chicago Feb. l2 for a two days session. several New Workers will speak.
 The condition of Mrs. Platt, wife of Senator T, C. Platt, who Is ill in Wash. ington, is considerably improved.
 Judge Kohlsnat of the federal court has rendered decision declaring the Hi. nois antitrust law unconstitutional.
 NJ. Jules Cambon, French ambassador to the United States, returned to this country on Monday on La Normandie.
 The Depew Opera House at Peekskill, owned by United States Senator Depew, has been destroyed by fire; loss, S7a,OOO.
 The report of the New York state ex. else commissioner shows that the liquor law receipts for the year were S12,043,- 592.
 A complete report of the vital statistics of Havana for 1899 shows an apparent excess of deaths over births of about 4.0O0.
 Fire on Thursday did s2oo.0oo damage at Fredonia, three miles south of Dun kirk, N. Y. Two lives were lost in the flames.
 The transport City of Picking has ar. rived at San Francisco from Manila with the bodies Of 150 soldiers who had died in the Philippines.
 Rev. ]. Henry sharpe, ID. D. ono of the most prominent ministers in the Pres hyterian denomination, died Rt his home in Philadelphia.
 Michael Stasko of Haverstraw, N. Y.. II years of age, heroically gave up his life to save his 12-ycar-old brother 10. seph from drowning.
 Edgar Marks. the 1S-year-old son of w. R. Marks of Canandaigua, has died In Fairfield Military academy of injuries re. ceiyed in a football game. One woman was fatally burned and two badly injured Wednesday In a fire in a boarding house at 415 West Fifty-sey. | enth street, New York city. The transport Pennsylvania has sailed for Manila with S1 100000 in gold coin and q considerable sum in treasury notes for the payment of soldiers. A fight between train robbers and Un- ion Pacific detectives in the Hole In the Wall. Wyoming, Saturday, in which two bandits were killed, is reported. Senator John IT. Gear of Iowa: who has been i'll in Washington, Is much i'm. proved, and his physicians say he will be able to leave his residence in a few days. Colonel Isaac l.. Elwood, the harbed wire magnate, gave each of his five chill | dren a check for S100.000 at breakfast | Christmas day at his home in Dekalb. | Ills. Two men. William Stafford, aged 31 | years, and Peter Drexler, aged 5 years, were fatally injured by an explosion of powder at the Frankfort lPa.) arsenal on | Tuesday.
 | The New York state assembly has | passed the bill authorizing the Paris cN- | position commissioners to increase inc salary of Secretary Griffith from S2,5OO | to S5,000. Benjamin Wells Dunklee, the origi. II nator of furnace heating and u man | widely known in the religious world, has died in Newton Centre, Mass. He was | TS years of age. Charles Franklin Dunbar, professor of | political economy at Harvard university | is dead. Professor Dunbar was recug. nized authority on political economy and was widely known.
 | Archie s. Null, convicted of the murder | of Melville B. Lord of Nassau, N. T., hns been sentenced by Justice Chester 10 die | at Dnnncmora prison during the week commencing March 4. | A funeral train Is being arranged by | the Southern Pacific company to convey the bodies of Major General Henry w Lawton and Major John A. Logan to the east from San Francisco.
 Rees E.. Thomas, well known attor. ney of Utica. N. Y., was shot and In. stantly killed Saturday in the Adiron. | dacks by the discharge of shotgun which he had been carrying. | Frank Fredericks, native of Roekland county, was killed in runaway while out driving at Kingston, N. \. He was the son of the late Theodore Fredericks, a prominent resident of Haverstraw.
 The war department has received a cn. blegram from General Otis stating that General Wheeler had sailed from Manila on the transport Warren for the United States by way of Guam and Honolulu.
 Judge Lynde Harrison, one of the exec. utors of the will of the late Henry B. Plant, has filed the inventory of the es. tate, with the appraisal, in the New Haven probate court. lt amounts to S16.9 ,546.
 The strike of motormen and conductors on the Troy branch of the United Trac. ton company has been settled on a basis of S2 per day to all regular men and Co all others-tiippers, extras, etc.-1Si. cents per hour.
 The men employed in the Bay State Shoe and Leather company's factory nr Sing Sing, N. Y., to the number of 15O are out on Il strike. They say the com pany has teen cutting down wages and discharging men.
 Fire on Monday destroyed the chair factory of the Haywood Bros. X Wake. field company in Cherry street, New York. and water damage was done to a nearby warehouse, the total loss being es. limated at S350,000.
 The steamer Doric has landed TOO Jnp. .nese at Honolulu. This completed a list )f 2,0o0 inside of four days. The records Sf the immigration bureau at Honolulu show that since June 15 last l7.sOo Jap inese have been landed there.
 II. M. Day, who had brilliant civil var record, rising to the position of brig idier general through signal bravery, has lied at Cedar Rapids, Ia., of heart trou' ole, aged n years. He was conspicu' ous figure in Grand Army circles.
 Edward J. Graham, national bank er- aminer of Albany, has been appointed re ceiver of the Canajoharie National bank which closed it's doors Thursday morning He says 1t will take long time to fulll determine the condition of the bank.
 Rev. George F. Jenks, Universalis clergyman of Chelsea, Mass. droppe, dead on Tuesday at Salem. He was i' years of age and for many years was al associate editor of The Christian Leader | tbe official organ of the Iniycrsalists.