Connecticut western news., 1900-03-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.


 the Episcopal diocese Of Minnesota. died at St Paul.
 Three children were burned to death in New York tenement house on wednes- day. The fire was of inccndiary origin.
 William Watson. at one time one of the leading lawyers of New York city, has died there in the ninety-hrst year of his age.
 One woman lost her life and four other persons were injured in a fire that de- stroyed an apartment house in Chicago on Wednesday.
 The Utah Democratic convention at Salt Lake City adopted resolutions de- ploring the exclusion of R. H. Roberts from the house.
 The general assembly of Virginia has passed resolution making June 3, the birthday of Jefferson Davis, a legal holi. day in Virginia.
 Congressman Sydney Eppes of yir- ginia, who was operated on for appendi- pital on Friday.
 It is learned that the 1s,o00 coke work CTS in the Connellsville region have re. ceived notice of an advance in their wages of about 12 per cent
 
 cavalry are under orders to return 10 the United States. Native troops are now be- ing recruited to 6ll their places.
 The bodies of 96 soldiers who died in Cuba since the end of the Spanish war were buried with military honors at Ar lington cemetery Thursday afternoon.
 The total United States revenue re. ceipts for January amounted 10 S23,- O19,423, an increase as compared with the same month in 1899 of S2, 2,208.6T2.
 The American ship St. John, Captain Fales, from New York for Yokohama. Is reported lost at sea by fire. All hands were saved and landed at Banjoewange.
 Burglars blew open safe in a brewing company's office nt Pawtucket. R. l., and carried on $500 in cash, $1,G00 in reyc. nue stamps and checks for more than S1 900.
 Professor F. l.. Harvey of the Univer. sity of Maine shot and killed himself at his home in 0rono. He had been suffer ing from mental troubles resulting from overwork.
 The United States treasury statement of March 1 shows total cash In the treas ury, S1,097, ,457 ,0I0. Decrease in debt during February, less cash in the treas. ury, $6,750.16S.
 Ex-County Clerk F. NJ. Wood of Herk. inner, N. Y., prominent leader in Repub. lican politics, has been appointed cashier of the New York postottice. The job pays $2,300 per annum. Congressman c. A. Boutelle of Maine has so far recovered from his recent m. ness, which made 1t necessary to send him to Boston for treatment, that he has decided 10 seek reelection.
 Rumors have reached Benson, A. T.. that Yaqui Indians are headed for the in. ternational line, and General Merriam has ordered troops to be in readiness to repel any attempted invasion.
 A business block in waynesboro. Pa. owned by ]. r. X ]. NJ. Wolff and oecu. pied by 14 firms was entirely gutted by fire on Friday, causing a loss of SS0. 900 The heaviest losers are Wolff Bros.
 The collections at the port of Havana for the 26 working days of February amounted to Sl,152,513, which exceeds the collections for any single month since the date of the American occupa. ton.
 Geraldine, the famous racing mare, holder of the worlds record for a half mile in 46 seconds. has died at Spreekes' Napa farm, in California. Her newly born foal by Crighton died at the same time.
 General A. D. Shaw, national com. mander of the G. A. R., has announced himself as n candidate for congress, to succeed the late Charles A. Chickering from the Twenty-fourth congressional district of New York.
 Gabriel Bishop of Cuba, N. r., has been convicted of manslaughter in caus. ing the death of Everett Austin of Bel mont on July s last by exploding dyna. mite under cottage on Lake Cuba in which Austin was asleep.
 The National bank of Port Jeryis, N Y., which suspended several months ago owing to the dedication of Assistant Cashier Goldsmith, has resumed business with 15S stockholders as against S4 at the time of the suspension.
 Three persons were killed and 15 in. jured by the wrecking of the Northamp- ton train of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, which plunged through trestle bridge a mile north of Plainville, Conn, on Thursday.
 Major General John R. Brooke, who has been in Washington since his recent detachment from duty as governor gener- a mand of the department of the east, with headquarters at New York city.
 The blizzard prevailing throughout western Missouri was the cause of a train wreck on the main line of the Mis- souri Pacific road in which at least two persons and possibly more were killed and several others were badly hurt.
 Lon Curry, one of the train robbers who engaged in the Wilcox (Wy.) hold up on the Union Pacific last June, when something like $30,000 was secured. was shot and killed by officers at Dodson, near Kansas City while resisting arrest.
 Minister Mariscan. Mexican secretary of foreign affairs through United States Embassador Powell Clayton, has trans mitted President Diaz's acceptance of the invitation extended by the Pan-American Exposition company 10 participate in the exposition.
 Charles Davis, who obtained fame in the theatrical world as Alvin Joslin. has died in Avalon, near Pittsburg. He was stricken with pneumonia on Sunday last. Davis was the owner and manager of the Alvin theater, Pittsburg's finest playhouse.
 The whaleback Inverness, which takes a big cargo of flour from Tacoma for shipment to Port Arthur, is the first ship of regular line that k to operate be- tween the sound and Siberian ports. The stsvice for the present is to be one ship every 40 days.
 Seven men, four of whom have been identified, are dead; three men. two of whom may be among the unidentified dead, are unaccounted for, and one other was seriously injured as the result of a fire in a lodging house on the New Bow cry, New York city.
 A dispatch to the London Times from Lourenco Marques, dated Feb. 2T, says that Mir. A. s. Hay, the new American consul at Pretoria, Is earning the respect of the uitlapdsrs and Boers and Is prov ing himself tactful and assiduous in his attention to his duties. .-...
 A dispatch from san Juan says Porto Ricans are iuhilnnt over the news of the