Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happening. of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

The Belgian state railways have order ed 12 locomotives from Philadelphia for September delivery.
 The Kansas City chief of police hns~of, fered to pay S25 out of his salary for tho body of each highwayman killed in that city.
 The commencement of work on New York's rapid transit tunnel was celebrat- ed on Saturday with elaborate ceremo- nies.
 More than 5000 women have registered in Cleveland in order to be eligible to vote for a director of schools at the spring election.
 The new United States naval hospital at Mare Island, Cal, has been completed and is ready 10 be turned over 10 the government
 Thirty-two students at Lawrenccville IN. J.l academy have been sent to their homes 10 prevent the spread of diphthe- ria prevalent there.
 The Merchants National bank of Rut- land, Nt., has closed it's doors, and the cashier has been arrested, charged with misappropriation of funds.
 One man was killed and two men were injured by the premature explosion of a blasting charge in the copper mine near Someryille, N. l., on Friday.
 Secretary Root has authorized General Davis, at San Juan, to give employment upon public works to surplus labor in Porto Rico to relieve the famine.
 The Anglo-American joint high com mission will reassemble at date to be given out shortly, and possibly Ottawa will be the scene of the conference.
 George Eastman, treasurer of the East. man Kodak company, has given to the Rochester Athenmum and Mechanics in- stitute property valued at S2o0.0o0.
 The sale of Wallace Estill of Aberdeen Angus breeding cattle at Chicago broke all previous records. Seventy-two head brought a general average of $579 each.
 The funeral of Edward B. Webster, IT,, private of the Ninth infantry, who was killed on July IS last near San Luis. in the Philippines, was held at Geneva, N. Y.
 The trials of the new Cunard steamer Ivernia, built for the Liverpool Boston service, proved every way satisfactory. The Ivernia will sail for New York on April 14.
 Twelve thousand dollars was realized from a concert at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York city for the benefit of the Red Cross and Maine hospital shiI relief funds.
 Fire has destroyed the plant of the Ta
 Der Felt works at Fredonia. N. Y., en. tniling a loss 10 the building and stock oi S25.0o0. As 6 result about 50 employees
 will be thrown out of work.
 Michael Mellegin, boatswain's mate oi the United States gunboat Machias, wns killed and his brother Edward, fireman on the cruiser New York, was shot in th. hip in street fight at Galveston.
 Nearly 100 recruits have deserted from Fort Slocum, N. Y., within the past few weeks because of the delay in send ing recruits at that station to Manila Nearly 1000 men are quartered there.
 Olga Nethersole, Hamilton Revelle Theodore Moss and Marcus R. Mayer were indicted on Thursday afternoon by the grand jury for the production oi "Sapho" at N allack's theater, New York city.
 The fast mail on the Atlanta and West Point was wrecked at Ossanippa creek Ga. One man, Reuben ]. Oslin of At lanta, express messenger, was killed and
 l5 people injured. some of them scri ously.
 Captain Thomas wilen. president oi the Central National bank of Cleveland and widely known vessel owner. hal died in Jerusalem of pneumonia. He lefi Cleveland several weeks ago for an ex
 tended trip abroad.
 Charles A. Towne, chairman of the Sil yer Republican national committee, hai undergone a painful, but not dangerous operation at St. Luke's hospital in Dn luth. He is now doing very well and will be out in about two weeks. Counterfeit S10, s and S1 notes are 1T circulation in Rochester, and as a eonse auence United States secret service mel are putting forth eyers effort to run down the gang whose | edquarters ar, believed to be in that vicinity. Thirty employees of the Blakeley Print ing company in Chicago were injured b, an elevator falling from the third fiool of the Blakeley building. It Is believed that none of the injured will die, al though several were badly hurt. The monthly statement of the collec tions of internal revenue shows that fol the month of February, 1900, the tota receipts from all sources were S20,S09, 665, m increase as compared with tn, same month in 1899 of S1, ,160.059. The Wilmington Methodist Episcopa conference. which represents Delawar, and a portion of Maryland, has adopted A resolution condemning the army can teen and the use and sale of liquor il new possessions of this government, Ky direction of the war department on, squadron of the Fifth cavalry in the de partment of Porto Rico will be relieved from duty in that department and pro ceed to the department of ,ae Missouri taking station at Jefferson Barracks. Great excitement prevails in San Juar county, N. M., owing to the discovery b, John Hardie, $. k. McCorkell and |. l. Fraser of quartz gold assaying S201 |, the ton. Hundreds of prospectors hay, rushed thither and staked off claims. The employees of the bottoming depart ment of Dunn X McCarthy's shoe facto " at Auburn, N. Y., numbering 2J0 mel and boys, quit work in a body Monda, morning. What they are out for the em ployees and employers profess not [, know.
 Nearly 400 maehinists in Clevelan, have quit work. The strike involved prac tically all the 55 shops in the city, and al except seven, the proprietors of wbicl | quickly granted the demands of the men will remain closed until the strike il ended.
 Dr. Israel W. Heulings, a prominent resident of Moorestown, N. J., shot him
 self in the head Sunday evening. Tho act Is vnriously ascribed 10 temporary insanity and indulgence in liquor. H' was engaged in the lumber business it | Riverton.
 In accordance with their notice posted | shortly after Jan. l promising an ad vance to their employees to take effec April I, the Berwind. White Coal Mining company of Philadelphia notified all ifs miners of a general average advance of 20 per cent.
 One person was killed. two seriously in, | iured and about a dozen others were slightly hurt by a terrific explosion of col lodion in the photographic supply estab, II