Connecticut western news., 1900-05-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings sf the Wide World
 Briefly and Tersely Told.

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 Heavy frosts for two nights damaged the fruit crop in western New York.
 The Standard oil company has deelar- ed a quarterly dividend of SIG. o.oo0, 900.
 Brown university has announced the gift of five S25,oo0 donations from Prov idence alumni.
 Governor Roosevelt has signed the bill relating to the New York schoolteachers' salary schedule.
 Disastrous forest Ares raging in north ern Pennsylvania have damaged oil well Interests extensively.
 The number of Ash planted in the wa ters of New York state during April amounted to 10, 2s8. .02o.
 The prssbytsry of Washington city has voted to petition the Presbyterian general assembly for e new creed.
 The Daughters of the Confe<eracy have voted to buy the Jefferson Davis home st Montgomery, Ala. Seven thousand employees of the Standard Oil company have had their wages raised and their hours of work re- duced.
 Five passengers on a Northern Pacific local freight train near North Yakima, Wash, were robbed of yGoo by kix high waymen.
 Five New York corporations have serv- ed writs of certioran on the state tax commission to test constitutionality of franchise tax law. Burglars entered the First National bank of East Brady, Pa, and dynamited the safe, taking everything in sight, in- cludinE the pennies.
 Mrs. Elinda Bonner Hunt, a oolored woman who lives In Ravenswood, N. F., celebrated her one hundred and eighth birthday on Thursday.
 Dunstin and Frank Shaw, the Vermont outlaws, have been captured after light with their pursuers, in which one of the Shaws was mortally wounded. Former Chief Justice MaEis has been sworn In as chancellor of New Jersey. Former Supreme Court Justice Depue has been sworn In as chief justice. The employees of the Jesnsville (Pa.) Iron works, 300 in number, have been notified of a per cent increase in wages, the increase to count from May l. Fred w. Atkinson, principal of the Springfield (Mass.) high school, has been elected by the Taft commission superin. tsndent of instruction In the Philippines. Two rebel attacks on the American Esrrisons in the vissysn islands recently have resulted In the killing of 2So of the ! enemy and the wounding of two Amsri' Il cana
 Herman Brucks of Newark. N. T.. aged f 35 years. employed in the English plaster | mines st 0akheld Corners, N. Y., was | crushed to death beneath seven tone of | falling roch.
 Edward Clifford, after six respites. was hanged in Jersey City on Tuesday for the murder. committed five years ago. of wil. liam c. Watson. superintendent of the West Shore railroad.
 Fire has destroyed the plant of the | Reed Fertilizer company of New York at Eastwood. The plant employed about 25 men and was valued at about $50, 900 Four freight ears on the side track were slso burned.
 | Dr. John Stockton Housh, . retired physician and one of the best known men in New Jersey because of his activity in all movements for the securing of good | roads, has died at his home In Ewing near Trenton.
 Frank E. Bundy. the defsultins for. mer city chamberlain of Elmira, N. T., pleaded guilty to grand larceny. Bundy emberrled S9.93269 of city funds. Jus. tice Sevell sentenced him to six yesrs and to pay q fine of q. 900. A tornado swept through San Antonio | Tex, Monday and caused . loss sggre gatinE over e100,ooo. No loss of life i. reported. At Fort Sam Houston the gal leries of three barracks were demolished and the officers quarters vere'anroofed. A three story brick building in the bust ness center of Kansas City collapsed or Monday, buryiug seven persons In tn, ruins. IL is believed none of the injured | will die. John w. Moore, aged 70 years former mayor of Kansas City, was mos seriously hurt.
 | While crossing the Western Maryland railroad tracks at Millbrook, Pa, Jacot B. Hege of Marion, who was driving $ milk wagon. was killed by a train strik ing the team. Hege's young sranddsugh ter, who was also In the wagon. was hurl cd into field, but was not Injured.
 John RI. Coyne of Geneseo, deputy at torney general of New York state. hal died at a New York city hospital oi ! malignant diphtheria contracted whil, prosecuting the charges against Distric Attorney Gardiner In badly ventilated quarters In the criminal court building.
 c. F. w. Medley, chief financial agent | of the United States postal department In Cuba and one of the most prominent government oflcials in Havana, has beer held in S20.o00 bail by Commissionel Shields in New York city on a charge oi embezzling S36,0oo from the postotfic, funds.
 William Alfred Jones, who enjoyed . considerable literary reputation during the forties and was a contemporary of Washington Irving. William Cullen Bry' ant, Richard Henry Dana and other vel known literary men of that period, has died at his home in Norwich, Conn, aged S3 years.
 Half 6 dozen distinct tornadoes occur. red in central Kansas Sunday afternoon following a day of exceedingly high tenn. perature. Two people are known to have been killed and three injured. Wires are down in the affected districts. making il impossible to accurately sum up the dam age done.
 Chicago has had three days celebra ton of the anniversary of the battle oi Manila Bay, in which Admiral Dewe, was the chief figure. The celebration included q great parade, a trip down tn, drainage canal and numerous balls, ban quets and receptions, Great enthusiasm
 was shown.
 Abraham Gruber, a prominent Repub lican politician of New York city, has in herited another legacy, and this time ths Inheritance is S40,000. Three months agc client died and left him S20 in her will Mrs. Louis N. Page, whose death occur red last Saturday at the Hotel Endicott left this later beQuest.
 A fishing party composed of Alex Shysman, aged 46i Henry Kline, aged S6 years: Emma Bohsnnon, II years Ida Slsysman, II years, md Alex Stays man, aged 8, was struck by fast Phl.a' delphis express near Baltimore on
 Wednesday. The only one to escape death was the driver. Alex Slaysman.
 Herbert W. Bowen, United States min
 ister and consul general at Tehersn. To.
 sia, has had conferred upon him by tb,
 shah of Persia the decoration of ''th,
 grand cordou of the Lion and the Sun.