Connecticut western news., 1900-01-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide woriA
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happcutuEs or the Wtde worta
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 Fire in Elizabeth, N. l., on Monday did S70,000 damage.
 Columbia university Is to have a new dormitory costing s500,0Oo. .. Thirty-two cities in Massachusetts in- augurated mayors and city governments Jan. 1.
 Colonel William Anthony Elderkin, U. & A., retired, has just died at Middle town, N. Y. -.. ..
 Rich gold finds on Indian river, near Dawson, and on Golovin bay are reported from Alaska. The steamer Tallahassee has reported the sinking of an unknown schooner near Cape Hatteras.
 The treasury estimates the stock of gold in e country at about S1 ,000, ,0OO,- 900 wort- in coin.
 The municipal council of New York city has adopted resolutions of sympathy for Filipinos and Boers.
 Governor Roosevelt has granted a res pite to Howard Benham, the Batavia wife murderer, until Feb. 10.
 One man was killed and many serious ly injured in a Union Paci6c railway wreck in Colorado on Friday.
 Rev. J. ]. Axtell, the fighting parson" of Royal Oak, Mich, will spar at an en- tertainment for charity in Detroit.
 The charges against Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire for violation of the civil service law have been dismissed.
 The formal transfer of the Wagner Palace Car company to the Pullman Pal ace Car company took place Saturday,
 Employees of the Western Maryland railroad received a New Years gift in the shape of 5 per cent increase in wages.
 The University of Chicago received a New Years gift of S3,370,000. Half of the gift came from John D. Rockefeller.
 The two leading colleries in West vir- ginia have advanced the miners wages 10 per cent. Over 1000 men are affected.
 It Is asserted that the ailment from which Representative Boutelle of Maine Is suffering Is Bright's disease in It's last stages.
 Judge McPherson of the United States court has decided that all clubs which sell Intoxicating liquors must pay a reve. nue tax.
 w. J. Arkell and others are backing the inventor of a corkscrew boat which, it is predicted, will cross the ocean in three days.
 The annual report of New York State Excise Commissioner Lyman shows cx- else receipts for the last fiscal year to be SIP, ,5S2, PAS.
 A committee of five. of which Alexan- Yer B. Orr is chairman, has undertaken to prepare plan of reorganization for Harper X Bros.
 General Wheeler, who recently was in Manila requesting an appointment south, in the line of the expected campaign, Is now in Panique.
 The will of the late Daniel s. Ford, publisher of Youths Companion, gives S2.500,0o to various charities and reli. gious institutions.
 Captain ]. ]. yandergrlft of Pittsburg Is dead. Captain vandergrift was worth about S10.oo0,o00. He began life as a river steamboat deckhand. ."
 An explosion of gas at Knoxville, Pa. on Monday wrecked a large number ot houses and stables and tore up several streets for hundreds of feet.
 Captain Stephen l.. H. Slocum of the Eighth United States cavalry has been designated as the American military at. tache to be with the Bosr army. Mir. Richard Croker. who has been a, his country house, near Vantage, Eng. land. for some time, fell from his horse on Monday and broke one of his legs.
 The Bedwind-white Coal Mining com. pany of Pennsylvania has posted notices of increases to its employees April i. Al least 30,000 employees will be benefited. Governor Pingree's joint resolution for tAxahsn- of .coTpprauonA. rAenrlnsndsd
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