Connecticut western news., 1900-04-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly nnd TcrscIy Told.


 Briefly nnd TerscIy ToId.
 Ex-United States Senator Sawyer of Wisconsin Is dead.
 The plague situation nt Honolulu Is re- ported much improved.
 Ex-United States Senator Charles II. Gibson of Maryland Is dead.
 A telegraph office has been opened by the Chinese administration in Picking.
 The strike of the machinists at Colum. bus, O., has been settled by compro. misc.
 An interoceanic canal company with S1oo, 100000 capital was incorporated at Trenton.
 The Carnegie company will expend be- tween Sl,500,0o0 and S2,0o0,0oO in im- proving Conneaut (ohio) harbor.
 The employing plasterers of Minneapo- lis have locked out their men pending the settlement of their dispute as to hours.
 Mrs. Wood. wife of the governor gen eral of Cuba, became the mother of ten pound girl at the palace at Havana on Thursday.
 Fhe jury in the trial of Camden (N. J1 reporters for publishing a report of m alleged confession of Eli Shaw was dis charged, being unable to agree. Fourteen thousand people have engaged passage from Pacific coast points for Cape Nome, Alaska, on the first fleet of steamers which sails, about May 1. Three thousand two hundred and forty Japanese laborers have arrived in this country since Jan. l, 1899. Seven thou. sand more have obtained passports. A few days ago the wife of James Fur. man, a colored man, GO years old. of Washington, N. l., presented him with n son. He is the father of % children. The Rev. Thomas A. Hendrick of Rochester was chosen regent of the Uni versity of the State of New York to sue. ceed the late Father Sylvester Malone. Admiral Watson has sailed from Ma nila for Hongkong on the cruiser Brook lyn. It is expected that he will transfer his command to Admiral Remey at that port.
 Theodore Reynolds of Monson, Mass, who was reputed to be worth almost | S10,000,00o and third largest stockholder of the Boston and Albany railroad, Is dead.
 A Tacoma dispatch says Captain Con radi of the transport Garonne. arrived there, declares Aguinaldo in disguise at- tended a masked ball at Manila on New Years night.
 Webster Davis, assistant secretary of the interior, who has just returned from | South Africa, intends to tender his res | ignation. He will lecture in the interest | of the Boers.
 The amount of bonds received at the | treasury for exchange for the new per cents to March 30 Is S1s4, 1924, 400. of I which S19,T35,600 is from individuals | other than national banks. A movement has been started in Mas. | sachusetts to secure funds for the widow | of the late General Guy V. Henry, and | many prominent gentlemen have consent. | ed to net on the committee. By the death of brother at Dawson | City Mrs. Narcisse Tereaux, the wife of | a poor lnborer at Champlain, N. l., be- | comes heir to one-third of his fortune. | which is estimated at S1,oo0,oo0. The city election in Hartford resulted II in the election of Alexander Harbison | Rep) by q majority of 3,200 over VII. | liam Waldo Hyde Dem.). General liar. bison carried every ward in the city. | The spring prices of the anthracite coal companies for coal to tidewater will go | into effect on Monday. The prices will show an increase of from 10 to 15 cents | ton over the spring rates of last year. | William Jones of Washington, the avenger who shot at Guiteau, the assas. sin of Garfield, while Guiteau was being taken to jail has been found to be insane and turned over to relatives from Geor' gia.
 | lockout of carpenters, mnsons and | plumbers has begun at New Brighton, N Y. One hundred and eighty men in tn, different trades are now out, and tho number will probably be increased tc 2G0.
 | Forty-eight young women were gradu. ated Thursday night from the women's law class of the University of New York Miss Katherine Reed. daughter of ex. Speaker Thomas E. Reed, was one of tho | number.
 William H. King CDem.) is elected over James T. Hammond tRep) by probably | 2,000 majority for the place in the Utah delegation to congress left vacant by the expulsion from the house of Brigham H Roberts.
 Colonel Julius Fleischmann, a million. aire Hebrew, has been elected mayor of Cincinnati on the Republican ticket. He is only 2S years old, but very popular For years he has successfully managed large interests.
 | conference, which represents Delawar, and a portion of Maryland, has adopted resolution condemning the army can. teen and the use and sale of liquor in | new possessions of this government
 The state department has been notified of the death at Cologne, Germany, oi John A. Barnes, the United States consul | there Mir. Barnes was born in Ohio and | appointed consul at Chemnitz in 1892. Ht was transferred to Cologne in 1897.
 Norman R. Young, assistant sporting editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, |, dead He was noted writer on college | sports, more particularly football ana aouatics. He was 85 years of age and q graduate of the University of Pennsylva mia.
 l Lieutenant Commander Gilmore has decided to make no official report upon the incidents of his eight months captivity in the hands of the Tagals at this time but probably will make his experiences the subject of a series of magazine arti cles.
 The ffty-seventh annual boat race be tween crews representing the universi ties of Oxford and Cambridge was row ed over the usual course, from Putpey te Mortlake. and was won by Cambridge | Dy nDout ~ hustnss Ine oEuSlhi lluls
 was Ism. As.
 A woman whose name is withheld has
 given to St. Bartholomew's church in
 New York city S250.o00. which is 10 Dc
 used in building n clinic for the parish
 house of that church where diseases of
 the eye, ear, nose and mouth may bC
 treated free.
 Through the efforts of the New York
 Athletic club the body of Deerfoot, the
 renowned Indian runner. now rests in the
 historic Indian plot in Forest Lawn eem'
 etery in Buffalo beside the bodies of Colo
 uel Parker. Red Jacket and other famous
 Seneca Indians.
 A terrible fight between a band of out
 laws and a posse of public officers took