Connecticut western news., 1900-06-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide worls
 Bricny and TerseIy Told.

mittee has cabled S5,oo0 to Lady Cur zon.
 The United States cruiser Albany has been commissioned at Newcastle-on- Tyne.
 The New York Central railroad is re- ported to be seeking control of the Cen tral New England road.
 General Daniel Butterfeld has pre- sented a portrait of Washington 10 West Point Military academy.
 A Pittsburg and Lake Erie train, In a run between Pittsburg and New Castle, made one mile in 4T seconds.
 A special board of inquiry at Tacoma refused to permit large number of Jap anese immigrants to be landed.
 Burglars blew to pieces the vault of the Bank of New Lisbon, Wis, and es- caped with several thousand dollars in cash.
 The intercollegiate track games at Berkeley oval. New York city, were won by Pennsylvania; Princeton second, Yale third.
 Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has decided to sue the United States government for the restoration of the Hawaiian crown lands and revenues.
 Sheriff Pohlmann of St. Louis has sum. moned posse of 1000 men to aid the pos lice in preserving order during the street railway strike.
 The Palisades Paper mill at Eighth and Grand streets, Hoboken, N. l., was destroyed by fire Wednesday night. The damage is estimated at Sl0O,00O.
 Jacob Lynn, a farmer In the suburbs of Wappingers Falls. N. Y., receives by the death of his father in Germany a fnr f.. lr
 Three departments of the Illinois Steel company's mills at South Chicago have been closed down for an indefinite pe- ployment
 Mass, and William r. Stafford, 2I years old, of Cambridge, Mass, were killed in a bicycle accident at the l.. A. w. meet at Waltham, Mass.
 Robert Bradley, a self confessed coun- terfeiter, dropped dead when sentenced to three years in the penitentiary by Judge De Haven of the United States district court at San Francisco.
 At meeting of the board of trustees of Columbia university President Low announced a gift of S100,000 from an anonymous friend to erect a students hall similar to the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard.
 Between 2,0o0 and 2,5oo car repaIrers, yardmen and freight handlers of the Erie. Lehigh Valley, Lackswnnna and West ern. New York and Pennsylvania rail. roads, who quit work six weeks ago, have returned to work.
 Nearly TOO Buffalo laborers, members of the Foundry Laborers' union, have struck for S1.75 for an eight hour day, an advance of 25 cents. As result about 1,200 holders and coremakers employed in the various shops of the city are idle. Harry NJ. Caris of Concord, N. H., has been appointed government auditor to de- termine the portion of each officer and sailor who took part in the battle of Ma. nila in the bounty of S1Sl,S S30 found to be due them by the United States court of claims.
 The adjutant general has received n ca. ble message from General Macarthur at Manila announcing the arrival of the transport Warren from San Francisco with 16 officers and 407 enlisted men. mainly recruits for the signal and hos. pital corps.
 Lieutenant Jens E. Stedje of Company l., Forty volunteers, while scout ing in the southern part of Albay prov ince, had several engagements with the insurgents, in which 17 of the enemy were killed and 9, including a captain, were captured.
 Five cases of yellow fever have broken out in Santa Clara, Cuba, among the men of the Second cavalry who married Cuban women and who live out of the barracks. There are only two cases in the province of Havana, and there Is not one In the city.
 In Whipple, a short distance east of Marietta, O., by a premature explosion of 50 quarts of nitroglycerin which was being used in shooting an oil well on the Kelly farm, four persons were killed out right, four others are dying, while three others are crippled for life.
 The expert accountants who have for several weeks been at work on the books of former City Chamberlain Frank b. Bundy of Elmira, now serving a term in Auburn prison for grand larceny, an nounce that Bundy's shortage in the city accounts is little over S77,o00.
 Fred and Charles Johnson, aged re- spectively s and 10 years, were drowned in Storm lake, at Stormville, N. N. With several other boys they were playing near shore in boat, which was carried 
 frightened and jumped overheard.
 Major General Elwell s. Otis, former governor general of the Philippines. ar rived at San Francisco on the transport Meade on June 1 and. after having spent five days in quarantine, started for Washington to report to the war depart ment. He seemed to be in fairly good health.
 The president has appointed Colonel Luther Fl. Hare of the Thirty-third vol unteer infantry tcaptain Seventh cavalryl and Colonel ]. II. Smith of the Seven. teenth infantry to be brigadier generals of volunteers in recognition of their dis tinguished services in the campaign in the Philippines.
 Hon. Charles ]. Ackert, editor and publisher of the New Paltz (N. Y1 Times, Is dead at his home in that vil- lage, aged 71 years. He was a stanch Democrat, had been president of the vil- lage several times, supervisor since 1896, was member of the assembly in 1898 and had been postmaster.
 General MacArthur has asked for more troops in the Philippines and has made a special request that only cavalry be sent to him. He also asked that they be regulars. The war department will. in response send three regiments of cav airy to Manila. One of these will be brought from Cuba.
 The mansion of the late ]. O. Donner of the Standard Oil company. on the Val ley road, Mahwan, N. l., has been totally destroyed by fire, with its contents The loss Is about S75.0O0. Mrs. waldron, who was a guest of Mrs. Donner, was se- riously burned before she could be res cued from the building.
 In the track and field contest between the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California A. Plaw of Cal ifornia beat the intercollegiate record by casting the hammer a distance of 16o feet 0Is inch. He holds the intercol- Iegiate record of loI feet 4ia incnes, made at the intercollegiate games last