Connecticut western news., 1900-09-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wide wowi
 Briefly and Terseiy Told.

Hsppeaina. of the wide wowia
 Briefly nnd Terseiy Told.
 Yale will meet Harvard at football on Nov. 24 and Princeton on Nov. IT.
 The steamer City of Seattle has brought S65o,ooo in gold from skasuay 10 Seattle.
 Two captains of New York frsboats have been given gold watches for heroism In the Hoboken fire.
 It Is said in Philadelphia that the short coal supply in Europe would cause the strike to be felt there.
 Joseph Thielmarny, aged 8, was fatally shot by his brother aged |, while play ing soldier at Perth Amboy, N. !.
 The census bureau nnpounsss that the population of Reading, Pa, ft 78.pol, U against 5S,06l in 1890. This h sn ih- crease of 20,300. or 3i.o1 per cent.
 The population of the city of McKses- port, Pa, as officially announced. is; In 1900, 3i, 22T; in 1890, 20.74l, showing CD increase in population of 19. .ss6, or 05 .02 per cent. from 1890 to 1900. . - In saving the life of her little nephew in a runaway Miss Mary Havey, a sister in-law of Mayor Michael ]. Dillon of Mount Vernon, N. Y., was instantly kill cd at Round Hin, six miles from Green wich, Conn. O. J. Goss. a former clerk of Paris bank. London, who was accused of steal- ing about $500, 900 from the bank In Jan uary, 1899, pleaded guilty In the old Bal | Icy and was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.
 The population of the city of Camden, | N. J., as officially announced Is: In 1900. 75,e35 in 1890, 5S,913 These figures show for the city as a whole m increase in population of l7,622 or 30.22 per cent from 1890 to 1900. .
 The population of the city of Utica, N. | Y., as officially announced Is: In 1900. b0,3S3; In 1890, 44,00T. These figures show for the city as whole an increase In population of 12,37o, or 2s.l2 per cent. from 1900 to 1900.
 Robert B. Campbell. builder of tho Hoosac tunnel In Mnssachusettm, is dead at his home in Ycadon, near Philadelphia. having succumbed to neuralgia of tue heart. Mir. Campbell was born in Blairs- vile. Pa, in 1882
 Secretary of War Root Is confined to his summer residence at Southampton, l.. l., as the result of an operation for the removal of carbuncle and will not be | able to leave his room for ten days or two | weeks. The operation was performed last Sunday.
 | The census bureau announces the pop. ulation of the following cities; Harris- | burg, 50.167, as against 39.8S5 ln 1890. | This is an increase of 10 TSP, or 27.96 per cent. Erie, Pa, 52, T33, ns against 40,034 in 1890. This Is m incrcnse of 12,o99, or 29.7s per cent.
 | Eight hundred butchers employed ln the packing houses of the Jacob Dold Packing company and Kllnek's and Dan. ahy's packing houses in Buffalo are on strike owing to the refusal of the Dolda to discharge two men who refused to pay their dues 10 their union.
 The Whitehall and Granville Railroad company of Washington county, N, Y., a street surface railroad to be operated by electricity or other power except io- comotives, capital ST5o,OO0. has been In. corporated. The road will run from | Whitehall to Granville, a distance of about 14i5 miles.
 Erastus c. Knight. former comptroller of Buffalo, has been unanimously select. cd by the Republican state committee to fll the place on the Republican state ticket caused by the death of Comptrollcr | William ]. Morgan. Mir Morgan died on the day he was nominated by the Re. publican convention at Saratoga.
 John H. Stearns, a farmer of Caneno. via, N. Y.. died in Syracuse of cancer of the stomach. He had been attended by | Francis Barnes, who claims to bo . | divine healer. Dr. L. F. Weaver coro. ner of Onondnga county, has made com. | plaint to the district attorney with q | view of prosecuting Barnes and putting an end to faith cure practice in that To. | cnlitv