Connecticut western news., 1900-06-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly nnd TerneIy Told.


 Briefly and TerneIy Told.
 A Brooklyn jury has awarded S2O,OO0 to Jacob NJ. Sacs, who was run down by a brewers wagon.
 Count Muravieff, the privy councillor and Russian minister of foreign affairs, died suddenly on Thursday.
 The federal quarantine at San Fran cisco, established because of fears of the bubonic plague. has been raised.
 It is definitely stated at the English foreign office that Lord Pauncefote, em- bassador at Washington, will retire at the end of the year.
 The jury in the case of B. H. Roberts of Salt Lake City, on trial for unlawful cohabitation. returned a verdict of guilty. Roberts was fined $50.
 Eight thousand Pima Indians on the Gila reservation, 30 miles from Phenix, A. T., are destitute, and like number of Papagos are on the verge of starvation.
 Mrs. George Dewey has bought Big Fish island at Chester basin, where she will build a summer residence. Chester is a summer resort about 40 miles from Halifax.
 A fire in the heart of the business dis trict of Pittsburg Friday afternoon caus- ed loss of S250.000 and for time threatened to wipe out an entire block of handsome buildings.
 Details of the loss of the river steamer Mabel and two other boats that were swept over the falls in the Demerara river, British Guiana, show that the killed and drowned must have numbered 60
 Martin J. Russell, one of the proprie tors and editor of the Chicago Chronicle and for many years identified with the management of Chicago newspapers, has died at Mackinac island from a complica- tion of diseases.
 A committee of the Young Turks par ty has sent a manifesto to the various embassies in Constantinople describing the situation in Turkey and declaring that it is time for the powers to termi- nate the sultan's regime.
 According to The China Mail, q party of miners have succeeded in locating sew .ral promising fields of gold and other minerals in the northern provinces of the Philippines. and several British firms in China are becoming interested.
 H. K. Duffield, Chicago board of trade broker, was robbed by pickpockets of S55,0Oo while riding on a Cottage Grove avenue cable car. The money was in bonds, mining stocks and deeds. which MT. Duffield was taking to the bank
 Three years ago Howard Curtis Ben ham was placed on trial in Batavia for the murder of his wife, Florence Tout Benham, and was afterward convicted and sentenced to death. On Thursday an. other jury brought in verdict of not guilty.
 The secretary of the navy has author ized the following names for the new bat tleships and armored cruisers: Battle ships-Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland, Colorado and South Dakota. Armored eruisers-St. Louis, Milwaukee and Charleston.
 Senator Platt authorizes the announce ment that General Francis Vinton Greene is to be president of the Republican coun. u committee of New York, according to the original programme. National Com. mitteeman Frederick s. Gibbs has re ceived the resignation of President Quigg.
 Secretary Long has approved the find ings of the naval board recommending that three of the five new battleships shall be built with superposed and waist eight inch turrets and that the remaining two of the new battleships shall have Quadrilaterally arranged eight inch tur- 
 rets.
 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Aus. trian heir apparent, will formally re- nounce the right of succession to the i'm. perial throne on Thursday next. On the following day he will wed Countess So. phie Chotek. his moraanatic marriage be. ing the reason for which he will with draw from the succession.
 The carpet mill of Masland & Sons. in the northeastern section of Philadelphia, has been destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of between x75.000 and $1O0,OOO. Two fremen, Howard Burns and John Martin. were overcome by sulphur fumes and were rescued with great difficulty. The origin of the fire is unknown. General Cassius NJ. Clay of Whitehall. Ky, has purchased from J. II. Yarnell of Pinkard and deeded to his former child wife, now Mrs. Riley Brock, a house and 3l5 acres of land adjoining Mrs. Brooks present home. This is the third purchase of land that General Clay has made for her since her marriage to Riley Brock.
 Sir Frederic Hodgson, the governor of Gold Coast colony, it is reported from Kumassi, was wounded in the shoulder during a sortie that was recent ly made from the fort. and eight officers were killed. Provisions at Kumassi are scarce, and there are many wounded. The investment is so complete that no one is able to depart.
 Close confinement within the shops and cells of pcnitentiary has proved too much for Oberlin NJ. Carter, ex-cuptain of engineers, United States army, and he is broken in health and spirits. He show ed signs of giving way completely. and Warden McClaughey has found it neces- sary to change his employment and place af confinement ot night