Connecticut western news., 1900-05-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wtds World
 Briefly and TerssIy Told.

of $25o, 900.
 Three prisoners escaped from the New | York state reformatory at Elmira Wed. | nesday night.
 Three shiploads of arms from Germa. ny are reported at Hongkong for the Filipino junta.
 The United States transport Sedgwick, which went aground at Cisnfuegos, has been safely rehoated.
 Philadelphia Republicans announce that they have raised the s100, 900 pledged for the national convention.
 Admiral Hichborn reports that work op the battleships Kearsargs and Kentucky Is practically completed.
 The torpedo boat Thornton has been launched at the yard of the Trigg Ship. building company in Richmond.
 Lieutenant Gibson galloped home an easy winner of the Kentucky Derby, and his share of the stake was S5,000.
 Five New York corporations have sarv. ed writs of certiorari on the state tax commission to test constitutionality of franchise tax law.
 The work of the Chicago city directory enumsrators for 1900, almost completed, shows that the population of Chicago Is not less than 2,0o1 ,o00.
 Charles Fl. Cole, former president of the Globe National bank of Boston, was sentenced to eight years in jail for mis. appropriation of funds.
 A suit against the sugar trust at Tren- ton charges it with restraining trade He. gally in an attempt to force the Arbuckle company to combine with 1t.
 Francisco Abbatto was hanged in the Camden county (N. J.) jaD on Friday for the murder of Gensro de Eco, his friend and fellow countryman.
 Lightning struck loaded trolley car on the Hoboken- -Passaio line and set it ahrs. A boy and a woman were slightly burned. but no one was badly hurt.
 Marie Rosalis Dinse, the first woman to jump from the Brooklyn bridge, Is hopelessly insane. The doctors declare there Is no chance for her recovery.
 Billy Taylor, formerly a noted baseball pitcher, has died in Florida. He was 43 years old. He pitched for the Philadel- phia Athletics and other leading clubs.
 Jim Howard, who was named by Gull ton and other witnesses as the man who probably fired the shot which killed Goe- bel, has surrendered to the Kentucky su. thorities.
 Charles Ingsrsoll, the defsulting treas.
 urer of Tompkins county, N, T., has been sentenced to four years and six months
 Imprisonment at Auburn and 10 pay fine of S5,000.
 General 10. O. Bragg, formerly com mander of the famous "1ron brigade" was thrown from his horse and seriously injured at Fond du Lac, Wis, wednss- day. He Is T4 years old.
 Laden with POO, 900 bushels of corn for the famine sufferers of India, the
 A- Al fr~l
 ed States government at a cost of $40, 900, sailed for Bombay on Friday. During a riot between strikers and
 workmen at the Buttonwood mine of the
 Parrish Coal company at Wilkesbarre,
 Pa., some 20 men were badly injured. in-
 cluding Superintendent w. 1T. Smith. The strike of the carpenters union iu Utica, N. Y., has been settled. The compromise accepted calls for a working day of eight hours, with a scale of wages of 2Sls cents an hour and SIX cents an hour.
 The amount of bonds SO far exchanged
 at the treasury for the new 2 per cent
 consols of 1880 is s271. .015,S50. of which S52. .452. $50 was received from individ.
 uals and institutions other than national banks.
 Mrs. James Fl. Gilbert, wife of the president of the New York state board Of mediation and arbitration, has died al Syracuse. She was one of the founders of the Alpha Phi fraternity and a singer of note.
 The transport Thomas has arrived aft
 CT a run of 20 days from Manila. Among the passengers were Brigadier General
 Theodore A. schwan and Colonels Ja
 cob Kline, John w. French and Simon Snyder.
 Peter Quinn, an old quarryman, was killed and Andrew Mattroxick was badly injured at the quarry of the Kcenan Lime company at Smiths Basin, N. Y. by a premature blast. Both men leave families.
 Seven Filipinos made m attempt to burn a quantity of hay stored near the quartermaster's storehouse on the river
 front, Manila. The guards killed one of
 them and wounded another. The remain. der escaped.
 Four companies of the Fifth United States infantry stationed at Fort Sheri dan have left for New York on their way to southern Cuba, where they will be used to strengthen their regiment doing garrison duty. Fire in Camden, N. l., which broke out in the Farmers market house at Fifth and Federal streets, completely destroyed that building. ten stores and about 56
 small dwellings, causing a loss estimated at $200, 900 and rendering homeless about 25o persons. Jacob Harnell, nonunion carpenter was attacked by strikers in Chicago and received injuries which may cause hit death. Three other nonunion carpenters were also badly beaten. The assailants escaped before any arrests could be made by the police.
 Osmer w. Roper, who conducted a get rich quick concern In Newark, N. J., has been sentenced in the United States court to one years Imprisonment in the Essex penitentiary and to pay S100 6ue. He has already been In jail five months and is without money.
 The real work of digging the under. ground rapid transit tunnel in New York city began Monday afternoon, when Cor poration Counsel Whalen broke ground at One Hundred and Fifty-seventh street and Broadway. An elaborate programme
 marked the beginning of actual work. The story of the heroic death of En. sign Worth Bagley aboard the torpedo boat Wiuslow at the stormlng of Car. denas, Cuba, Is to be reclted on a tablet to be placed in the torpedo boat now be- ing constructed and which Is to bear the name of the gallant young North Caro- Linian.
 An energetic search. but so far without success, is being made for Charles A. Richardson. wealthy banker of Worces- ter, Mass, who disappeared from the waldorf-Astoria, New York city, about Eve weeks ago. The last heard of him was when he went to Jersey Clty to file papers of incorporation of a s5,oo00O0 concern which he had organized. The first class battleship Kentucky is now part of the United States navy, having been placed in commission nt the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock company. The new battle ship, which is a duplicate of the Rear sarge. is commanded by Captain c. II.