Connecticut western news., 1900-03-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of tue Wide worio
 Briefly and TerseIy ToId.


 been burned to the ground. The American Snuff company has been
 incorporated at Trenton, with an au.
 thorired capital of S2b. 900, 900. The wages of 1000 employees of the
 National Tube company at McKeesport,
 Pa, have been raised 10 per cent. Frank E. Moores, Republican. has been reelected mayor of Omaha by a majority
 of nearly 1000 over W. s. Poppleton, Fusion.
 The plant of the Payne Engine compa-
 ny has been destroyed by fire. It was one of the largest industries of Elmira The loss is Sl00,0o0.
 The Smith Fuse manufactory at Pomp.
 ton, N. J., was blown up on Friday. and four persons were killed and n number more or less injured.
 The Social Democratic party has nomi. mated for president Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana and for vice president Job Hartman of California. Miss Susan McCaffery of Danville. Pa. has lost her speech and cannot recognize any one as a result of seeing a child kill. ed by trolley car in Scranton, Pa. Burglars blew open safe In a brewing company's office at Pawtucket. R. l., and carried off S3,5o0 in cash, SI,0o0 in revc. nue stamps and checks for more than S1,o00. The war department has received the following dispatch from Manila: "Ofhccr, 60 enlisted men, two civil officials, cap. tured Spanish prisoners, received from Tayabas." Daniel Gates of Chittenango, N. r.. of match making fame, is dead at his home. He was rated a millionaire and was a friend in his early days of Commodore Vanderbilt
 Miss Ella Little, an American, has re ceived doctorate at the University Of Heidelberg, "summa cum laude." This Is the first time the distinction has fallen to a woman.
 It Is stated and not denied by those in position to have positive information that Miss Helen Gould is the donor of s1o0,000 to the New York university for hall of fame.
 Consternation has been created in pu. get sound cities by the official announce. mentsthat IT cases of the bubonic plague have existed at Port Townshend for
 nearly month.
 While the cruiser Newark was at Vi. gan, port in northern Luzon, two men were discovered to be suffering from bu. bonic plague and sent ashore. Other eases developed later.
 According to the monthly bulletin of the New York state board of health. there were 10,552 deaths in the state during January. This is about the aver. age for thismonth.
 Miss Grace J. Oaks, aged 21, daughter of Henry ]. Oaks, farmer of South Rutland, N. r., committed suicide by shooting herself with a shotgun after three futile attempts.
 The American line steamship Rhyn.
 land. from Liverpool, reports having sighted the Norwegian ship Solheim, from Mobile Jan. 9 for Fleetwood. Eng. land, abandoned and on fire. There was rear end collision on | Thursday on the Morris and Essex al. | vision of the Lackawanna railroad one mile west of Sandford, N. l.. crossing Three persons were slightly injured. The steamship Victoria has sailed from | Brooklyn to Cape Town with a cargo consisting of 5000 tons of oats, 1000 | tons of rails and two tons of provisions | consigned to the British forces in South | Africa.
 Victor Knettle of Lyons, N. r., receiv. ed a cable message from Manila Thurs. | day morning notifying him of the death
 of his eldest son, Albert, "A years old. No details are given, but 1t Is believed he was killed in action.
 The transport Lennox has sailed from | Portland, Or, for Manila with 457 head | of horses for the army in the Philip. | pines. The>Lennox will stop at Hilo, where the horses will be landed and given
 q few days rest.
 general mortgage for S5,50o.000 has
 been placed on record at the New York | county registers office made by the Den. yer and Southwestern railway company | ln favor of the Continental Trust compa. ny of New York.
 Captain Henry Nichols, U. s. N, who | died from sunstroke at Manila while serv. | ing as captain of the monitor Monad. I mock, has been buried with naval and | Masonic honors in Mountain View cem.
 etery at Oakland, Cal. | Surgeon General Sternberg has re.
 ceiyed a cablegrnm from Colonel Green. | leaf, chief surgeon in the Philippines. saying that the total number of cases in
 the military hospitals in and about Ma.
 nila March F was 1.2S7.
 The scythe department of the Ameri.
 can AK and Tool company's plant. near | Ballston Spa, N. Y.. was destroyed Tues. | day night by fire which started from the I
 loss Is estimated at S20,000. Recent inundations in the department | of Muquogua, Peru, have caused losses to | property estimated at S1,500.0o0. The
 inhabitants are pettioning the govern
 ment to exempt them from the payment
 of taxes in view of the floods. | Thirty-two refrigerator cars of ham
 and bacon (T00,O00 pounds) cured under | government formula with view to pres.
 eryation in tropical climates, bound for
 the American soldiers in the Philippines,
 have been shipped from Chicago. A fire entailing an estimated loss of
 $500. 900 occurred Wednesday in the re-
 tail dry goods district of Philadelphia.
 The fire originated in the engine room of
 Shoneman Bros dry goods and millinery
 store at Eighth and Arch streets. | Minister Mariscan, Mexican secrets ry
 of foreign affairs, through United States
 Ambassador Powell Clayton, has trans.
 mitted President DiaE's acceptance of the
 invitation extended by the Pan-American
 Exposition. company to participate in the | exposition.
 The war department makes the state.
 nent that the total sxportation of hemp
 from the Philippine Islands from the
 late of American occupation 10 Dee. ai,
 1899, as far as the same has been report.
 d by customs collectors, was 95.3T0 tons.
 valued at SIG, ,99S.o .o0D. .=
 Major George r. Edgar has died in
 Railway, N. ]. He was 60 years old and
 had served with much distinction in the
 svil war He was highly complimented
 In many official reports. Major General
 John A. McClernand's official report of
 the battle of Fort Donelson contained
 particularly glowing accounts of Major
 Edgar's valor.
 Gabriel Bishop, the youth convicted
 last week of munslaughter in the second
 degree in causing the death of Everett
 Austin at Cuba Lake, N. Y., has been
 sentenced to pay hne of $500 and
 serve six months Imprisonment in tho
 Erie county penitentiary. II A n,ortvave for sI 0OO OOO has been