Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide worla
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The yello@y fever epidemic at Quema- dos, Cuba, has subsided.
 The bodies of l4s victims of the great ire at Hoboken, N. l., have been rscov- cred.
 Hawaiian plantation owners have de- eided to import negro laborers from the southern states.
 Ground for the New York state build ing of the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo was broken.
 Native Patagonians have almost de- stroyed the Chilean town of Puntas Are mas, on the strait of Magellan.
 Two persons were killed and a acoro were Injured In collision between two electric cars at East Webster, Mass.
 The Chicago India famine relief com mittee has raised a fund of over ST 900 10 be sent the famine sufferers in India.
 An official dispatch from Nikolsky, dat- cd July I, says thnt 50 persons were kill. ed by an explosion of stores of powder at Mukden.
 There has been talk lately in switger- land of m alliance with the United States. One paper has even favored join ing the American Union as state.
 Notices have been posted In the plate mill of Moorhend Bros, nt Sharpshurg, Pa, announcing a 20 per cent reduction of wages throughout the plate mill.
 Some smoke and very little fire Is all that remains of the great Standard oil yards fire in Constable Hook, \. ]. Of the 24 tanks in the new yards four are standing.
 David Hallen and Isaac Braumfne, both 10 years of age, were drowned in the Schuylkill river by rowboat going over Flat Rock dam, just above Phila- delphia.
 Six railway men were instantly killed and between 25 and 35 persons were terribly Injured by the explosion of ssv. cral gasoline tank cars in the yards of the Ohio River railroad at pnrkersburg, w. Va.
 Mrs. IT. NJ. Metzger of Grafton, O., has received word that her husband, who has been in Paris two months, hns been ar- rested by French officials for leaving Al. sace-Lorraine when 15 years old without serving in the army.
 The Aurore of Paris learns from a good | source that n young attache of the Unit. ed States embassy disappeared a week I ago. The police are making an active search for the young man, who, lt is fear ed, has been murdered.
 Two electric cars on the Scranton Rail way company's Duryea line colided head on at Old Forge, injuring II persons. Mischevous boys, it Is supposed, tam percd with the switch signals, and both cars got into the same block Il Seven children were killed by m cr plosion of fireworks in the heart of sho Italian quarter in Philadelphia on Inc Fourth. Three were so badly burned that they will probably die. and about 20 others were seriously injured. | Rear Admiral Barker, now command. ant of the Norfolk navy yard has been selected to succeed Rear Admiral Philip. deceased, as commandant of the New York navy yard. Admiral Barker's sue cessor has not yet been decided upon. Dr. Frederick Humphreys, the well known homeopsthist, died al Monmouth Beach, N. J., in his eighty-fourth year, after n lingering Illness. He suf. fered for several months from general de. bility, which finally developed into pneu' monia.
 The boiler in one of the steam launches of the flagship New York burst recently, the fireman being badly injured and the remainder of the crow slightly hurt The boiler and engine were completely wreck cd, while the launch was but slightly damaged.
 Martin Hulen. formerly of Aspen, Colo; Tom B. q. Gedne of San Fran. cisco and James Crawford of Benson, A. IT., have arrived frof6 the placer gold. fields of Lower California, bringing with them over S200.000 in dust, taken out in eight months. The inventory of the personal estate of tho late Garret A. Hobart was filed with the surrogate at Paterson, N. l., yester day. It appraises the late vice presidents wealth at S2,62s.941. Mir Hobart held bonds in about 26 corporations and stock in more than 100 other concerns.
 Five hundred and forty babies not yet n year old died during the week just closed in Manhattan, Bronx and Brook lyn, and 1SS other little ones who had not yet reached their fifth birthday were talk. en away. The intense heat was largely the cause of the increased mortality
 Electoral colleges met In the chiei towns and cities of Mexico on Monday and cast their votes for president. The returns will come in slowly from the out lying states, but a great majority of the votes were cast for General Diaz insur. ing his reelection for the term of four years, dating from Dec. next.
 The Spanish schooner Purisima Con. cepcion, employed in the cattle trade be. | tween Florida and Cuba, has been given | up as lost. The Conception had crew of nine men. Captain Roman Berga In command. She was one of the Spanish vessels captured off the Cuban coast dur. ing the late war and was of 100 tons bur | den. ...-..... ...#..e #a. a
 Jean Baptiste Sipido, the youth whc fired at the Prince of Wales on April in Brussels, has eluded the police, aud he has fled to Paris. Sipido was recent l ly convicted of an attempt on the life of the Prince of Wales, but the presiding judge held that he acted without discern. ment and sentenced him to a reforma' tory until 21 years of age. | A letter has been received from Arch. bishop Chapelle, to whom was delegated the adjudication of the dispute between the religious orders and the civil author. ties in the Philippines, in which he states that during the past six months he has carefully examined every point bear ing on the subject and will soon make his personal report to the pope.
 The court martial hearing the charges against Colonel James s. Petit of the Thirty-frst volunteer infantry, who was accused of violating the sixty-second ar. | ticle of war in making an arrangement | with President Medell of Zamboanga fol the capture of Juan Ramos, who was | sfterward transferred to Medell and kill. ed, has brought in verdict of acquittal.
 Seventy warships are under construc- ton or have their designs in preparation for the United States navy. This for mdable fleet is described in a statement just issued by Rear Admiral Hichbom, chief constructor. The statement gives the names of 12 battleships, c armored cruisers, 0 protected cruisers, monitors, gunboat, 16 torpedo boat destrpyers, 10 torpedo boats and submarine torpedo boats under construction or whose de- | tigns are being prepared. -...-- Records of old Rome.
 SIpnor Constantine Maes. the Italian