Connecticut western news., 1900-08-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

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 Right Rev. Augustine Healy, Roman Catholic bishop of Maine, is dead. United States Consul NJ. Irving Shaw aas died at Barranquilla, Colombia.
 Victor R. Fay of the United States | forestry bureau, has died at Pine Bluff, Ark.
 The military road from Port valdes, Alaska, has been completed for 100 miles Inland.
 Robert Dunlap, head of the hat firm, has died at Monmouth Beach, N. J., aged 6.
 The new Japanese minister has pre- sented his credentials to President Me Kinley.
 The president has appointed 4s enlist ed men in the regular army as second lieutenants.
 The National Afro-American council will hold its annual convention in Indian ,polis on Aug. 2S. The Democrats of New Hampshire lave nominated Dr. Frederick E. Potter If Portsmouth for governor. Investigation of the alleged shortage in accounts of three Pittsburg building and oan associations has begun. Oliver r. Watson, a prominent citizen
 
 oed by burglar at his home. The driver boys at No. 2 shaft of the Susquehanna Coal company at NanS- coke. Pa, have gone on strike. The extensive chrome works of the Bal timore Chrome company at Fairfield, Md, have been destroyed by fire. Congressman William n. Daily of Ho- boken, N. J., died at Far Rockaway, N. Y., on Tuesday from a stroke of apo plexy.
 Burglars entered the Stottsville lN. Y1 postoffice, blew open the safe and secured $20 in money and about S11 worth of stamps.
 John w. Trowbridge, the widely known newspaper Illustrator, has died at his home in Englewood, N. J., of cancer of the liver.
 The Addicks faction of the Delaware Republicans has nominated a ticket in- cluding several of the regular wing of the party.
 The census office has made public the population of the city of Cincinnati. It is 325,902, an increase over the last cen sus of 2S994.
 All the union stevedores in Baltimore, numbering about 2,500. are on strike be- cause the steamship agents refused to agree to employ no more nonunion men.
 Two convicts have escaped from Au- burn (N. Y.) prison. The men were AL bert Dean and Edgar Pratt. Dean was serving a 15 year sentence for kidnap- ing.
 Election returns from North Carolina show that Democratic majorities aggre- gate 64,67S and fusion majorities 5.125, making the net Democratic majority 59.- 568.
 It is estimated that the apple crop this year will be the largest in the history of the United States. exceeding that of cred.
 The Remington Automobile company, which has been incorporated in New ter sey, will have its plant at Ilion, N. Y., and expects by winter to employ from POO to 800 hands.
 John Clark Ridpath, the historian, has died in the Presbyterian hospital, New York city, from complication of dis eases. He had been a patient in the hos pital since April 26. Captain Frederick Jerome, an old time sailor who had the credit of saving more than 1000 lives during his career, is | dead in San Francisco. He was born in southern England in 1923. The division of customs and insular af- fairs of the war department reported | that the total collections for the port of | Havana for the % working days of the month of June were S1,113,1S7. Alexander Jester, the octogenarian who has been or trial at New London. l Conn.,, for the past two weeks on the l charge of killing Gilbert Gates, brother of John w. Gates, the wire magnate, in | 1871, has been acquitted. Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador, | has communicated to the state depart ment information showing that he be- | lieves a band of anarchists in Paterson, | N. J., conspired to assassinate all the crowned heads of Europe. Lloyd Griscom, United States charge | d'sffaires, has renewed his demands upon | the Ottoman government for compensa- | ton for the losses of American citizens during the Armenian massacre. He in- sisted upon a prompt decision. | The thirty-hfth annual report of the secret service division submitted to See retary Gage by Chief White shows 654 arrests during the year, with 21S convic- tions, 253 awaiting action of the courts and four fugitives from justice. By an explosion of gas two buildings | on Lackawanna avenue, in the heart of the business district of Scranton. Pa, were completely demolished. and 21 per sons were injured by being caught in the wreckage or struck by flying debris. Oswego has thus far furnished two | victims in the Chinese war-namely, Pri- vate James McConkey of the United States marines and James J. O'Neill of Company C, Ninth infantry. Several | Oswegonians have been wounded also. Chicago meat packers have been asked | by the war department of furnish 2,0OO,- | 900 pounds of meat within 30 days for | the American soldiers in the orient. This is said to be the largest requisition ever
 issued by the government of the United
 States.
 Joseph r. Moves, a prominent inventor and manufacturer of Binghamton, N. Y., has died of pernicious anemia. He was born at Newbury, Mass, in 1888 and | represented the fourth generation of the l Moves family engaged in the manufac- | ture of combs.
 The forthcoming annual report of the commissioner of pensions, H. Clay Evans, l will show a grand total of 993,529 pen
 sioners on thu rolls on July l last The
 figures on which the report will be based
 are now complete and ready for incor-
 poration in the report.
 The population of the city of Buffalo,
 according to the official count of the re-
 turns of the twelfth census, is as follows:
 1900. 352,219; 1890. 255,664. These fig | urcs show for the city as a whole an in-
 crease in population of 96.555, or 3T.77
 per cent, from 1890 to 1900.
 An unusual fatality is reported from
 the village of Woodsville, R. I. Frank
 Barton, farmer, 70 years of age, while
 moving was stung by a black hornet and died four hours afterwnrd. A physi- clan was called, but he failed to reach the man in time to save him. l General MacArthur has convened | hnord aopsictinu Maipr I.ouis Nj