Connecticut western news., 1900-09-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy ToN.

lWu COiOreu tTdmpS WeTe ln1uIsu LII freight wreck on the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
 The lover of a South Carolina girl was killed by her brothers, who caught them at their tryst.
 The United States transport Rosecrans sailed for Manila via Nagasah with Light Batteries c and M, Seventh artil- lery.
 The United States transports bearing the Cuban teachers who attended the Harvard summer school have arrived at Havana.
 Fifteen thousand miners took part in the Labor day parade in wilkesbarre Pa, bearing their demands inscribed on banners.
 Mrs. Laura Belle de Guerville brought suit in New York for divorce against her husband, who was knighted by the queen regent of Spain.
 Governor Portusak of Guam reached Honolulu en route to Washington to pre- fer charges of mismanagement against Governor Leary. .......
 National headquarters of the Middle of the Road Populists were opened in Louis vile, with National Chairman Joseph A. Parker in charge.
 Miss Anna Gordon of Clyde, N. Y., a teacher in the Packer College institute of Brooklyn, died suddenly on a Central train at Syracuse.
 Arthur T. J. Rice, former cashier of the National Broadway bank of New York. perished in six feet of water at Brighton Beach. N. |. Vessels of the north Atlantic squadron reached Bar Harbor, Me, on Monday to welcome the British squadron under Vice Admiral Bedford. David B. Hill, at a Labor day celebra- ton in Troy, N. Y., bitterly denounced political bosses and declared that they should not be tolerated. Ex-Senator Manderson of Omaha, the president of the American Bar associa- ton. delivered the opening address at the annual meeting in Saratoga.
 William Winters of Kearny, N. J., an uncle of the late Vice President Hobart grief crazed by his wife's death, jumped from a window and was killed.
 Attorney General Smyth of Nebraska began taking testimony in New York to determine if the Standard OH trust Is do- ing business in his state legally. While crossing the Hudson river at Albany in a rowboat with nine others Theodore Suppes, aged about S5 years, was drowned by the upsetting of the boat.
 A reign of terror exists in southern Luzon outside the garrison towns. rebels and ladrones wreaking vengeance on na- tives who show friendliness to the Amer jeans.
 Thomas J. Powers, commissioner of banking for Pennsylvania and an active Republican politician. fell from train in the outskirts of Philadelphia and was killed.
 John Esson of Chicago mortally wound ed Harold H. Stridiron and killed him self at the Hotel yendome. in New York, Monday. Drink and jealousy caused the crime.
 William H. Rogers, a rich architect of Hartford, was held in S2,000 bail on a charge of bigamy. Two wives confronted him, No. l prosecuting. No. standing by him.
 The census of San Francisco as just announced in bulletin of the census bu- reau is 342,781 against 29S,99 in 1890. This is an increase of 43,7S5, or 14.64 per cent.
 A halfbreed brought to Winnipeg ? story of fighting between Americans and Canadians in the Great Slave Lake dis trict, one man, an American, being fatal ly wounded. Albert knierien, a prominent Demo cratic politician. is dead at the Nyack hos | pital as the result of a gunshot wound
 received at the hands of Frank Quinlan of Piedmont, N. Y.
 The body of woman, with diamond earrings and rings, was washed ashore at Newport, R. l. It was identified as that of Mrs. H. w. Kimball, who jumped from a steamer on Sunday morning. The British north Atlantic squadron | arrived at Bar Harbor, Me, and official
 visits were exchanged by Vice Admiral | Bedford of her majesty's navy and Real Admiral Farquhar of the United States ] navy.
 Captain Frank Crenshaw, wounded in battle near Manila, died in Atlanta. He told his father he was neglected on the | transport Sherman and was unable to get treatment at the government hospital | in San Francisco.
 The United States transport Lawton
 is to be sent to Cape Nome to relieve the destitute miners, many of whom have | petitioned through General Randall for transportation south before the hard Alaskan winter sets in. While making a brutal assault upon | his wife in a quarrel over a trivial mat
 ter A. Woods, farmer living near Mar
 telle. Ia., was shot and instantly killed by his 1S-year-old son. The son was ~.
 onerated by the coroner's jury.
 While a wagon was being lowered in | the Mount Carmel colliery at Shamokin | Pa, a side hook broke, causing the wag-
 on to dash 400 feet to the bottom. John | Daubert and George Ruske, who were \ ~sl fhn sI.
 killed.
 William Seney, 12 years old, and Ar. | thur Sullivan, 13 years old, were instant. | ly killed by a passenger train at Fall River, Mass. They were walking upon one track and in avoiding an approaching freight train stepped directly in front of the passenger train. | At a meeting of the Peoples party ma | tional committee in Chicago the declina- ton of Charles A. Towne as the vice | presidential nominee of the party was ac- | eepted, and the name of Adlai E. Steven. son was put in his place. This result | was obtained after debate lasting four | hours.
 Postmaster Mahony of Passaic, N. J.,
 has issued an order which formally al- lows the Passaic letter carriers to wear | shirt waists during the hot spell. They l are eSpeclaly iofDluueH 10 WeAr SuSpend-
 FITS with the waists. They will not appear
 in their new uniforms until they can se- cure waists as nearly alike as possible | Pugilism in New York and the Horton | law came to an end to all purposes | Thursday night in Madison Square Gar | den, New York, when James J. Corbett
 the fifth round of what was to have
 been 20 round fight pounded into un
 sonsciousness Norman Selby, better
 known to the patrons of the prize ring as
 Kid Mccoy"
 One of the big boilers in the engine
 room of the Electric Light company's
 plant in Biddeford, Me, exploded. kill
 Ing William Heffran. 40 years of age, and
 Charles Meserye, 5S years of age, the
 former dying instantly and the latter
 some time later nt the hospital The ] sit