Connecticut western news., 1900-10-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerscIy Told.

| lue town or HnlOmOn I1ty, nt lne mouth of Solomon river, Alaska, was de- | stroyed by recent storm. Boer sympathizers in convention at | Chicago invited President Kruger to | make his home In the United States. The steamer Robert Dollar which sail. ed from Port Townshend for Cape Nome on Aug. 9, has not since been heard | from.
 James Howard has been found guilty
 of being a principal in the assassination of Governor Goebel. The verdict entails | death sentence.
 The United Mine Workers have order cd strike In the Oak Hin district of Ohio unless the operators raise wages to the district scale.
 George Emig and c. R. O'Donncll, charged in New Jersey with scnlping | railroad tickets, have been sentenced Co | two months each in jail.
 | Fire, which has been burning for sey- | eral days about Occidental, Cal, has GOV. | cred 150 square miles, and the damage is | estimated at S1,500,000.
 The census bureau announces that the | population of Schenectady, N. r., Is ST. 6S2 as against 19,902 in 1890. This Is m increase of 11,7Ss, or 59.19 per cent. American exports to Asia and Oceanica for August show a falling off, but total | exports for eight months of the year show large increase in all directions. The main building of the Buffalo city garbage crematory, known as the Bayne Garbage works, on William street, just outside of the city line, has been burned; loss, $S0,000.
 Thomas c. Sbearman of Brooklyn, once a law partner of David Dudley | Field and attorney for Henry Ward | Beecher in the famous Beecher-Tilton | trial, is dead
 Emperor William of Germany has con- | ferred on Mir. George c. Ward of New | York, vice president of the Commercial Cable company, the order of the Crown | of the Second Class.
 Archbishop Ireland has been decorated as a commander of the Legion of Honor | by NJ. Jules Cambon, the French embas- sador to the United States, In behalf of the French government.
 John E. Hudson, president of the | American Bell Telephone company, died
 suddenly In the Boston and Maine rail- | road station at Beverley Farms, Mass, while waiting for a train. Information has been received at the | postofhce department to the effect that | United States postoffice was opened at | Tien-tsin on Sept. IT to facilitate the
 handling of mail matter for the troops. The August statement of the collec- | tions of internal revenue shows that dur ing that month the receipts from all
 sources amounted to S2o,595. ZIG, an in.
 crease over August last year of $1,17I,- | T51.
 Walter 0. Jones, mayor of Galveston, | has been nominated for congress by the | D.., N .ft ths. ls... .t. | ceed Congressman Hawley. A letter from
 Mir. Hawley announced his retirement
 from politics.
 The trustees of the University of Chi | cngo have decided to give free tuition to
 ten of the Porto Ricans who wish to be
 educated in this country, provided their living expenses are furnished by public
 spirited citizens.
 Hon. Charles A. Collier, former mayor of Atlanta and commissioner to the Paris | exposition, is dead from the effects of an
 accidental pistol wound. Mir. Collier had | been prominent in the Atlanta business
 world for many years.
 Robert McCurdy Lord, a retired bro-
 ker of Bayonne, N. J., wns found dead | on Tuesday in. q house on Chester hill,
 Mount Vernon, N. Y, which was recent
 ly rented by him. There was every in-
 dication that he had committed suicide | Mrs. Ellen McDermott of Kenosha, | Wis. washerwoman earning a liveli-
 hood for an invalid husband and small
 family of children, proves to be one of the heirs to a fortune valued at nearly | S250,000 left by the death of m aunt in | Chicago.
 Thomas H. Lane an artist, is dead at | his home in Elizabeth, N. J., at the age II h, Il,I I.lw Ea | was poet as well as a painter. He was
 an intimate friend of Edgar Allan Poe
 and painted a number of pictures for the
 capitol at Washington.
 | Two civilians. Messrs. John McMahon
 and Ralph MeCord of San Francisco, | who started on a business trip for Vigan ! and Bangued, In northern Luzon, have
 not been heard from for three weeks. It | is feared that they have been killed or
 captured by the insurgents. Official reports have been received of
 insurgent activity in Zambales province
 and in Batangas province. Two skir-
 mishes occurred during the week on the
 Bicol river, in the province of South | Camarines. It is estimated that the in-
 surgents lost % killed in the various dis
 tricts. It Is expected by officials of the navy
 department that Rear Admiral Kempf
 will shortly return to China in command
 of the American squadron to be main
 tnined in Chinese waters. Rear Admiral
 Remey immediately after the departure
 of the American troops will proceed to | Manila.
 On the night of Sept. 10 thieves sawed | through the floors of the Alaska Com | mercinl companys warehouse at Nome, l securing gold dust amounting to S1o,500. l The robbers worked so quietly that the
 watchman in the building did not hear
 them. The gold dust was stored in a safe
 in the company's office.
 The monthly statement of the public
 debt shows that at the close of business | Sept 30 the debt, less cash in the treasu-
 ", amounted to S1,106, ,156,671, which Is
 a decrease for the month of S6,122, ,435.
 This decrease Is accounted for by the in
 crease in the cash on hand and the re-
 demption of 2 per cent bonds. Company NJ, national guard of Yer
 mont, with headquarters at Burlington,
 has been in Ottawa on a visit of return
 to the Forty-third battalion, which made
 trip to the Vermont city two years ago. | This is the first time soldiers in the uni-
 form of the United States marched the
 streets of the Canadian capital.
 The steamship City of Topeka has ar-
 rived nt Seattle from Linn canal points.
 She brought about 15o passengers and
 S200, GOO in gold. mostly in small amounts
 in the hands of passengers. The steam
 ship Senator has arrived from Cape
 Nome and St. Mchaers bringing about
 .OO passengers and S133. 900 in treasure.
 Four brick buildings of the Shanokin
 CPa.) Milling company have been destroy
 ed by fire. the flames starting in stable
 adjoining the warehouse. Stock valued
 at S20,O00 was also consumed. Five
 horses were burned. The buildings were
 worth S30.000 and were partly insured.
 The principal owner of the mills Is An | drew Robertson.
 In company with Professor Burchell.
 a mineral expert of Seattle, Judge Den | n