Connecticut western news., 1900-11-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

At the New York Stock Exchange a, single share of Standard OH stock sold for $605.
 The first instalment of the volunteer army now In the Philippines will leave Manila Nov. 1.
 American locomotives have been order ed for the new Russian railroad between 0renburg and Taschkend.
 The Chicago labor troubles, as far as they affect the construction of the new postoffice building, have been settled.
 A big black bear that got on the Erie tracks near Port Jervis, N. Y., was struck by Il train and instantly killed.
 French's hotel at Schenectady. N. Y., together with an adjoining dwelling house, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, S3,0O0; insurance unknown.
 During wedding ceremoney last Sun day a Argyrokastro, in Epirus, the floor collapsed, with the result that 13 persour were killed and 10 others injured. Mrs. Anna Hart, friend of Defaulter Schreiber of Elizabethport, N. J., has surrendered to the bank officials jewels, horses and carriages valued at S24, 900. Advices from Dawson City state that big strike has been made on Goring creek, 16 miles above the mouth of Hunker creek. The whole creek has been staked.
 Valuable placer gold claims are report. ed to have been located In the Stewart river mining district, about 100 miles from Dawson, and stampede has fol- lowed to the scene of the finds. Colonel Charles w. Clauharty of the One Hundred and Forty-frst regiment, New York volunteer infantry, during the civil war, has died at his home in Mon. tour Falls, N. Y., aged 73 years. Dr. Wallace A. Stibley, one of the best known medical men in Monroe county, has died at his home in Rochester. Or ganlc heart disease, with which he had been affected for years, was the cause. c. NJ. Cotterman, assistant superin- | tendent of the railway mail service, with l headquarters at San Francisco, has been | selected as director general of posts in | the Philippines, to succeed K. w. Vaille, | resigned.
 A feud has broken out In Clay county | between the Philpots and deputy sher- | iffs under Sheriff Ben White. headed by | the friends of Felix Davidson. on the oth- | CT side. In a fight on Monday David Da- vidson and David Philpot were killed. Frasier Spraker, aged 75 one of the wealthiest men in the Mohawk valley and president of the National Spraker bank of Canajoharie, has died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William c. | Cooke, in Brooklyn, where he had been visiting.
 Commissioner Evans says that 34,0O0 | claims on account of the Spanish -Ameri- can war had been filed up to Oct. % Calls have been made for evidence in 33.- 424 of these claims. Four thousand two hundred and thirty-sevsn widows and dependents claims have been adjudicated already.
 A civilian launch towing a barge load ed with merchandise near Arayat was attacked by a force of 1b0 Filipinos un. der David Fagin, a deserter from the | Twenty-fourth infantry. The American troops, on hearing firing, turned out in force before the boat could be footed and recaptured 1t. Jacob Herring, 7T years of age, of liar. rington Park, N. l., and his housekeeper, Eliza Benyan, 70 years of age, while | driving to the home of ex-Sherif w. C.. | Herring, brother of Jacob Herring, were both killed by being struck by an | express train of the West Shore railroad at Harworth crossing.
 According to the New York Journal, the defender of the America's cup to meet Shamrock II in August next will be built by syndicate composed of about ten of the best known members of the New York Yacht club. This much has been learned respecting the ownership of the next cup defender.
 In a tornado near Lodi, Tex. 1t is re- ported that between 10 and 15 persons were killed. Six of the dead were ne- groes, occupying one house. Names are unobtainable. It Is feared that a number of persons were killed in the country to the north, as many farmhouses are known to have been wrecked.
 A letter received at the postofbce de. partment from Nome City, Alaska, shows that up to Sept. 21 the Nome postofiice had sold 5000 money orders. The money order service had been in operation then about three months, and officials here es. timate that the sales of money orders for the quarter amounted to S400, 900.
 Ex-Congressman James Buchanan of New Jersey has died suddenly at his home in Trenton of heart failure. Mir. Buchanan was 61 years old. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1864 and was law judge of Mercer county from 1872 until 1877. He was elected to congress four times, his first election being in 1885.
 Hon. David F. Dobie, warden of Clin- ton prison, Dannemora. N. Y.. Is dead. He served with distinction all through the civil war, attaining to captaincy In the One Hundred and Eighteenth New York volunteer regiment. He was county treasurer of Clinton county from 1869 to 1881 and surrogate from 1881 to 1893.
 In dire poverty Mrs Mary Allen has died in Coyington, Ky. At one time she was the leading lady for Joseph Jefferson in Rip Van Wrinkle" She also played with the elder Booth and Lawrence Bar rett and also with John Mccullough. She was pensioned by Mir. Jefferson and re- ceived monthly n certain sum from him.
 Marie Lennon, aged about years, was found dead in house on Conesus lake, near Lakeville, N. Y., occupied by n young man named Degarmo. The child's body was covered with bruises and ap. paryntly died from the effects of n brutal beating. Degarmo has been placed under arrest, and the authorities are inyesti. gating.
 Two million dollars In mining lands and money are in the west awaiting the arrival of Thomas Armstrong, driver of milk wagon In Atlantic City. Arm. strong's uncle died few days ago. and lawyers have telegraphed the young man that the eutire estate has been willed to him. Armstrong sold his milk route and started for the west.
 Herman Grenis of Chester, N. r., while transferring a revolver that he did not know was loaded from his show window to a showcase, accidentally dis. charged 1t. and the bullet entered the cheek of his l0-year-old daughter, who was waiting for him to go home, and lodged in the back part of her skull. The wound is fatal.
 The steamer Dolphin has arrived at Seattle from Skaguay with 130 passen. gers and S200oo0 in gold from the Klon- dike. The Klondikers came up the river on tn. Zealandia, leaving Dawson Oct. I4. The river was then full of floating ice for 100 miles, and the weather wa. | httt.r ,,tI rru.n apaam Sfaa lnf ....n