Connecticut western news., 1900-12-27

try were recently wounded near nongas. on the west coast. Two men of Company l., Forty-third volunteer infantry, were killed and three of Companies L and K, together with Lieutenant Louis H. Leaf, were wounded Dec. IS near San Miguel, northwestern Leyte. Hoshi Toru, minister of communica- tions and formerly Japanese minister to | the United States, has resigned hls porty | folio In the Japanese cabinet in conse~ quence of the persistent allegations oc his implication In financial scandals. He will be succeeded by Mir. Hsrs, formss minister to Korea. It is possible that the stability of the Ito cabinet win bs affected.
 Governor Roosevelt has dismissed from office Dr. Peter M. Wise, president of the New York state commission in lunacy ou the charges preferred of malfsasance in office. Dr. Wise was found guilty o6 gross impropriety In directly or indirectr \ ly, by suggestion or otherwise, soliciting subscriptions to the Copper HilI Minins company, of which he was presidenf- | from his official subordinates.
 The transport Grant, due at San Fran- cisco Jan |, brings the bodies of 3p6 officers, soldiers and civilian employees | of the war department who died In Ha- waii, China or the Philippines. There are 12 bodies on the transport Sherman, which Is due at San Francisco on Jan. F. Amorg the bodies on the Grant is that of young Barber, nephew of Presi- dent Mckinley, who recently died in the orient.
 John D. Driscoll, better known as by namite" Driscoll, has died at the Boston City hospital. Mir. Dnscoll was 70 years | nl hAr in hIa Ia a great friend of John Mitchell, 0'Dono- van Rossa. Charles s. Psrnell Michael Davitt and all the prominent Irish patri- ots. During the civil war he served in Company F. Ninth Massachusetts vol- unteers. He had held several minor city offices.
 The Enterprise collicry at Shamokin, Pa. operated by w. l.. Connell X Co. of Scranton, has been tied up completely by the TOO employees going on strike beS cause number of miners had not paid their laborers the amounts the lstteu claimed were due them In accordance with the 10 per cent increase. The strik- CTS say they will not return to work until the company either makes the offending miners settle satisfactorily or discharges them.
 Should the executors of the estate of Oswald Ottendorfer. editor of the staats Zeitung, desire they may collect from the city of New York S4, 900, the salary earn- cd by Mir. Ottendorfer while member of the common council of the former city o< New York during the years 1872 and 1873. Inasmuch as Mir. Ottendorfer re- fused to accept thls money during hls term of office and after he had retired to private life it Is not likely that his heirs will press the claim.
 The list of the Americans to whom the French government has accorded decora- tions on account of their services in con- nection with the exposition of 1900 will include about 20 names, among them those of Commissioner De Young of the state of California commission, Thomas F. Walsh and Cyrus Mccormick of Cut. cago, Lieutenant Baker of the United States navy, Major Bracket, the sculp- , tor French, who made the Washington monument in Paris, and the painter. N. D. Millet, who held an official position in the administration of the Chicago fair.
 Governor Roosevelt has removed Ass Bird Gardiner from the office of district
 attorney of New York city after n long hearing in the executive chamber at All bany. The vital charge against Gardiner. the governor announced in formally stat ing his reasons for the removal. was his 5 attitude toward the indictment against Chief Devery. The governor appointed Eugene A. Philhin to succeed Colonel Gardiner. Mir. Philbin, who has been a member of the state board of charities and a law partner of the late Judge , Henry R. Beekman, Is an independent [ Democrat and vigorously opposed Co Cro- ker in favor of ex-Judge Daly.