Connecticut western news., 1900-12-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy ToId.

 passed liquor license law for Manila.
 Deputy Attorney General Edward r. Coyne of New York state has resigned.
 The Alaskan and Klondike gold output for the year is estimated at S25. T25,o0O.
 General Wheaton reports that 480 na- tives have entered Calnuan for registra- tion.
 Oswald 0ttendorfer, editor of the New York Stants Zeitung, is dead after many years of suffering.
 The Order of Chosen Friends, a frater- nal insurance association doing business in 30 states, has failed.
 The official canvass shows that Me Kinley's plurality in New York state was 143,6o6 and Odelrs 111,126
 In New York city Alexander Stewart a 14-year-old boy, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder.
 The jury in the case of Jessie Morrison, on trial at Fl Dorado, Kan, for murder of Mrs. Olin Castle, disagreed.
 Pennsylvania rail producers have taken on contracts for delivery next year amounting in round numbers to 100000 tons.
 Paddy Ryan, ex-champion heavyweight pugilist of the world, who was defeated by John l.. Sullivan, has died in Green Island, N. Y.
 John Addison Porter, former private secretary to President Mckinley, has died at Ponfret, Conn, after an illness of several months.
 Mgr. Keane, former rector of the Ro- man Catholic university in Washington, has been appointed by the pope archbish- op of Dubuque, Ia.
 Telephoning without wires was sue cessfully accomplished at Minneapolis. The distance was over 1000 feet across the Mississippi river.
 The antique golden vase given by or phans of Lima, Peru, to orphans of the Galveston flood reached New York and will be exhibited for sale.
 Reports to the New York state forest, fish and game commission show that hun. ters killed more than 1.200 deer in the Adirondacks during the season just closed.
 Football has been tabooed in 0swego county tN. Y.) schools and colleges. The Teachers association at a recent meeting denounced the game as brutal and dan. gerous.
 Representative Boutelle's physician an. Iounces that he shows improvement lead ing to the hope that he may be taken home, but that he would never be fitted for work.
 Thomas R. Lawson of Boston has giv en to George Lawley the contract to build yacht which will compete for the honor of defending the America cup against tn, Shamrock II.
 The Penney House in Asbury Park, N J., has been destroyed by fire. Tn, flames spread so rapidly that the guests had barely time to escape. The loss is estimated at S25, ,oo0
 Most of the time of the Philippine com mission is now devoted to the tariff bill Judge Taft said that, generally speak ing, the new rates would be about 40 pei cent of the existing rates.
 In various recent attacks and expedi tions in southern Luzon the insurgentl have lost eight killed, seven wounded anC about 20 captured. The Americans hay, lost one killed and two wounded. At Sellersville, Pa, Isaiah Hunsbergel of Souderton and Joseph Bownawitz oi Telford were killed by dynamite ex plosion while the former was thawina out some frozen sticks of the explosive John F. Dorthy, the disbarred attorne, of Rochester found guilty of grand lar ceny in the second degree, has been sen tenced by Judge Sutherland to thre, years and nine months in Auburn peni tentiary.
 Hamilton Harris, a former New Yorl state senator and for many years counse of the New York Central railroad. ha died in Albany. Mir. Harris was proba bly, one of the best railroad attorneys il the estate.
 Charles C. Beaman of the law firm O Evarts, Choate X Beauman in New Yorl city is dead. When young man, he wa private secretary to Charles Sumner an, in 1874 married the daughter of William M. Evarts.
 The Greenough mine between Shamo kin and Mount Carmel, Pa, and owne, by local capitalists has begun operations with 250 men and boys employed. Or Jan. 1 300 more names will be added {, the pay roll.
 Chancellor James k. Day of Syracus university has received a check for tn university for S10,o00 from "a friend. Another from a woman for $1,000 ant | $500 from Theodore Irwin of Osweg l were also received.
 Two men were badly burned and sev eral paintings, valued at S50000, wer | destroyer nN n nre al l1o& toToAuWAN | One of the burned paintings is Grosso' masterpiece, ''The Last Meeting" whicl | has been on exhibition there. It was val ued at $20,0o0.
 It is the general belief of well informe, officers that General Macarthur an, | General A. E. Bates will return to th, | United States within few months, an, | Major General Chaffee, now in comman, | at Picking, will be ordered to Manila a | General MaeArthur's successor.
 The executive committee of the boar, of trustees of Cornell university ba | awarded Driscoll Bros. of Ithaca, N. r. | the contract for building the new medica | college on Cornell campus. The buildinj will cost S125,000 and when finished vii | be the prettiest on the campus. It Is t be completed in 1902. The Women's Relief corps of Iowa ha arranged to erect a monument at Gettys | burg, Pa, in honor of Jennie Wade, tn only woman killed during the battle O | Gettysburg. The monument will b erected in the spring and will be dedicat | ed on July B, 1901. the thirty-eighth m niversary of the battle. Late advices from Iloilo announce thn | detachments of the Twenty-sixth voluu teer infantry surprised the headqunrter of Quintin Sofas, capturing considerabl quantities of stores and some valuabl | papers. Several natives were killed. Tn | Americans, who had no loss, were still | pursuit of the fleeing insurgents when tn dispatch left Iloilo.
 The Fredonia State Normal and Train ing school at Fredonia, N. Y., has bee destroyed by fire, entailing loss of S.s5O GOO: fully insured. The following wer killed: Phineas J. Morris, janitor; Mis- Maude Fizzell, Bradford, Pa; Cor Storms. Boston, N. Y.; Mae Williams Ruth Thomas, residences unknown; Bes tie Hathaway, Clean, N. I.; Iren Jones, Busd. N. '. The normal schoo was built in 1867 at a cost of S10o,o0 and donated by the village of Fredonl to the state. In 1890 the state erectei an addition nearly as large as the origina building.
 The secretary of war has received fror General ChaiIee, commanding the legs tion guard at Picking, a large red border ed yellow flag made of the finest silk, car tured by Troop l. of the Sixth cavalry | rnptutnnIal lN Iipufpnauf Hyar iu n