Connecticut western news., 1900-11-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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has been appointed chief of the bureau of engraving and printing. Floods In the Monongshsls snd Ale. 9heny rivers at Pistsburg have done much damage and caused the loss of three lives.
 Vincent Cody. the oldest prisoner In point of service In Sing Sing, was re. leased on pardon by Governor Roosevelt after 83 years in prison.
 The population of the state of New York as officially announced Is 7.26s, ,0I2 as against 5.997. 1858 In 1890. This Is an increase of l,27o,l59. or 2l.1 per cent. Frederick J. Pickard, who built the Columbus, Sandusky and Hooking rall' way and for a number of years was it's vice president and general manager, Is dead.
 Mrs. Hiram Hinsdale, who distinguish. cd herself by her herolsm during the civil war and who rendered valuable service to the government as a spy, has died In Detroit, aged e4. Governor Roosevelt since Jan. 1. 1900, has granted five pardons and % commu- tations of sentences. Those pardoned in. cluded Carey Bates, John Sullivan, Max Huestedt, James Kelly and Saul Jacobs.
 Frank Wilson, who was arrested with Henry Zeimer and two women in con. nection with the divorce mill exposures in New York, has pleaded guilty to three indictments charging him with perjury. Lawrence NJ. Jacobs, one of the experts in the loan and currency division of the | treasury department, has been appoint. ed statistician of the Philippine com mission. He will proceed to Manila at once.
 Major Brennan, one of three men ST. rested for dynamiting property of the St. Louis Transit company during the recent street railway strike, was found guilty by jury and sentenced to imprisonment for ten years.
 Joseph Smith of Fort Plain, aged s4 years. one of the best known 6nanciers and land owners in central New York, is dead. Deceased was a prominent member of one of the oldest families in the Mohawk valley.
 Robert 10. A. Dorr, president of The Mail and Express company and publisher of that paper, Is dead at his home in New York city. Death was due to a complica- ton of diseases. Mir. Dorr had been in i'll health for about six months. According to the official count Mir. Mo Kinley's plurality in Nebraska Is 1882. The vote cast was; Mckinley, 121 ,S35; Bryan, 114,o13. This Is the vote re. ceived by the highest elector on each ticket. The total vote of the state was 2oI, ,ee6
 The official vote of Indiana in the presi- dsntial election has been announced. The total vote for the highest elector on the Republican ticket Is 336,06S. The total vote for the highest on the Democratic ticket Is 308. .6S4, making the plurality for Mckinley 26,4T9.
 Police Commissioner James A. Mo Carthy of Newark, N. J., has died of typhoid fever. Mir. McCarthy served two terms as a member of the council. He was appointed police commissioner by Mayor Seymour In April. He leaves n widow and one child.
 John w. Hendre, one of the most prominent and wealthy men of Connecti- cut and distinguished by his philan- throphy and gifts to educational institu- tons In various parts of the country, has died at his residence in Sound Beach. He was born Nov. IS. 1921.
 William Simms, colored. who shot and killed his wife, Lillie Belle Simms, at Dunbar, Pa, on Aug. 16, 1899, was hanged on Thursday in the Fayette coun. | ty (Pa.) jail in the presence of GOO peo- pie. The execution passed oif quietly.
 
 Dr. Rufus P Lincoln, an eminent throat and lung specialist, has died at his home in New York city after an opera. ton for appendicitis. Dr. Lincoln had for many years occupied a very prominent position in the medical world and was frequently consulted by foreign physi. clans.
 Trinity Methodist church, Oswego, N. r., has been entirely destroyed by fire It is believed the fire was caused by a defective electric wire. The church was built in 1S4s and rebuilt in 1881. The loss on the building, organ and furnish ings Is s40,o00, with insurance of only S1b.000.
 Fire has practically wiped out the ex- tsnsive cement plant of William Krause & Sons of Philadelphia located at Mar. tins Greek, Pa. The damage will reach S2o0. 1000, most of which is covered by in- surance. About 200 men were employed at the works. The plant will be rebuilt without delay.
 While returning by steamer a detach- ment of Americans landed at San Vicente and attacked a body of rebels, killing sew en. A branch party attacked a band be- yond Palestins, killing five and capturing 19. The Americans had no casualties There has been considerable wire cutting in that district.
 The United States surveying corps found over 100 dead bodies In a swamp just west of Galveston on the island where they had been deposited by the storm of Sept. s. The unburied dead were In an out of the way place near the county road and had not been discovered by the burying parties sent out after the storm.
 The state department has received telegram from W. Godfrey Hunter, Unit cd States minister 10 Guatemala and Honduras, saying that he had received from the Honduras government S1o,000 in gold in full payment of the claim of the United States for the killing of Frank Pears of Pittsburg by a Honduras soldier in January, 1899.
 By winning the football game Satur. day Yale administered to Harvard the worst defeat in 1b years. It was one of the most decisive victories in the history of the game. If was a contest abound. ing In brilliant plays and was watched by more than 10000 spectators. who filled every seat around the great amphithe- ater at Yale field. The score stood 2S to o.
 Governor Elect B. R. Odell, IT,, has announced the appointment of James e. Graham as his private secretary and ]. c. Mcknight as executive and personal stenographer to the governor. Mir. Gra- ham is a young Newburg lawyer and has served two terms in the assembly as rep resentative of the First district of Orange county. Mir. Mcknight was Mir. 0delrs stenographer in the state committee. The pardon clerk of the federal depart ment of justice has made his annual re- port to the attorney general Ii shows that for the year ended June 30 the de- partment had before it 720 cases. Of these 351 were acted upon by the prssi- dent. who denied the application in l8l cases and extended clemency in 22O cases. Of the latter he pardoned Sl. Seyenty-three sentences were commuted
 Judge Kohler has sentenced five of the Akron tO.) rioters who have been con victsd 10 date. Harvey Earl, Frank Sickles, David Davis and Oliver Nor gan were sent to the Ohio reformatory for indefinite periods and James Mo lall anA . Aa s..