Connecticut western news., 1900-02-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wtds werld
 Briefly and TerseIy Toia.

the Chicago and Northwestern railroad near Escansba, Mich.
 The large clothing firm of Miner. Real & Co. of Boston has assigned, with habil- ities placed at S45o. 900.
 Fire in the Quincy (Msss.D shipysrds destroyed four government torpedo boat tenders and other property.
 Rev. Booker Fox, one of the most noted negro eyangelists iu the west, has died at the age of l0s years.
 Admiral Dewey was the guest of honor at the annual dinner of the Loyal Legion in New York Wednesday night.
 Andrew Reasoner. former superintcnd- ent of the Delaware. Lackawanna aud Western railroad. died in East Orange.
 Governor Roosevelt has made a public announcement that he will not accept the Republican nomination for vice presi. dent.
 President Mckinley has been notified of his election as an honorary member of Columbia lodge of master Masons of London.
 Mary Keith Shaw. wife of General A. D. Shaw, commander in chief of the c. A. R., died suddenly at watertown, \. Y., on Tuesday. .....
 Imports into Porto Rico from the date of American occupation to Dec. 3l, 1892. were SIP, .S2o aud exports in the same time S11 .696,S07.
 Bear Chief, the oldest chief of Pe-ta how-eh-rat band of Pawnee Indians. Is dead. He was one of the most intellec- tual men of his tribe.
 Henry A. Holcomb of New Bedford. Mass, a manufacturer, has filed peti- ton in bankruptcy, with liabilities of S1.- 351. .4SS and no assets.
 The New York presbytery by a vote of 71 to 39 decided to quash the latest pro ceedings against Professor McGiffert. who was charged with heresy. The house of Martha Smith. in Sussex county, Va, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. and she and six of her children were burned to death. Dr. William Stsinitz, the famous chess player, has been examined at Bellevue hospital, New York city, by State Exam. iners Fitch and Wildman and pronounced insane
 The parents of the late Dr. J. W. Stickler of Orange. N. J., have offered S40,0O0 toward the erection of a new Young Mems Christian association build. Ing there.
 Four thousand men and boys have been thrown idle by the collieries of the Min. eral and United Coal companies at Sha. mokin, Pa. being closed down owing 10 scarcity of cars.
 The University of Pennsylvania will confer the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon the president of the republic of Mexico upon the occasion of Univer. sity day. Feb. Q.
 State Superintendent of Insurance Francis Hendricks has assumed charge of the state insurance department at AL bany. relieving the retiring superintend. ent, Louis F. Payn. Willis Coleman. for several years dis. trict schoolteacher in Sullivan county. N. Y.. has fallen heir to a fortune of $500,000 through the death of distant relative in Chicago. Filipino insurgents last week cap tured a supply train of nine bull carts be tween orani and Dlnslupijau. killing a corporal and five privates of Company c. Thirty-second infantry.
 Three persons were killed and three se- riously injured in a head on collision be. tween fast freight trains on the Beech Greek division of the New Jersey Central road at Gordon Heights, Pa. Governor Roosevelt has signed the bill of Assemblyman Aids increasing the sal. ary of William NJ. Griffiths of Utica. sec. retary to the New York state commission to the Paris exposition, from s2,5oo to | $5,0o0.
 Ex-Mayor Joseph Stringham of 0sh kosh, Wis. aged 90 years. Is dead. He was one of the city's wealthiest men. He was formerly treasurer of New York state and once editor of the Buffalo | Courier.
 Mother Elizabeth Strange. founder of the order of Sisters of Mercy in this country and the last survivor of the sev. en Sisters brought to this country in 1S43, died at St Navier's convent. near
 Latrobe Pa.
 The children of Cornelius Vanderbilt are opposing the imposition of the inher- itance transfer tax on fund of S5.000,. 900 created by William H. Vanderbilt and disposed of under the will of Corne. Illus Vanderbilt.
 A Yale graduate has made a canvass of the Fifty-sixth congress for Yale men. He has found that Yale is represented by 16 members, a gain for Yale over the Eff. ty-fifth congress of one senator and two representatives.
 The subscription list of the Dewey arch fund shows that the sum raised so far Is less than S200.000. Some members of the fund committee declare that they have lost hope for the success of the per. petuation scheme. Fl. H. Wells, ex-governor of Virginia and a notable figure in civil war times. has died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. James T. Walker. in Palmyra, N. r., after a long illness. He was born in Rochester in 1923.
 The war department believes that Agui. .l fl.,t gF II zon. It is believed that he has with the money he has had at his command bribed some of the Spanish coastwise traders to get him of the island. George w. Smith. formerly professor of history and later president of Colgate university. has died It a sanitarium in winchendon, Mass, after a long illness following an operation for appendicitis He was born in 1882. The town of Collinsville, Ills, on Thursday narrowly escaped destruction by a tornado. Many persons were injured in the immediate vicinity of the village. some of them fatally, and there was much damage to property. The damage to building No. in the Brooklyn navy yard from fire early sun day morning will reach S1o0.0o0. or this S50,000 was caused to the building itself and the rest to the electrical machinery stored on the ground floor. Dawson advices say little will be left of the Klondike metropolis after the Nome rush in May and June Merchants are
 closing out their places of business. Business is dying, and most of these deal CTS are going to Cape Nome.
 Congressman Charles A. Chickering of Copenhagen, N. r.. representing the Twenty-fourth district of New York, either jumped or fell from n window in the fourth story of the Grand Union hos ,el, Park a'enue and Forty-second street. New York city, and was Killed. He had been suffering from rheumatism. The body of General Lawton was bur jed in Arlington on Friday with simple and imnressivp ceremonies Tho preni.