Connecticut western news., 1900-04-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and T~rsely Told.

 the Black River canal May 10. The Spanish cabinet has been rsorgan. iEed because of continued dissensions. There were Is men injured by the ex- plosion at Riverside works. Wheeling. John Hughes of Syracuse shot and kill ed his wife as she was leaving church. Michael Cudahy has given S50.000 10 the Roman Catholic university of Amer ica. The transport Sheridan is to be repair ed and altered at a cost of about S15o,- | 900.
 Automobiles valued at s6o.oo0 have been shipped to the Hawaiian Islands from Chicago.
 It is announced that the bubonie plague has completely disappeared from the Ar genuine Republic.
 Colonel David Colson has been ac- quilted of the killing of Lieutenant Scott at Frankfort. Ky. Richard Peck, secretary of the New Haven Steamboat company, Is dead in his eighty-hfth year. The ecumenical conference on foreign missions was opened Saturday at Carne- gle hall. New York. Cockhghting will be prohibited through | out the island of Cuba after June 1 next under a penalty of $500. The wire mills of the American Steel and Wire company in the Pittsburg dis | trict have resumed work. Frank l.. Campbell of West Virginia has succeeded Webster Davis as assist. ant secretary of the interior. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad com | pany has awarded contracts for work to cost approximately Sl,65o,oo0. Westchester county officials have offer | ed a reward of $500 for the arrest of the assassin of Sergeant Douglass at Croton | dam.
 Former President Harrison left Indi- | annapolis for New York to preside over the ecumenical council, which opens Sat. urday.
 The United States supreme court has refused to grant a writ of certiorari in | the case of former Captain Oberlin NJ. | Carter.
 Dr. A. R. Allyn, a prominent physician of Chadron, O.. who was badly injured a few days ago by being shut up in a fold ing bed. is dead.
 Late arrivals from Alaska report the | probable murder by the same Chilkat In | dians that killed Mir. and Mrs. Horton of | four prospectors.
 Mrs. Sarah l.. Wright, daughter of Judge Ebenensr Peck. in whose house the first Lincoln cabinet was made up, has died in Chicago. The distinguished French artist. Nj. | Chartran, has been in Washington some time, engaged in painting portraits of Admiral and Mrs. Dewey. Alfred F.. Morrison, the teacher of Ian. guages at Mount Vernon. N. Y., who shot | hfa vii fp xxh In a n laa has been acquitted of murder. General Thomas H. Hubbard of New York has presented Bowdoin college | with S150.0o0 to be used for the con. struction of new library building
 James K. Clark. one of the earliest pro fessional baseball players in this country. | who was famous as catcher with east ern clubs in the sixties, Is dead. aged s years.
 Chancellor Alexander T. McGnl has died at his residence in Jersey City. He had been i'll for about a year, suffering from general breakdown, caused by overwork.
 Captain Dodd's troop of the Third cav airy trapped 1S0 insurgents near Ben guet. Fifty-three rebels were killed aud A taken prisoners. The Americans had one man wounded.
 Meyer Guggenheim and his sons have given $200,000 to Mount Sinai hospital for the erection of one of the proposed new buildings. The gift is for a memorial to Mrs. Guggenheim.
 Another new high record has been made in the price of Stock Exchange seats. A membership has sold for S40,- 50o plus the initiation fee of $1,0o0. making the total SI1 500. IN.l. pany has manufactured an electric ma. chine on the pattern of an automobile which is designed to take the place of mules and horses on the towpath.
 Governor Roosevelt has signed the bill providing that the primary day to select state convention delegates in presidential years shall be the tenth instead of the seventh Tuesday before election.
 Mrs. Harriet Grouse, one of the wealthiest residents of central New York. has died al Fort Plain. She was the widow of Henry Grouse, whose mur- der seven years ago has never been clear ed up.
 | Le Journal announces the arrival in Paris of James Francis Smith. the Amer. ican District Telegraph boy who Is bear ing to President Kruger a message of sympathy from Philadelphia and New York schoolboys.
 | Colonel Charles Page Bryant, United States minister to Brazil. has obtained an official assurance from the Brazilian authorities that American coal shall be used on the Brazilian railways and in the vessels of the Brazilian navy. | D. Appleton X Co. have resumed the publication of books. 1t Is understood that the inventory which has been in | sk,x. faFa afa suits The assets are said to exceed the liabilities at the ratio of two 10 one.
 Two burglars. one white and the other colored, broke into the residence of Mel. sou Smith. an aged farmer, at Living ston. N. l., Sunday and carried away | considerable booty after having nearly killed Smith and his granddaughter.
 The 1 200 employees of Jermyn X Co. s two collieries at old Forge. Pa.. are again on strike. They alleTe that the company has failed to live up to the re- | adjustment dockage agreement under which the November strike was termi- mated.
 William Beddlecum, the aged captain of the canalboat Iby, was found murder ed in the cabin of his canalboat lying in the Morris canal basin at Jersey City on Thursday. His head had been crushed in with an ax and then split open with the blade.
 Right Rev. Tobias Mullen. bishop of Erie, Pa, is dead. The bishop was stricken with paralysis May 19, 1897, and never recovered from the attack. He was S2 years old and had labored In the diocese for 60 years 8 of which was as bishop.
 Marie Rosalie Dinse, a pretty young woman who apparently has no friends in this corntry and who became penniless,
 Jumped from the Brooklyn bridge on Fri. day. She survived the plunge, and the doctors of the Hudson Street hospital say she will recover.
 General Montenegro, one of the insur | ,ontss haSt 6phfars has aorrandaral ff