Connecticut western news., 1900-08-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happening. of the Wide wori,
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.


 The battleship Wyoming will b, launched Sept. s at San Francisco.
 Charles II. Hoyt, the playwright, ha. been committed to an asylum In Hart ford.
 General Charles Miller has been ap pointed major general of Pennsylvania militia.
 Several explosions of dynamite occur red on Tuesday on street car lines in St Louis. No one was hurt.
 Ten people were injured in a street car accident in Toledo on Sunday, one fatall, and two others very seriously.
 A robber Monday night got $4T0 anc escaped from the Central Railroad oi New Jersey station at Newark.
 Under an assumed name Mortimer ID Shaw, who conducted the great tcle graphers' strike in 1888, died in St Louis.
 Treasury department statistics show that for 1900 the balance of trade In oui favor is S5I4, 4,4T1, ,T0l, the most prosper ous year In our history.
 The Rev. Horace Porter. first assist ant pastor of Plymouth church, Brook lyn, Is dangerously Ill in a sanitarium a, the result of a bicycle accident.
 Captain John Little of the subsistence, department, U. s. A., has died on Gov. ernors Island of typhoid fever. He was 40 years old and a native of Tennessee.
 Traces of gold have been discovered on the farm of John Benton, near Parks vile, Sullivan county, N. Y. The speci mems are being examined by an assayer
 The runners and drivers at the Della ware and Hudson mines al Scranton Pa, struck for Increased wages. Foui mines there and three at olyphant ars now idle.
 The North German Lloyd steamer Main has been raised from the mud ofi Wsehawken, N. J., by means of pon. toons by the Merritt Chapman Wreckins company.
 Commissioner of Patents Charles H. Duell Is to resign his office. Mfr. Duell's purpose in resigning is said to be that he may be able to devote his entire time to his patent business.
 Princess Cantacuzene, granddaughter of the late ex-President U. s. Grant and daughter of Brigadier General Fred. erick Dent Grant, U. s. A., gave birth to a daughter July 27. The island of Cuba has been divided into two military departments. and Colo. uel Samuel Whitside, governor of San. tiago, has been appointed commander of the department of the east. General Shafter has appointed board to examine all general prisoners in con. hnement on Alcatraz island and to sub. init recommendations for the release oi such prisoners as deserve clemency. A bad break in the Erie canal at Frankfort, N. Y.. has stopped traffic from Utica to Little Falls. A large force Is engaged in repairing the break, but it will be several days before it will be re. paired.
 During last weeks scouting in the Phil ippines 10 Americans were killed and 1i wounded. One hundred and eighty Fiji pinos were killed and GO were taken prisoners. Forty insurgent rifles were captured.
 New Orleans had a race war last week started by crazy negro who killed two officers. A complete list of casualties shows that six negroes and four whites were killed and ten negroes and 20 | whites wounded.
 The police of Buffalo believe they hay, | discovered evidence of a plot to liberat, Walsh, Dallman and Nolin. who are serv ing sentences of life Imprisonment il | Canada for trying to blow up locks oi the Welland canal.
 Senator Mark Hanna with a party oi | 12, including his family, has arrived al | Elberon, N. J. In the five weeks that tn, senator will be in Elberon he will go {, | New York daily and start the nationa campaign in the east. The schooner Pretoria, the larges wooden boat ever built, has been launch ed in Lake Michigan. The Pretoria vii carry 5000 gross tons of iron ore, or 175, | 900 bushels of wheat. The boat Is 3bl feet long, 45a feet beam and 27 feet | deep.
 Ten persons were injured, two fatally | by the premature discharge of the even. | ing gun at the Illinois national guard en. | campment, Camp Lincoln, near Spring. field, on Sunday. A small boy threw .
 lighted cigarette into a sack of powder standing near the gun. The steamer Alameda, from Australia brought on her last voyage from Sydney | $2, 100000 in English sovereigns, which have been taken to the San Francisco | mint to be coined Into S5 pieces. Thi, Is the largest cargo of coin ever brought here from the antipodes. Estes c. Rathbone, formerly director | of posts in Cuba. who has been practically under arrest ever since he was removed
 from office, has been formally arrested as a result of Fourth Assistant Postmaster | General Bristow's report duplicating him | In the postal frauds in Havana. Twelve persons were injured in a head | end collision between trolley cars on the | Dayton and Xenia (O.) Traction line on | Monday. It is alleged by the railway officials that some one tempered with | the electric signals. The cars met al full speed on a sharp curve. | The steamer Clutch has arrived at Van | couver from Skaguay with nearly $250, 900 in gold dust on board. Her mos, | prominent passenger was 10. c. Senkler | a gold commissioner at Dawson. who is l on his way to Ottawa to consult with the government there on official matters The steam tug Templar, owned in | Alexandria, Va, blew up in the harbor al
 Baltimore and killed Jeremiah Moore
 the engineer, and c. E. Wood, fireman
 The balance of the crew, including Cap.
 tain Oliver Crowder, were more or less
 injured, but 1t is thought all will re
 cover.
 | The American Society For the Proven
 ton of Premature Burial, with It's prin cipal office in New York city, has hlec articles of incorporation at Albany. Tn, directors are Clark Bell, Harry J. Gar
 rigues, Assemblyman Cyrus Gale oi
 New York and Fl. Gerald Chapin oi
 Brooklyn.
 General MacArthur has cabled the wal
 department an announcement of the sue | cessful erection of another municipal
 government in the Philippines under tho
 terms laid down by the Philippine com
 mission. This particular government i' established nt Vigan, on the northwest
 coast of Luzon.
 General William F. Draper of Hope
 dale. Mass, has sent 10 Washington 2
 letter rendering his resignation as United
 States embassador to Italy. General Ora
 per made no statement as 10 the reasons
 he has for taking this step other thar
 that his business at Hopedale demand, | his entire attention.