Connecticut western news., 1900-05-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

piuENt lOT 9o ubAs.
 The New York city committee of 100 has received nearly S43,o0o for relief of India's famine sufferers.
 During a severe storm in Chicago on Monday two persons were killed and two seriously injured by lightning.
 J. B. Showalter has been renominated for congress by the Republicans in the Twenty-tifth district of Pennsylvania.
 Fire has destroyed 10 or 12 frame buildings in Jamestown, Pa, including the postof6ce and its contents. Loss, S40,oo0.
 Willard X. Cobb, editor of The Jour nal of Lockport, N. r., and president of the state civil service commission, died suddenly on Tuesday.
 The Julius Breckwoldt Sounding Board factory at Dolgeville, N. Y., was totally destroyed by fire, entailing loss of $50.- 900 and throwing 80 men out of work.
 The candidacy of Representative George B. Mcclellan of New York for the Demo cratic vice presidential nomination has been announced by his friends in con gress.
 John Bartlett and Wesley Rising of Lake George, N. Y., went into the noun. tains back of the lake and killed 1g2 full grown rattlers. The smallest was four feet long.
 Mrs. Ulysses $. Grant and her daugh- ter. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, have sig nifed their intention to be present at the national C.. A. k. encampment in Chi | cago in August.
 The Peninsula bank of Williamsburg, Va, was entered by robbers Wednesday night, the safe blown open and about $lO,OO0 in money taken. There is no | clew to the robbers.
 Rev. Alex Burns, D. D., late principal sf Hamilton Wesleyan college and at one Hme president of the Iowa Wesleyan university and of Simpson college, Iowa, has died in Toronto.
 The engine attached to the west bound fast mail train on the Lake Shore road went into the ditch at West6eld, N. Y., and Engineer Reagan and his fireman, William Leighbody, were killed. Provost Harrison has announced a gift | of S2o,000 from J. Dundas Lppincott, a prominent citizen of Philadelphia, to the University of Pennsylvania in memory of Joshua Lippincott, his father. One man was killed outright, two were | fatally hurt and five others badly injured by the collapse of a travelling crane at the plant of the Totten X Hogg Iron and | Steel Foundry company, Pittsburg. Fire partially destroyed the paper mills | of the York Haven Paper company at York Haven, Pa; loss. si00.000. Origin | of fire is unknown. About 150 employees | are thrown out of employment tsmporu. rily.
 Fred l.. Newton, the dsfaultIng bank | teller of the Fidelity Trust and Guaran- \ ty company of Buffalo, charged with em- hezzling $4S,0O0 of the banks funds, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years in Auburn prison.
 | David Ward, pioneer, capitalist, lum- herman and owner of a fortune of up. ward S25,000, 900, has died in Pontiac, Mich He was q native of New York, a | self made man of the hardest character, | but of broad culture and education. | Captain Tinio, nephew of General Tinio, and g other rebels were killed on | May IS by scouts in an engagement near | Malibicong, province of Ilocos. There | was no loss among the Americans, who captured rifles, men, horses and saddles. Fire in Danville, Va, has destroyed | two of the largest warehouses in the country, two factories and storage | warehouse filled with the bright leaf to-
 bacco and upward of S00,000 pounds of | valuable tobacco valued at about S1l5,- 600.
 The adjutant general has received a ca- ble message from General MacArthur at | Manila announcing the arrival of the | transport Warren from San Francisco | with 16 officers and 407 enlisted men, | mainly recruits for the signal and hos pital corps.
 t Sir Thomas Lipton sent q cable to the New York Yacht club on May IT offering q cup valued at $500 to be sailed for by the yachts of the New York Yacht club. The offer has now been supplemented by another offer, in which he offers a cup valued at $1,ooo. ata The charges against the 25 Italian la borers who were arrested for melting ! riot during the recent strike at the Cor nell dam have been dismissed in the county court at White Plains, N. T., be- fer. Judge Smith Lent. The defendants
 were all discharged.
 c. r. Packer of Chicago, a leader in church circles and formerly president of the defunct Park State bank, is missing from his home in Kenwood, and city de- tsctiyes, armed with a warrant charging him with misappropriatlng S7,350 in
 bonds, are looking for him.
 The United States supreme court has decided Admiral Dewey's bounty claim against the admiral's contention. The effect is to deprive the admiral and the men engaged with him at Manila bay of half the amount claimed by them. Chief | Justice Fuller delivered a dissenting opinion.
 General Wiley, commander in chief of the Service Men of the Spanish War, has | published an order requesting an mem
 bers of the association to join hands with the Grand Army of the Republic in arr
 ranging for such services as may seem
 best suited for the proper observance of
 Memorial day.
 It is understood on excellent authority that President Mckinley has offered to Charles T. Saxton of Wayne county, N. T., formerly lieutenant governor of the
 state and at present judge advocate of | the court of claims, the position of judge advocate of the island of Porto Rico. He will probably accept.
 | Lieutenant Commander W. r. Elliott has died at Manila of sunstroke. He was
 native of Pennsylvania and was ap-
 pointed to the navy In September, 1867.
 His total sea service covered more than
 23 years and exceeded that of nearly er-
 cry officer in the navy, including all the
 admirals on the active list.
 All the section hands on the Lehigh
 Valley between Sayre, Pa, and Jersey
 City are out on strike. They want their
 wages increased from S1.2o to S1.50 a
 day. The strikers number 1,5o0. The
 company has served notice that if the
 men do not return to work before June
 new men will be hired.
 The secretary of war has awarded the
 contract for the reconstruction of the
 transport Buford to the Newport News
 Shipbuildng company, which was the
 lowest bidder for the work at S397, 900.
 The Buford is to be fitted out as a troop
 ship for service between the United
 States and the Philippines.
 Sergeant Berry and four privates of the
 Twenty-seventh regiment rescued the