Connecticut western news., 1900-11-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 BrIeny and TerseIy Told.

 near police headquarters.
 Thirteen insane soldiers from the Phil ippines have been sent from the Presidio hospital at San Francisco to the govern ment asylum at Washington.
 Complete returns from the state cleo tions in Idaho show plurality of 1,S9S for Bryan electors. Hunt, fusion, has n plurality of 2, 2,233 for governor.
 Tho population of Hawaii as announe- ed by the census bureau is 154.oo as against 109.0 in 1896. This Is an in crease of 44,eS1. or 41.2 per cent.
 A shipment of 1000 tons of pig iron has been made from Florence, Ala, via Brunswick, Ga, to Bremen. This is the third shipment made in GO days 10 for eign port.
 The New York court of appeals has granted q new trial to Dr. Kennedy. the dentist who was convicted of the mur- der of Dolly" Reynolds al the Grand hotel in New York city.
 Rev. Father John E. Barry. vicar gen eral of the diocese of Manchester and Concord, N. H., and pastor of St. Johns church, Concord, was instantly killed by a cable car on Broadway, New York city.
 The Baltimore Sun announces that Dr. Daniel c. Gilman. who for nearly 25 years has been president of the Johns Hopkins university, has signihed his in tention of resigning that position and re- tiring to private life.
 The second trial of the new torpedo boat Stockton has been held in Cbesa- peake bay. With 36o revolutions of the propellers per minute the vessel attained an average speed of 20 knots per hour, her contract requirement.
 Brigadier General James F. Smith of San Francisco has been appointed collect. or of customs at Manila. General Smith went to the Philippines as colonel of the First California volunteers and Is now governor of the island of Negros.
 A pork packing plant is to be built in Bellevue, a suburb of Schenectady, N. Y. Schenectady business men have subscrib- ed the capital stock of S25,0o0. Over 50 men will be employed from the start The concern will be ready for business in the spring.
 The 300 men and boys employed at the Colbert colliery at Shamokin. Pa, who went on strike Monday because several of the mine workers were discharged for attending funeral have returned to work. The company relnstated the dis. charged employees.
 Police Commissioner James A. Nc 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.
 The official count of Omaha and Douglas county, Neb., has closed. show. ing one Republican senator and seven representatives elected. This gives the Republicans the organization of the house and senate. T2 votes on joint bal. lot. a constitutional majority of five. The population of the state of Penn. sylyania as officially announced by the census bureau Is 6.902. .115 against 5.25S. 014 in 1890 This is an increase of LOLA. 101, or 1e.S per cent. The population in | 1880 was 1. .2S2, s91. aH increase of eT5,. 123, or 22.7 per cent. from 1880 to 1890. General Burlington, chief of the ord. nance bureau. In his annual report shows an expenditure on coast defense guns of | S16240. .TS5 out of $29 .S90. TSS appropri. ated and that we have 65S heavy guns | for our coast defenses and new smoke. less gunpowder, which has proved sue | cessful.
 | Lieutenant Frederick w. Alstacter of | the engineers, who was captured by the insurgents In Luxon last September, has sent. with the permission of his captors, | letter to Manila asking for food, money and clothing, which will be forwarded to him by a native runner. Ills health is broken and his release problematical Walter MeAllister, Andrew Campbell | William Death and George Kerr, indict | ed for the murder of Jennie Bosscheiter | the Paterson IN. J.) mill girl, were ar | raigned on Friday before Supreme Ccur, | Judge Dixon. All pleaded not guilty. | Judge Dixon set Jan. IA as the date on which the defendants are 10 be tried. The postmaster general has designated | Postoffice Inspector John k. Harrison, now postmaster of Havana. as the acting | director general of posts In Cuba pend ing the absence of Director General Eos nes, who is convalescing in New York from yellow fever and pneumonia. Mir I Harrison Is from the St. Louis division. | The collections of internal revenue fol the month of October aggregated x27. 464. .495 against $26. .147, ,446 for the sam, month last year. The receipts are classi fled as follows; Spirits. Sll, l,096. .5b0; to bacco, S5,420.9S3; fsrmented liquors, st. | 49t. ASS. oleomargarine. S23l. .308. specia taxes, S53,5f1f miscellaneous, S4,l71 ,b9b The United States surveying corp, | found over 100 dead bodies In n swamp | just west of Galveston on the island where they had been deposited by the storm of Sept. $. 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.
 Dufferin Putelle, chief clerk of tn, gold commissioner office at Dawson, es
 inmates the past seasons Klondike out
 put of gold at S20.oo0. 900 as against S1T 100000 for 1899. Next years gold l output of the Klondike. he thinks, will reach S25.0o0.00o. or this years ship
 ment of gold United States Consul Nc Cook has records of sl4,0o0.0o0.
 The German National bank of New
 port. Ky. has been closed on account oi a heavy dedication by its assistant cash
 fer. A preliminary report received al th, treasury department from National Banl
 Examiner Tucker, who has been appoint
 d temporary receiver of the bank. places the amount of Assistant Cashier Browns
 dedication at S191, 800. In the opinion
 of the examiner the bulk of the defalca
 tion occurred in the last six months.
 The strike of the TOO employees of the
 Forest mine at Archbald, Pa, which has
 continued since last March, has been satisfactorily settled by committee of
 miners In conference with representa-
 tives of the Ontario and Western com
 pany, which bought the mine last Fri
 day. The strikers got nearly all the con
 sessions demanded, q decrease in tho
 weight of loaded cars, n check weighmar
 at head of shaft and an increase of Sl on rock yardage; also allowances for re
 moving water.
 | Henry J. Zoller, aged 31 years, q for
 mer assistant paying teller of the Roches
 ter Savings bank ana who was discharE
 ed last March from that institution aftel
 mlsappropriating S1o0, has been arrested
 at Ironton. O., and brought back {,
 Rochester, charged with forgery nnC
 grand larceny. A few days ago the banl
 officials discovered eight ehccks, aggrc
 gating S2.092, upon which had been forg
 cd the names of former depositors in tn,
 bank whose accounts had been untouch
 ed for several years.
 Quartermaster General T.udington hal
 received information that the transport