Connecticut western news., 1901-06-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Happening. of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

hANh ASi ttpNs To-
The last volunteer regiment, the For
ty-third. has left Manila.
The United States embassy in Lon
don has issued passport to a Filipino.
Lieutenant Colonel AIiehler, military
secretary to Lieutenant General Miles,
is dead.
Game wardens have seized 1900
song birds in New York city storage
warehouse.
Emerson McMillin OF New York has
offered 100000 toward an art museum
In Columbus, o.
William ii. Newman has been elected
president of the New York Central and
Hudson River railroad.
Nine companies OF the Ninth regi-
ment have arrived at Manila on the
transport Indiana from China.
The Forty-ninth infantry, United
States volunteers, has been mustered
out of the service nj the Presidio.
Victims OF the Maine disaster have
filed claims before the Spanish claims
commission aggregating $4,000.
Admiral Rodgers has been ordered
to take the cruiser New York to Japan
for the unwilling OF the Perry monu-
ment.
James G. Stout OF Auburn, former
warden of the state prison, dropped
dead in Syracuse on Thursday. He
was about 90 years old.
The census bureau has made Its hnal
announcement of the population of the
United States as recorded by the cen
sus of 1900. Ii is T6,303,3ST.
Rev. Frank w. Gunsaulus, who
year ago resigned as president OF the
Armour institute in Chicago, will again
become the head OF the school.
Chancellor James II. Day of Syracuse
university has announced a gift 10 the
institution of $4,000 from Syracusan,
whose name is by request withheld.
President Mckinley has had the de-
gree of doctor OF laws conferred upon
him by the Albany Law school, from
which the president was graduated In
1857.
Miss Martha Hichborn, daughter of
Rear Admiral Hichborn and n relgning
belle In Washington society, has been
married TO james q. Blaine. youngest
son Of the late Maine statesman.
The National Tube company of the
United States Steel corporation has
voluntarily advanced the wages OF all
the workers la the Youngstown (o)
plant. averaging 1Tl2 cents per day.
The United States transport McPher-
son, which went ashore on the rocks
of Matanzas Feb. 4, has been noatcd
and lowed into Matanzas harbor
whence she will proceed to New York.
The Cornell athletes surprised the
Princeton team In the dual meet on
Percy field by administering TO the Wis
itors severe defeat. Out of 104 points
the Iihacans took "a, leaving only 40
for the visitors.
The navy department has received n
complete set of plans for the rebuilding
of the Reina Mercedes, one of the cap
tured Spanish ships. but II has not yet
been decided whether the proposed
changes will be made.
Thirty-three men OF Company A,
| Twentieth regiment, encountered Ser
govias band near Paracale, North Cam
arine province. Surgeon st. John was
killed and had two wounded.
S. ID. Coykcndall. president of the
Ulster and Delaware Railroad compa-
ny, has sold to New York, Ontario and
Western interests that portion OF the
abandoned Delaware and Hudson en-.
nal which extends from Summityille to
Kingston.
Justice Lewis of the supreme court
of Minnesota has filed n decision which
will result I'm many Stearns county set
tiers losing their homes, title to which
was contested by Russell Sage as as
signee In trust Of the Hastings and Da-
kota Railway company.
The verdict In the bribery case
against former Captain and Quarter
master Cyril w. King, U. S. A.. finds
him guilty, us charged. OF receiving
money with the intent TO influence his
official actions. The scandal grew out
OF harbor work Mt Mobile.
Joshua Hillman, aged 20 years, was
killed and about a score of people were
injured, some probably fatally, In a
trolley accident i'm Wilmington. Del
Three cars were involved IN the smash
UP. which was caused 10y the brake OF
the third car refusing to work.
Ninety -elght Filipinos have arrived
| at San Francisco on the steamer City OF
Picking, EN- route TO the Pan-American
exposition, where they are TO display
the manners and customs of their ma
tive land. There are 10 women and a
dozen children In the party, including
several young girls.
The New York state supreme court
of appeals has convened In Buffalo for
the first time since 1919. ON the calen-
dar OF appeals from orders are 30 cases.
Seven appeals in criminal cases are
scheduled for this term. -Four of them
are In murder cases. including that OF
Roland II. Molineux.
Secretary Root has decided that all
OF the second lieutenants OF cavalry
who were such on Feb. last and all
OF the second lieutenants of infantry
who were such at the date OF the or
ganization OF the volunteer army I'm
1899 shall be at once promoted to the
rank OF first neutenants.
The resignation is announced OF Dun.
can 1. Roberts, the general passenger
agent of the Erie road, with headquar.
tiers in New York, TO become effective
July /. His successor has been decided
upon, but the name is being withheld
for the present, although he Is under.
stood TO he an official of the rond.
John Il. Lord. receiver OF the William
f. Miller 600 per cent Franklin syndi-
cate. for promoting which Miller was
sentenced TO ten years at hard labor
in Sing Sing prison, has been author
lied by United States Judge Thomas,
sitting in Brooklyn, TO pay 10 the cred.
itors of the concern dividend OF 9 per
cent on their proved claims.
The Hackensack Meadows company,
capital $4,000. 900. has been lncorpornt.
ed at Trenton TO develop real estate In
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