Connecticut western news., 1901-10-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Hnppeulpgs of sbe Wide World
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The Delano ore mill ut Boulder, Colo. was burned; loss. SinnnoO.
 Charles Hartzell of Colorado has been appointed secretary of Porto Rico.
 The total value of minerals produced in this country last year was Si,070,. JOS. .sSg.
 The plant of the McMnhon Biscuit company in Chicago was burned; loss, ,250.000.
 in Chicago will release an innocent man from jail
 A yellow fever institute Is to he cs- tahlished as n branch of the marine hospital service.
 Dr. Morris I. Davies was nominated for mayor of Utica, x. Y.. Thursday by the Republicans.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson es- inmates the beet sugar production for 1901 at t9s. 800 tons.
 Four tsninmen were killed in rail. way collision on the Central railroad near Oriskany. N. Y.
 The United States supreme court win reconyene next Monday. Oct n, after a recess of four months.
 Wisconsin G. A. R. ordered members never to speak the name of the assas. sin of President Mckinley.
 The national purity convention at Chicago met to condemn football, fish. ing, anarchy and theaters.
 X loss of S500,0o0 was caused by the burning of lumber yard and railroad cars at Arkansas City, Ark.
 Comptroller William B. Ridgley took the oath in Washington as the sue. cessor 10 Charles c. Dawes.
 Philadelphia reported movement to combine lead interests into n company, with capital of $i5o,oo0o00.
 Over Sl.000,0o0 in klondike gold reached Seattle, but receipts at the as. say office are less than last year.
 The teamsters and longshoremen's strike. which has been on for the past ten weeks in San Francisco, has been settled.
 Former Governor Jones has been ap- pointed United States district judge for the northern and middle district of Alabama.
 Miss Helen Morton, daughter of for mer Vice President Levi r. Morton. was married to the Comte Bosom de Peri gord in London.
 Edward AI shepard was nominated for mayor by the Democratic city con ventlon in the Grand Central Palace, New York. Thursday night.
 The Democrats in state convention In Boston Thursday nominated Josiah Quincy, for four years mayor of Bos- ton. as the head of their ticket.
 Nat Sloan. chief of the Mobile fire department and perhaps one of the best known fireman in the United States. dropped dead at fire Tuesday night.
 Captain Andrews left Atlantic City Sunday for Europe in his fourteen foo, boat. the Dark Secret. Accompanying him on the tIip k his young bride, whom he welded few weeks ago.
 In Saturdays football games Colum. bia beat Williams. Harvard beat Bates, Yale beat Tufts, Princeton beat Haver. ford. Pennsylvania beat State college and Cornell beat Bucknell.
 Dr. Stein. the arctic explorer. has left Lousberg. c. R.. for Washington. He denies that Dr. Deidrich is insane and says that probably Peary and the doc. tor are both to blame for the disagree. ment.
 II. W. Cramp. eldest son of Charles Ala. Cramp ship and Engine Building com. pany. died Thursday at Devon Inn, near Philadelphia, from n complication of diseases.
 The resignation of Seth Low as pres ident of Columbia university was ac. cepted at a meeting held at the college library. Professor Nicholas Murray Butler wns unanimously chosen act ing president
 Superintendent of Prisons Collins has given orders that Czolgosz. the murder CT of President Mckinley. must be the subject of no notoriety while in. An. burn prison awaiting electrocutlon. He must not be seen by any one.
 Steamer advices say the island of Pa. nay. in the Philippines, which has been affected by the plague. is now visited by famine. One hundred and thirty deaths from starvation are reported to have occurred at Capiz alone
 Representative Meyer and Davies of Louisiana. who are on their way to attend the river and harhor congress at Baltimore, have arranged with the president to have him receive the New Orleans delegation next Thursday.
 The transport Buford has arrived at Singapore on her way from Manila to New York with the Twenty-third In. fantry. and the Meade has arrived at Nagasaki. cn route from Manila to san Francisco with nine companies of coast artillery.
 The Republican and Democratic city conventions and the Republican county convention were held in Buffalo on Wednesday. For mayor the Republic. ans nominated Erastus C. Knight. state comptroller. Herbert F. Bisscll beads the Democratic ticket.
 Fires have been started in the fur. naces of the trust window glass fac  The local managers and the superin. tendents arc preparing for the starting of all the factories Of the American Window Glass company on Nov. 1.
 William A. lIcydecker, representing Murry A. Werner of plttshurg, has pre-. scnted to the municipal council a me. morial offering to take over the entire surface traction of this city and tn form company under Russian law with n capital of lOO.O0OOOO rublcs
 A medal may be recommended for be. stowal upon Colonel Theodore Roose- welt, now president of the United States. for distinguished eallantry m the Sar tiago campaign. II K expected that the senate will act upon the brcvet nominations at the approaching session. No action on the part of con gross k required in the ease of medals