Connecticut western news., 1901-09-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tersely Tod.

Happenings of the Wide World Briefly and Ter.ely Tod. United States Commissioner Rock hill left Peking Sept. s.
 The United States battleship Iowa arrived at Panama Saturday. Eighty automobiles have started in to Buffalo.
 The canal treaty to take the place of the Hay-Pauncefote convention has been negotiated.
 Two men have reached Seattle from the Klondike, bringing $5OO,OOo as result of the summers work. The transport Mcclellan. from New York, with the congressional party on board, has arrived at Manila. Strikers at McKeesport, Pa, prevent ed by force the resumption of work In the National Tube company's plant. The treasury department has receiv- ed from Architect Gilbert plans for the new custom house building for New
 York city.
 The yacht Columbia, champion of 1899. has been chosen to race against
 the Shamrock II. in defense of the Americas cup.
 At Granite. Okla, a gusher of oil has been struck at a depth of 330 feet. The flow is very heavy, and the discovery has created great excitement. There were 12.29S deaths in New York state during the month of July, according to the monthly bulletin of .l .,fA Two hundred and seventy-five sol diets of the Twenty infantry
 are in the hospital at Fort McPherson. Ga, as a result of poisoning thought to be from eating a stew which was cook ed all night. Four of them may die. In $15,OO0 fire at Coney Island the Oriole bathing pavilion, at Tilyou's 1 walk and Beach street, was destroyed. | The Steeplechase was saved only by prompt work on the part of firemen
 and volunteers, who formed a bucket
 brigade.
 A disastrous fire started by spark from a Santa Fe engine caused a prop
 erty loss of $1O0,000 in Emporia, Kan. Three lumber yards and a church were
 burned, and it is said that Chief Hum- phreys of the fire department perished in the flames.
 Diamonds and other valuables worth l 5,00O which were recently slipped | into the country by prominent Chica- go man on his return from Europe | without the payment of duty, have | been seized by special agent of the | treasury department in Chicago. Carrie Nation, the saloon smasher of
 long in the Coney Island police court
 upon charge of disorderly conduct be- | cause she destroyed a cigar stand in | the Steeplechase. She was convicted, ! but sentence was suspended, and she
 was allowed to go. The Filipino insurgent leader Angeles has surrendered in the Camarines, with
 nineteen officers, forty-two men, a num- | Der of rifles and quantity of ammuni- ton. Numbers of other small surren- ders occur daily. The only active forces
 now operating with any number of men are those of Malvar and Lukban. A large amount of money was se- cured by robbers who held up Cotton | Belt passenger train. The robbery was ] committed by five masked men at Fly
 lau, Ark, four miles south of Texarka-
 ma. The exact amount of the booty was withheld by the railroad and express ] officers, but 1t was known that large | shipment of money was made on this | train.
 The Rev. Dr. William H. De Puy of
 New York, for over twenty-five years
 associate editor of The Christian Advo-
 cate, the official organ of the Methodist
 church, is dead of paralysis at Canaan.
 Conn. He had been ailing for over a
 year. MT. De Puy was one of the
 managers of the Methodist Sunday
 School union. He was seventy-two
 years old.