Connecticut western news., 1901-01-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tcrrciy Told.


 A Harvard student has invented a new instrument to measure bones.
 The battleship Wisconsin has been turned over to the government.
 The Philippine commission has com pleted a municipal government bill.
 The Wells-Fargo company has opened reference libraries for its employees.
 Forty-siN tons of gold and silver were received at the Seattle assay office in 1900.
 The First National bank of Chicago made net profit of $T3e,S32 for the year 1900.
 A company has been formed to operate a pneumatic tube service between Boston and New York.
 The president has ordered the prefer ence in the civil service of veterans of the war with Spain.
 Drain of Mexican money to China and India has caused a crisis in Philippine monetary affairs.
 Frank James. cx-outlaw and bandit, is pushing his candidacy for doorkeeper of the Missouri legislature.
 District Attorney Baird of Hawaii has received orders to proceed against the al- legged trusts in Honolulu.
 Not an application for admission into the Pringle Memorial home at Pough. keepsie has been received.
 William Westlake. the inventor, has died at his home in Brooklyn. He was born in Cornwall. England, in 1921.
 Two children were cremated at Shaw nut, Pennsylvania mining town, in a fire which also consumed their home.
 The Penn Petroleum company's plant at Coroapolis, Pa, has been almost com pletely destroyed by fire; loss, S1o0, 900.
 A lone highwayman held up the stage near Hot Springs Junction, A. T., secur- ing about $50 from the private express box.
 Samuel Macdonald, who murdered Auditor Morris of the war department, has died in Washington hospital from self inflicted wounds.
 Dr. k. Y. K. Montfort, for 40 years superintendent of public schools of New burg. N. Y, is dead. He was born in Fishkill village in 1885.
 Select Councilman A. B. Lidstone of Scranton, Pa., dropped dead while deliy- ering an address at the annual banquet of Hiram lodge of Masons.
 A mail pouch containing S1oo, 1000 in negotiable paper and an unknown amount of money was stolen from the Wyandotte (Mich.) station Thursday night
 Hon Francis B. Delehanty. judge elect of the city court of New York city, has resigned as a member of the New York state board of mediation and arbitration.
 Henry s. Eastman, the only surviving member of Commodore Perry's squadron that opened the Japanese ports many years ago, has died at his home in Berke- ley, Cal.
 Edgar c. Burnz, who killed and robbed the postmaster of Scarsdale, N. r., has been found guilty of murder in the sec ond degree and sentenced to life im- prisonment.
 Governor Roosevelt has announced the appointment of John Proctor Clarke of New York city to ill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice II. K. Beekman of the supreme court.
 Fire has destroyed the Bellaire Stamp. ing company's plant at Harvey, Ills. a manufacturing suburb, causing n loss of S4OO,OOO and throwing 700 men, boys and girls out of employment.
 Daniel Addison Heald, president of the Home Insurance company of New York city, has died suddenly, supposedly of heart disease, at his home near West Orange, N. J. He was S3 years of age.
 Judge Thomas of the United States cir cult court has postponed until Jan. 0 the case of Cornelius l.. Alvord. Jr, the de faulting bank teller who stole $500, ,Oo0 from the First National bank of New York city.
 The wheat crop of 1900 is 522, 229, ,50i bushels. The area of winter wheat plant. ed is 30, ,2S2, ,564. The condition of the growing crop Dec. I was 97. The produc. tion of corn in 1900 is estimated at 2,105,. 102, ,516 bushels.
 Senator NJ. A. Hanna favors a change in the tenure of office of the president of the United States and believes single term of either six or eight years dura. ton would be an advantage 10 the coun- try, both from a financial and a moral standpoint.
 Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York city, Yale, '99. has sent to Morris 10. Tyler, treasurer of Yale university, S25,0O0 to be used for the bicentennial fund or for any other purpose the Yale authorities decided upon. This is Mir. Yanderbilts first gift to Yale.
 Governor Roosevelt has pardoned An. nie Walden, who is serving a life sen. tence in Auburn prison for the murder of her husband, James Walden, a horse jockey whom she shot and killed at the door of the house of woman who had come between her husband and herself.
 John Hubbard, aged e years. an onion grower living near Florida, N. Y., visited a clairvoyant recently, who told Mir. Hub bard that he would not live until New Years. The information preyed on Mir. Hubbard's mind, and he drank two ounces of laudanum and died in a short time.
 Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago com pleted his great benefactions for the nine teenth century, amounting to more than S2. .OO0. by mailing a check to Carlc- ton college, Northheld, Minn. The last donation makes a total of S50.000 which Dr. Pearsons has given to the Minnesota institution.
 A new concern which is to deal in ice and fight the trust has been incorporated at Newark, N. J., with a capital stock of Si25, 900. It is to be known as the Con. sumers' Ice Company of Newark. The incorporators are Henry II. Dyer, El- wood F. Robbins and Albert J. Baekes, all of Newark.
 The president has ordered that the mil itary reservation at Nome, Alaska, ke
 
 of the war department and that the mill itary reservation previously set aside near the east side of the mouth of the Nome river be known as the Fort Davis militia " reservation.
 Under date of Shanghai, Nov. 27, the American Bible society has received re- port from the Rev. John K. Hykes, its agent in China, in which he says that the missionaries who are safe in Tai-yuen-fu are Graham McISie. Miss Chapman, Miss kay and Mrs. Ogren and child. Mir. rgrcn was killed.
 Moses Colt Tyler, professor of Ameri- an history in Cornell university, has died In Ithaca after an illness of three weeks. He leaves a wife and one daughter, the latter the wife of Assistant Librarian W. II. Austen. and son. Professor Tyler was considered one of the greatest hls- .orical authorities in America.
 Jesse k. Davis, Edward O. Dean and Clinton l.. Marshall, three nurses con nected with the Mills Training School For Nurses, have been held accountable af | IT