Connecticut western news., 1901-06-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
urIehy mud TerscIN Told.

A strike OF machinists has stopped
work on new warships ut san Fran
cisco. e
William c. whimey's horse Kllmar.
mock III won the Alexandra plate ut
Ascot.
Charles l.. White of Nashua, y. IL,
has been elected president of Colby uni
versity.
Maurice Il. Perkins, professor OF
chemistry In Union college, has died ut
Schenectady.
The president has signed the commits.
sion OF Horace y. Allen Of Ohio as min
lister 10 Korea.
There will he no decision In the Moli-
neux case before the October term OF
the court Of appeals.
The state supreme court. sitting nj
Jackson. has decided that woman
cannot practice law m Tennessee.
The transport Ohio has arrived Mt
san Francisco from Manila with 20 OF.
iicers and $50 men of the Forty.second
infantry.
Fermer Governor T.. G. Cheney OF
New Hampshire Is dead Mt the home of
his son-in-law IN Dover. lie was -
years of age.
Three persons were killed and sew.
eral injured 10y lightning during
severe electrical storm which passed
over Indiana.
BY the ditching of an Erie and Pitts
burg passenger flier near Greenyille.
Pa, four passengers were hurt, but
none Of them seriously.
The postoflicc at Charleston -Four
Corners. y. V, has been burned. The
building was also occupied by Hat.
maker & Sons general store.
Mrs. Mckinley continues to improve.
and the arrangements 10 20 10 Canton
next week are unchanged The date OF
the departure has not yet been fixed.
One person was drowned and several
others had narrow escapes 10y the turn
ing turtle of the h.g coal elevator
known rs Clark No. i'm Staten Island
sound.
The first gold shipments of the sea.
son are now on the way from the klon-
dixie Sums aggregating Sl.50o.000 were
started from Dawson Oh June on four
steamers.
Agonclllo, the European representa-
tive OF Aguinaldo. has given up his
apartments In Paris and has left for
Marseillcs. IL Is said he is returning TO
his own country.
The president has made the follow.
Ing appointments: Chandler Hale.
Maine. secretary of legation ut Vienna.
James j. Bailey. Kentucky, secretary
of legation AT Guatemala and Hondu.
ras.
One man was killed and seven others
injured. two probably fatally, In the
Nottingham mine at Plymouth. near
Wilkesharre. on Friday. Eight acei.
dents occurred at the colliery during
the day.
The president has appointed 6s ell
listed men of the army To be second
lieutcnants, thus providing for all the
enlisted men. regulars and volunteers.
found qualified for appointment at the
recent examination.
A certificate OF merger of the Sche-
nectady Locomotive works with the
American Locomotive company, recent.
ly Incorporated with capital stock of
$4,000, 900, has been filed with the see.
rotary of state at Albany.
An increase OF S6,S07 In the customs
receipts of cuba for the first -four
months of this year ms compared with
the same period Of 1900 IL shown In a
statement issued 10y the division OF In
sular affairs, war department.
There has not been fresh case OF
yellow fever In Havana for nearly two
months. and the cases which have oc-
Cured this year have been light. Mel.
Their are there any cases of yellow fe-
yer in other parts of the island.
At meeting Of the board of trustees
of Cornell university President Schur-
man presented letter from John ID.
Rockefeller donating S250,000 to the
university on condition that an equal
amount he contributed by others.
The jury in the case of Richard Il.
Lopez charged with conspiring with
Cashier John s. Hopkins 10 defraud the
Peoples bank OF Philadelphia of large
sums ~ money. by direction of the
court has brought in n verdict of not
guilty.
A dispatch from the war department
received 10y President j. q. Schurman
OF Cornell university offers Il positions
to young men as teachers I'm the Phil
ippines mt salaries of $1,000 yearly.
The teachers are to leave the United
States In July.
Gold receipts 10y the steamship Dol
phin from the Klondike are: For Ca
madam Bank Of Commerce. $1,000 900;
individual dust. S350,0O0. An estimate
for the total clean up for the district
for the season places the amount Mt be-
tween S15,00O,0O0 and S2O.0O0,000.
A mortgage for Sl5.0oo.O00 given by
the Buffalo and Susquchanna Railroad
company Of Pennsylvania TO the Met
ropolitan Trust company of New York
has been filed in the Struhcn county
clerks Office at Bath. y. Y. Attached
TO the mortgage is $l,IS0 In revenue
stamps.
The little Spanish warshinS captured
during tn war are To Ice utilized by the
navy for coast survey work. Two of
them. the Alvarado and Sandoyal, are
now in commission. and one has been
at Annapolis for some time. This YES
sci has been ordered To Norfolk for
docking.
The Jury In tlr case OF Chauncay IL
McCrcrry OF New London against the
New York. New Haven and Hartford
Railroad company has returned a YER
diet for the plaintiff awarding dam.
ages of So. i3l for iniGrlvs sustained
while working on tie DEFENDANTS road
April ~. 1900.
1t is estimated that 80 Filipino In
surgrnts were killed or wounded dur
ing the recent engagements which have
occurred In Alhay and Sorsngon prov
incc. Many Insurgents are returning TO
their homes. II is expected that all the
volunteers. Numbering 1870 men. will
arrive from Manila before June 20.