Connecticut western news., 1901-08-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tcrsely Told.

Fire In the Weldon office building. Jersey City, caused an estimated dam age of $50.00o.
 The battleships Massachusetts, Ala bama and kearsarge are to be equip ped for wireless telegraphy.
 lilly Haynes, one of the best known hotel proprietors in the east, has died at the United States hotel in Boston.
 A bookkeeper's errors made the George II. Phillips company appear worse off than 1t really was by S134,- 000
 Peter Jackson, the famous negro pu- gilist, died July 23 at private san!ta- rum at Roma, near Sydney, of con sumption.
 The Leak Fur Manufacturing con- pany's mill at Gloverville, x. Y.. has been totally destroyed by fire, caus- ing loss of S30,oo0; insurance, $20,- 600.
 Thomas Scott Mcfarland. for many years secretary of the Fidelity Trust and Guaranty company and one of the best known business men of Buffalo, is dead. aged 5S years.
 Mrs. Carrie Nation has been released from jail, enough money having been raised by the temperance people in To- peka to pay her fine. Mrs. Nation will go to Atlantic City next week.
 Two sections of an Atlantic City ex- cursion train collided near Confluence, Pa, S4 miles east of Pittsburg. Ten people were seriously injured and number of others slightly hurt.
 General Chaffee has received word that General Summers troops are in close pursuit of the insurgent leader Malvar. They captured Malvar's camp while his breakfast was still hot.
 A dynamite bomb or bottle of nitro- slycerin. presumably the latter. was exploded in the rear of George Little's saloon on South Clark street. Chicago, killing one person and injuring five others.
 Charles A. Cregln, who was superin- tendent of the work being done by Mi chael J. Dady in Cuba, committed sui eide in his room at the Hotel St. George. Brooklyn, by shooting himself in the stomach.
 Alexander Thomas Ballantyne. the inventor of the icemaking machine and the method of increasing the flow of oil wells by exploding torpedoes in their depths, has died in Cleveland. He was G6 years old.
 Through the alleged failure of the telegraph operator at Carmen, Pa, to deliver q train order to a north bound freight train two trains were wrecked and four trainmen were injured, one of whom is likely to die.
 F. C. O'Connell and Davis Harrison were drowned in the Railway river near Westfield. N. l.. by the overturn- ing of boat in which they had started on fishing trip. Three companions in the boat were saved.
 Secretary Gage has received from a soldier in the Philippines conscience contribution of S2T0. The money was sent to Father Conaty. rector of the Catholic university at Washington. for transmission to the secretary.
 Helen Potts Hall. who claims the en- tire estate of the late George Francis Gilman. the millionaire tea merchant. has obtained from Justice MacLean in the supreme court a decree of absolute divorce from her husband, Blakely Hall.
 A gold brick valued at S20.OOO. which was shipped from Unga. Alaska, to the Apollo Mining company of San Fran cisco via the steamer Newport about July 20. has not arrived In that city. The treasure should have reached San Francisco several days ago. Michael l.. Fagen of the law firm of Fagen X Murphy, Jersey City, has been appointed United States commissioner to succeed the late Isaac Romalne. who held the office for 30 years. The ap- pointment was made by United States District Judge Kirkpatrick. The directors of the Standard Oil | company have declared dividend of | & per cent. $S share. on the common stock of the company. This dividend is payable on Sept. 16 next. This divi- dend Is the third declared by the com pany during the calendar year. | John k. Palmer has died at the Ma some home in Utica, N. Y.. in his sixty | fifth year. He was well known to the travelling public in central and south ern New York, having conducted hotels | at Utica, Clinton. Norwich and Elmira. | At one time Mir. Palmer weighed 34T | pounds.
 General Chaffee has received from | Lieutenant Herbert l.. Evans of the | Forty-fourth volunteer infantry full | report of the taking of Mindoro. Lieu. | tenant Evans says the insurgents fled | to the mountains, but that they must soon surrender, as they have no means of escape.
 Samples of ore and gold, accompa, nied by regularly attested affidavits have been received here showing re markabIy rich strike of gold in Wilkes county near Washington. Ga. The atfi
 havits show that out of 1.407 pounds of ore 1,Ts5 psnnyweights of gold have been taken.
 | David Nation. through his attorney
 has brought suit for q divorce from hi:
 wife. Mrs. Carrie Nation. the temper ance crusader. The petitioner. who |.
 now visiting in Iberia. O., alleges that
 his wife held him up to public rIdicule
 neglected her family duties and aban
 doned his home.
 X mining stampede has been started
 to the Big Snowy mountains by the
 discovery of rich gold bearing copper
 and sand carrying free gold. II has
 practically depopulated several towns
 along the Montana raih oad and Is con
 stantly drawing more people to th'
 scene of the new discovery.
 Aahamaport, 30 miles south of Mo
 bile on the gulf of Mexico. is to have ; | shipbuildng plant to cost S4.Ooo,oos
 and capable of building six steamships
 at one time The work of construction
 will begin in November and will b'
 rushed to completion. The plant whei
 finished will employ 5000 hands.
 President Mckinley has approve,
 the death sentence in the case of an en