Connecticut western news., 1901-05-23

htutEh MNAtNis tue lhNhtNNhA NhAfA
on the island OF Leyte. has surrender
ed with ~ men. the remnant of his
command.
General Macarthur celebrated the
surrenders Of the msurgent generals
Mascario and l.acuna by releasing
1.ooo Filipino prisoners.
The navy department has been In.
formed that the hattleship Oregon has
left Yokohama for the United States.
She stops iirst at Honolulu.
The boiler OF a Lehigh Valley rail.
road locomotive exploded at Blooms.
bury. y. j.. Three men were injured.
and the locomotive was wrecked.
Secretary Root has received a cable
message from General Chaffee saying
that he, with the troops In China, ex-
pected to sail from Taku about May -.
General MaScardo. with 3aS men, has
surrendered TO Captain Joseph L..
O'Ncil Of the Twenty .tifth infantry at
san Anatonia, Zambales province. Lu-
xon.
Yale univerSity's treasurer. Profess
or Morris +. Tyler. has received n
cheek ft.' Sa5,ooo for the bicen'ennial
fund from Mi!lian Z. whitney OF New
York.
General Trials has started on his visit
TO the insurgeni l,ader Bcllarmino.
who Is operating in southern I.asoa.
Trias win uy To induce Eellarmino To
surrender.
Governor odcll has appointed L. W.
Cullinan OF OSwero ms state excise
commissioner TO nil the vacancy caus-
ed by the death Of Henry III. Lyman
OF OSwcgo.
The United States transports Han.
cock. Buf0rd and Aztec. taking home
the Thirty-IilSt aud Forty-irst mfan-
try. have sailed from Manila for the
United States.
Tie poSto;,ice department has cahled
Instructions to China directing all its
representatives In the military postal
service there TO leave ON the first avail
able transport.
Jacob l.. Seixas. one OF the oldest
wholesale dry goods merchants In New
York. has died at his home in that city
In his eighty-ninth year from ailments
uue 10 advanced age.
The big plant OF the International
Clay Manufacturing company. makers
OF terra Gotta at Perth Amboy, y. j.,
has been destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
John l.. Semple. prominent Camden
IN. j. attorney. has been arrested by
secret service detectives, charged with
completely In the counterfeiting of SD
United States treasury notes.
The preSidente OF the island OF Lu.
hang. which lies northwest Of the is
land OF Mindoro. has been arrested and
brought To Cavi;e. charged with being
an accumplire Of the insurgents,
1t is officially reported At the mills of
Moorhead Bros, Sharpshurg. Pa. that
the wages OF the puddlers will be in
creased frcm S4.sT To 81 per day. The
change will affect 2oo employees.
Harry Menzie. an elevator hoy In the
Hotel Rathhun. Elmira. y. Y. has In
herited S40.uO0. left him by an uncle
who died r,.'ently in Glasgow. Menzle
will sail for Glasgow next week To se-
cure his Inheritance.
ne NtNhllltI NlNN VI VI
ST. Louis and Tennessee River Packet
company was wrecked at Brunkhorst
Landing. Ills. Fifteen persons lost
their lives i'm the catastrophe, six
whites and nine blacks.
The transport Sheridan has arrived
nj San Francisco from Manila via Ma.
yaSaA with Generals John r. Bates
n a. a
L .Sa3 enlisted men OF the Forty-tifth
and Forty-sixth infantry regiments.
Hon. Edwin 4. Uhl. former assistant
secretary of state and ambassador 10
Germany under the Cleveland admins
tration. is dead. lie had been IN nearly
year. suffering from complication OF
diseases, among them BrIght's disease.
Six miners lost their lives. five were
fatally injured and three seriously
burned I'm an explosion at the shaft
of the Georges Greek Coal aud Iron
company at Pennington. W. Va. on
the main line Of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad.
At nemidji. Mimi. lot OF fireworks
| i'm the steamer Shadow exploded dur.
| lnE nNEhlSNuAlN hlcllisias anu huN bA
about 81 people ON board five small
boys and several men received perhaps
fatal burns, while among those jump.
ing into the lake to escape the tire four
small boys were not rescued.
An Indian outbreak is imminent on
the Shoshons reservation, in Wyoming.
Six hundred Arapahoes have detied
the authority of the agent, Captain
NickerSon. who has refused them per.
mission To hold their annual sun dance
and denied them passes. Trouble has
been brewing for some time from other
causes.
The torpedo boat Riddle, built for the
| United States navy. has been success.
fully launched from the Bath Iron
works yard. The Biddle Is n sister tor.
pcdo boat Of the Baglcy aud Barney,
which within few days have complet-
ed their official trial trips. In which
each showed speed more than n knot In
excess nf the - knots required 10y con-
tract.
Mrs. Mary Leonard, better known
as French Mary" vivandlerc of the
civil war. has committed suicide In
pittshurg hy taking poison. Mrs. Leon.
ard served through the war with the
ono Hundred aud Fourteenth Penn
sSlyania volunteers. dv.nz remarkable