Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide world
nrIenr md TcrHrIN Told.

$4,000 have been captured near Ma
Mia.
New York capitalists are TO build a
mammoth new theater In San Fran
cisco.
Nearly all the children In Lathrop
Memorial home, Albany, are Ill with
the smallpox.
Methodist ministers at the New York
east conference declared women unit
TO act In legislative matters.
One person was killed and several
wounded in a fight near Lilly, Pa, be-
tween band of gypsles and a posse.
The sale is reported OF a seat on the
New York Stock Exchange for $4,000.
The previous record price was $5S,0oo.
The Wiscasset. the largest and best
equipped hotel at Mount Pocono, Pa,
has been burned. The loss was nearly
500, 1000.
The engagement of Adjutant Gener-
nj Corbin to Miss Edyth Patten OF
Washington has been formally an
nounced.
An editor and director of a Havana
paper have been sentenced to impris-
onment for melting trouble among
dock laborers.
The postoftice at Marcellus Falls, N.
Y, was entered by burglars. The safe
was smashed and a small amount OF
money secured.
The cashier of the Farmers National
bank of Vergennes, VT, has been nc
eused of misappropriating funds est-
mated at 100000. ........
President Mckinley has donated So
600 toward a fund of $4,000 necessary
to secure the erection of a new and
modern hotel in Canton, o.
The gross postal receipts for last
month for the 90 largest postotfices In
the country show an increase of ia
per cent over the corresponding month
of last year. ..
There are ID cases of smallpox on
board the United States monitor Mon
terey, now at Canton. Only one death
has resulted, and the other cases are
progressing favorably.
A young man supposed to be William
Ryan of Erie, Pa, threw himself on
the track In front of a Lake Shore
and his body was cut to pieces.
The jury in the case Of Eta Kellogg
Williams of Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
against the New York Central railroad
for $4,000 damages for personal inju-
ries returned verdict OF 5000 for the
plaintiff.
The Ontario and Western Railroad
company has settled the claim of Mrs.
Howard X. Schofield of Fishkill, N. ",
whose husband was killed In wreck
at Hurleyville Feb. O, by the payment
of 81 800
Consuelo. dowager Duchess of Man
chester receives an estate valued at
S3,0o0,000 by the Will OF her brother.
Fernando Yznaga, which has been filed
In the Office of the surrogate In New
York city.
Apostle George q. Cannon of the
Mormon church has died In California
after brief illness. MIR. Cannon was
about 20 years of age. He was one OF
the leading men of Utah and of the
Mormon church.
The president has decided to appoint
William IL. jenkins TO be governor OF
Oklahoma territory TO succeed Govern
or Barnes. whose term will expire soon.
Mr.. Jenkins is the present secretary
OF that territory.
IL is said that financiers are certain
that gigantic copper trust Will be Gre
ated very soon. They declare the cop
per trust will ultimately have a capital
ization almost equal to that of the bill
billion dollar steel trust.
The annual adjustments of postottsce
salaries and allowances thus far made,
to take effect July l next. provide for
4,730 promotions of postotfice clerks
and for the appointment of 1900 addi-
tional clerks ut postotiices throughout
the country.
Joseph Foster of Mountaindale, Sui
livan county, N. Y, has secured YER
dict for Sill 900 In the supreme court OF
that county against the International
Paper company OF Niagara Falls for
injuries received while at work I'm the
paper factory.
A military commission of IL mem
bers presided over by Colonel McCrea
has been appointed to try by court mar
tial the soldiers and civilians who are
accused OF being implicated In thefts
or frauds in regard TO the government
commissary stores at Manila.
Louis Miller's saloon on State street.
Batavia, n. u, has been burned.
George Lawrence, the bartender, aged
"a years, and Fred Hack, a laborer
aged 81 years, who slept In the build
ing, were burned to death. The origin
of the fire has not been determined.
General Thomas III. Taylor, veteran
of the Mexican and civil wars, has died
In Louisville from pneumonia, aged 75.
During the Mexican war he was ele-
waited for distinguished services
through the various grades from pri.
vate to major and I'm the Confederate
army from captain to brlgadier general
The United States transports Lo-
gan and Thyra have sailed for Ma.
Mia. The Logan took battalion
of the Ninth cavalry, battalion OF the
Tenth cavalry, Companies | and NJ OF
the First infantry and the First battal-
ion of the Eleventh infantry. The
Thyra took the horses OF the Sixth
cavalry.
Armour lnStltute III inlCdRo mas Deeu
enriched by gift n S1,o00,ooo in cash
and securities by Mrs L. ID. Armour
and j. Ogden Armour. Added TO prop
erty amounting to between S3.500,0o0
and $4.ooO.OO0. given by i. ID. Armour
during his lifetime. the gift makes the
total resources OF the institute about
S5,OO0000.
Mus. Carrie Nation, arrested In Kan
sas city on charge Of obstructlng the
street, was arraigned before Police
Judge McAuley. fined $500 and given
four hours to leave the city. The judge
warned Mrs. Nation II she was found
in the city after the time set she would
be arrested and placed In jail. She
agreed to leave town and IL minutes
later boarded street car for Kansas
City, Kan.
The natives OF Samoa under the gov
ernment OF the United States num-