Connecticut western news., 1901-07-11
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly mud Terseiy Told.

field. NJ.
 Three Paterson CN. n boys tried tc wreck an Erie express hy putting rocks on the track.
 Thomas c. Barker of Arlington. \. l.. convicted of shooting Rev. John Keller. has begun to serve his five years sentence in Trenton prison. II is reported that John D. Racke. feller and J. picrpont Morgan have de- | cided to establish a banking house in Paris. with a capital of $5o.o0o.0oo.
 Three men who held up a Great Northern transcoutinental train near Wagner. MGn.. shot three persons. rob. bed the through safe of S1l ,aO0 and fed on horses.
 Attorney Frederick n. White, son of the ambassador to Germany. Andrew n. White, has committed suicide in Syracuse. He had been suffering from neurasthenia.
 IL is said in Albany that Governor odell will appoint w. NJ. Van Amee of Middletown to the vacancy in the luna. cy commission made by the resignation of William Church Osborne. Through the efforts of the Atchison railroad nearly 2o0.0o0 acres of a-id land in the ..;Eansas valley. Colorado. have been reclaimed and will be de | voted to sugar beet culture. In the SiXty-ninth regiment games at | Celtic park. Long Island City, John | Flanagan Of the. New York Athletic club threw the lG pound hammer a dis. tance of 1I5 feet l3s inches from a nine i foot circle.
 The resignation of James G. Stowe, ' United States consul general at Cape : Town. has been received at the state , department. The resignation was based on the utter madeluacy of the salary , of the post.
 [ II is announced at The Hague that : Mir. Kruger has definitely abandoned his American visit on account of tray cling fatigucs as well as the clearly ex- pressed attitude of strict neutrality of the United States.
 According to n coroner's jury in Brooklyn. no one is to blame for the accident that occurred to the United States transport Ingalls, on June II in Robins shipyard. Erie basin, in which one man was drowned.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Boerlnger. who was n member of the royal household as companion to Queen Victoria for sever. al years from 1Si0. has died at her home near Goshen. x. I.. aged S7. Sho was widow for 3I years. Henry Polhanlus of Elmira. the flag. man of train No. Gi In the wreck at Nestal, x. Y.. in which six lives were lost. has been arrested. polhamus Is charged with criminal negligence in failing to flag the wildcat train.
 Alfred Gwynnc Vanderbilt has bought from William West Durant Sagamor, lodge, the forest resort of 1.J00 acres al South Inlet falls, on Shedd lake. neai Racquette lake. Sagamore lodge iS ont of the finest places in the .hdirondacks woods
 Professor John FiSke of Cambridge the famous lecturer and historian and the last of that remarkable group of literary men which included Emerson Lowell, Longfellow and Holmes. has died at Hawthorne inn, East Gluuccs. ter, Mass.
 Addison Brown, United States dis, trict judge for the southern district of New York. has resigned. His resigna, tion was handed to the president hy Attorney General Knox. Judge Brown has passed the age limit and retircs on fuiI salary.
 President and Mrs. Mckinley are n al. spend the remainder uf the heated term. They are accompanied by Secre- , tary Cortelyou. Dr. r. NJ. Rixcy. sever 1 al clerical attaches of the White House , and servants.
 Tn n joint session lasting three hours | the Porto Rican assembly unanimously passed the free trade resolution. The assembly hall was crowded with pco. pie, and cheers greeted the announce ment that Governor Allen had signed the resolution.
 ! Rare old postage stamps valued at 5000 and forming a part of the gov : ernment exhibit at the ran-Amcrican exposition have been stolen. Tho pack age contained 300 stamps of inc carll- | est varieties issued hy the department. | There is no clcw to the thief.
 Paul x. Neumann has died in Homo lulu of paralysis of the brain. aged GS. He was one of the best known and most liked citizens of the islands. Neu- : mann represented the Hawaiian gov. ernment at Washington and in various other capacities before annexation. CommiSsary Post Steward Sappele, accused of complicity in the commis. sary frauds in Manila. has been as | auitted. Provost Marshal Davis has disapproved of the finding. A civilian clerk named Stockman has been sen fenced to three years Imprisonment. Charles G. Dawes. comptroller of the currency. has rendered his resignation to the president, to take effect Oct. next Mir. Dawes term of office would not have expired until Jan. i. 1908. Mir. Dawes retirns In order to become q candidate for United States senator from Illinois.
 An Englishman named Howard. for. mer chief of Gcronimo's artillery. Is iu command of the insurgpnt forces on Mindoro island. They are estimated to number sj0o men. armed with rifles, including several American descrtpra. They occupy strong intrenchmrnts M alapan and Nangan.
 Charters have been filed at Austin for the Houston Uil company. with T capitalization of S30.OO0.mu. and the Kirby Lumber company. capitalized at S1u.0On.ou. The first named has been organized to handle oil produced in the Texas ficld ana is p,'iusartlr ntcndcd ns a competitor tf tur ,s.andard oil company. hrst in Teas aud aiirrward in the domestic anl export ttadr. It's articles embrace provisions tur owning lands.
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