Connecticut western news., 1901-01-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings oT the Wide World Briefly and T-rs~Iy Told.

is to be built at Raybrook, Franklin county.
 The Philippine commission has com pleted the code for the government of municipalities.
 Ex-Senator Fred T. Dubois has been nominated for United States senator by the fusion caucus in Idaho.
 Captain ]. n. Bulloch, famous agent of the Confederates during the American civil war, died in Liverpool.
 The Right Rev. Bishop Winand Mi. chael Wigger, head of the Roman Catho' lie diocese of Newark. N. d.. is dead.
 John Goodnow, United States consul general at Shanghai, has arrived at San Francisco on G0 days leave of absence.
 Lorenzo Priori, who was to have been executed a, Sing Sing prison Monday morning. has been granted respite of 20 days by Governor Odell.
 Colonel Huntington Wolcott Jackson, one of the foremost lawyers of Chicago and a member of the old Jackson family of Newark, N. l., has died of apoplexy.
 John C. Sims, secretary of the Penn sylvania Railroad company and --ll known in railroad circles throughout the country, died in Philadelphia on Monday.
 The residence of Edward T. Taylor at Model City, near Lewiston, N. Y., was burned on Monday. Taylor, his wife and three small children perished In the flames.
 Myer Mark, for nearly a quarter of d century prominent in the business circles of Gloycrsyille, N. Y., has died at his home in that place. Mir. Mark was 90 years of age.
 Allan l.. Doucette of the Harvard uni. versity football team of 1897 and one of the famous football centers of the coun- try, has died of typhoid fever. He was 2S years of age.
 Bishop w. x. Ninde, aged 6S years. of the Methodist Episcopal church. was found dead in his bed at his home in De troit. It is thought the cause of death was heart trouble.
 James J. Jeffries left for Asbury Park. N. J., last night and today will take his first exercises for his championship bat. tie with Gus Ruhlin, which takes place at Cincinnati on Feb. 1b.
 Andrew Carnegie has promised Seat. tie gift of S200,o00 to be expended in the construction of a new public library. He requires a yearly guarantee of S50.- 900 for maintenance and improvement.
 A passenger train on the Nevada. Cali fornia and Oregon railway was struck by the gale at Doyles, 10 miles north of Reno, Nev., and was hurled from the rails. Four passengers and three train. men were hurt.
 Michael Perrin and a negro, name uu. known. were blown to pieces at Philson. Pa, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. by an explosion of dynamite. The men were thawinE the dynamite when the cx- plosion occurred.
 The Dingley woolen Mills company. an extensive manufacturing concern of Phil. adelphia, has gone into the hands of a re. ceiver. The affairs of the company were involved with those of George Campbell, who failed recently.
 President Albert ]. Earling of the Chl. cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway has sold his 10000 shares of stock in the road. The line has passed into the con trol of ]. ]. Hill. ]. Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.
 The rooms of the Matinecock lodge, F. and A. M., at Oyster Bay, on Long Is. land, were crowded Tuesday night tn witness the first degree conferred upon Theodore Roosevelt, the vice president elect of the United States.
 Miss Margaret Daly, eldest daughter of the late Marcus Daily of Montana, was very quietly married on Wednesday to Mir. II. Carroll Brown of Baltimore nt the home of the brides mother. T25 Fifth avenue, in New York city.
 A frightful dynamite explosion occur. red in the powder machine house of the Repanno Chemical company at Thomp. sons Point, N. l. The building was an- Al .l.. a-. t. the time were blown to atoms.
 Charles R. Westervelt, former cashier of the Dime Savings institution of New. ark, N. J.. entered a plea of guilty to two indictments for forgery and not guilty to two indictments of embezzlement. The amount he Is charged with embezzling is S50. 500.
 The New York Central railroad shops at 0swego, N. Y., are to be enlarged and employment given to twice the present force. The wages of trainmen and con. ductors on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg division have been advanced 15 per cent.
 David Oziers' private bank at shiloh. O., has been bnrglarized. The robbers are said to have secured S6,0O0 in cur rency. a number of government bonds
 
 to the bankers wife. They stole horse and buggy and escaped.
 The Amcs Iron Works company of Oswego. N. Y., organized in 1853, has been incorporated. with a capital stock of S100.o00. The plant Is one of the largest boiler manufactories in the coun- try and recently shipped large order 10 the Russian government
 Generals Wheaton and Bates report to Manila many small captures. the destruction of msurgent camps and the seizure of supplies. animals and other necessities. Among the captures in Smiths district was Colonel Techon, the insurgent governor of Tarlac.
 Eli r. Bangs. the we'll known con. tractor and millionaire, has died at his home at Fayetteville, x. Y., after long illness. He was a member of the well known family of contractors and during his lifetime had been engaged In many important government contracts.
 The largest foreign order ever filled in Ansonia, Conn, Is now completed and awaiting shipment. It consists of 1000 900 pounds of wire for trolley road in India. A train of between 15 and 2o rars will be needed to ship it to New York to be placed aboard a steamer.
 The senate has confirmed large num- Der of army nominations, of which the most important were Colonel Samuel M. Whitsidc. Tenth cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel James k. Campbell. Thirtieth in. fantry. and Major Charles Bird. guar termaster. to be brigadier generals of Nonnteers.
 nr. n. k. Pearsons of Chicago com plcted his great henefactions for the nine teenth century. amounting to more than g., zoo. .OO0. by mailing cheek to Carlc- ton college. Northheld, Minn. The last donation makes total uf Sou,uOu which Dr. Pearsons has given to the Minnesota | institution.
 Mrs. Mary E. Lease has written friends at Topcka from New York that she will withdraw her suit for divorce and return ts Kansas to live with her husband. She quits the lecture field and will devote the remainder of her life to an endeayor to make happy home for her husband and children.
 Annie Dowd. 3 years old, has just died