Connecticut western news., 1901-08-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
HappeninRx of the Wide wo-ld
 Briefly mud Tcrseiy Told.

improved.
 Colorado has celebrated the twenty. fifth anniversahry of its admission into the Union.
 Fire destroyed five business build , ings in West Newton, pa. The loss was Slo0.oO0.
 A bill to further restrict immigra. ton is to be presented to congress at the next session.
 The steamer Humboldt has arrived at Seattle from Skaguay with S5o0.ooN in klondike gold.
 Andrew Carnegie Is to give san Juan, Porto Rico. library. The city anpro. priated So.Oo0 a year.
 Judge William Cecil Price. United States treasurer under President Bueh' anan. has died in Chicago.
 The attendance nt the pan-American exposition for the tirst three months, ending July 3l. Is put at 2,12I,ooo.
 The steamer Charles n. Lane. from Nome to Seattle. has been wrecked, The passengers and crew were saved.
 American shipyards on both coasts and the great lakes are declared to have orders ahead for year or more.
 Benjamin Pugh has been put 10 death In Sing Sing prison for murdering John Tiegen. a waiter in Brooklyn restau' rant.
 Two railroad men were killed in a collision between a Pan-Ameriean spe- cial and a regular train near Lockport. NY.
 The champion trotter Cresceus and The Abbot will race over the Brighton Beach track on Aug. 15 during the meeting of the New York Breeders as. sociation.
 IL is reported in Louisville that New York men have formed S2,0o0.ooo company to develop asphalt lands n Kentucky.
 Samuel Shinn. who was recently con. victed at Trenton of murder in the first degree for killing Thomas F. Ap- plegate. has been sentenced to IS years at hard labor. President Mckinley has accepted thv invitation to attend the national C. A. R. eneampment at Cleveland and will be In that city on Tuesday. "Wednesday and Thursday of encampment week. The monthly statement of the public debt Issued at the treasury department shows that at the close of business July 3i the debt. less cash in the treas. ury. amounted to S1.3O0. iT9.3aa. a de crease for the month of S2.n2s.65T.
 Major William E. Amy. the adjs~ant general of Porto Rico. has died In the military hospital at San Juan of ap. pendicitis. Major Almy had been sick in the hospital for five days. The home of the deceased was fin Philadel phia.
 Lieutenant General Miles. command ing the army. has Issued an order for the immediate organization of nine ad. ditional companies of coast artillery. making the total number of such com. panies 1o6. The number is limited by law to 126.
 Lieutenant Croft of the Nineteenth | infantry, with mounted detachment | of Cehu scouts. has had an encounter with a insurgents. Seven Of the rebels were killed and l3 taken prisoners. or Lieutenant Croft's force two prlvates were slightly wounded.
 General Conrad. acting fourth as. sistant postmaster, has directed the cs. tabl;shment of the first postotfice on the island of Guam. It is to be located at Guam, the chief point on the island, | to rank as fourth class, and Antanas!o Tartano Perez has been appointed | postmaster
 Plans for central railroad station in Chicago estimated 10 cost Sso.ooo,. | GOO are being prepared to submit at meeting of railway officials to be held 1 Aug. 15. Eighteen of the = railroad | companies with Chicago terminals have | approved the scheme as drawn by | Alderman Dixon.
 Private K. I. Leyerton, Company n. Twenty-seventh regiment. stationed at | Fort McPherson barracks, has been | placed under guard. charged with set | ting fire to the home of Julia Whitfield, near the fort. A vacant house adjoin- | ing was also burned. No cause is known for the trouble.
 Private detectives employed by an | Akron (O) bank made an important ar | rest in a Goshen UndD gambling den \ which resulted in recovering SlG0o0 in | currency and gold coin. The two men who were captured had ritied a vault fin | the Akron bank ten days ago and since then had been shadowed. The court martial which recently | tried Major Charles A. Doyen. fleet | marine officer Of the north Atlantic squadron, at Newport on the charge of intoxlcation and being absent without leave found him guilty and sentenced II him to lose two numbers and be reprl. manded by the navy department. | The Raymondville Paper company of | watertown. N. Y., has been ineorporat- ed with d capital of S125.ooo. The di- rectors are Charles II. Remington. Frank L.. Moore. Francis NJ Hugo. Stanley E. Hunting and John WecLcs of Watertown, Horace G. Atwater Of Norfolk and F.. Wallace Branaugh of Carthage.
 The state agricultural commissioner pf Texas, Jefferson Johnson. has made the prediction that the cotton yield of Texas this year would aggre. gate 5000. .oo0 bales. He bases tbis estl. mate on his personal investigation of the enop prospect throughout the state. He believes the shortage of the crop In certain districts will be offset by the heavy yield of other localities. where last year there was failure of the crop.
 The towns of Calapan, NauIan and pola. on the northeast coast of the Is.
 land of Mindoro. were occupied by a
 battalion of the Thirtieth Infantry and
 Maccabcbe scouts after slight re-
 sistance. The insurgents. numbering
 25o. fled into the interior Their com.
 mander. Howard. a deserter. is hiding
 n the mountains ana the Americans
 are in pursuit.
 The Independence sailed the greatest
 race of her career Saturday. In a stln
 southeaster which raised rather
 heavy sea she was beaten over tri-
 angular course of 3n miles by the Co.