Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wtae World
 Briefly and TerseIy ToId.

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 The business portion of waynart will lage, Pa, was burned Saturday night; loss, S5OO.000.
 Sslir Hague wiu succeed Viscount de Santo-Thyrso as Portuguese minister at Washington.
 Two women lost their lives in the burning of a frame dwelling in Brook lyn Monday night.
 Count von Hatzfeldt. until recently German ambassador to Great Britain, died in London on Friday.
 The court of appeals of New York state has declared unconstitutional the law prohibiting ticket scalping.
 Fire Commissioner !. ]. Scannell and William l.. Marks have been indicted by the grand jury in New York city.
 The president has appointed Captain William Crozier, U. s. A., chief of ord nance, with rank of brigadier general.
 At Huntington, w. va., the packing house and office of Armour X Co.,. were destroyed by fire on Friday; loss, $50. 900.
 The Rev. Frederick Burgess of Grace church, Brooklyn. was elected bishop at Garden City.
 Fire on Saturday night completely destroyed the lurge felt plant of Julius De Long & Go. in Allegheny. Pa.; esti- mated loss. sG0,000.
 Schuylerville House, at Schuylerville, Saratoga county. N. Y., was burned on Saturday. The loss ia S1o.0o0, partly protected by insurance.
 Admiral Schley has accepted an invi- tation of the Hamilton club of Chicago to be its guest of honor at a dinner to be given at some future date.
 In the cathedral In Baltimore Mgr. Thomas ]. Conaty, rector of the Cath ollie university in Washington, was con secrated titular bishop of Samoa.
 George T. Stallings has disposed of his interest in the Detroit club. Mir. Stallings says that in disposing of his interest he Is out of baseball for good.
 MT. Isidor Rayner, chief counsel for Rear Admiral W. s. Schley in the re- cent hearing before the court of inqui- ry, has refused to accept a fee for his services.
 In the football game at Cambridge Mass, on Saturday Harvard defeated Yale by a score of 22 to o, thus win ming the Intercollegiate championship for 1901
 By a decision handed down by Jus tice Merwin at Rome, N. Y., on Friday one-half of the estate of Mrs. Moses NJ. Davis, valued at S50,OO0, will go to the Christian Scientists.
 Indianapolis contributions to the Me Kinley monument fund have now reached the two thousand dollar mark. according to Secretary Jones of the auxiliary committee. Harry McGee, son of we'll known oil operator of Plttsburg. died on Sun during poker game at his home in North Bridgewater, Pa. .a. Captain Edward r. Lawton's com pany of the Nineteenth infantry on Friday attacked and captured an in- surgent fort on Bohol island, south of Cebu, in the yisayan group.
 Lord Kitchener, cabling to the Brit ish war office from Petoria. reports that since Nov. the British columns have killed 43 and wounded 16 Boers and that POT have been taken prison CTS.
 A cable has been received from the Canadian high commissioner in Lon | don saying that Canada's offer of 60O mounted infantry for service in South Africa has been accepted by the war ! office.
 The Rev. Dr. O. H. Warren. regent of l tae University of the State of New York and for eighteen years editor of The Northern Christian Advocate, pub lished in Syracuse. died in that city on Saturday, aged 66. Howard F. Harvey, a greenhouse dead near his house on Monday with a bullet hole fin his head. Everything ] points to his having been murdered. No pistol was found. Mir. and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Van derbilt are the parents of an eight pound boy. The baby was born at the | Vanderbilt home, 721 Fifth avenue, New York city, on Sunday. The mother and child are doing we'll. William T. Storms, lawyer, of Nyack. N. Y., died on Friday. He was sixty years of age and is survived by wid- ow and daughter. He was referee in bankruptcy, pension agent and leader of the bar of Rockland county.
 The city officials of San Juan, Porto Rico, have awarded the latest issue of municipal bonds. to the value of S600,OO0, to J. NJ. Ceballos & Co. of New York city at S81S,3T5. The bonds are for twenty years Ut per cent.
 The historic Battle abbey In England and the estate surrounding 1t were sold at public aution on Tuesday for S1 ,000,- GOO. It Is said that 1t was bought for William Waldorf Astor. The abbey was erected by William the Conqueror. A. ]. Streeter, well known In agricul- tural and political circles of Illinois and who came into national fame ii, 1888 as the Union Labor party's candi- date for president. died of diabetes at his home a, New Windsor, H., on Sun. | day.
 China has asked Japan says dis. patch from Shanghai to the London Daily Express. to lend one general and fifty officers to drill the Chinese troops and also to lend experts to reorganize the Chinese financial and police depart. n.rats.
 Hunterdon county, N. l.. Is greatly excited over the murder of Oliver AL paush one of the leading farmers In t..ai section. He was round lying dead across the shafts of his wagon In the barnyard near his home in Cokesbury on Friday morning. His skull was fractured In several places. Robbery is the motive ascribed. There is no clew.
 Martin Hogan, the Irish patriot, died