Connecticut western news., 1901-07-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

 institution. has hsru ,'lnst,i.
 The Cleveland Street Car company has raised ihr wages of iis employees.
 Thirty thousand tin plate workers have been notified of an advance of 2 per cent in their wages.
 Preparations are about complete at the White House for the departure of 'he president and Mrs. Mckinley for Canton mex; Friday.
 At a conference between the presl. dent and the postmaster general it was decided to appoint Frederick Grelner postmaster at Buffalo.
 Four American prisoners who escap. ed from Calapan. Alindoro. June 25 In a sailboat have been recapured Six others are reported to be in southern Mindoro.
 Francis c. Bahcock. formerly prom inent New York politician, is dead at Ellsworth. Kan, aged 70 years. The body will be shipped to IIornellsvllle. N. Y.. for burial
 The Jessie Morrison jury at El Dora. do. Kan. brought in verdict of man. slaughter In the second degree. the penalty for which k Imprisonment for from three to i've years.
 The ten Massillon (Ol glass facto. ries will shut down .for the summer next Saturday. During the last ten months 27,000.o00 glass bottles have been made hy Massillon factories.
 Frank l. Ostrnnder of Wyandotte has been given n parole pardon by Governor stanley as reward for cour. age and service in the recent coal mine mutiny at the Kansas penitentiary.
 President Harris of Amherst has an- nounced that additional gifts amount ing to 5000 have been received for scholarships and prizes, making the total amount of gifts for the vast year S1T3.0O0.
 The military commission which Is trying civilians in Manila in connection with the commissary frauds has im- posed fine of Sl.o00 on Messrs. Clarke, Boldt and la Rlva and one Chinaman.
 Bills have been passed by the Taft commission establishing board of health for the Philippines and provid. Ing for laboratories in connection there with. The salary of the health com missioner will he S6.0o0.
 President Eliot announced at the Harvard alumni dinner at Cambridge that John pielpont Morgan had given more than S1,0O0.000 for the erection of three of the five buildings planned for the Harvard medical school.
 Lieutenant Colonel James Allen, sig nal corps; Lieutenant Colonel Enoch H. Crowder, judge advocate, and Captain Robert L. Howzc. Sixth cavalry, have been honorably discharged as brigadier generals. United States volunteers.
 Counsel for Thomas Barker, who was sentenced to five years in the state prison for assaulting Rev. Mir. Keller at Arlington. has taken out at Trenton a writ of error, which will carry the case to the court of errors and appeals.
 George W. tadford, member of the Detroit Public library board, has re- ceiycd letter from Andrew Carnegie stating that Mir. Carnegie will contrib
 
 new public library building in that city.
 The big Delaware and Hudson break. CT. Baltimore No. ?. nt East End near Wilkcsharre. Pa, has been burned. to- gethcr with the engine. boiler and fan houses. The loss will reach Sl25,000, covered by the company's Insurance de- partment.
 A dispatch from the war department received by President !. G. Schurman of Cornell university offers 12 positions to young men as teachers In the Phil ippines at salaries of Sl.2O0 yearly. The teachers are to leave the United States in July.
 The biggest gold brick on record is to be sent from British Columbia to Glas. gow for exhibition there during the summer. It weighs 1000 pounds and Is valued at S2O0o,OO0. IL comprises a years clean up of the Caribou Hy- draulic company.
 Fire has destroyed the box factory of D. w. Laudue, Dcttingcr X Rahm's chair factory. \. A. Tuzicrs novelty works and the electric plant of |. N. Loyenhelm in Little Falls. x. Y. The total loss Is Sa0,OO0; insurance, S1O,oOO. Twenty five men are put out of employ mcnt.
 Commander Frederick Robinson Smith. T.. \. N. retired. has died at his home in Binghamton. x. Y.. aged ii years. He Asas born in WiscasSct, Me, s.t. tA n. napolis m 1861 and served with dis tinction In the civil war. He was ap- pointed commander in 1870.
 Joseph I.adue. the founder of Daw- son City. in the klondlke, is dead at his home In Schuyler Falls. x. Y. Mir. Ladue had not been well since his return from Alaska and spent last win ter at Colorado Springs in a vain search for health. He finally fell a victim to consumption contracted in the severe northern climate.
 At the Yale alumni dinner at New Haven on commencement day lt was an. nounced that the $2OoO.O00 fixed as the amount of the hicentennlal fund had all been pledged, the principal new con tflnulofs hfln@ frehcflck Nnnurfhilf and Jamcr l. Till of New York and Matthew Borden Of Fall River.
 The hnspiial ship Maine which vas fitted out hy committee of American women for 'hc use of the wounded and sick in South Africa and which later was sent to Tallu. where she took on board wounded and sick men of va. rious natioualities has been presented as free g'ft to the British navy by the Atlantic Transport line.
 .Iacoh \. Rogers. the famous builder of railroad locomotives and one Of the richest men in New Jersey, was found dead in his room at the Union League club. New York city. hlr. Rogers was proprietor of the Rogers Locomotive works of patprFon from lSaG until ten years ago. The works were founded by Thomas Rogers. his father. before 1920.
 John ]. Srauncll. fire commissioner of Now York pitY hnS boon indicted hv