Connecticut western news., 1901-11-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings or the Wide wort'
 Briefly and T~rseIy Told.


 S2,Io0 in bonds and stamps at the Rock Creek (ol postoffice on Thursday.
 The report of the treasurer of the Methodist general missionary commit tee showed deficiency of nearly Si64.. 900.
 Secretary Long intends to send Reai Admiral Robley n. Evans out 10 the Asiatic station to be second officer in command.
 Elizabeth T. Dow of Brookllne, Mass. died on Friday. She owned the Wa verley Magazine. She was reputed to be worth S3.000.oO0. It became known on Friday that th, Williamsburg Savings bank had been robbed of S60.0oo by two trusted em | ployees, one of whom recently died. Henri Fournier lowered the worlds motor record for a mile to 51 4-5 sec. onds in the automobile races on Coney Island boulevard, Brooklyn, on Satur, day.
 The most important feature of the re. | port of the board of visitors to the | West Point Military academy Is a rec | ommendation that the academy be re. built.
 Paterno, the former chief of the So called Filipino cabinet, has been elect | ed president of the new Peace party in Manila. Isabelo Keys was elected vice | president.
 The safe in the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton freighthouse at Findlay, O., was blown open early Monday morning. and the robbers secured about | $700 in money.
 Yale defeated Princeton In the foot ball game at New Haven on Saturday | by score of 12 to O. Columbia was beaten by Cornell In New York by a score of 24 to O. Passaic, N. J., has given $5o,o0o for the erection of a public library in that city. The municipality has formally accepted the gift The Hutchinson, one of the largest | and most ornate of the Yale student | private dormitories of New Haven, | Conn. was destroyed by fire on Satur- day, entailing a property loss of S200,- GOO.
 | Monday night in Scranton, Pa. There was no one on the car at the time ex- ceptIng the motorman and conductor, nonunlon men. They escaped serious injury.
 The large paper company of Orr X | Co. of Troy, N. Y., has gone Into the hands of receiver. The liabilities are S401 900 and the assets $S21, ,425. In ternal dissensions were the cause of the failure.
 Dr. Albert Leary Gihon, senior med ical director of the United States navy, retired. and one of the most distin. guished men in that branch of the gov ernment service, died on Sunday In New York city.
 An explosion In the Baby mine at Po- cahontas, Va. on Friday caused the death of eight miners. Twenty-six oth- CTS were rescued badly injured. One miner was rescued alive after having been lmmured three days
 The Floyd (N. Y) postoffice was en. tered by burglars on Sunday night. All mail was torn open and thrown about the floor and much of 1t carried away Postmaster Dornburgh Is unable to tell how much the men have stolen.
 The record of the Maine hunting sea son up to the present time shows that ' twelve persons have been shot by accl dent and that five of the victims have been either killed outright or wounded so that death followed after H time.
 Daniel Few. a Mergenthaler lineotype machine operator at The Daily Iowa Capital office in Des Moines. has broken the worlds record for speed. He set 3,344 lines of nonparell in eight hours, newspaper measure, equal to SG,944 ems.
 Secretary Hitchcock has disbarred William c. Buderus an attorney of SturgIs, s. D.. from practicing before i the interior department because of crit | lcisms alleged to have been made by the latter on the late President Nc. Kinley.
 The Norwegian steamer Ella was lost on Saturday on the Newfoundland coast in the vicinity of Belle isle with all hands The Ella was 901 tons regis | ter and was built at Sunderland In 1898. She carried crew of about | twenty men.
 Another letter from Miss Ellen NJ. Stone, the captive missionary. was re- ceived in Sofia on Monday. Her health has been somewhat affected by her continual confinement and hard fare. but she expresses herself as confident of ultimate release.
 At the semiannual meeting of the board of trustees of Hamilton college on Tuesday Professor Edward North resigned the profcssorship of Greek. having completed fifty-seven years in the service of the college under live | successive presidents.
 The city council of Havana on Fri. day by unanimous vote awarded th, contract for sewering and paving the city to Michael J. Dady of New York ut his modified estimate of StO. .S6S GOO Mir. Dady has agreed to employ only Cuban laborers In the execution of the work.
 The will of former Congressman George West of Ballston Spa has been admitted to probate. The estate is val. ued at S2, ,250.oO0. The beneficiarles are the deceased's son and daughter. George West. IT,, of Ballston Spa and Mrs. Florence L. Mabee of Saratoga Springs.
 Mayor Elect Low of New York city announces that he has selected for the office of corporation counsel George l.. Rlves and that Mir. Rives has accepted ! the office. He will be the first appoin- two nt'icar of tho new administration to
 be sworn in. Mir. Rlves Is an independ snt Democrat.
 The statement of the imports and ex. !, ports of merchandise of the United States for the month of October. 1901. shows as follows: Imports SSl .llt .S5T, Of which S35,022 320 was free of duty: increase as compared with october, 1900, $10.TSlo 900; exports, StI5,3Io. i53; decrcaSp SIT OOO OOO