Connecticut western news., 1901-02-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide worls
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

happenings OF the Wtde wortd
Briefly and TerseIy Told.
The Masonic temple at Toledo has been
burned. Loss. Sl5u,ooO.
Forty sailors from the cruiser Albany
have been convicted of mutiny.
Alexander Columbus, aged Ill years,
is dead at his residence in Buffalo.
An Adams Express car on Pennsyl-
vania train was robbed OF $4,000 worth
of goods.
The Exposition hotel, Binghamton, N.
Y, has been burned. Two dead and
three fatally injured.
John Marshall centenary was celebrat.
ed in Washington, Albany, Boston, Phil.
adelphia and other cities.
The late Benjamin ID. Silliman's viii
provides for requests OF $4,000 TO Yale
and $4,000 to Columbia.
The second trial of DIR. Samuel ]. Ken
nedy for the murder of Dolly Reynolds
has been begun In New York.
Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper and
sporting man OF New York, has died In
San Antonio, Tex, of consumption.
Three hundred insurgents, members of
Delgado's former command, have sur
rendered Mt Santa Barbara, island Of
Panay.
Hugh Kerr, father of George J, Kerr,
who was removed to state prison Friday,
died at his home in Paterson, n. j., OF a
broken heart. IL is said.
An explosion of gas occurred in the
Clark vein OF the Cayuga mine, in Scran-
ton, Pa, killing one man, Frank Mac
Vitte, and injuring several others.
Workmen excavating for the rapid
transit tunnel in New York city found a
ya1 GE af IN
feet below the surface of Center street.
The German steamship Barcelona, from
Hamburg via Halifax, N. s.. brought in
to New York the captain and IA seamen
of the Russian bark Cuba, which was
abandoned at sea Jan. 1S.
DIR. Frank w. Gunsaulus severed his
official connection with the Armour insti-
tute OF Chicago Friday, when his resig-
nation as president went into effect His
successor has not been appointed.
The engagement of the Duke OF Rox-
burghe to Miss Pauline Aston, daughter
OF Mr.. William Waldorf Aston, has been
definitely arranged. The wedding will
take place some time next summer.
The coinage statement for January
shows the total coinage executed at the
minis Of the United States during the
month was S15, 523. $50, as follows: Gold.
81, 657, 200; silver, S2,71S,o00; minor
coins, 1888, 4S0.
Horace Silsby, the inventor of the Sis-
by fire engine, has died In Seneca Falls,
N. Y, after an illness of several weeks
from complication of diseases. He was
60 years old. He leaves wife, one son
and two daughters.
Press dispatches from Manila say that
natives have reported at Batangas that a
week ago the natives OF the island of
Mindoro rose against the insurgents and
killed the insurgent governor. There are
no troops at Mindoro.
The output of United States postage
stamps at the bureau OF engraving and
printing during January was the largest
In the history of the government, the to-
tai number being 5o4 ,670,o15, OF which
9,564, $40 were put up in the little book
form.
Governor Voorhees, of New Jersey has
sent to the senate the nomination OF SEN
ator Mahlon Pitney of Morris county for
supreme court justice and the name Of
| Garrett ID. w. Vroom of Mercer county
for associate justice of the court OF er-.
rors and appeals.
The battleship Wisconsin has gone into
commission. Captain Ritter Is In com.
| mander Milton is executive officer and
Lieutenant Commander Mayo navigator.
There are a score of junior officers and
555 men in the crew.
Hamburg, the peer Of any thorough.
bred that ever faced n starter, OF roy.l
blood lines and kingly In appearance was
knocked down TO w. G. Whitney at Mad.
ison Square Garden for $50, 900, the sec
ond highest price ever paid at public auc.
ton for horse in America.
The Royal Oak colliery at Shamokin,
Pa, has been completely tied up by the
$50 employees going on strike for the
enforcement OF the semimonthly pay and
also demanding that the men be not or
dered TO work close to a mine chamber
which has been on fire for several months.
Stephen Jennings Wilson has died at
his home in Babylon, n. Y, aged OF
years. He was the oldest resident OF the
village and the oldest officeholder on Long
Island, IL not in the state. He had held
the offices OF constable, tax collector,
overseer of the poor, town trustee and
sheriff.
1t is said rich vein of copper ore 20
feet thick has been discovered while dig
ging for oil in Busti, the township ad-
joining jamestown, Chautauqua county,
N. Y, on the south and west. Leases
have been taken on much OF the land In
the vicinity, and considerable excitement
prevails.
Fire has destroyed the Coates Opera
House, the principal theatsr OF Kansas
City, situated at Tenth street and Broad
way and occupying a detached building.
Walker Whiteside and his company were
playing Heart and Sword" in the house.
No one was injured. Loss, S125,00o to
S150,o00.
Mrs. Mary Palmer Banks, widow OF
General Nathaniel L. Banks, died after
an illness of several months. When the
Prince OF Wales, now King Edward VII,
came to this country In 1860, General
Banks was governor OF Massachusetts,,
and at an official ball given In the princes
honor Mrs. Banks danced with the
prince.
The Norwegian steamship Fortuna has
sailed from Philadelphia for Europe, car
rying a cargo OF railroad rolling stock
valued at 5000, $50. At Marseilles she will
land ten locomotive engines and tenders,
worth $4,000, for the Paris and Lyons
railroad, and to Bilbao, Spain, she will
AXE eight locomotive engines aud tenders
valued at 500, $50.
The number OF deaths In the state OF
New York In 1890 was 12s.46S accord.
Ing 10 reports made TO the state board OF
health. This exceeds the number in 1899
by 6,647 and the average for the past
Eve years by 5000. Concerning the grip
the annual bulletin says: THE grip cpl
demic Of this year was unusually severe,
lasted six months and probably added H.
500 TO the mortality"
The report OF the commissioner Of pat
ents for 1900 shows that during the
year there were received 39,6T3 applica-
tions for patents, 2,225 applications for
designs, 81 applications for reissue, 1000
applications for registration OF trade
marks. 9I3 applications for registration
OF labels and 12T applications for regis
tration of prints. There were 26.s1s
patents granted, including designs, 81
patents reissued, 1,721 trademarks reg
istered and T37 labels and oS prints.
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