Connecticut western news., 1901-11-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide worfs
 Briefly and T~r.eIy ToId.

western Alaska are dying from an cpl. demic of measles.
 The Charleston exposition is to be in. formally opened Sunday, Dec. l, with religious exercises.
 Governor odell will have more than seventy state offices to ill before the expiration of his term.
 Swift & Co.'s plant in the Chicago stockyards was damaged by fire on Thursday to the extent of s250.oo0.
 The steam schooner Arctic arrived at Seattle on Tuesday from Nome with I1s passengers and s250, 900 In gold.
 Adolph F. Kraus, the famous sculp- tor, died at the Danvers Insane hos pital at Hyde Park, Mass, on Saturday.
 Eastern capitalists are reported to have an option on the entire system of the Market Street Railway company of San Francisco.
 Halil Rifat Pasha. the grand vixier. died on Saturday. and Abdur Rahman Pasha, minister of justice. has been appointed to succeed him ad interim.
 John H. Joyce, former president of the Stoughton (wis) National bank, who defaulted with s40,000, was caught on Monday after & two years chase.
 The plant of the Lawrence Ice and Storage company at Newcastle. Pa, was completely gutted by fire on Sun day. The damage amounts to fully s150.O00.
 Members of the isthmian canal com mission, now preparing their final re port in Washington, are expected to recommend the Nicaragua route for the canal.
 Paymaster Stevens of the United States army while on his way from At lanta to Pensacola to pay the soldiers at Forts Barancas and McRae was robbed of S4, 800.
 In the supreme court of New Jersey a ruling has been made which practi- cally fixes S1,0O0 as the maximum amount of damages parents may claim for the killing of child.
 The immense plant of Dilworth, Por- ter x Co. of Pittsburg, manufacturers of steel rods and railroad spikes. was damaged by fire Wednesday night to the extent of about s25o.o00.
 The St. Albans hotel at Rockland Lake, N. Y., was burned on Wednes- day. The fire, which destroyed proper ty worth $25,0OO. was probably caused by a chimney with bad draft.
 The big football games on Saturday resulted as follows: Harvard. B; Uni versity of Pennsylvania, 6. West Point 6: Princeton, 8. Syracuse. II; Colum- bia. s. Yale, 35: Orange Athletic club, O.
 Justice Judson s. Landon of the New York state supreme court will retire from the court of appeals bench on Jan. 1, having reached seventy years of age, the limit of age for judicial service in this state.
 One of the worst fires in the history of Bradford. Pa, originated in the liv- cry stable of Frank F. Beamer on Fri day and consumed dozen buildings, including the thirty-five thousand dol lar city hall.
 Hon. Henry Clay Mcdowell has been selected to succeed Judge John Paul as United States district judge of the western district of Virginia. He is from Wise county and Is a great-grandson of Henry Clay.
 John T. Hayes of Litchfield, Conn. charged with murdering his former sweetheart, Miss Winnifred Cooke, was found guilty of murder in the sec ond degree on Thursday and sentenced to life Imprisonment
 Senator Depew has sold the ruins of his opera house In Peekskill. N. Y. The ruins will be converted Into hotel. John s. Baker is the purchaser. The hotel will be one of the finest between New York and Albany.
 The cruiser Olympia, which has been undergoing repairs at the Boston yard will be put in commission Dec. IS and be assigned to the north Atlantic squadron. She will be the flagship of Rear Admiral Higginson.
 Captain spurway and Ave men were killed by the bursting of a gun on the British battleship Royal Sovereign near Astakos. in the Ionian sea. Nine teen others. including Commander Sir A. Arbuthnot, were injured.
 General Joseph Wheeler Is to take un a permanent residence in Philadelphia. He is organizing a six million dollar arms company that will erect a great factory for the making of newly in- vented gun of great power.
 Fire at the works of the Monongahe- la River Consolidated Coal and Coke company at Six Mile Ferry Sunday night did damage amounting to S25, GOO. Five hundred men will be thrown out of employment until the tipple is re- built.
 Charles D. Thompson of Port Huron. Mich, supreme finance keeper of the supreme tent. Knights of the Macca- bees, is a self confessed defauiter in the sum of S57,000. The order, however, is protected from loss by Thompson's surety bond.
 After having practically arranged a satisfactory treaty with Denmark for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States the state department has encountered fresh difficulties through the incoming of new minis try at Copenhagen.
 Colonel John w. French, command ing officer of the United States military post, Fort McPherson barracks, Geor. gia, died Monday from BrIghts disease. Colonel French was q veteran of the civil war, the Spanish-American war and the war in the Philippines.
 Elliott Durand. Laverne w. Moves and several other Chicagoans. repre- senting the National Business league have presented to the president a me mor al urging him to recommend in his message to congress the establishment of department of commerce and in- dustries.
 A new fifty million dollar steel cor poration is being formed for the pur- pose of uniting in one powerful combi- nation the plate mills of the country. Ten or more plants. including Pennsyl- vania companies that are now doing s large business, are to be absorbed by the new concern.