Connecticut western news., 1901-12-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wiAe worl<
 Briefly and Terssly Told.

Happenings of the wiAs woria
 Briefly and Terssly Told.
 James Stiff. the third victim of the attack on Herbert Marx in Westmore- land county, Va, died on Monday.
 Ex-Assemblyman A. S. Holt of Lock. port, N. r., died suddenly on Tuesday. He was seventy eight years of age.
 Fifteen buildings were destroyed on Saturday at Madera, Pa, a small town twenty three miles west of Philipsburg
 Andrew Carnegie has offered to give Nyack, N. r., Si5,O00 for public libra ry building If the village guarantees S1 BOO year to maintain It.
 George Emory Fellows of the Uni yersity of Chicago was elected presi- dent of the University of Maine at a meeting of the trustees on Monday.
 The plant of the oriskany Falls Brewing company at Ioriskany, N. Y., was completely destroyed by fire on Monday. entailing loss of $50000.
 The steamer Braemer, which has ar. rived at Victoria. B. C., from the ori- ent, brings news that the Chinese court has decided to engage an American adviser
 William Ellery Charming, the last of the brotherhood. including also Tho reau. Hawthorne and Emerson, which made Concord. Mass, famous, died at Concord on Tuesday.
 An operation for gallstones was per formed upon General R. A. Alger at his home in Detroit on Monday. Gen. eral Alger stood the operation we'll, and his recovery Is expected.
 The treasury department has drawn a warrant in favor of Rear Admiral Schley for $3,334. his share of the prize money due him for the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Santiago July 8, 1898.
 American residents of Montreal have subscribed a fund of s9,0O0 for the foundation of a fellowship on political economy at McGill university to be known as the William Mckinley fel- lowship.
 Captain John s. Parke, IT,, with thir. ty men of the 1'wenty-frst infantry. en. countered sixty insurgents last week al Alaminos, in Lagunn province. Four of the enemy were killed, several guns were captured, and their barracks were destroyed.
 The wedding of United States Sen ator Chauncey NJ. Depew. who arrived at Plymouth, England, on Dec. 20 on the North German Lloyd steamer Kai- ser Wilhelm der Crosse. and Miss May Palmer has now been fixed for Dec 2S at Nice. The United States army transport Meade arrived at Manila Saturday. She reports having met typhoon Dec. 1s and 15 which did some damage to heI boats and flooded the cabins and the hospital quarters, causing great alarm | to those on board.
 | It is stated that experiments by Dr | Frederick w. Novy and Professor Pau c. Freer, chemist of the University | of Michigan, have produced what Is be lieved to be an antiseptic for such in | testinal diseases as cholera, typhoid fe yer and dysentery.
 By an explosion of gas in the Soho | furnace of Jones & Laughlin, neal Brady street, Pittsburg, on Thursday nine men were burned to death, ant probably twenty others were more o less injured. The damage to the plan | will amount to $20.000. The board of aldermen of Buffalo hal accepted the resignation of City Treas urer Philip Gerst, whose accounts ar, now undergoing an investigation Gerst has publicly admitted shortag' In his accounts of over $50,000. bu claims 1t has been made good.
 William Tooney and Edward Roth
 mel of Atlantic City. N. J., are in jal
 on the charge of having torn down tn
 American flag from the walls of room
 occupied by the Plasterers' union. sat
 urating 1t with oil and burning 1t.
 desire for revenge Is said to have caus | Al hno lafc