Connecticut western news., 1901-09-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happening. of the Wide worl
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Happening. of the Wide World Briefly and TerseIy Told.
 Richard Croker arrived at New York | city on the steamship Lucnnia.
 Six men were killed and several seri- 1lsly hurt in an explosion in a powder hill at Oakland. N. J.
 | Holders of government bonds to the amount of between sS,000.000 and Sl0.- 000 900 have offered to sell them in re- ] sponse to Secretary Cages offer to buy S20. .0O0.0 of bonds.
 Marshall Day of Fairview, N. l., ar rested three well dressed men who re- fused to give their names for shooting robins. They had four dead robins each bird.
 The will of the late George N. Ken nedy, formerly justice of the supreme | court, just given out, disposes of prop ] erty valued at more than $500, 900. Syr- acuse university receives about $40. GOO, and several local charities get 5000 each.
 Official announcement has been made that the big steel strike is settled. The news was given out on the authority of w. T. Graham, president of the American Tin Plate company. The | terms of settlement have not been made public.
 A terrific explosion of gas in the | Spring Gulch mine of the Colorado | Fuel and Iron company, located eight cen miles from Glenwood Springs, Colo, caused the death of six miners and the serious injury of three others, besides much damage to the tunnel in which the explosion occurred. A dispatch from Brattleboro, Vt, says Martin Cressey, who accidentally shot and killed his roommate and guest, Sidney Gray Bristol, July 10. will not be required to stand trial, as the grand jury returned no indictment against the young man. Cressey claimed that he shot Bristol while sleepwalking.
 The Chicago limited express, west bound, on the West Shore railroad ran over misplaced switch at Eastwood. near Syracuse, x. l., and was wreck ed, the engineer failing to see the sIg- nal to stop. Many persons were injured more or less severely, but although the train was going at a rate of forty miles | an hour nobody was killed.
 1 Summer Is nearly over at Nome. All indications point to an early winter, which, after the late spring, will make a very short season. This announce ment comes by the steamship Centen. nial, which has arrived from Nome with 425 passengers and $25O. 900 in gold. The Centennial brought the crew of the wrecked schooner James Sen nett from Unamak island.
 The Amalgamated men at Joliet, H.. unanimously voted to return to work. Within half an hour every union man on the day turn was back at his post, and the billet mill and converter were running full blast. The men refused to make any statement as to Shafrer's $ orders. but 1t Is semiofficially announc. cd that Shaffer gave them permission to go back to work as union men.
 Within three hours from the time of the converting of the Schley naval court of inquiry 1t was announced that Rear Admiral Howison was disquali. fed from serving as a member of the court and was excused from further duty. Rear Admiral F. NJ. Ramsay at one time chief of the bureau oi navigation, has been selected as Howl sons successor on the Schley court Admiral Ramsay was the immediate predecessor of Admiral Crowninshield as chief of the navigation bureau of the navy department.
 The convention of the thirty-fifth an nual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic came to close with the election of officers. General Dan. iel E. Sickles of New York withdrew his name as a candidate for commander In chief before the nominations were made. Comrade Ayers of Delaware moved the nomination of General Thomas J. Stewart of Pennsylvania General Gobin seconding. Governor Van Sant of Minnesota placed Judge Eli Torrance in nomination. The Tor rance vote stood 476 to Stewards 230 when General Wagner moved that tho vote be made unanimous in favor oi Torrance. The motion was carried.