Connecticut western news., 1901-01-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tcrseiy Told.

Rockford, Ills.
 St Louis has announced the compile ton of the S5,O00.000 fund for the worlds fair in that city.
 Four people were seriously hurt and score more bruised and cut in a train wreck at Perth Amboy, N. I.
 An advance of 10 per cent has been made to machinists in the New York Central shops at Oswego, N. Y.
 The British steamer Monarch has clear ed from New Orleans for Cape Town with HOO horses for the British army.
 The Grouse block, one of the largest apartment buildings in Syracuse. was damaged by fire to the extent of S10.000.
 Dr. Fl. H. MeAuley Of Chicago claims SlO0.O00 indemnity from Portugal for al. legged false imprisonment at Loureneo Marques.
 Thomas Nesbitt Carter, a well known member of the New Jersey bar. has died at his home in Newark, N., J., after q brief illness.
 In the seventh annual contest of the '94 memorial debate contest held at Cornell s. s. Lowenthal, '01, of Rochester prov ed the winner.
 Stephen Van Rensselaer, Townsend, a well known New York lawyer, has died at his home in Hampstead, on Long Is. land, after several months sickness.
 The board of naval officers which has been considering the establishment of q naval station on the south Atlantic coast recommends a station at Charleston.
 The United States Naval Academy as- sociation has decided to continue the ef- forts of the Dewey arch committee to re- produce the arch in stone as a monument to the navy.
 The total value of gifts to Harvard university during the past year is nn- nounced to have been S531, ,519. The in- dividual donations have been announced from time to time.
 The Richmond Locomotive and Ma. chine works has received m order from the Wabash railroad for 90 locomotives. the contract price of which will aggre. gate about S65o,o00.
 The Lakeside inn, a large hotel on the northern shore of Bantam lake. near Litchfeld. Conn.,, has been totally de- stroyed by fire. The hotel. which was practically a new one, was valued at S10,- GOO.
 The Rev. John G. Fee, the noted abo- litionist and founder of Berea college for the coeducation of races, has died at Be req, Ky. He was S4 years old and had resided at Berea since that city was laid out.
 Judge Walter S. Merrell, formerly a member of the Connecticut legislature and prominently identified with educa. tional interests, is dead, aged 73. He was a judge of the probate court for 20 years.
 Joseph Yates Paige, for the past ten years chief clerk of the comptroller of the currency, Is dead of pneumonia He was well known to the banking interests of the country. Mir. Paige was born in Albany in 1850.
 Mrs. Jennie Racine of Middletown, N Y., has secured a verdict of S8,000 against the Erie railroad in the supreme court at Goshen for the death of her hus. band, Touman Racine, who was killed at a grade crossing.
 Four hundred miners employed at No. collery of the Kingston Coal company at Wilkesbarre, Pa, have gone on strike because they claimed the company had not lived up to its agreement as to the wages to be paid.
 Postmaster Hubbard of Boston has re. ceived authority from Washington to carry into effect his plans for using auto. mobiles in the postal service. Three of such vehicles of design suitable for the work are to be built.
 Fully COCO 900 bushels of coal are on the way south from Pittsburg, and be. fore the present rise In the Ohio is check. ed 100000 more will probably be ship. ped. The fleet now on the way is made up of 107 boats and S4 barges.
 The shoddy mill of Peel & Co. at Fish. CTS lane and the Reading railroad in Ger mantown, a suburb of Philadelphia, was entirely destroyed by fire late Wednesday night. The loss is estimated at about S80,. 900, fully covered by insurance.
 After drifting over the world for many years as a tramp George Galloway, alias "Church" Galloway, who Is now in the Warren county (N. J.) jail on a charge of vagrancy, has received word that he has fallen heir to an estate of S75,000.
 Judge Henry F. Burnham of Manches- ter was nominated in the Republican leg. islative caucus to succeed United States Senator William E. Chandler, whose term of service will expire March 3 next. The nomination was made on the first ballot.
 William Neufeld has been electrocuted at Sing Sing prison. He robbed and murdered his mothers cousin, Mrs. An nie Kromman, in her apartments at 266 West Thirty-ifth street, New York. on Aug. ', 1899. Neufeld met death calmly.
 An oil gusher has been struck in northeastern Texas IS miles from Sabine pass. The yield is reputcd at over 15,0O0 barrels a day. The well is on a $500 acre tract owned by Colonel ]. NJ. Guf. fey of Pittsburg, Democratic national committeeman.
 Silas w. Burt, New York state civil service commissioner, appointed by Gov. ernor Black and reappointed by Gov ernor Roosevelt, has been removed from office by Governor Odell. John E. Kraft, an editor and former mayor of Kingston, was named as his successor.
 Miniin Marsh, S3 years old, has died in his home in Wheeling. Mir. Marsh was born at Smithfeld, Jefferson county, O., and came to Wheeling 63 years ago. He opened a cigar factory and introduced the cigar which has since become world fla nous as the Wheeling stogie.
 Six children were trampled down and killed and 40 others were injured during a panic at the Twelfth Street Turner hall, Chicago. The panic was precipitat- ed by false cries of fire. An entertain ment for children was in progress, and the uHll MNt lllbId WlNH oNb llAAtH hAths
 The steamer Amur, from Alaska ports. reports that on Jan. 6 fire destroyed $50,000 worth of property in Dawson The principal losers are Buddy & Kil- bourn, druggists; Bonanza Meat mar ket, Antler's restaurant, San Francisco Oyster House, Cribb & Rogers and Rainier hotel.
 A new steamship company, the Pan American Steamship company, incor- porated in Trenton, with power to issue stock to the amount of 5000. 900, is planning to open n weekly service Tn tho spring between New York and the Phil. ippines, China and Japan by way of the Suez canal.
 Dr. William A. NJ. Mack, mayor of Elizabeth, x. J., was found dead in bed at his home. Death resulted from heart disease. from which the mayor had been a sufferer for some years. Mir. Mack was A years old. He was born in Glen Gardner, N. l., and commenced life as a telegraph operator.
 At the Jamestown tN. Y.D waterworks