Connecticut western news., 1901-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
happening. of the Wide woria
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

commission.
The Harvard board OF trustees voted
to grant the degree OF LII. ID. to Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Governor odell and his party have
left Albany on a tour Of inspection OF
state institutions.
1t is persistently rumored In Paris
that the United States will buy the
Panama canal in a short time.
The Twenty-sixth infantry, United
States volunteers. has been mustered
out at the Preside. San Francisco.
Two persons were killed and i've In
jured In fire in a five story apartment
house at 13s East Sixtieth street, New
York city.
Colonel Astilla, the insurgent gov
ernor of Infanta province, Luzon, has
surrendered with 10 officers, $50 men,
40 rifles and 10 cannon.
The steamer Dirigo, from Skaguay
and way ports, brings news that the
people OF southeastern Alaska are
much alarmed over the smallpox scare.
Otis Lincoln. managing editor of The
Evening Times OF wilkesbarre, Pa,
has died OF pneumonia. He was born
in owego, n. Y, and was "A years OF
age.
Fire at Corning. thought TO have been
Of incendiary origin, totally destroyed
the coalyards of Townley Bros. on the
north side. Loss over $4,000, no insur-
ance.
Walter Buell., for many years a well
known newspaper man OF Rochester, is
dead after a brief illness, aged AZ. Mr..
Buell. was born In Geneseo, N. Y, Nov.
20, 1854.
Returns to the statlstician of the de-
partment OF agriculture made up to
May / show the area under winter
wheat In cultivation on that date to
have been about 2s,267, 900 acres.
Fire Sunday afternoon swept the
west bank OF the Rouge river in Del
ray, n suburb 10 the south of Detroit
for three-quarters OF a mile and de-
stroyed over $4,000 worth OF prop
erty.
Fire broke out I'm the Heffernan block
in Canton, ST. Lawrence county, N. Y,
doing several thousand dollars worth
of damage to the postoffice and The
Commercial Advertisers office. situated
therein.
Rear Admiral Schley has arrived In
London on his way to the United
States. He is accompanied by Lieuten-
ant James IL. Sears. The admiral is Wis
iting his daughters relatives, the Stu
art Wortleys.
The following postoffices will be rails
ed TO the presidential grade on July 1:
Spring Lake Beach, n. j.; Northamp-
ton. Pa; Lancaster and East Whit
man, Mass; Undertook, Holland and
Pelham, y. y.
Brigadier General Henry NJ. Robert,
u. s. A, retired, of Haworth, N. j., and
Miss Isabelle Hoagland have been mar.
ried at Owego. N. Y. General and Mrs.
Robert will visit Cuba and then make
their home at Haworth.
The steamer City of Paducah OF the
st. Louis and Tennessee River Packet
company was wrecked at Brunkhorst
Landing, Ills. Fifteen persons lost
their lives in the catastrophe, six
whites and nine blacks.
Through the persuasion of her broth.
er, j. w. Moore of Kansas City, Mrs
Carrie Nation has consented to leave
the county jail in Wichita, Kan. Judge
Dale reduced her bond to 500, and her
brother put up cash to that amount.
For a cash consideration mounting
into the millions the Hamburg-Ameri.
can Steamship company has completed
the purchase OF the Atlas line, lbs feet
and its dock privileges in New York
the West Indies and South America.
Cables, the insurgent leader in La.
guna province, Luzon, is being closely
chased. He is supposed TO have gone
southwark of Laguna province and not
likely to surrender, fearing paying per.
sonal penalty for his numerous assassi.
nations.
Porto Rican customs for the month
of April show a decrease from the
month of March. The receipts for the
island in March were SS7,75S In April
they were ss4,123. Exports In March
amounted TO S1,149,574. In April they
were S979, 702.
The military commission In Manila
trying the case of civilians implicated
In commissary frauds has sentenced
an employee of the commissary depart.
ment to five years Imprisonment for
feloniously disposing of surplus gov.
eminent stores.
Charles II. westervelt. the defaultine
cashier OF the Dime Savings bank OF
Newark, n. J., has been sentenced 10
nine years In prison. He elected to re-
tract his plea of not guilty 10 embezzle-
ment and pleaded guilty TO two indict.
ments for forgery.
The factory of the American Cigar
company In Binghamton, n. Y, which
was formerly known as Barlow, Rogers
& Co., is closed and over 500 employ.
ees are locked out. This action was
taken as the sequel to a strike OF nearly
100 girls last week.
The International Power company
has just closed an order for a number
of locomotives for the Atchison, Tope
ka and Santa Fe railway calling for
the entire capacity of its plant for the
remainder of this year. These locomo
| tives will be built in Providence and
Paterson, n. u.
Governor odell has vetoed the Raines
bridge bill, which allowed an elevated
structure on West street, New York
city. He says the bill, while made gen
eral, is really city bill and should
have been submitted 10 the city author.
| tiles. Governor Odell has also vetoed
the bill OF Assemblyman Costello,
known us the employers liability bill.
He SAYS the measure is not in the inter
est OF labor and is too radically In IA
vor of the corporations.
Burglars on Wednesday night looted
two stores In the Sauquoit valley, near
| Utica. y. Y. IL. A. Hulfs store was
entered through a window. and several
! hundred dollars worth of goods were
removed. In Chadwicks, four miles
! distant. they forced door OF the store
| OF A. VI. Jones and took away another