Connecticut western news., 1901-08-01
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.


 troops to wear coats always buttoncd.
 Fires caused loss Of S2o0.oO0 in Ma. shua. x. IT.. and Si50.0o0 in Cincinnati
 Santos Dumont. the neronaut has made another successful ascent In Par Is.
 The paris-Iyuns- ns-Metliterrnnean rail. way hns bought ten American locomo' tives.
 Hailstones weighing three pounds are said to have fallen in schlntzsk. Russia.
 Six passengers were slightly Injured in a collision on the Rock Island lAn- road near Tifiin. Ia.
 Over 13l.0oo people have applied fer the 13.000 free farms in the reseryL. tiOns to be opened in Oklahoma.
 Lloyd Tevis BreckinridEe. grandson of former vice president of the Unit ed States, killed himself in San Fran. cisco.
 The Philadelphia and Reading strik. ing machlnists at Port Richmond have rejected an offer of | per cent more wages.
 Rear Admiral Kimberly has request, ed to be excused from membership m the Schley court because of his i'll health.
 Bremen on the phiia selphia and Reading railroad and section men on roads entering Columbus, O., have re. ccired raise in wages.
 In New York Dr. Il. Johnson Held has just completed n manuscript of 6,500 pages. Sparks from his pipe de. stroyed it as he slept
 Fire laid waste an area of sawmill and residence property in Davenport, Ia., equal to 20 ordinary city blocks. The loss was ST0O.OOo.
 William II. Hunt. the present seere. tary of Porto Rico. has been selected to succeed General Charles II. Allen upon the retirement of the latter from the insular government.
 General Hughes cables the news of the first surrender of insurgents in the Island of Samar. 5n0 men, with 2 field guns, go rifles and 70 bolos. giving themselves up to the authorities.
 Adrian Wilkes, sire of Roy Wilkes. 2:06ls, and 53 other famous trottcrs and pacers having records of 2:30 or better. is dead at the Wilkes Valley stock farm. He was .I years old.
 In fight between the Mad Mnllah and the British July IF the former was routed. losing T0 killed. The British casualties were Lieutenant Frederlcks and 12 men killed and Lieutenant Dick son and 20 men wounded.
 A whole family was nearly wiped out In pittsburg tenement fire. The moth CT and three children are dead. and the husband Is badly burned and Is now at the hospital. The explosion of an oil can was the cause of the fire.
 The steamer Nome City has arrived at san Francisco from Nome. bringing 23 messengers. Passengers report a rich strike in the Fairhayen district, 90 miles north of Nome. and that a stampede has occurred from Nome.
 w. w. Moore. formerly leading member of the New York bar k dead of paralysis of the brain. aged 59 years. Mir. Moore achieved international fame while acting as consul at Constantine. pie during the Russo-Turkish troubles.
 Work on the barracks and fortiiica. tions for the legation quarter in Picking IS progressing rapidly. Those in charge are hurrying the work in order that quarters for the foreign guards may be ready at the time of the evacuation in August.
 Major James X. Raney. formerly of Newburg. x. Y.. q veteran of the Mexi- can and civil wars. Is dead in phlladel. phia. He recruited the first volunteers in New York state at the outbreak of the civil war and served as major of the Thirty-sixth New York volunteers.
 The detailed figures of the foreign commerce of the United States in the year ended June 20 have been complet- ed by the treasury bureau of statistics. They show total imports of $S22 6T3.. O1G total exports S1, ,ISI, ,755. .5aT and ex. ports of domestic products Sl ,IG0 Io3.. S0a
 Colonel Zurbano. with 11S men. 2i3 rifles and 100 bolos. surrendered to Lieutenant Hickman of the First cav airy in Tayabas province. All have taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. and their surrender clears that district of the revolutionary element
 General Maxine Gomez In the course of an open letter setting forth the oh. jccts of his recent trip to the United States asserts that he went to New York with view of imprcssng upon T. Estrada Palma the necessity of com ing to Cuba to be the first president of the republic.
 The treasury employees who place the seals and numbers on notes of the Unit ed States have reached the number IO0, GOO. GOO on the S1 silver certificates of the series of 1S9g. The numbers will not 20 any higher, as the printers have been instructed to turn back to No. of the letter A.
 An explosion of petroleum on board the American schooner Louise Ade. laide. Captain Orr. which left phIladcI. phia April 2I and Portland June 1 for Stockholm. in Stockholm harbor, re- suited in the death of Captain Orr, ten members of the schooner's crew and four Swedish customs officials.
 w. Morgan Shustcr has been appoint. ed collector of customs for the Philip. pines and left here for his post of duty today. For two years he was deputy collector of Cuba, and his work has SO impressed Secretary Root that he was selected for this more important duty. He is a5 years old and Il resident of Washington.
 F. F. Rittman. auditor for the war department. has made his annual re. port to Secretary Gage. Speaking of the work of the military claims divi- sion. Mir. Ritman says that 1.630 civil war claims. 7.S9l Spanish war claims md T.103 regular army claims were re. crivcd during the past year, bringing the total of pending claims growing om of the civil war up to 2G.Bi6 spanish war t6.o1G and regular army o,al3. Of there were allowed: Civil war claims. s.2lS; Spanish war claims, u.125; regu. lar army claims G.i26.
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