Connecticut western news., 1901-07-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 BrIeHy mud TcrseIN Told.

tefprlse has reached St, Petersburg.
 Two syndlcates have acquired mines and will build iron mills in Kentucky.
 The sailing of the Shamrock II for America has been postponed until July P.
 New York city's blind pensioners. to the number of 6T2. were each paid SI99T on Tuesday.
 English railway unions have been en- joined from interfering with nonunion men during strikes.
 Mir. Rockhill has postponed his de. parture from Picking, owing to dead. lock in negotiations.
 General Corbin reached Manila in 2i days. record time. from san Francisco on the transport Hancock.
 Daniel Frohman has engaged Kube- lik. the Hungarian yiolinist, to play In America next winter for not less than S1uuoo0.
 The New York appellate division holds that the antiticket scalpIng law passed by the last legislature Is uncon- stitu,ional.
 An Australian fortune of S4n.000. GOO Is to be divided among the heirs of the late Josiah Tyson, residing In Georgia and Alabama.
 A dispatch received by Acting AdJu- tant General Ward announces that General Wood, who has been quite se- riously i'll, is out of danger.
 The postoftice at Stanhope. N. J., T. J. Knight. postmaster, was robbed, the safe being blown open and stamps and money to the amount of S400 taken.
 A Tarrytown (N. Y.) bank, with SI0.. 900 In its vaults. was unable to unlock the door and was forced to borrow mon- ey with which to conduct its business.
 The Filipino colonel Santos, with 40 men and 30 rifles, has surrendered nt Ligao, in Albay province. The insur- rection in North Camarines province is practically ended.
 The 25 foot sloop Great Republic, in which Captain Howard Blackburn sail. ed from Gloucester, Mass, last month. has arrived at Lisbon, the passage hay ing occupied 3S days.
 New York city garment workers to the number of 50,O00 are on strike in order to enforce a demand that the manufacturers do away with the mid dlemen and contractors.
 A cablcgram received at the state de- partmcnt announced the death at Gl. braltnr of IIoratio !. Sprague. United States consul at that place. Mir. Sprague had been consul at Gibraltar since May 12. ISIS.
 The strawberry crop of 100l in north. ern New York was the largest gath cred in years. lt brought to the 0s- wego county growers S125,o00. Over 2,0o0,0O0 quarts were shipped from that section.
 X party of men en route to Nome re- gently found the bodies of six men at point near Cape Romanofr. It Is pre- stunned they all frozc to death during some one of the terrible blizzards that prevailed last winter. The transport Indiana has arrived at san Francisco, 20 days from Manila. She brought il0 passengers and 1000 soldiers of the Forty-second regiment nnd inc Third artillery. One death oc- cured during the voyage. Mgr. Thomas !. Conaty, rector of the Catholic university at Washington. has received cablegram from Cardinal Gibbons, who is now in Rome. an- nouncing that the pope has elevated the monsgnore to a blshopric.
 An internal machine sent through the malls to John ]. kletchka. an employee of the board of public Improvements at l...n II vcrely injured Edgar Schroeder, who Is employed in that department as draftsman.
 Amasa Rowland has died at Sandy Hill, x. \. He was n years old. In 1850 he began manufacturing paper here, and later he organlzed the How land Paper company, of which he was president and through which he amass- ed fortune.
 X preliminary statement of the Chi- nese population derived from the re- turns of the twelfth census just issued by Director Merriam shows that there are approximately sa,so0 Chinese in the United States proper as against Tor, ,4T5 in 1SaO.
 Miss Ora !. Tallman of Valparaiso, Ind. has died at n Kansas City hospital, being the twenty-third victim of the Chicago and Alton train wreck to sue cumb. She was on her way to the Ep- worth league convention at San Fran cisco when injured.
 X prehistoric city of immense propor. tions Is said to have just been unenrth- cd on the Navajo Indian reservation between Durango. Colo, and Farming ton, N. NJ. X palace has been found containing. it Is said, about 1000 sepa- rate apartments.
 An explosion of petroleum on board the American schooner Louise Ade. laide. Captain Orr, which left philadel- phia April 24 and Portland June 1 for Stockholm. in Stockholm harbor, re. suited in the death of Captain Orr ten members 9f the schooner's crew and four Swedish customs officials.
 An increase of S51.a20 In the customs receipts of Cuba for the first i've months of 1901 as compared with the same period of 1900 k set forth in n statement made public hy the division of insuar affairs of the war depart lntllts lN loldi NhHAtiliN TUT this period of 1901 were S6,T3G,2S2.
 Major Alexander Henry Davis of Syracuse. who for several years has spent the most of his time abroad, has reuounccd his citizenship in the United States and become British subject. MajCi Davis was one of the wealthlcst men ,n Syracuse and at one time was prominent in politics, having been n candidate for congressman against Senator Prank Iliscock.
 The secretary of the navy has re- ceived n cable from Admiral Rodgers reporting the unyciling of the Perry monument at kurlhama, Japan. on the iith. The report says that i've Jupu- ncsc warShius were present at the cere. monies ana that the greatest courtc- sics were shown to tine Americans.
 In his country home in Cold Springs,