Connecticut western news., 1901-11-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
inppentnEs of the Wide woris
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 The Pan.Amcrican exposition closed tt midnight Saturday night.
 President Roosevelt on Friday issued his Thanksgiving proclamation.
 A fire at Uniontown. pn.. Thursday caused an estimated loss of S250.0o0.
 Senhor Horta Machado has been ap. pointed Portuguese minister at Wash. lngton.
 Texas has asked corporations suspect. td of being trusts to pay penalties of SS5.oo0oO0.
 David Beckett. well known silk manufacturer of Paterson. x. l., died on sunday.
 Jacob Dold X Co.'S packing establish. ment in Buffalo was destroyed by fire on Monday.
 The Spanish chamber of deputies has passed the bin prohibiting the free coin. age of silver.
 It Is announced that the Duke of Cornwall and York will shortly receive the title of Prince of Wales.
 Andrew Carnegie has been formally nominated for the lord rectorshlp of St. Andrews university, Scotland.
 Fred Freer, while robbing the store of Daniel Schoonmaker at Alligorville. N. I., on Sunday, was instantly killed.
 The Standard oil company is to cs- tablish a refinery at Port Richmond, Cal. and a new steamship line 10 the orient.
 Henry c. Baird. oldest member of the Bradford county Qa.l bar. died Rt Athens, Pa, Thursday, aged eighty. one years.
 Cresceus, driven by George II. Ketch. failed to break his own record of 2:02li going the mile in 2:05la. ..-
 A wreck occurred on the Monon track at the passenger station in Bed ford. Ind, on Tuesday in which thirty persons were severely injured.
 The steamship Roanoke has arrived from Nome. bringing GOO passengers. The Roanoke Is the last boat of the sea. son of the Nome passenger fleet
 Andrew D. White. ambassador to Germany. sailed Thursday on board the Deutschland after fortnight spent in this country on private business.
 The monthly statement of the coin age executed at the hints of the Unit ed States shows that for the month of october the total coinage was Ss, T2S,- s63.
 A Boer colony will be established in Wyoming. X tract of 300,oO0 acres has been secured for the purpose In the val ley of the Green river in Sweetwater county.
 Senator w. I. Sewell of New Jersey is at the Battery Park hotel at Ashe- catarrh and also threatened with lung trouble.
 The results of the big football games on Saturday were: Princeton <, Cornell G; Columbia II, University of Pennsylvania, o; Yale 6, West Point. ..
 Late reports from the Winnebago In- dian reservation in Nebraska are that tifty-three of the 1000 Indians on the agency have died of smallpox, which Is epidemic there.
 Dr. Manuel Antonio Sanclemente, president of the republic of Colombia, has been Kidnapped by the orders of the political leaders who had already strip ped him of power.
 NJ. de Wollant, the Russian charge d'affaires at Washington. confirms the report from St. Petersburg that Rus. sia has practically completed her Transsiberian railroad.
 Governor 0dell has granted another respite to Nov. 70 in the case of Fred. erick Krist. under sentence of death for shooting his sweetheart at Waver ly, Tioga county, x. \.
 The bubonic plague has reappeare1 in Glasgow. Four suspected cases have been removed from the Central Sta. ton hotel. belonging to the Caledonlan railway, and one has died.
 General Bartolome Maso has come out with manifesto declaring himself a candidate for the presidency of Cuba. He makes strong bid for the Autono mist Spanish and negro votes.
 Fourteen warships are maintaining a very strict blockade of the island of Samar. with the result that the insur. gents there are not able to obtain sup. plies of any kind from outside the is. land.
 Miss Sadie Winslow, daughter of poor farmer at Sacketts Lake. Sullivan county, N. r.. has fallen heir to n for, tune of S125,0o0 through the death of her uncle, John Winslow of Los An. geles, Cal.
 The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of busi, ness Oct. 31. 1901. the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to S1.022, 032, ,9aT. a decrease from September of S9563, ,40S.
 The New York State library has out grown its present quarters in the state capitol and has been compelled to lease for term of years building near the capitol for the storing of 100000 duplt cate volumes.
 Mrs. wu Ting Fang. wife of the Chi. nese minister to the United States. ar rived at San Francisco on Tuesday on the steamer Gaelic from China. She is accompanied by her daughter, Miss Wu Su Ching
 News of new Klondike strike has been brought by the steamer Amur. The new find Is on Conglomeratc creek, tributary of Montana creek. The prices of claims jumped from S1G0 to S5,OO0 in few days.
 At mass meeting of the mill opera tives of Fall River, Mass, Wednesday two of tho five unions-the Spinners' and Loom Fixers' - voted against n strike Monday next. and ms result there will he no strike.
 The New York Times says that Rich srd Croker told a friend that he had gone through his last campaign as .he leader of Tammany Hall. The robes of the leadership will fall on the shoul- d,rs of John F. Carroll. according to m amicable arrangement said to have a Fat hNf