Connecticut western news., 1901-01-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide wortd
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he new well t Beaumont, 1exss E producing 2a,ooo barrels of oil a day.
 Rochester aud New York capitalists have combined to control Geneses water power.
 Six New Bedford fishermen have been lost by being caught In a school of whales.
 Upward of 50.oo0 Filipinos have sworn allegiance to the United States in noilo province.
 A fire in big crockery store in Chica- go caused loss of between SS00,oO and S4o0. .ooo.
 Captures. arrests and seizures of arms continue in the unpacihed districts of the island of LuEon.
 Adelbert S. Hay. the United States consul at Pretoria. has sailed from Cape Town for England on the transport Briton.
 Fire has destroyed large portion of the Bogota Paper company's mills at Haekensack, \. J.. causing a loss Of from S3o.oOo to SIo.oo0.
 Secretary Long has signed contracts with the Newport News Shipbuilding company for two armored cruisers tu cost upward of S7,5oo,ooo.
 Ky the death of Benjamin n. Silliman of Brooklyn Yale will obtain from the es tate of his brother. Augustus E. Silliman. an endowment of SS0,oo0 for a lecture ship.
 Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William 1T. Simms has died in New York city. aged 56 years. He was a member of the Nine ty-seeond New York volunteers in the civil war.
 General Funston reports that prac. tically all the organized insurrectos in his district have been dispersed with the ex. ception of disconnected bands in the mountains.
 The office of the United States internal revenue collector in Peoria, Ills. has been entered by burglars. who broke open the safe and stole war revenue stamps believed to amount to $100.OoO in value.
 William l.. Warner. a prominent Dem ocratic politician of Jamestown. N. Y.. deputy internal revenue collector under the Cleveland administration, committed suicide by shooting himself In the head in his office.
 On Jan. It the thermometer at Dawson fell to 6S degrees below zero. A messag, from Forty Mile the same day said that it was IS below. The coldest recorded before this was in 1896. when 1t was moi quite 6S near Forty Mile.
 It is announced In Trenton that Chief Justice Depue of the New Jersey su preme court. who was resppointed last week, will retire from the bench next November. Justice Depue Is over T( years old and has been on the bench foi & years.
 The four story brick building at l2s William street. New York city, occupied by Lehn X Fink, wholesale dealers il drugs and druggist supplies, toxsthei with its contents. was totally destroye, by fire and water. Loss will reacl S2O0,00O.
 General MacArthur reports to the wa department that the Hancock arrived al Manila on the 2Tth Inst. and that tn, transport Pennsylvania sailed Monda, for san Francisco with Is officers an, 4ST enlisted men of the Thirty-sixth vol unteer infantry.
 Peter J. Cunningham, a hero of tn, battle of San Juan Hill, has died al hl home in Liberty, N. Y. He went througl the war in Cuba and received bullet h the right lung al San Juan. Four week ago he was granted pension of $50 month and SI01 back pay.
 John n. Rockefeller has signiheS through ]. W. Cowles of Cleveland, | trustee of Oberlin college, his willingness to give S2O0.ooo toward an endowment fund of S500.oO0 now being raised fo the college, provided the entire amoun shall be raised by the first of next year.
 General MaeArthur has ordered dozen more natives to be taken on boar, the Solace preparatory to their deporta tion. They are charged with being insur gent abettors and agitators who swor, allegiance to the United States for th, purpose of facilitating revolutionary op erations.
 Benjamin n. Silliman, who was in hi, ninety-Sixth year. has died at his hom, in Brooklyn. Mir. Silliman was a distin guished lawyer and the oldest member o the bar of the state of New York. ai we'll as the oldest living alumnus o Yale. His last illness was bronchia pneumonia.
 General MacArthur has ordered the de portation to the United States of Georg, T. Rice, editor of The Daily Bulletin, marine journal Rice will sail on th, Pennsylvania next Monday. The orde characteriEes him as a dangerous In cendiary and a menace to the mtlitar, situation"
 Two freight trains collided on the Del aware. Lackawanna and Western rail road near Elmhurst, Pa, instantly Kill ing Fl. J. Beaf. brakeman, and injurinl several other trainmen. The wrecl blocked the tracks and delayed trathe fo four or five hours. The property losi will be considerable.
 General Leonard F. Ross has died a Galesburg, Ills, aged =. He was a her of two wars, having served with distinc ton in the United States army durinl the Mexican and civil wars. He was col lector of internal revenue under Presi dent Johnson. His father was the found CT of Lewistown, Ills.
 The Rev. William Wallace Sylvester rector of the George W. South Memoria Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ad vocate. Philadelphia. is dead. Death wa due 10 heart trouble. with which he ha, been a sufferer since Christmas. Mir Sil yester was one of the most widely knowI clergymen in the Episcopal church.
 Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hob son. who has been in the Presbyterian hospital New York city. with typhoi, fever since Dec. 1. left there Saturda! afternoon. He will spend few days h New York city with friend. S. K Bertron of 46 West Fifty.fourth street and then 90 10 his home in Greensboro Ala.
 Armour institute in Chicago Is 10 be th, nucleus of a great technical school an, . will be affiliated with either the Uni yersity of Chicago or Northwestern uni versity. Philip D. Armour before hi | death arranged for the future of the insti tuition which bears his name, and his will provides ar endowment of Si,ooo,oo' for it.
 A misplaced switch on the West Shor, railroad caused collision between a To cal passenger train and a gravel trsir half a mile north of the West Shore de pot at Weehawken, \. J, Two msg were killed outright in the accident three men seriously injured and ms, not recover. and five others were injurSt less seriously.
 In the county court. Brooklyn, Judg, Hurd accepted plea of guilty frou George w. Howard formerly of Cam bridge. Mass, to an indictment for olga my in marrying Helen r. Hawkes. ' daughter of a prominent ofliceholder il .