Connecticut western news., 1901-07-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Terse1y Told.

hs HNEA master at New Orleans. is dead.
 Ten New England college men have left for Manila to teach Filipinos.
 Fifteen negroes were killed in fight with Mexicans near Liberty, N. NJ.
 A deficit of S225,267 in the accounts of the Knights of Pythias is announced,
 Mir. Carnegie has Just given Alame. da. Cal, $35.oo0 for public library building.
 Knoxville coal companies have re- ceiyed an order for 100000 tons 10 be sent to Venice.
 F.. R. Baldwin. arctic explorer has reached Tromso, Norway, whence he will start north.
 Assistant Secretary of War Sanger has accepted the resignation of Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong.
 General Corbin reached Manila fin 21 days. record time. from san Francisco on the transport Hancock.
 The Washington grand jury has in. dicted Mrs. Bonine for the alleged mur. der of Census Clerk Ayres.
 A farmer named McGrath. living near Brockport, N. Y., killed his wife and then committed suicide.
 The University of Pennsylvania crew easily won their race against the Trini- ty college of Dublin crew on Killarney lake.
 It Is announced that Prince Christian and Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark will visit America next spring.
 The insurgeut general Gebarro, with 70 men, has surrendered to the au. thorities at Legaspi Albay province, Luzon.
 Governor Herried of South Dakota has appointed X. R. Kittredge to fill the unexpired term of the late United States Senator Kyle.
 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 Cramp Shipbuilding company has informed the secretary of the navy that the battleship Maine will be launch on Saturday, July P.
 The steamer John $. kimblc which sailed from Nome on July 4, has arriy- ed at Seattle with 20 passengers and S75,000 gold from that district
 A pearl has been found near Lansing. Ia., weighing 139A grains. IL is of the size and shape of a chocolate drop. The owner as yet refuses to put price on 1t.
 John Tubbert of Syracuse is dead, aged 102 years. He was born i'm Ire land and had lived in Syracuse 60 years. He had never ridden on an cleo tric car.
 The government has let a contract for about 1000 tons of armor. so that at the rate of 1000 tons month it will take about three years to have the con tract executed.
 American and Danish capitalists pro- pose to start direct steamship line from Copenhagen and Christiania to Chicago. American capital will be largely interested.
 The Filipino colonel Santos, with 40 men and 30 rifles. has surrendered at Llgao. in Albay province. The insur. rection in North Camarlnes province Is practically ended.
 Frank A. Nanderlip, until few months ago first assistant secretary of the treasury, has been elected to a vice presidency of the City National bank of New York city.
 General Aqulno. who has been prov ed to be responsible for the murder of five captive soldiers of the Twelfth United States infantry, has been sen tenced to Imprisonment for life.
 An explosion in the engine room of the Kansas City Consolidated Shelter company set fire to the building, caus- ing a loss of S250000. Thirteen men employed at the works were injured, one fatally.
 The trial of Lieutenant Brown of the Second infantry, charged with murder ing near Binangenan, Infanta province, a native who was suspected of respon- sIhillty in the death of a soldier, has begun in Manila.
 An astronomical observatory is to be constructed on Cornell college campus. The new addition to Cornell was made possible by the generosity of General A. c. Barnes of Brooklyn, whose father built Barnes hall.
 It is announced at The Hague that MT. Kruger has definitely abandoned his American visit on account of tray cling fatigues as well us the clearly cx' pressed attitude of strict neutrality of the United States.
 A statement prepared by the interna- tional revenue bureau shows that the total receipts from the war revenue act from July 13. 1898. the date the act went into effect, to May 3l, l9Ol, amounted to S3l0,053,363.
 The stallion Halma. foaled in 1892, by Hanover. out of Julia l., the prop erty of the Fleischman estate, has been purchased by W. K. Vanderbilt who will at once send him to Poissy, France. for breeding purposes. The price paid was S25,000.
 The engineers of the New York Con tral railroad think so well of Cornelius vanderbilt'r boiler and fire box inven, tons that upon their advice the com. pany has just placed an order for l60 locomotives to be built with the Van. derbilt Improvements.
 Cole C. Little of the famous Twenti. eth Kansas volunteer regiment, which, under the command of Frederick Fun. Ston. won an enyiable record In the opening campaign in the Philippines, has been granted a pension of Sl0 n month for injuries received.
 In acknowledgment of the graceful hospitality with which she entertained and welcomed him on his inspection of the Third Georgia volunteers at Wash, ng.un. Ga, Governor Candler has mad, Mrs. Legare Hill Bnwlcs of that place major general of state troops
 Nine followers of John Alexander Dowic were somewhat seriously hurt ir a riot In Evanston. Ills, where they at tempted to hold meeting. resisted tn, police and were finally dispersed by q company of iiremcn. who turned | stream of water on them from fir,