Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-06-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Happenings of the Wide worid
HrIenY and TerselN Told.


The cruiser Newark has reached suez
on her return from Manila.
Heat and humidity caused several
deaths In Chicago ON Thursday.
The torpedo boat Stockton broke
down on n trial trip near Fort Monroe,
Va.
Winter and spring wheat In reported
In good condition throughout the eoun.
try.
The Philippine commission has mp.
pointed General Trias governor OF Ca
vite.
Alcedo, owned by Louis V. Bell won
the Suburban handicap at shecpshead
Bay.
William Giles. an ex-slave, who cook.
ed for U. S. Grant during the civil war,
Ia dead.
The battleshlp Wisconsin made 1875
knots for two consecutive hours on her
trial trip.
Maurice b. Perkins, professor OF
chemistry In Union college, has died at
Schenectady.
A combination has been proposed OF
coal mine owners OF Ave states with a
capital of $500. 100000.
The appellate court OF New York
state has dropped the case 10 compel
Sunday closing at the pan-Amerlcan
exposition.
The transport Pennsylvania has ar
rived at San Francisco from Manila
with 30 officers and $40 men OF the For.
tieth volunteer infantry.
A special session OF the Porto Rican
legislature has been called to act on
abolishing the tariff between the Unit.
ed. States and the island.
1t has been announced by New York
Central officers in Syracuse that begin
ming next Sunday, the Empire State
express will run Sundays.
New York State Senator Thomas II.
Grady has recovered his health and has
left the sanitarlum In Cnnaudaigua for
his summer home at Mamaroneck.
John Biddle. charged with the rob-
berry and subsequent killing OF Grocer
Thomas ID. Kahney In Pittsburg, has
been convicted of murder In the first
degree.
Willie Anderson of Pittsneld. Mass,
has won the open golf championship Of
the United States. Anderson beat Alec
Smith of Scotland one stroke In the ~
holes, the totals being IS to Sc.
An order Las been issued ut the war
department directing the organization
of five batteries OF field artillery and
three companies OF coast artillery In ad-
dition to those now In the service.
Two men are dead and three injured
as the result of mn accident at the
Paint creek bridge of the Windbcr ex-
tension OF the Johnstown Passenger
Railway company in Pennsylvania.
The Russian imperial government
has, 1t is reported, purchased from Ju.
Illus Fleischmannh his celebrated stallion,
Halma, by Hanover and Julia l.. and
the price paid il understood 10 be $780,
600.
The steamship Hawaiian, which has
arrived at San Francisco from Homo
lulu. brought the largest cargo of sugar
| ever sent out of the Hawaiian Islands.
1t consisted OF 5000 tons, valued AT
$4,000.
/
tor Hanna, has accepted an invitation
to christen the cruiser Cleveland, now
being built at Bath, Me. The Cleve.
land, IL IL understood. viii be launched
within a short time.
ambassador Cambon OF France has
gone to Chicago, where he win receive
the degree OF LII. ID. from the Univer'
sity of Chicago. The honor is the more
notable as II has been conferred by the
university only on President Mckinley,
The senate committee In the Ha.
waiia legislature has returned n report
recommending the entire abolition of
the national guard. The report sug.
gests that the military paraphernalia he
| put aboard scow, towed out 10 sea
and dumped overheard.
Announcement IL made OF the pur.
chase by the Everett.Moore syndicate
of all the street railway lines OF Toledo
and other negotiations In progress
when completed. viii give the syndl.
cate control of all electric railways be-
tween Detroit and Cleveland.
Secretary Of the Treasury Gage. act.
ing for the government, has accepted
the United States mint in Philadelphia
which has just been completed at a
cost of more than $1,000. 900 and is said
10 be the finest and best equipped
building OF Its kind In the world.
Mr.. Richard Croker's Flambard a..
| ReiffD has won the Imperial cup (handi-
cap OF 400 sovereigns in specie and a
cup valued at 80 soverelgns TO the win.
ner, for 3-year-olds and upwardl, dis.
lance one mile. at the Lingneld Park
| England) spring meeting. Ten horses
ran.
The Mineral Springs hotel Mt West
Baden, Ind. the largest In the state.
has been burned. The fire broke out In
the bakeshop at the south end of the
building and burned rapidly. The loss
is 100000; insurance, 100000. Two
hundred and twenty-five guests were
registered at the hotel. Most OF them
lost their effects. but no one was hurt.
Wholesale frauds, the extent Of
which neither army nor police officials
can tell, have been discovered In the
| uuartermaster's and commissary de-
| partments In San Francisco. Two civil.
| ians are already under arrest, and sew
eral others, including some army OH.
GERS. are likely to be apprehended soon.
A large supply OF goods stolen from
the army stores have been seized.
Daniel Richards. aged 20 years, OF
/ Green Ridge, Pa, has been found dead
on the porch of the home OF his Intend
ed bride at Mount Carmel with bullet
hole in his right temple. The weapon
from which the fatal shot had been
fred has not yet been found. aud the
police officials are working on the theo'
] ~ that Richards was murdered aud his
body carried 10 the Walters home.
With the departure of the army
transport Fitzpatrick from Manila,
announced by General Macarthur the
last OF the volunteers whose Service OK.
plrcs by law on June 80 are homeward
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