Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
NEWS or TIE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

s. N. retired. died at his home in Hart ford. Conn. Friday.
 Miss Eastwiek of Philadelphia has pleaded guilty in London of forging n railroad certificate.
 Saturday night fire destroyed the New England building at the Pan- American exposition.
 Mayor Harrison of Chicago has sug- gested a law forbidding private wine rooms in city saloons.
 The Pennsylvania supreme court has decided that the Philadelphia ripper" law Is unconstitutional.
 It Is announced that Richard Croker of New York has sent $500 to the Cork International exhibition fund.
 A heavy snow fell in Rome, rlatts- burg. watertown and Utica, N. N., and in Lock Haven. Pa, Thursday.
 The Rev. f. De Witt Talmage has offered to be one of fifty men to con- tribute S1,0o0 each to the Stone ransom fund.
 The Northern Pacific railroad Tues. day took out at Duluth. Minn., S20.000,0O0 fire insurance policy cover ing its whole system.
 The transport Thomas has sailed for Manila with large number of passcn. gers, among them being several officers and about fifty teachers.
 David NJ. Wolf, bookkeeper of the First National bank of Tyrone, Ia, has confessed to the embezzlement of SIP, 900 of the banks funds.
 Edgewood Inn, summer hotel on Lower Saranac lake, in the Adiron- dacks, has been completely destroyed by fire; loss, S10,000. partly insured.
 The St. Louis Worlds fair national commission has selected Miss Helen Gould of New York as a member Ri large of the board of lady managers.
 Rev Dr. Lorimer has resigned as pas tor of the Fremont Temple Baptist church, Boston, to 20 to the Madison Avenue Baptist church. New York city
 The new battleship Retyizan, built in Philadelphia for Russia, has made an average of 1S.s knots in n run Q. twelve hours, breaking the battleshiI record.
 The triennial convention of the Epls copal Church of America in San Fran cisco adjourned sine die Thursday. Tht next convention Is to be held in Bostor In 1904.
 The president has appointed Georgt k. Koester Gold Democrat, collector of internal revenue for the district oi South Carolina to succeed w. l.. Web ster. deceased.
 Assistant Postmaster General Bris tow has ordered the establishment os q postoffice to be named Mckinley h west of Eureka.
 The state department Is advised thu, the Siamese minister 10 the Uniteo States left Bangkok Sept for tn, United States. His name Is phya Ak haraj Oradhara.
 The navy department has been in formed of the departure of Rear Admi ral Remey aboard his flagship, thu Brooklyn. from chemulpo, Korea, fol Nladivostok, Russia.
 Mrs. Ann Taylor. one of the historical characters of St. Joseph. Mo. has just died, aged 110 years. For more than s century she had been addicted to the use of tobacco and liquor
 A contract for automobile mail serv ice in Minneapolis, Minn., an expei ment which may result in the extension of the service. has just been made bs the postoffice department
 Miss Alice Roosevelt will make hel formal debut before society at the Nov Years evening reception at the White House. The most elaborate prepara tions are making for the event.
 The differences between the employ ees and proprietors of the Macbeth Evans lamp chimney factory in El wood. Ind. have been settled, and tn, plant has resumed in all departments.
 Captain James c. Michie. commissar, of the National Soldiers home fol many years and n brother of the latt General Michie of West Point dleo suddenly Sunday, aged sixty years. Ii Dayton. O.
 Lansing Warren. editor of the Mn waukee Sentinel, is dead from an at tack of typhoid fever. Mir Wnrre1 was taken i'll about three weeks ago having contracted cold in the easi while on a business trip.
 s. II. washburn the Brooklyn artls, and superintendent of the color scheme of the Pan-American exposition. drop ped dead of heart disease on New York Central train between Niagara Falls and Buffalo Thursday. President Rooseyelt's action in enter taining Booker T. Washington at tho White House was upheld by the Amer ican Missionary society, which opene, Its fifty-tifth annual meeting Tuesday at the First Congregational church a., Oak Park, III.
 At Buffalo. Sunday, John Sondberg thirteen years old, and Joseph Stack six years old. were killed on the LehigI Valley tracks near Smith street. They were playing on the tracks when s yard engine ran them dowc The bod les were badly mangled.
 A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Athens records the death at Khu.| ti. Albania. of Ismail Hudjo. said to have been the oldest man in the world It is said that he was 160 years old. Hts faculties were unimpaired. and he had all his teeth when he died. He leaves POO descendants.
 President Roosevelt was unanimously elected a comrade of the Union Neteran| union Tuesday at the opening session. In Chicago of the sixth annual encamp. ment of the organization. This action was taken immediately after a message of congratulation had been received from the chief executive.
 The naval estimates for the year end. .ng June 30, 1903. have been made pub. .c at the navy department. The total amount Is S9S,9l0.9SI against S77,92I.- 535 appropriated for the current year. The chief increases are S2.600000 for construction. $2.O00.0o0 for armor and S129355 in the appropriation for yards and docks.