Connecticut western news., 1902-03-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tsrsely Told. The DresIdent has signed tho hill ere

ht uNt O1 SNAnlOn of Shinhoppen, Delaware county, N. r., were burned to death by a fire which destroyed their home on Monday.
 The United States supreme court has decided the Illinois antitrust statute to be unconstitutional because of the pro vision of the law exempting agricul- tural products and live stock from the operations of the law.
 Harry D. Bikes, the middle distance racing cyclist, has accepted an offer to race in Paris and left on the Eronprinz Wilhelm Saturday. He will endeavor to duplicate his work of two years ago, when he raced successfully in Paris.
 Brigadier General Funston, Aguinal. dos captor. will go to Denver to sue ceed General MacArthur, who will sue ceed Major General Otis in command of the military department of the lakes when the latter Is retired for age on March 24
 Benjamin F. Stevens, the bIblioG- rapher, died Thursday at his resi- dence, The Sheaves, Surbiton, Surrey, England, after an illness which had
 
 born at Barnet, Vt, in 1888 and went to London in 1860.
 The German steamer Alexandria of the Hamburg-American line, now at Philadelphia, has been engaged to con voy the emperor's yacht Meteor to Hamburg. The Alexandria will meet the Meteor off Sandy Hook on March IT and sail at once for Europe. Typographical Union No. 6 has won its long fight against the New York Sun. By the terms of a joint agree ment just signed the office will be un- ionized. The printers at present em- ployed in the office, 1t is understood, will be retained If they join the union.
 Acting Governor Wright, at Manila, has cabled the secretary of war that the Philippine receipts from customs for January were s822, SIT and for Feb ruary STSo, ,331. The receipts at the city of Manila for February amounted to $57, ,966, and the miscellaneous receipts were $3S,51o.
 Leonard Lewisohn, one of the largest American operators in copper, died in London on Wednesday of pneumonia. In 1899 he was associated with Will liam Rockefeller, H. H. Rogers and Thomas w. Lawson in organizing the Amalgamated Copper company, with 6 capital of $155, 100000.
 Three masked men broke into the house of an aged man named Smith, living at Saxonburg, Pa, brutaily mur. dered the old man and tortured Mrs. Smith in n fiendish manner. They then ransacked the house, secured $200 and, after destroying considerable prop erty, made good their escape. A broken rail on a curve caused a frightful wreck on Friday on the Tex, twenty-five miles west of Sander son. From the latest accounts sixteen people were killed and twenty-eight more or less injured. No customers were among the dead or injured.
 Fire on Thursday destroyed the Bab- cock building, on West Front street, Plainfield, N. J., and two adjoining buildings. The total loss was $25o, 900, on which there is full insurance. The ground floor of the Babcock building was occupied by Woodruff & Martin, dry goods merchants, and the post office.
 One burglar was shot and killed and another wounded by a policeman in Peekskin, N. r., on Tuesday. The men had broken Into the hardware store of Durham Bros, on Main street, and were seen by two policemen. The bur glars tried to escape and fired two shots at the policemen, one of whom returned the fire
 The dry goods store of Dosenheim & O., the drug store of W. A. Van Tas- sel, the large furniture house of R. Gray's Sons, the dry goods store of Shelton & Co, Booths photograph gal. lery and Falk's furnishing store in Hudson, N. Y, were burned to the ground on Friday. The total loss is estimated at S20o.ooo.
 Through the London Aero club c. A. Pearson, the publisher, has offered San tos-Dumont a prize of $2o.000 for an airship voyage from London to Bir- mingham. No time limit is fixed. The distance is 100 miles. This will be the greatest feat Santos-Dumont has yet attempted. By request of Santos.Du- mont the competition Is open to all aeronauts.
 The Chateaugay Ore and Iron com pany has recently discovered that the vein of iron ore at their mines near Lyon Mountain, N. Y., which was sup posed to be thirty feet in thickness, is in reality over seventy feet and ex- tends for six miles in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction from Lyon Mountain. making it one of the largest deposits of iron ore in the world. Senator William Finn of Pittsburg in a statement given to the newspapers on Friday announced that he had re- tired from politics. giving as his reason growth of his private business, which | demanded all his time. He furnished copies of letters to confirm the fact that he had resigned his seat in the state senate and membership in the Republican party and county commit Gees.
 Caleb Jewett Hamlin, widely known hotel man, died at Amsterdam, N. Y. on Tuesday, aged sixty-seven, He had been connected with the St. James hotel in New York, the Tint House in Buffalo, the Palmer in Chica- go, the International at Niagara Falls, the Clarendon in Saratoga and the Del evan in Albany. For the past three seasons he was proprietor of the Adj rondack inn at Sacandaga park. Billy Rice Buried. NFaroh FINl,, ,..,