Connecticut western news., 1902-02-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Brieny and TerseIy Told.

" have been hanged in the Phlnp pines.
 Uncle" Dan Harness, aged seventy. nine. owner of the famous racing mare Imp. died at Chillicothe, O.. Saturday.
 Dr. W. Seward Webb Of Shelburne, Vt, has made an official announce. ment that he is candidate for the governorship of Vermont.
 The returns so far received from the recent elections in the Philippines in dicate the election in most cases of m. tves as governors of provinces. In its report regarding the recent dls aster in the Park avenue tunnel, New York city, the state board of railroad commissioners severely censures the New York Central officials.
 The city council of Cleveland, O., has authorized the director of law by vote of 21 to 1 to draw up the necessa. ry ordinances for a system of three cent fare street car routes in that city. Nantucket county, Mass, enjoys the distinction of having a jail without any occupants. Not a person has been in the county jail for year, accord ing to the report of the prison commis. sloners
 General Egbert Brown, who was in command of the Union troops at Bra EOS, Tex, in the last battle of the civil war, after peace had been declared. died at West Plains, Mo, aged eighty | Ave years.
 The house committee on territories has decided to report all territorial bills for statehood on Feb. 21. It is | probable that the committee will rec ommsnd statehood for Oklahoma, Ari. zona and New Mexico.
 The navy department has extended for six months the leave of absence granted to Civil Engineer Robert K Peary, who Is now in the Arctic ocean in command of a private scientific ex l petition. He has been on leave since May 27. 1897.
 John Murphy of New York, a rough rider in the Spanish-American war, was on Thursday convicted in Cum. berland (Md.) court of murder in the first degree for stabbing John English sf Newark, N. J., at Pinto, Md, where both were working.
 | In a secret session on Thursday even ing the massed delegates of the United Mine Workers, acting finally upon the | advice of each Of their national officers. adopted the report of the joint scale committee, which reafiirmed the scale of 1901 as . whole.
 President Roosevelt has disapproyed that portion of the report of the army board appointed to award brevets for gallantry in the war with Spain which names him as a beneficiary. All the other recommendations of the board have been approved.
 The $15o.OO0 in< city bonds for strengthening the Mohawk river at Utica, N. r., have been sold at auction. They were bought by the Monroe County Savings bank of Rochester. The bonds draw per cent, and the premium paid was S21, ,060.
 Andrew Carnegie has sent a check for S1O0.O00 to President Henry Morton of the Stevens Institute of Technology. It is payable to Mir. Morton's order and is intended as an endowment for the Carnegie laboratory of engineering which was dedicated Thursday. An official estimate of the damage done by fire which on Saturday night destroyed the plant of the Shadbolt Manufacturing company in Brooklyn fixes the loss at S300,0O0. Fourteen persons mostly firemen. were injured and taken to the hospitals. All will re- cover.
 Contractor Shaler, his powder man, Moses Epps, and Ernest Matthewson have been declared by the coroner's jury responsible for the Park avenue dynamite explosion in New York city, by which the Murray Hill hotel was wrecked. They have been held for the grand jury.
 A brother of Malvar, the Filipino in- surgent leader who was confirmed last October by the central Filipino com mittee as the successor of Aguinaldo and who appointed himself captain general of the Filipino forces, has been captured. He was chief surgeon of the Batangas insurgents.
 Maria Halpen died in New Rochelle, N. Y. on Thursday. So retired was Der life in New Rochelle that many of her nearest neighbors had forgotten or had not heard the story of 1884 which stirred the nation and figured so largely in the campaign that preceded the election of Grover Cleveland to the presidency of the United States.
 Philip Gerst, former city treasurer of Buffalo, was arrested on Thursday, charged with misappropriating s27,ooO of the city's funds. When arraigned | AA guilty. He was then taken to the pri- vate office of County Judge Emery. and ball was fixed at 5000. Bondsmen appeared without delay, and he was re. leased.
 Suits have been begun in the New York state supreme court by ex-Judge George c. Appell of Mount Vernon against the New York Central Railroad company in behalf of persons who were injured in the Vanderbilt tunnel wreck on Jan. 8 last for damages az. gregatng S1S5,0o0. Actions for dam, ages aggregating $1,ooo,OoO or more are yet to be begun.
 Miss Mabel Hanna, the eldest daugh- ter of Senator and Mrs. Hanna, and Mir. Harry A. Parsons of Cleveland, O.. are engaged to be married, but the date of the wedding Is not yet announced MT. Parsons has been connected with the Republican national committee, of which Senator Hanna Is chairman. He is permanently attached to the commit. tee at the headquarters In Washington.
 The schooner Mary Graham was burned to the waters edge ofr point north of Cape May on Monday. The srew war saved. They were picked up by the schooner ]. C. Clifford. Captain F. H. Medley and five seamen com posed the crew of the Graham. She was two master, which left Norfolk