Connecticut western news., 1902-02-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly nnd TcrseIy Told.

At Wilmerding, near Pittshurg, on Thursday in a bohsled accident one young woman was killed and four oth- CT coasters badly injured.
 Ex-President Grover Cleveland re- turned on Monday to Princeton, \. J., after spending ten days hunting ducks along the coast of Virginia. He ap- pears to be in good health.
 A serious work train wreck, in which one man was killed and several others were injured. occurred on the Syracuse division of the Lackawanna about a mile and half south of Treble, N. Y., on Thursday.
 Thirteen indictments charging grand larceny have been reported by the grand jury against Philip Gerst, for merly city treasurer of Buffalo, remov. ed from office by Mayor Diehl for mis. appropriating public funds.
 Twelve Princeton students were ar rested in Trenton, N. J., on Wednesday, charged with malicious mischief in painting the battle monument and q number of houses in the city with the figures "'05" in yellow paint.
 Employees won forty-eight strikes of 126 in New York state between Janu- ary and September of last year. Almost 5000 workers were involved, and ev- cry sympathetic strike failed. Twenty i've strikes were compromised.
 Dr. Tomas Estrada Palma and Senor Estevez were on Tuesday formally elected by the electoral college respec- lively president and vice president of the Cuban republic. The day was ob- served as holiday throughout Cuba.
 As the result of a collision on Mon. day on the Auburn branch of the New York Central seven miles west of Au- burn between westbound passenger trainmen are dead and two others miss ing.
 Justice Horace Gray of the United States supreme court has suffered an attack of paralysis, but 1t is stated that there is every reason to expect his re- covery. His mind Is clear but he has lost the muscular control of a part of his body.
 Acting President Schalkburger and other members of the Boer government were in the laager captured at Nooitgc- dacht, Transvaal Colony, by a detach- ment of mounted national scouts under Colonel Park, but succeeded in escap. ing capture.
 Governor odell has appointed former Assemblyman George H. West county clerk of Saratoga county, N. Y., to sue, ceed Edward F. Grose, who resigned while charges preferred against him by the district attorney of the county were pending.
 John A. Griswold, long a leading member of the Greene county (N. Y.) bar and member of congress in 1869 and 1870 for the Greene and Ulster dis. tricts and a member of the last consti- tutional convention, died in Catskill N. Y., on Sunday.
 William Emerson Richmond, famil. iarly known as Billy Emerson. the ia. nous minstrel, died at Diman's hotel | in Boston, on Sunday. Death was due to a complication of diseases, resulting in consumption. He was fifty-six years | of age and native of Belfast, Ireland | The New York state assembly or Monday passed the antipigeon shooting | bill by the remarkable vote of 11o to g. The bill, having previously passed the senate, will now go to Governor 0dell It prohibits the shooting of live birds at the traps by gun clubs and all others in the state.
 Few insurgents remain in the provin ces of Batangas and Laguna. General | J. Franklin Bell has accomplished his intended purpose of ridding this dis trict of insurgents, though for the pres ent the civil commission consider 1t in advisable to declare the provinces ir i question to be pacified.
 General Oscar F. Long, superintend. ent of the transport service at San | Francisco, will soon leave that port to take charge at Washington of the land and water transportation of the United States army, comprising the | Atlantic as well as the Pacific sea. board. He will succeed General Bird. Young Corbett CWilliam H. Roth welD and Terry McGovern have beer matched for a twenty-five round boxing
 
 | offering the best inducements on or be fore Oct. 15, 1902. Both men agreed tc weigh not more than 127 pounds at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of the contest.
 Two men were killed and one danger | ously wounded in a freight wreck or the Columbia and Port Deposit rail road a short distance south of Nc Calls Ferry, Pa, on Tuesday. The wreck was caused by the train running Into a landslide. About twenty-five cars were reduced to splinters in the wreck | The natives of Cavite province, pro voked at the continued disorders creat ed by the ladrones, are spontaneously offering themselves in large numbers to assist the authorities in maintaining peace in the province. The civil com mission recognizes this attitude to be largely due to the influence of General Trias.
 General James H. Wilson has an nounced as his aids at the coronation of King Edward Lieutenant Colonel John Riddle United States engineers and Lieutenant Colonel Henry D. Der. up, ordnance department. He desires Corporal Jefferson Moulton, Second cavalry, for orderly. All on the Wilson staff are now in Porto Rico and Cuba.
 Births, marriages and deaths during the year just past fin the state of New York were as follows; Births, 9,3S9; arIlages, 64.6S0. and deaths, 13l, TSS. The death rate was Is per 1000 of pop. ulation. The mortality was 7.50O in excess of the average of the past five years, but the rate was the same as hat of 1900. The infant mortality is unusually low. being $500 less than 1T 1900 and 2.5o0 less than the average oi the past five years.
 Four persons dead in Philadelphia one dead in Jersey City. hundreds O horses killed by contact with live wires thousands of telegraph poles born down by their burden of ice coate,