Connecticut western news., 1902-06-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

floOuS ulu great damage Tn the south western portion of Chicago on Satur day. There were many narrow escapes from drowning.
 The New Jersey supreme court has denied the application of Thomas G Barker, who shot Rev. John Keller at Arlington, for new trial
 Two boys were killed and a man bad ly burt at Reading, Mass, on Saturday in a runaway caused by automobiles driven at a reckless pace by Harvard students.
 The records of the court martial pro ceedings in the case of General Jacob Fl. Smith, who was tried in the Philip pines for alleged cruelty, have reached the war department.
 pr. Maurice W. Quinn, who was re gently shot at by woman, was kissed by nearly 1000 women at a Worcester (N. Y.) church as he led Miss Mary Donaher to the altar.
 John c. Vaughn, who was leader of the Democratic party in Richmond county, N. Y., for many years, died on Tuesday at New Brighton, N. Y. He was seventy years old.
 Senator Cullom of Illinois has an- nounced that when bis present commfs. sion as United States senator expires, March 8, 1907, he will retire from pub lie life and spend his remaining days in rest and quiet.
 The Buffalo carpenters strike, which began May 1, has been settled. The FNN former rate was 30 cents an hour. They demanded STA cents, but com promised at 33.
 The house on Monday passed the bill to protect the president, vice president, members of the cabinet and foreign ministers and ambassadors and to sup press the teaching of anarchy by a vote of 175 to 30.
 Peter c. Meaurer, a wealthy retired business man of Meriden, Conn, stood before a mirror in his bedroom and shot himself through the right temple, dying instantly. He was subject to at tacks of insanity.
 Oxford university at the forthcoming encenia tan annual commemoration at Oxford in honor of the founders) will confer the honorary degree of doctor of civil law on Joseph H. Choate. the United States ambassador.
 District Attorney Jerome was re- buked in open court by Magistrate Crane in New York for trying to shield his detective, Mcclellan, from arrest for shooting a man who was trying to escape from a gambling raid. Professor Friedrich Hirth, holder of the chair of Chinese philology at the University of Munich, has accepted the offer of the Chinese chair at Co lumbia university, New York, and will begin his lectures there next October.
 Commodore Albert G. Clary, U. s. N, retired, died on Monday at Springfield, Mass, in his ninetieth year. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1892 and was made a commodore in 1874. He was in active service in the civil war.
 Mason Mitchell. former member of Roosevelt's rough riders, lecturer, po- litical orator, elephant hunter. scout. actor and a Queen Victoria medal hold CT, has accepted the appointment as United States consul at Zanzibar Ar rica.
 Hon. Leonard Burritt. one of the best known men in Monroe county, N. Y., died on Monday, aged seventy-four. Mir. Burritt was born in the town of Chilli in 1928 and lived in Monroe coun- ty all his life. He served three terms at Albany.
 The St Louis worlds fair manage ment has received information from Washington of approaching visits to St. Louis 1.-two members of royal fam flies, the Grand Duke Boris of Russia, cousin of the czar, and the crown prince of Siam.
 The Democratic state central com mittee of Ohio has decided that the Democratic state convention shall be held in Sandusky Sept. and 3. Sam E. Johnson was defeated by Tom l.. Johnson for the temporary chairman ship of the convention.
 The whaleback steamer Thomas Will son was cut almost in two by the steamer George c. Hadley half a mile south of the Duluth canal on Saturday, and nine men, mostly of the night crew, who had not time to get out of their hunks, went down with the vessel. The threatened strike of all the allied unions employed by the different meat packing concerns of Chicago was avert ed on Sunday night by the Stock yards company surrendering to the stockyards employees union. All tho demands of the union were granted. The New York state court of appeals has unanimously affirmed the Judg- ment of conviction of John Most, who was convicted of publishing an improp- CT article in a paper owned by him in New York and who was sentenced to one years Imprisonment in the New York penitentiary.
 The United States auxiliary cruiser Dixie. which sailed from New York May IA with supplies for sufferers by the volcanic eruptions at St. Pierre. Martinique, and St. Vincent, British West Indies, returned to the New York navy yard on Friday, having dis charged her mission.
 Edward Niven, one of the best known Journalists of northeastern Pennsylva- mia, died on Sunday at his home, fin Wilkesbarre, of pneumonia, aged six ty-one. He was one of the founders of the Wilkesbarre Daily Leader and fin early life was employed on newspapers in New York, Chicago and San Fran cisco.
 To promote canoeing as sport among the youth of Massachusetts Thomas w Lawson of Boston has Of- fered tobin bronze cup from plates of the yacht Independence to be raced for yearly by crews of four from any high school in the state. The events will be held on Mystic lake, Winchester. under the auspices of the Winchester Boat club.
 Another of the big supply bills of the government was disposed of by the senate on Tuesday, the naval bill, car.