Connecticut western news., 1902-05-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide worl,
 Drieny and TeraeIy Told.

A furniture manufacturers pool, with capital s< es5, ,o0O. 900, has been formed In Chicago.
 The big lawyers who made the fight for the $20,0O0, ,O00 of the Fair estate for the three heirs will draw nearly $2,00O. 900 in fees
 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of the president, has fully recovered from his attack of pneumonia and returned to school at Groton, Mass.
 Walter D. Pugh, a private of the Forty-third United States artillery, has been arrested at Atlantic City, N. l., as deserter. He was found with his wife living on Houston street.
 The president nominated Robert s. Mccormick, now United States minis ter at Vienna, to be ambassador to Aus tria- Hungary, the legation at Vienna having been raised to an embassy.
 With perseverance characteristic of Presbyterians, and especially of west. ern Presbyterians, the California men won in the contest for the privilege of entertaining the general assembly next year.
 In New York George T. Bruins, an ex- aminer of accounts for the Equitable Life Insurance company, shot his wife and killed himself at their home on Tuesday. Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy.
 At Lansing, Mich, fire has totally destroyed the plants of the RickerC Humber company and damaged the plant of the Lansing Veneered Door company; total loss, $55,o00; insur ance, $42, 400.
 Hon. Henry Clay Mccormick oi Wilkesbarre, Pa, formerly congress man from the Sixteenth Pennsylvania district for two terms and attorney general during the administration ol Governor Hastings, Is dead.
 Professor Reginald A. Fessenden. the wireless telegraph expert of the weath. CT bureau, has completed arrangements for the organization of close five mil. lion dollar company for the develop ment of the wireless system.
 On Saturday last Arthur Feather stones four-year-old chestnut Ally Rel ma won the Brooklyn handicap in 2:oI at 40 to 1, with o'Connor up. Reina by a short head led home thirteen of the most noted racers of the American turf.
 Herbert H. Matteson, the defaultins cashier of the First National bank of Great Falls, Mon., pleaded guilty 1T the federal court and was sentenced tC ten years in the penitentiary by Judg, Knowles. Matteson's shortage wal $196,00O.
 One dead and five seriously if mol fatally injured Is the result of a loco motive explosion fin Manchester, Va The accident occurred on the tracks of the Atlantic Coast line, the engine being attached to train 91. local freight
 Walter Vrooman of Trenton, Mo-, head of the western cooperative movement, has closed contracts for the purchase of six of the largest wheat elevators in the Kansas wheat belt and two of the largest Touring mills. The price paid is said to have been $750.. 900.
 By the will of Jacob H. Fairbanks Cushing academy of Ashburnham Mass. receives a legacy estimated al from $200, 900 to $4O0, 900. In addition the town of Ashburnham receives $40,. 900 for a memorial town hall. Mir. Fairbanks made fortune in grain and iron.
 By a unanimous vote the Right Rev John NJ. Farley, auxiliary bishop of New York. was chosen dignissimus, or most worthy, by the irremovable rec tors of the diocese of New York and consulters called together to express their choice for Il successor to the late Archbishop Corrigan.
 The blacksmithinr and iron depart ments of the Nichols X Shepard Thrasher company plant at Battl, Creek, Mich, were destroyed by irt Tuesday night. The loss is estimated at $20,O00 on buildings and SS0, 900 or machinery. The fire was caused by i'm properly banked coke fires.
 Word has been received of the death from consumption of Lieutenant R. O. Day at San Isidro, Luzon. Day was during the Cuban campaign captain of Troop l., rough riders, and was promot. ed by President Roosevelt for gallantry at San Juan Hill. He was treasurer of Nueva Ecija province when he died.
 At Chicago on Saturday 600 union teamsters employed in the delivery of meat for the big packers went on q strike for substantial increase in wages and for shorter hours. As a re. suit of the strike the men say no meat will be delivered to retail dealers or at railroad stations for shipment out of the city.
 In the presence of Mrs. Mckay, his victim, and a great crowd Dudley Nor, gan, a negro, was burned at the stake In Lansing. Tex, Friday. Mrs. Mckay Is the wife of q section foreman. Mor. gan assaulted her last Saturday morn, ing. He was captured near Mount Pleasant by q sherif's posse with bloodhounds.
 The Delaware and Hudson railroad'i special newspaper train, operating be. tween Albany and Lake George, has beaten its best previous record. II drew out of Albany, N. r., at GIG o'clock. made a short stop at Mechan' icsville and arrived at Saratoga at 0:50l having covered thirty-nine miles in just forty minutes.
 Augustine w. Perrin, editor of the Cattaraugus Republican, died at his home in Salamanca. N. Y., of pneumo mia, aged fifty-nine years. MT. Perrin was one of the oldest and most widely known editors of western New York. He was veteran of the civil war and had been United States Indian agent for several years.
 John +. Clancy, who has been or trial for the murder of John Clark, 6 Long Island City politician, was ac, quilted by a jury before Judge New, berger In New York Tuesday. Clancy shot Clark during a quarrel on the night of June 21 last, and the acQuitta ,,.ua x., tAa .x.1x,rA sA.. kk. AtfH.u.. .-um.