Connecticut western news., 1902-01-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.


 Briefly and TerseIy Told.
 Three men were killed in & furnace explosion at Sharpsvills, Pa. Friday.
 Charges against Sherln Caldwell of Erie county, N. T., were made to Gov ernor Odell on Friday.
 The Moosic Powder company's mill near Scranton, Pa, was blown up on Friday, and several persons were bad ly hurt.
 A daring scheme to kidnap Jay Gould. the young son of George Gould. was unearthed by the New York police on Saturday.
 Mayor Diehl of Buffalo on Thursday formally removed City Treasurer Phil ip Gerst from office for misappropria tion of funds.
 James Burton Shower, captain of the University of Pennsylvania crew of 1899. died on Tuesday at the university hospital of typhoid fever.
 The new east wing of the Hill Pre- paratory school at Pottstown, Pa, was destroyed by fire early Sunday morn ing, entailing loss of $4o.o0o.
 The Filipino general Samson and all the other insurgent chiefs on the island of Bohol have surrendered. with tven- weight cannon and forty-five guns.
 The steamer Braemer. which has ar rived at Victoria, B. C., from the ori- ent, brings news that the Chinese court has decided to engage an American adviser.
 Frank H. Peavy. the well known grain dealer of Minneapolis died at the Auditorium Annex in Chicago on Monday. It is said that MT. Peavy carried $1, 400, 900 life insurance.
 Tom Sharkey and Jim Jefrries have been matched to meet in a champion ship battle between March IT and April 30. The contest will be for twen- ty rounds, and Harry Corbett will be the referee and final stakeholder.
 The battleship Missouri was launched at the shipyards at Newport News, Va. on Saturday. The launching passed on without a hitch. Miss Marion Cockrell daughter of Senator F. NJ. Cockren of Missouri, was sponsor for the ship. Edward s. Glennon of the New York police, wardmsn of the Tenderloin pre- cinct and known as "Devery's right hand" was on Friday sentenced to six months imprisonment on the charge of falling to report a disorderly house. Senor Lopez, who was arrested in Ba- tangas province for reasonable com munication with the insurgents, has been hanged. He was a brother of Sixto Lopez, Aguinaldo's European represent DN Governor John R. Rogers of the state of Washington died at Olympia on Fri day of pneumonia after an illness of five days. Governor Rogers was serv- ing his second term, to which he was elected as & Republican He had been at one time Populist.
 The board of aldermen of Buffalo has accepted the resignation of City Treas urer Philip Gerst, whose accounts are now undergoing an investigation. Gerst has p~ blicly admitted a shortage in his accounts of over S50,000, but claims it has been made good. A landslide on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad near Reusens Station, Va, Sunday night caused a wreck in which the engineer, conductor, fireman and baggageman of a passenger train were killed and several other persons injured, but none of them seriously.
 Hugh I. Bonner of New York has ac- ceptcd tie tender of an appointment as Chef of tie fire department of Ma r;ia. It is purposed to reorganize the Manila fire fighting service on modern American lines, and MT. Bonner was selected because of his fine record in New Yori; city.
 Mrs. Ed'a Co Uman Muir, daughter of the late Senator John k. McPlerson of New Jersey and wife of pr. Joseph Muir, United States consul at Stock | holm, Sweden, died in New York city of pneumonia on Monday. By Mrs. Muir's death the family of John R. Me ] Pherson becomes extinct.
 Edgar S. Maclay, the historian whose strictures upon Admiral Schley's con duct in the Santiago campaign had much to do with the calling of the court of inquiry, was on Friday dis charged from his position as special la- borer in the Brooklyn navy yard by or der of President Roosevelt. Arthur Egan of Chicago, seventeen, hero of twenty-three life saving ex- ploits in Lake Michigan, has been deco rated by Edward VII, king of Eng i land. for his heroism. Egan is the first resident of the United States to receive such honor. He is a British subject by reason of his birth in Toronto. John B. Weeks of Champaign, H.. personal friend of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, has received a letter from Mrs. Sampson in which she says the mental condition of the admi. ral is beyond recovery. The letter was written in reply to a note expressing sympathy with the rear admiral. Captain James Parker of Perth Am. boy, N. J., one of Admiral Schley's counsel, said on Monday that Admiral i Scf1ey regarded the Schley-Sampson controversy as closed, but that his 1 friends will ask congress to vindicate him by retiring him on full pay and re imbursing him for the expenses of his | trial.
 General Armstrong, agent of the war department, is at Fort Sill. Okla, mak. l ing arrangements for the release of | Chief Geronimo and the 29S ArizoI l Apache Indians who are held by the government as prisoners of war. They were captured by General Lawton twelve years ago after a 5000 mile campaign.
 | W. A. Mason of Washington, special examiner of the United States banking bureau, is now in Ballston, N. T., se- curing evidence in the Teller Fitcham l First National bank dedication to place before the United statee grand jury in February and at the trial. He is making a thorough investigation of the banks books and has informed the banks officers that the evidence is am. pie to secure the conviction of Fitch am