Connecticut western news., 1902-01-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly nnd T-rseIy Told.

dan arrived at Manila on Monday from San Francisco with much sickness on board, including thirty cases of mea- sles.
 A tunnel company has been incorpo- rated at Albany to burrow under East river for a distance of ten miles into Kings county for underground rail roads.
 The pension office has granted pen sion of $50 a month to the widow of Colonel Liscum of the Ninth infantry, who was killed at Tientsin during the campaign in China.
 Edward Kern, the absconding valet of Paul Thebaud of New York city, confessed his identity in New Orleans and was started on Saturday on the way to New York in custody of a de tective.
 The Yosemite club of San Francisco has decided to postpone indefinitely the proposed Jefrries- -Sharkey fight. The chief reason given is the unsatis- factory ending of the recent Sharkey- Maher fight at Philadelphia. According to statistics collected by the census bureau, the gross value of the products of manufacture in the | United States in 1900 was SIS, ,oo3, ,127,- 6S2 as compared with S9,372, 437, ,2s2 in 1890. an increase of 3s7s per cent. It has been definitely decided that the treaty between Denmark and the United States providing for the sale of the Danish West Indies is to be signed at Washington this week. All the for malities in Copenhagen are completed. The Hotel Cecil at Ottawa was burn ed to the ground on Saturday. The ho- | tel was owned by ex-Mayor Davidson, who rebuilt it and had it newly fur nished about three years ago. The loss is about $50, 900; insurance, about S30,- 900.
 l At Bridgeton, N. J., Monday a two year-old child of MT. and Mrs William Harkins of Baskerville was burned to death by her clothes catching fire from l the stove. She put a broom in the stove, and the blaze soon caught her dress.
 The naval retiring board has declin- ed to recommend the retirement of | Captain Richmond r. Hobson. Cap tain Hobson had applied for retirement on the ground that his eyes were af- fected by his work at Hongkong and Manila
 The will of Mrs. Priscilla H. Cresson of Philadelphia, probated on Friday, creates 6 trust fund of $500, 900, the interest upon which is to be paid to the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts to aid students in studying in Europe.
 Captain Benjamin M. Hartshorne, Jr., of the Seventh infantry was shot from ambush and killed Jan. in the eastern part of the island of Samar. Captain Hartshorne was recently transferred from the Ninth to the Sev- enth infantry.
 The third attempt since Friday night to burglarize the hardware and lumber concern of Faston, Bising & Worden at Hoosick Falls, N. T., was made early Monday morning. The burglars were seen at work, and they fled. They got only a few dollars.
 At Plattsburg, Mo, Mrs. Addie Rich ardson has been acquitted of the charge of murdering her husband, Frank w. Richardson, a wealthy mer- chant, who was shot and killed on Christmas eve, 1900, as he was enter ing his home in Savannah, Mo.
 Upon the recommendation of Immi- grafton Commissioner Fitchie of New York Supervising Inspector Frank Sax ton, a nephew of Mrs. Mckinley, on du- ty at New York city. has been dismiss. ed from the service. The ground for dismissal Is given as neglect of duty.
 The Chicago Record Herald says that it is rumored in faculty circles at the University of Chicago that John D. Rockefeller is contemplating a gift of $26, ,O0O, 900 in order to see the complete development of the university accord ing to President W. R. Harper's plans.
 L. Austin Spalding of Lockport, N. T., who was a consul in Germany un- der President Cleveland, died on Satur day, aged seventy years. He left three sons-Sheriff B. Gurney Spalding, Dep. uty Sheriff William spalding of Lock. | port and Lyman A. Spalding of New York.
 Colonel Charles W. Miner of the Sixth infantry reports the conditions on the island of Negros to be unsatis- factory and that 400 bolomen and 40 men armed with rifles under the com mand of the fanatical bandit leader Papa Isio are terrorixing the people of Negros.
 The American Tobacco company has decided to enter upon the manufacture of Cuban cigars and to this end has purchased the oldest and most impor- tant factory in the island of Cuba, the Cubanas Carvajal, for the manufac- ture of cigars and will build from this foundation.
 The United States marshal at San Juan, Porto Rico, has seized 5000 fin counterfeit silver near Ponce. The commercials were quarters, half dollars and dollars. Two men. Ramon Rentas and Moreno Ortiz, were arrested and bailed after a hearing before the Unit. ed States commissioner
 Harrison c. Hobart, the last survivor of the Wisconsin constitutional conven- ton and one of. if not the last, survivor of the original five who planned and made the famous Ross tunnel and by | IL esCdptu IEOun LibuJ pElsOHt dleu of old age at the hospital at the Sol diers' home In Milwaukee Wis, on Sunday.
 The superior court at Scranton, Pa, has decided that Alexander Bergman, who attempted to assassinate H. c. Prick in 1892, must serve his full term sf twenty one years, less the usual al- lowance for good behavi Bergmsn's attorneys recently asked for his re lease, claiming the benefit of the new commutntion law.
 Richard Croker, having resigned the leadership of Tammany Hall to Lewis Nixon, the shipbuilder, sailed for Wan tage, England, on the steamer Philn delphia on Thursday. MT. Croker an nounced that his retirement as the hana nF 1Na m, nm nv xunpld not ha ,aa,,,