Connecticut western news., 1902-01-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

J. Gage as secretary of the Treasury on Jan. 25.
 Andrew Carnegie has offered to build a public library in the city of Oneida, N. Y., to cost $11,0
 Official returns show that the Boer losses by killed, wounded and surren. dered during 1901 totaled 14.Ss7 men.
 Elbridge s. Brooks, widely known as a writer and historian, died at his home in Somerville, Mass, aged fifty. five years
 fire in the Gunther block at Middle town, N. r., on Saturday caused sev eral thousand dollars damage. The postofflce was flooded.
 The statement of earnings of the United States Steel corporation for nine months made on Tuesday to the directors shows a total of $s4, 779, ,29S.
 Rev. Joseph Pullman, D. D., presid- ing elder of the New York east confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal church, died at Stamford, N. Y.. on Saturday.
 Secretary Root has been informed that Judge Ide of the Philippine com mission is i'll from an attack of dysen- tery and has gone to Japan to recuper- ate.
 Cole and James Younger have ap. piled to the Minnesota state board of pardons for commutation of their life sentences for murder to thirty-fve years.
 Dr. Charles Manning Freeman, son of the late ex-Sheriff Manning Free man, and Miss Mary Ellen Wilkins the novelist, were married at the home of the groom at Metuchen, N. J., Wednes- day.
 The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business Dec. 31, 1901, the national debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,- oil ,62S, ,2S6, decrease for the month of $S,843,1 ,192.
 Edmund Peck, retired Methodist clergyman, aged eighty, and his daugh- ter, Mary Peck, aged thirty-five, were burned to death in a fire which de stroyed their home at Bethany, Conn.,, on Saturday.
 The boiler of a locomotive of the Central of Georgia railway exploded at the shops in Macon, Ga, on Thurs day, killing five men outright and in- turing twelve others, three of whom will probably die.
 Charles A. Brown of Troy, N. Y., prominently identified with the knit goods business, died on Monday. He was president of the Rob Roy Hosiery company of Troy and the Hoosick Falls Hosiery company.
 Tom Sharkey and Jim Jeffries 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.
 Bert Cooper, aged twenty-two, and Arthur Snyder, aged thirty, unmarried and carpenters engaged on the new Zabriskie mansion at Annandale, N. Y., while skating on the Hudson river Sunday afternoon were drowned.
 The will of the late George M. Pull man has been admitted to probate at Redwood City, Cal. The petition to the court stated that the estate was valued at $500,OO0, but the evidence showed 1t to be worth only about $2,- 900.
 After a continuous service of nearly half a century in the we'll known law firm of Evarts, Choate x Beaman, at 52 Wall street, New York city, Joseph H. Choate has withdrawn and, tenn porarily at least, will discontinue the practice of law.
 One million dollars is the sum offered by NJ. Robert Lebaudy, French multi millionaire, for the establishment of a French industrial school in connection with the University of Chicago It will be the greatest institution of its kind in the world.
 It having been found impossible to unite the creditors of the Pan-Ameri- can exposition to bring about the best possible results from the remaining assets of the exposition company, &C., tion has been taken for the appoint ment of a receiver.
 Superintendent w. E. Cash of the de- partment of collections and admissions of the Pan-American Exposition COM pany has presented his final report. The total attendance was S,520,04S. Of this number 5,306,S59 were free, and 3,213, 1S9 paid admissions.
 Every governor in the United States has been invited by Governor Nash, chairman of the Ohio auxiliary of the Mckinley National Memorial associa- tion, to issue an appeal to the citizens of his state or territory to set aside Ian. %, McKinley's birthday, as Nc Kinley day.
 The Crude Rubber company, incor- porated under the laws of Virginia in February, 1897, and having its offices at 25 Broadway, New York city, has gone into the hands of a receiver. Ac- cording to trustworthy reports, its as- sets are about $3,00o,000 and its liabili- ties about $3,o00,OO0.
 Reports to R. G. Dun X Go. show that failures for the year 1901 were II ,002 in number and $113,092,3 ,376 in amount of liabilities, while of banking and other tiduciary institutions there were seventy-four insolvences, involv. ing $1S,01S,7T4, a total of 11,076 de- faults and S13L111. 15o liabilities. Ex-Mayor Frank O. Briggs of Tren- ton, N. J., on Monday filed with the governor his bond for $300,000 as state treasurer. The bond was signed by Ferdinand w. Roebling and Charles c. Roebling and was approved by the governor Mir. Briggs took the oath of office and at once assumed charge of the office.
 Admiral Schley visited the White Rouse Tuesday to request the presi- lent to entertain and consider an ap- peal for the reversal of the action of Secretary Long and the disapproval of the majority judgment of the court of inquiry. The interview was satisfac. tory, the president granting the admi' rars request.
 Because of wrong signal at Nine veh, Pa, on Friday fast eastbound