Connecticut western news., 1902-02-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 BrteHy and Ter.sIy Tcld.

fortune or Sl,NN,UpN.
 The John A. Roebling school. one of the public schools of Trenton, N. l., and two frame houses were burned on Friday.
 The two houses of the New Jersey legislature in joint session yesterday elected J. Willard Morgan of Camden state comptroller.
 Bob Fitxsimmons and Champion Jim Jeffries, the two greatest living pugil. ists. have been matched to fight again for the championship of the world in San Francisco.
 Riverius Marsh. wealthy inventor and hardware dealer of New Bruns- wick, N. J., died suddenly while at tending Sunday morning service at the Second Reformed church in that city. The city council of Cleveland. O., has authorized the director of law by a vote of 21 to to draw up the necessa. " ordinances for a system of three cent fare street car routes in that city. w. J. Arkell of New York, who for ten years has been president of The Judge Publishing company, has resign ed to accept the presidency of the Rei- sel Engine company at a salary of $25,. 600 a year
 William NJ. Tweed, aged fifty-five, son of the late Tammany chieftain of that name, dropped dead at his home in Stamford, Conn. of heart disease, MT. Tweed was formerly proprietor of a hotel in New York
 The president has decided to appoint James P. Platt. son of Senator Platt of Connecticut, to be United States dis trict judge for the district of Connectl- cut in place of William K. Townsend, promoted to be circuit judge. Brigadier General William H. Cop per, commander of the Second brigade, national guard of New Jersey, on Mon- day died suddenly of apoplexy in his office. He was born in Bristol, Pa, in | 1S44 and was a veteran of the civil | war.
 | Jerry Mccarthy. a baseball player, has been sentenced at Glendive. Mon, to five years in the state penitentiary for the theft of nearly $lS,00o worth of diamonds from the trunks of c. R, | Claussen, a travelling salesman for a Minneapolis Jewelry house. Three men killed, four probably ia tally and two seriously injured, one freight train & complete wreck and an other nearly so are the results of an ac cident on the Pennsylvania railroad or the steep grade few miles above the Horseshoe curve on Friday. Mme Lillian Nordica appeared iI concert at Portland, Or, on Friday be fore one of the largest audiences evel assembled at the MarQuam theater She has recovered entirely from bel recent illness, which made it necessary | to cancel a number of dates in Cali fornia.
 | The postoffice appropriation bill has been practically completed by tn, house committee on postoffices and pos roads and will be reported in a few days. It carries $1ST, ,916,6aS an in crease of $14.1SS,e1 over the current appropriation and of $S,1S5,o22 ovel the estimates.
 William Fl. West known to theatel goers for the past quarter of & centur, as Billy West, the minstrel" died il Chicago on Saturday of cancer, aget forty-five. He had been sick over tw, months. MT. Vests home was In Utica N. |. His friends In Chicago estimat, his estate at $500. 0.o00.
 Charles L. Tiffany, senior member O the jewelry firm in Union square, New York city, died yesterday after tw' days illness of pneumonia. Four day ago NIT. Tiffany celebrated his nine tieth birthday at his home, where h. had been confined since Oct. last ol account of an injury caused by fall.
 George May Powell of Philadelphia has received cablegram announcinl the death at Charing Cross hotel, Lon don, of Colonel Francis J. Turner, noted Boer scout and native O Brooklyn. Turner led some of tn most daring raids of the war and wa severely wounded in the battle of Co lenso.
 l It is reported that the total colleC tons at all ports in the Philippines ex espt siassi for the month of Januar. were about ST20,ooo in gold, beinI nearly as much as the collections dur ing October and November last an, about S1oo,oo0 more than the colIeC tons for the single months of Angus and September last.
 The police of Rochester are lookin for Thomas H. Leonard, cashier of tn Deering Harvester company branch who suddenly disappeared from tha city on the night of Jan. 25. An exam ination of Leonard's books shows \ nf Onl F,n fn fha nraoar l time Three years ago Leonard cam to Rochester from Albany.
 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was O Monday reelected president of the Ma tional American Woman Suffrage as sociation for the ensuing year. Prt vious to her first election as presiden of the association Mrs. Catt was tn chairman Of the committee on organ
 Eation, with offices in New York. an
 had occupied that office for five year.
 Rev. George Carter Needham. th acted evangelist, died suddenly on Sur day of neuralgia of the heart at hl home at Narberth. a suburb of Philt delphia. He returned last week froI three weeks evangelistic campaig through Tennessee and expected shor Iy to go to Chicago to preach. Nil
 Needham was born in Ireland abou xxty years ago.
 The Lackawanna Steel company c
 West Seneca. Erie county, N. T., was iI corporated at Albany on Friday, with
 capital of S4o.Ooo, 900. The director
 are: H. Nick. Twombley and D. (
 Mills of New York city; Henry A.
 Taylor of Newport, R. l.; J. c. McCu sough of North Bennington, Vt; II Nsltsrs of Baltimore and Samuel Ms ther of Cleveland, O.
 Seven men. including two officials 0 New York city. were indicted by th grand jury on Wednesday. charge , with being responsible for the fats
 explosion in the rapid transit sul
 way at Park avenue and Forty y-fr' street. The city officials arc charge