Connecticut western news., 1902-01-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide wor1'
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.


 The manager of the wellsville (O) plant of the American Sheet Steel com pany has been indicted for discharging a union man.
 Governor 0dell has issued procla- nation that Jan. 29, the anniversary of the birth of the late President McKin- ley, be observed in this state.
 The inauguration of Governor A. B. Cummins of Iowa took place at Des Moines on Thursday at the Auditorium in the presence of 5000 people.
 Senor Gomez, presidente of the town of Pasig, province of Manila, has been arrested on the charge of appropriating municipal taxes to his personal use.
 By the collapse of a bridge at Indian apolis, Ind, Thursday a trolley car containing twelve passengers was thrown into the river. No lives were lost.
 G. s. Dexter. slxty-eight years old, pioneer farmer. died at Fairbury, Ills, on Monday. He had not taken q drink of water for over forty years, it Is said.
 
 in June last murdered his wife and child, has been sentenced to death by Judge Gummere. He will be hanged Feb. 2s.
 At Saratoga, N. Y., on Saturday Mrs. Honorah Sweeney fell dead while mourners were assembling to attend the funeral of her husband, Jeremiah Sweeney.
 A check amounting to S1,0o0,o 900 has been received in St. Paul, Minn., for payment of the policy on the life of the late Frank H. Peavey, the Minneapolis millionaire.
 Admiral George W. Sumner, at pres ent commanding the League Island na- wy yard, has been selected by Secretary Long to take command of the south At lantic station.
 Joseph Burke. the violinist and actor who achieved prominence as the ac- companist to Jenny Lind on her tour In 1S5o-51, died in New York on Sunday in his eighty-sixth year,
 A meeting of the trustees of Will Hams college was held at the Manhat-  which Dr. Henry Hopkins was unani- mously elected president.
 William F. Miller of Brooklyn, the Franklin syndicate swindler, was re- turned to Sing Sing prison on Monday to serve out his term of ten years, the court of appeals having denied him n new trial.
 The body of one of the cabin passen- gers of the lost steamer Walla Walla was recovered from the sea Wednes- day morning by the steamer Newburg. It has been identified as that of James Gallagher.
 The war department Is advised of the surrender of 365 insurgents 10 Brigadier General James r. Wade at Cebu, Philippine Islands, Jan. II. On Jan. 15 they took the oath at Tagliba- ran, Bohol.
 Oscar r. Soule, a member of the Mer- Till X Soule company of Syracuse. N. Y., died at Pasadena, Cal, on Monday. Death resulted from an attack of pneu- monia. MT. Soule was sixty-seven years of age.
 
 pointed appraiser of the port of New York, was sworn in by Collector Bid we'll at the custom house Friday after noon. Mir. Whitehead took charge of his office Saturday morning.
 James Cooke Van Benschoten, IL. D., professor of Greek language and literature in Wesleyan university since 1883. died at Middletown, Conn, on Friday, aged seventy-four years. He was born in La Grange, N. Y.
 Governor Odell announces that after considering the charge against Sheriff Caldwell of Buffalo he has decided to remove him from office. Frank T. Coppins Is appointed to succeed Mir. Caldwell. He was accused of not sup pressing gambling.
 General J. Franklin Bell Is still ac- tive in Batangas province. Luzon. A recent engagement in this province, in which the insurgents were defeated, with severe loss, resulted in the wounding of one American officer and the killing of one private.
 Frank Rakowski, soldier in the United States army. has been degraded at Fort Canby, Or, and sentenced to ten years Imprisonment in the military prison on Alcatraz island, California. Rakowski had threatened to assas- sinate President Roosevelt.
 Governor Odell has appointed Colonel Thomas w. Bradley of Walden, Or ange county. a member of the New aFo fn Nfw1 ha burg and Chattanooga battlenelds to All the vacancy caused by the death of General Daniel Butternsld.
 The plant of the Troy Collar compa- ny at Troy, N. T., was practically de- stroyed by fire on Thursday; loss S25,- GOO; insurance, s24.ooo. The plant of the German Printing and Publishing company on the first floor was dam. aged to the extent of So,o0o.
 Professor R. +. Slaymates, statisti. clan of the Illinois Firemen's associa' tion, has completed statistics for the last year showing the total fire loss in the United States to be S1o8, ,50o, GOO Twenty per cent of the nres were re- ported due to defective flues.
 John Lutz was hanged st Wilkes. barre. Pa. on Tuesday for the murder of his wife. Lutx kept his nerve until the moose was placed over his head, when he gave way and would have col lapsed had he not been supported by the sheriff He had been tried twice.
 Superintendent Charles k, Skinner of the New York state department of Dablic instruction has sent letter to the schools of the state asking that special programmes be prepared for Jan. %. the fifty-eighth anniversary of the late President Mckinley 's birth.
 A southbound Kansas City South ern passenger train was held up on Thursday n mile north of Spiro, I. IT., by seven masked men. Railroad and