Connecticut western news., 1902-04-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.
 The shah of Persia nas decided to

Rev. c. c. Woodruff. the oldest Meth odist minister in Amer ca. died at Mag
 polia, Minn., on Sunday.
 Mayor Carter H. Harrison has for
 warded to Paul Kruger at The Hague
 an invitation to visit Chicago.
 A combination of the Gold and Clark
 railway systems is reported, the object
 being a complete transcontinental line.
 The Republicans of the Eleventh
 district of Ohio have nominated Hon.
 Charles H. Grosvenor for congress by
 exclamation.
 The postoftice at Hudson, Pa, was
 broken into on Monday night by four
 masked men and S197 in stamps and
 S65 in money taken.
 The Second battalion of the Eleventh
 infantry, which has been stationed in
 Porto Rico for four years, has returned
 to the United States.
 It is announced from San Francisco
 that the Commercial company will lay cable to the Philippines without re- gard to action of congress. Governor Odell has vetoed the Weekes bill amending the primary cleo. tion law by abolishing the spring en. rollment in New York city. Since Jan. the shipments of lumber by water from the Columbia river have exceeded 23,0o0,0Oo feet. the largest on
 record for corresponding period. James L. Stewart, for fifty years one of the leading members of the Sullivan county bar, died on Sunday at Middle town, N. Y.. aged efghty-three. He gave up practice several years ago. The street car strike which has pre-
 vailed In Norfolk, Va, during the past fortnight has been officially declared off. This action was largely due to the fact that the strike had become tire some to the business people. A number of persons were injured in | collision that occurred at Carlstadt, N. J., on Monday between a train on the New York and New Jersey railroad l and a trolley car of the Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson Trolley compa. ny.
 While Grand Trunk passenger train No. was passing through Milletts l Mich, tank station near Lansing. on Sunday the rear coach and the Pull
 man sleeper were thrown otf the track
 One person was killed, and five were
 injured.
 James Whitfield, president of the Western Baseball league and sporting
 editor of the Kansas City Star. commit ted suicide at his home in Kansas City | on Monday. MT. Whitfield was well | knn In ! the west.
 The president has appointed Briga- | dier General R. F. Hughes a major gen eral and Colonels Isaac D. De Russ, An drew S. Burt and NJ. " Sheridan to be
 brigadier generals in the regular army
 to i'll existing vacancies caused by re- | tirements.
 | The son of Prince Ching, who was | selected as the imperial envoy to the
 coronation of King Edward, aecompa-
 nied by his suit, has left Peking for
 London. He will return by way of the United States and will visit the princi- pal cities of this country. With ten counties yet to report off,
 cial and unofficial reports yield the fol- lowing results on the United States
 senatorship in Arkansas: James F.
 Clarke, 69; James K. Jones, 90; neces-
 sary to elect on joint ballot, 67. These | figures are deemed reliable. Charles c. Dwight, justice supreme court of New York, retired, died at Au- | burn, N. Y., on Tuesday, aged seventy | two. He had been on the bench over
 thirty years and at one time sat in
 the court of appeals. He was colonel of a regiment in the civil war. At Mount Holly, N. T., on Thursday
 in the face of the judges charge the | jury in the trial of Mrs. l.. F. Haines,
 accused of the murder of her infant
 stepdaughter Gwendolin, brought in a
 verdict of not guilty. The jury was out ! an hour and twenty-one minutes. On Monday morning all the mines of
 the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and | Iron company resumed operations. The | conditions of settlement have not yet
 been made public further than that all
 differences have been adjusted mutu. ally satisfactory to all concerned. MT. Anthony Matre, national secreta-
 ry of the American Federation of Cath olic Societies, has confirmed the report of Bishop G. Messmer's appointment
 as archbishop of Manila. Bishop Mess
 mer is one of the spiritual advisers of the Federation of Catholic Societies. A live stock train bound east was thrown from the rails on the West Shore near Vernon, N. Y, on Tuesday
 by derailed empty car on n train passing on the westbound track.
 Twenty stock cars went into the ditch, and twenty-five head of cattle were
 killed.
 Foxhall Keene was thrown from his
 horse while riding with the Quorn
 hounds near Melton Mowbray. Eng
 land, on Friday. He was not injured | except from the shock, which caused
 him to remain uncohscious for a long
 time. He is making good progress to-
 ward recovery.
 Enrico Malatesta, the Italian anarch- lst, has been sentenced by a court of | justice at Rome to five months impris- pnment for contumacy on account of | certain articles applauding the murder of President Mckinley which were | written for and published in an anarch-
 lst newspaper.
 On board the steamer Gaelic, which
 sailed from San Francisco Tuesday for the orient, were Rear Admiral Robley
 D. Evans who goes to Yokohama to take command of the Asiatic station; | Commander NJ. R. Harris, who is bound for Yokohama to join the American fleet, and F. Rundsdors, the
 German consul at Formosa. Admiral
 Evans is accompanied by his wife and
 daughter and his son, Ensign r. T.
 Evans. and the latter's wife. The | Gaelic will be the second regular mall
 steamer from this port to touch at Ma nila.
 Turkey has placed the responsibility for the outbreak in Macedonia upon the committee in Bulgaria, which, it claims, was responsible for the ab-
 duction of Miss Ellen M. Stone. Che
 kib Bey, the Turkish minister, said l that he was confident that the trouble