Connecticut western news., 1902-06-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

uola tteeiS, tDe IaNoTlte, won the Suburban handicap, worth S10,0O0 al Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., on Saturday.
 Two men lost their lives and n third was probably fatally injured at Ross ton, Pa, on Thursday in a drowning accident.
 Miss Mabel Hanna, daughter of the Ohio senator, and Harry Parsons of Cleveland were married in Cleveland on Monday.
 The president has nominated Captain Charles K. Clark to be advanced seven numbers in rank and to be rear admi. ral in the navy,
 The gifts during the year to Chicago university aggregated S2,012, ,000, Sl, 250,000 of this sum having come from John D. Rockefeller.
 Unprecedented snowstorms have oc. cured in Cape Colony. Trains were blocked by six foot deep snowdrift at Naauwpoort on Saturday.
 The navy department has published the formal erder placing Captain sam. uel c. Lemly, judge advocate general of the navy, on the retired list.
 The cholera statistics in the Philip pines up to date are as follows: Ma. nila, 1.2S7 cases and ], ,042 deaths; prov. inces. 5,255 cases and 3.713 deaths.
 The Susquehanna Iron company has yielded to the demands of striking pud- dlers after six weeks delay. The price per ton will be $4.50 instead of x4.25 as heretofore.
 Yale defeated Princeton in the final game of the series for the intercollegi- ate baseball championship of 1902 at the Polo grounds in New York city by a score of 5 to 4.
 Alexander City, Ala, a town of 1.500 people, was practically wiped out by fire on Friday. the estimated loss reaching S750.000, which the insurance will not begin to cover.
 Rev. John Spurgeon. a retired Con gregational minister and the father of the Sturgeon family of preachers, died on Saturday at South Norwood, Eng. land. He was born July 15, ls10.
 Mrs. Louis wistrope, wife of A plant CT living at Brandywine, near Hazle- hurt, Miss. on Monday killed her six small children while her husband was away and fled after firing the house.
 MT. Charles NJ. Schwab, president of the United States Steel corporation, in the name of his wife and himself, an nounces that he will build chapel to cost $65,000 for the Pennsylvania State college.
 In addition to great property damage by a cloudburst in Vermont on Satur- day five railroad men lost their lives, a freight train on the Central Vermont railroad having run Into a washout at Middlesex.
 The Rev. Anson Judd Upson, chan cellor of the University of the State of New York and ex-president of Auburn Theological seminary, died at Glens Falls, N. Y., on Sunday at the age of eighty-two.
 Fl. D. Kirkover. Jr., of Fredonia, N. Y., is the possessor for the ensuing year of the New York city cup as a re- suit of his work in the state events of the forty-fourth annual state shoot, which closed at Rochester, N. Y., on Friday.
 Timothy Donohue. we'll known ns a baseball catcher, who was under con tract with the Washington American league club, died on Friday at his home in Taunton, Mass. Mir. Donohue played last year with the Chicago Ma. tional league team.
 The Democratic state central com mittee of Ohio has decided that the Democratic state convention shall be held in Sandusky Sept. 2 and 3. Sam E Johnson was defeated by Tom l.. Johnson for the temporary chairman. ship of the convention.
 Rev. Samuel R. Ward died on Friday at Richfield Springs, N. Y., aged seven. ty-three years. He was ordained in 1856 and had held the longest pastorate of any Universalist minister in New York state. He had been at Richfield Springs thirty-six years.
 The unveililng and dedication of q memorial arch to 2,25o Confederate dead attracted 5000 people from all parts of the country to Columbus, O., on Saturday. The arch is the gift of William H. Harrington of Cincinnati, a former citizen of Columbus.
 Upon his own application Captain Lemly, judge advocate general of the navy, was on Saturday examined by the naval retiring board. The board has not yet reported, but it is known to have condemned the officer as unfit for active service on account of his i'm paired health.
 The New York state court of appeals has unanimously affirmed the judg- ment of conviction of John Most. who was convicted of publishing an improp- CT article in paper owned by him in New York and who was sentenced to one years imprisonment in the New York penitentiary.
 Chicago was visited by an electric itorm Sunday afternoon which wrought death. caused a panic among a hundred Sunday school children and damaged considerable property. Three churches were struck by electric bolts, one of them, the Memorial German Episcopal, being destroyed.
 Favorable action has been taken by tne senate cOmunttee on IOreiSn reih. tions on resolutions permitting Hon. H. H. D. Fierce, third assistant sec retary of state; Colonel Theodore Bingham of the army and Captain T. s. Rodgers of the navy to accept dec orations of the Legion of Honor from France.
 c. +. w. Nicely, who on March 24 was sentenced to ten years Imprisonment and to pay & fine of $56, ,701 for con- plicity in the Cuban postal frauds, has been released under the bill signed by President Palma June 8 granting am. nesty to all Americans convicted of crimes in Cuba during the term of the American occupation and those await. ing trial.
 The engagement is announced of Lord Francis Hope and Beatrice Rick etts, whose grandmother, the late Lady Caroline Ricketts, was a daughter of the fourth duke of Newcastle. Lord Francis Hope and Miss Ricketts are cOuSfna In Aa rch nf thfs xaar T o,-a