Connecticut western news., 1902-06-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

rainstorm on Tuesday, and four per. sons were drowned.
 Thomas A. Edison believes that he has solved the storage battery problem as applied to automobiles.
 James Brown Lord, the architect, died in New York Sunday after a long illness from cancer of the liver.
 Captain Charles E. Russell of the Eighth infantry, U. s. A., was the first officer to die of cholera ht Manila.
 The two sons of President Palma sailed from Havana for New York to renew their studies in this country.
 The Cuban senate has confirmed the appointment of Gonzalez de Quesada as Cuban minister to the United States.
 Nathan Straus' fourteen booths for the sale of pasteurized milk to the poor at a nominal price has been opened in New York.
 The federal grand jury at Memphis indicted six railroads for forming a pool to divide cotton shipments and maintain rates.
 
 pneumonia John Henry Barrows, presi dent of Oberlin college, died on Tues day at 0berlin, O.
 J. F. Morgan left Rome on Sunday tor Venice, intending to proceed after ward to Athens and return to London Cor the coronation.
 Mrs. Hunt of Baltimore, who attend .x1 rNat.x 4as. N.N. haa gone to London to attend King Ed wards ceremonies.
 The wife of Morris c. Hahn, New York stockbroker. says her husband beat her during their wedding trip and IS suing for divorce.
 The Bethlehem Pa.) Steel company has received the contract for building the steel tubes for the Pennsylvania tunnel under the North river.
 Fifty persons committed suicide in Chicago during the month of May. This Is the greatest number recorded, according to the health department.
 Dr. Charles A. Peabody, superintend- ent of the Worcester CMass) City hos. pital for twenty years, was sent to prison for embedding 5000 of the hos pitfalls funds.
 It was said in New York on Sunday that union firemen and engineers in that city would refuse to handle soft coal in order to help the striking an thracite miners.
 It Is thought in Washington that Sir Henry Howard, at present British min ister to the Netherlands, will be ap. pointed to the United States to succeed Lord Pauncefote.
 A resolution of thanks to Secretary Hay for his Mckinley memorial ad- dress was adopted in the house of rep resentatlves on Monday, forty-six Dem ocrats voting against 1t.
 Walter D. Pugh, a private of the Forty-third United States artillery, has been arrested at Atlantic City, N. J.. as a deserter. He was found with his wife living on Houston street.
 James Mccoy, alias William Cooley. was shot, perhaps mortally, by one of District Attorney Jerome's detectives in a raid on a poolroom at 152 East Forty-second street, New York, on Mon- day night.
 As a result of the Staten Island (N. Y.) auto tragedy in which three people were killed and many injured the Au- tomobile Association of America will provide private course for future speed trials.
 The papal secretary of state, Cardi- nal Rampolla, received Judge Taft, governor of the Philippine Islands in Rome on Monday. Bishop Thomas O'Gorman of Sioux Falls, s. D., acted as interpreter.
 Peter c. Meaurer, wealthy retired business man of Meriden, Conn, stood before a mirror in his bedroom and shot himself through the right temple, dying instantly. He was subject to at- taeks of insanity.
 Colonel Dallas Bache, a surgeon in the United States army, retired, died on Tuesday at San Diego, Cal. He entered the army as assistant surgeon in 1861 and served in the field during the entire civil war.
 The French battleship Gaulois smiled from Boston with some of the mem bers of the French mission on board. The Count de Rochambeau and several others. however. remained for q more extended visit in this country.
 A suit for S50,0O0 has just been be- gun in White Plains. N. r., against the New York Central Railroad company for damages incurred in the Park ave. nue tunnel wreck. This is the twentl. eth suit growing out of the disaster.
 Two thousand signalmen, dispatch. CTS, telegraphers and towermen ems ployed by the New York Central rail. road will receive an increase in their May envelopes, due on June 10. The additional pay aggregates S125,000 a year.
 Rev. ]. c. Roehm. for tifty-one years pastor of the First Evangelical Luther. an church of Galveston, Tex, is dead from a stroke of paralysis, aged eighty years. He was pioneer of Galveston and an organizer of the church in Texas.
 The Washington, Baltimore and An napolis Railroad company has just given out contracts for grading a trol- ley line between Baltimore and Wash ington. The road will be thlrty-one miles long and will be finished in eight months.
 Noah Broadway Bacon, who was i02 years of age on Dec. 10, 1901, died at his home in Des Moines, Ia.. on Thurs day. On his last birthday he enter tained the Octogenarian club of Des Moines, of which he was the oldest member.
 Mrs. Carrie Nation, who was sen fenced to the Shawnee county OHan) Jail on May 10 for one month and to pay A fine of S100 at the rate of S1 a