Connecticut western news., 1902-03-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide wori'
 Briefly and Tersely Told.

 Philippine tariff bill. The bill now goes to the president.
 President Roosevelt, acting upon the recommendation of Attorney General Knox, has dismissed Arthur B. Moves, judge for the Second district of Alaska.
 Dr. Edward Mott Moore, one of the most eminent citizens of Rochester, N. | Y., died yesterday, aged eighty-eight | years. He was born in Railway, N. l.. | July 15 1874. Assemblyman Payne of Columbia county died on Tuesday at Hudson, N. | '. He was about thirty years old and | was serving his first term in the legis- | lature.
 Miss Ellen NJ. Stone the American missionary until recently held captive by brigands. has arrived in Constanti- nople from Salonika and is now at the United States legation.
 The directors of the United States Steel corporation met on Tuesday and reelected President Schwab and all the other officers whose terms expire Otherwise only routine business was transacted.
 MT. Whitelaw Reid will take Brook House, in Park lane, for his stay in London during the coronation. It is the residence of Lord Tweedmouth, and it is stated that Mir. Reid will pay S20,- 900 for six weeks.
 Indiana capitalists are arranging to build paper mill in London. It will be for the production of coated paper r.yf1l la, kind in that city. A few New York and Ohio men are also interested. The president has informed a commit tee from Charleston, S. C.. who called upon him on Monday that he will visit the exposition in that city. It was | feared the Tillman incident might cause him to change his plans. The subcommittee of the committee on interoceanic canals has agreed to l recommend to the full committee that the legal complications surrounding the Panama offer are such that the United States should not accept it. The senate Monday began consider ation of the Frye ship subsidy bill, | a measure to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and l foreign ports and for the common de- fense, to promote commerce and to en- courage deep sea fisheries.
 l Notices have been posted in the four cotton mills of the Fall River Iron works announcing that on and after March IT wages will be advanced 10 | per cent. The iron works, which em- | ploy 5000 hands, are owned by NJ. c. D. Borden of New York.
 A special train carrying the "Floro. dora" theatrical company from Nor. folk, Va, to Wilmington, Del, on the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad was wrecked at Eastville, Va. on Thursday, and several members of the company were seriously injured. General Chaffee has notified the war department that Lieutenant Sribler of the Philippine scouts has captured General Lucban. The prisoner Is con fined at Laguan, island of Samar. Luc- ban is one of the most energetic and ferocious of the insurgents. He Is a halfbreed.
 It is announced in a special dispatch from Madrid that a number of the | the recent plots at Barcelona have been shot at Fort Montjuich. A broth CT of General Moore, the Carlist lead CT, has been arrested for complicity in the Barcelona riots and will be tried by court martial.
 General James H. Wilson has an- nounced as his aids at the coronation of King Edward Lieutenant Colonel John Riddle, United States engineers and Lieutenant Colonel Henry D. Bcr- up, ordnance department. He desires Corporal Jefferson Moulton, Second cavalry, for orderly. All on the Wilson stan are now in Porto Rico and Cuba.
 Governor Odell has designated Jus tice Alden Chester of Albany to hold an extraordinary term of the supreme court at Hudson, N. r., on March 31 for the purpose of trying Harvey Bruce and the three Van Wormer brothers, the four men accused of mur- dering an aged farmer named Hallen- beck in the doorway of his home near | Hudson last December.
 Following the precedent of Lord Rob erts, who announced General CronJe's | aN oh hhN 'AiAA versary of the battle of MaJuba Hill, Lord Kitchener apparently selected the same anniversary to achieve a big sue cess by a combined movement, lasting | two days, against the Boer forces with in the Harrismith and Van Reenen line of blockhouses. The Boer losses aggre- gate 600 men killed or captured, and 2,OOO horses and 2s,oOO head of cattle fell into the hands of the British troops.
 I.oreto Lima, the Mochist leader, who was recently wounded, is dead. He ex- pired in the military hospital at Valen- cia, Venezuela. A dispatch from Port of Spain, Trinidad, says that the steamer Libertador, now operating in the interests of the Matos revolution against President Castro of Venezueln and whose name was recently an nounced to have been changed to Boil var, bombsrded the port of Guiria for the purpose of protecting the landing of insurgent forces there. Details of this action cannot be obtained.
 The memory of the late President William Mckinley was appropriately honored by the legislature of New York Tuesday night. The exercises were held in the assembly chamber and were presided over by Governor Odell. Seat ed on the platform were United States Senator Thomas c. Platt and the mem- bers of the legislative committee which arranged for the exercises. The speak or of the evening was the Hon. Charles Emory Smith, formerly postmaster general.