Connecticut western news., 1902-02-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 BrieHy and T~r.~iy Told.

Mountain peaks in the Olympia
 range, Washington. are reported to
 have been broken on by the receut
 earthquake.
 Baldwin's lumber mills and adjoin-
 ing property at Oswego Falls N. Y.
 were destroyed by fire on Saturday
 loss, S1oooo.
 Five thousand men of the American
 Woolen company have been thrown
 out of work by weavers' strike al olneyville. R I.
 John D. Billiard. one of the wealth.
 fest and most prominent residents of
 Meriden, Conn, died on Saturday. He
 was eighty-three years of age.
 The livery stable of Booth & Weston
 and an adjoining row of frame dwell
 ings at Lawrence. N. r.. were burned on Monday. The loss is estimated at | $4o.ooo.
 1 Fire in Norfolk. Va, on Thursday '
 did nearly S1.ooo.oo0 damage. Among | the buildings ruined was the Atlantic hotel, from which the guests had mar | TOW escapes
 Four persons were killed and one
 was probably fatally injured as the re
 suit of an explosion of gasoline Mon.
 day night in the bakery of George Car
 yer of Boyertown, Pa.
 The first monthly installment, amounting to 1.Soo,ooo taels, of the l Chinese indemnity was paid to the
 bankers commission of the powers al | Shanghai on Saturday.
 A loss of between S500oo and ST5.- | 900 was caused by a fire in Boston on Saturday in the i've story brick block
 S92 to 3e4 Atlantic avenue owned by
 the Atlantic Trust company. Fire of an unknown origin Monday night completely destroyed the main
 building of the Bridgeport Wood
 Finishing compsny's plant at New Mil,
 ford, Conn. It is estimated that the
 loss will reach $l0o,oo
 The jury at Frankfort, Ky. in the case of Jim Howard, on trial for the assassination of William Goebel, Thurs
 day returned a verdict of guilty against the prisoner and has fixed his punish, | ment at life Imprisonment. The United States supreme court has
 adjourned until Feb. 24. The court did not announce & decision in the
 Northern Pacific merger case, and that
 case now necessarily goes over until
 after the reconvening of the court. Colonel Sanders Dewees Bruce.
 founder of The Turf. Field and Farm and one of the greatest authorities up on the pedigree and genealogy of thor | oughbred horses, died in New York on
 Friday. He was in his seventy seventh year.
 The gunboat Machias, which has
 been at the Brooklyn navy yard for a month for repairs. has been ordered by
 the navy department to proceed al once to Cuba to join the north Atlantic squadron in the maneuvers at that | point
 Elijah Thomas. a well known old ne | gro hermit. was burned to death in his | mountain hut near Spring Green. N
 T., on Monday. Thomas gave the gov ernment valuable assistance in locat ing moonshine distilleries in the noun.
 tains a year ago.
 Lillian Norfica, who Is in San Fran. cisco suffering from the shock caused | by her experience In a recent railroad wreck, has not improved so rapidly as was expected. She is unable to re
 ceive any visitors, and her concerts
 have been postponed.
 The United States senate on Thurs, day confirmed the nomination of Gen
 eral Wilder s. Metcalf as pension 1 agent at Topeka. Kan, Senator Hoar
 accepting as satisfactory his exouera'
 ton by the committee on the charge of
 killing an unarmed Filipino. William Collins Whitney, one of the | most potent men in the financial world \ of the United States, has retired from
 all active business affairs and will de
 vote the remainder of his life to rest and enjoyment. This statement is !! made on the authority of Mir. Whitney
 himself.
 Since it has become practically Ger tain that the Nelson bill creating the new department of commerce and labor | will become s law gossip has begun as | to who will be the first to head that department The name Of Senator
 Hanna has been mentioned many times
 in the last few days.
 | John Hughes, a farmer, aged sixty
 five. was found dead lying in the snow
 three miles east of Palmyra, N. Y. He
 was last seen driving home some dis tance from Palmyra Sunday evening.
 He doubtless missed his way. got out of his cutter to try and locate the road
 and was frozen to death. | haC haaY uEnnal h~ aft of the principal transatlantic steam ship lines whereby rates between this | country and England on three of the most important articles of export from
 the United States-grain, -four and 1 produce-win be advanced about 5o | per cent The new rate went into effect
 Monday morning.
 The old Anson Wood mansion in
 Hoosick Falls. N. l., was nearly ruin
 ed by fire on Saturday. AIvah HarrI- son Webster was going through the I Kitchen, lamp in hand. when he step | ped on one of four kittens that were | lying near the stove. The kitten squeal-
 ed. MT. Webster lost equipoise and the lamp fell, exploding on the floor. President Eliot of Harvard has an- nounced to the medical faculty that
 J. D. Rockefeller proposes to give $1.- 0oooo in furtherance of the medical school. provided that other friends of | the university will raise a sum of mon, ey in the neighborhood of S5o0,0O0 to
 be used by the Harvard medical school l for land buildings or endowment.
 New York capitalists are about to be- | gin the construction of the biggest can talever bridge on the continent. It is | to join Montreal and Longueuil across | the St. Lawrence river. The bridge is to be known ss the Royal Albert and
 will cost S10.Oo0.000. It will cut on
 about twenty miles for all the rail
 roads now entering Montreal from the | 1outh.
 John W. Gates has, according to the
 Chicago Tribune. announced the sale