Connecticut western news., 1902-05-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings Of the Wide World
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 The Missouri supreme court has be- gun an inquiry into the alleged beef trust.
 Twelve thousand Jews are reported ready to leave Roumania for the Unit. ed States.
 The American polo team won the first match game for the international cup at Ranleigh. England. on Saturday.
 President Roosevelt on Friday pre- sented diplomas to the graduating class at the Naval academy at Annapolis.
 John n. Long 'relinquished the port folio of the navy department on Thurs. day to w. II. Moody of Massachusetts.
 A building in Marion, Ind, was de- molished by natural gas explosion on Mondayand a score of persons injured.
 It Is understood that J. Pierpont Nor. gan gets S125O0,000 in stock of the shipping combine in return for his serv- lees in organizing and hnanciering the combine.
 President Roosevelt has signed the Chinese exclusion bill. The pen used was given to Representative Kahn of California, who has taken a deep inter est in the bill.
 President Roosevelt has directed that the new infantry post to be established at Indianapolis shall be named Fort Benjamin Harrison in honor of the late president of that nAme. Craig wadsworth of New York has been appointed third secretary of the embassy at London to succeed w. c. Eustis, and Joseph II. Glider has been appointed dispatch agent at London. The president has sent to the senate the nomination of Frank r. Sargent of Illinois, grand master of the Brother hood of Locomotive Bremen, to be commissioner general of immigration. H. G. Squiers, secretary of the lega- ton st Peking, has been selected by the president to be minister to Cuba, and | General Bragg of Wisconsin has been selectetd us consul general at Havana. A new electric railroad from Troy, N. Y., to willIamstown. Mass, Is to be built this summer. It will be fifty miles in length. George k. Greene of Hoosick Falls is president of the company that will build the road.
 The Rev. Alexander Mackay-SmIth was on Thursday consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. The impressive ceremo nies were conducted in Holy Trinity church, Philadelphia.
 The resignation of Governor Murphy of Arizona, to take effect June 30, has been received in Washington. 1t is | probable that A. l.. Brodie, lieutenant colonel of Rooseyelts rough riders, will be appointed to succeed him. NJ. Santos-Dumont the famous aero naut sailed on Thursday on board the French liner La Savoie for Havre, France. He will return to the United States In July to conduct flying ma chine exhibitions at Manhattan Beach, N. Y.
 The thirty-second annual Stewart | Woodford contest was held at Cornell Friday night, and the prize, valued at | $100, was awarded to Michael A. Ford of Medina, N. r., who spoke on "Liber- | ty or Law, Plea For Private Enter prise"
 |. General Brooke. commanding the de | partment Of the east, has issued gen eral order announcing that the camp now occupied by the United States troops at Chickamauga park. Georgia, will be known as Camp George II. Thomas.
 The Republican convention for the Eighteenth Illinois district on Tuesday renominated Joseph G. Cannon for con | gress. This is Congressman Cannon's | sixteenth consecutive nomination in this district, and he has been defea ted at the polls only once.
 At the celebration of founders day held at Vassar college President Tay Tor announced the gift of new libra \ ". The name of the donor was with held. and no limit was set to the sum provided. as the building Is intended to meet the future needs of the college. Congressman D. R. Henderson, | speaker of the house of representa- tives, was renomlnated for the eleventh successive time at the Third district convention in Waterloo, Ia., on Thurs day. The nomination was unanimous MT. Henderson's opponent having with drawn.
 The president has nominated Thomas Mast of New Jersey to be consul gen. eral at Guayaquil. Ecuador. MT. Mast. who Is we'll known us a veteran car toonist. is an old personal friend of President Roosevelt, and his appoint ment Is purely a personal recognition to friend
 A moyem ant Is on foot to make Rear Admiral Schley president of the Jamestown (NaJ Exposition company. He Is known to be the choice of sev- eral of the principal incorporators, who have written him with a view to ascertaining whether he Is in posi- ton to accept the office. The magnificent silver service made | from silver coins taken from the Span ish cruiser t'ristobal Colon, to be pro sented to Admiral Winfield Scott Schley by his friends in Baltimore and in Washington. has been completed and is on exhibition in the show windows of the manufacturers in Baltimore.
 Out of a field of twenty horses in the Metropolitan handicap at Morris park, | New York city, on Saturday Arsenal, son of the famous sprinter Lamplight- 
 CT, won a close victory. He was des perately pressed by Herbert and Car buncle and finished under whip and | spur. Arsenal closed at 25 to 1 on most | books.
 The president on Saturday sent the nomination of H. Clay Evars to be .onsul general at London to the senate. Mr. Evans, who was commissioner oi pensions. had resigned his office some little time ago. It was understood at the time that the president intended to appoint him to a positi VI in the diplo- matic service.
 George l.. Atkins, proprietor of the Ocean hotel at Asbury Park, N. l., died on Tuesday. He was eighty years of age. With the exception of James A. Rradley the founder Mir Atkins had