Connecticut western news., 1902-05-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the wide worIa
 Brieny and Terse1y Told.

Briefly and Tersety Told.
 Ten city officials and contractors of Toledo, O.. have been indicted for brib- cry.
 Queen wilhelmina is reported strong enough to leave her bed for short time daily.
 William Taylor, retired Methodist missionary bishop, died at palo Alto, Cal, on Sunday.
 Five lives were lost in a fire which destroyed the American hotel at Point Pleasant, Va, on Thursday.
 Earl Hopetoun, governor general of Australia, has resigned because ofs the insufficient pay of his position.
 General T. simon Sam. president of Haiti, has been deposed through n rey-. olution headed by General Firmin.
 Rev. R. A. Washburn died at BinH- hamton, x. Y., on Monday. aged eighty eight years. He was one of the oldest Baptist preachers in the state.
 The 2,500 santa Fe shop employees in Topeka, Kan, have decided to boy colt the so called beef trust by ab- staining from meat for thirty days
 Albany, N. Y, has rejected the ofrer of Andrew Carnegie of x150.O00 for free public library. The gift was offer ed on the same terms as those given to other places. .
 The submarine boat Adder. the first of her type about ready for the govern ment trials, made her initial run on Monday on course opposite Mount Vernon, Va. The run was considered successful ......
 Ii is officially announced in Paris that the premier, NJ. Waldeck-Rous- seau, will resign before June l, leav. ing President Loubet to form, new cabinet simultaneously with the meet ing of the new chamber.
 The r. Lorillard company has ad- vanced the wages of all employees un- der the grade of foreman 10 per cent. Two thousand get the benefit of the in- crease, which has been authorized by the directors of the Continental Tobac- co company.
 The general strike decreed by the Social Democratic party of Sweden in support of the universal suffrage bill has been carried out as arranged. and the tieup of business has been practi- cnliy complete. Street cars, cabs, vans, carts and steamers are not running.
 The steamer Guatemala brings to San Francisco additional details of the earthquake in Central America last month. The Guatemala left the port of that name April 20 Up to that time 1 100 bodies had been taken out of the ruins at Qpezaltenangos It is estimated that 2,0O0 people were killed.
 Swift & Co. Armour & O., Schwarz- child x sulxberger and the c. H. Ham, mond company, packers, have moved their New York city office equipments to Jersey City. It is said in Jersey City that the offices of Nelson Morris & Co. and the Cudahy Packing company will be moved to New Jersey shortly.
 The London Daily Mail says that ten members of the house 'of commons have promised to form pool of f1.- 100000 as the nucleus of a fund to start line of Atlantic greyhounds in opposition to the Morgan combine The, promoters of this enterprise hope to se- cure mail and cruiser subsidies from the government.
 The members of the Glenn court mar tial have left Manila for Catbalogan. on the island of Samar. Major Edwin r. Glenn of the Fifth infantry is to be tried by court martial on the charge of having taken part in administering the water cure" to the Filipinos. Brig adler General Frederick D. Grant win be president of the court.
 The monthly report of the collections of internal revenue shows that for the month of April, 1902, the total collec- tions were s21, ,037 .699. as decrease as compared with April 1901. of $5,O03.- SS0. For the ten months of the current fiscal year the receipts aggregated $220, ,206,0T9, decrease from last years period of S27 7.S65. .509.
 That element of the Presbyterian church which calls itself liberal on the subject of creed revision achieved notable victory in the first skirmash of the general assembly which convened at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, New York, by electing as mod orator of the body for the coming year the Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke.
 A wind and rain storm, accompanied by waterspout, swept over Cincinnati on Tuesday, causing the loss of six lives and iuJuring many others. The fury of the storm continued only thirty min utes, but the damage wrought in that time will amount to more than Si.o00,- oO0 In the business section of Cincin- natl and as much more in other parts or the city and its suburbs