Connecticut western news., 1902-04-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide worIe
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

UT Nlillhm K. bfoOks III lnc cOnsteilh' tion Pegasus.
 All the mines in the Tarentum pn.l district are closed on account of the miners strike.
 A railway through central Alaska has been projected by financlers in the state of Washington.
 The strike at the General Electric works at Schenectady, N. T., was de. clared on on Monday.
 Garry A. Willard of Bonneville, N. Y,. has been unanimously elected president of the National Editorial association. railway broke all speed records Thurs, day. averaging nearly 100 miles an hour.
 Captain Joseph R. Coghlan and Cap. tain James H. Sands, l.. s. N.. havt been promoted to the rank of rear nd. miral.
 Don Francisco d'Assisi, the former king of Spain. died on Thursday al Epi nay, France. He was expelled from Spain In 1868.
 F. c. Rathbone. former director of posts of Cuba. has been released on bail of S10o,ooo furnished by Senator Hanna.
 Great Britain has accepted Ger. many's proposition for an international conference to regulate the use of wire. less telegraphy.
 W. W. Astor has given Sl00,0OO to endow professorships In the University college of London which are today without endowment
 The Rev. Dr. Alexander H. Yin. ton of Worcester, Mass, was on Tues day consecrated bishop of the diocese of western Massachusetts.
 The president has nominated Rear Admiral Henry c. Taylor, formerly captain of the battleship Indiana, to be chief of the bureau of navigation.
 The president has nominated Colonels Charles Bird. simon Snyder and Will liam Auman to be brigadier generals in the regular army to i'll existing vacan- cies.
 General Egbert l.. Viele, one of the best known civil engineers in the Unit ed States, died on Tuesday in his sev- enty-seventh year at his home in New York city.
 President Elect Tomas Estrada Pal. ma sailed Thursday from Hampton. Va, on the steamer Admiral Farragut for Cuba. He arrived at Gibara, Cuba, on Sunday.
 Rev. Dr. Rand, secretary of the American Tract society, after fifty-four years of continuous service as editor of its publication. has resigned. to take effect in May.
 Elihu Root. the United States secre. tary of war. and his family, who sailed from New York on the Ward line steamer Esperanza April IT, arrived at Havana on Monday.
 Two persons fatally injured, Fire Chief Magee prostrated and property loss of fully $35o.0oo is the result of several early morning fires which oc- cured in Dallas, Tex, on Sunday.
 The body of Harry Lunn. n we'll known young man of Jamestown, N. r.. who disappeared while driving from Frewsburg to Jamestown on Jan. 3, has been found in Conewnngo creek.
 While Governor odelrs fifteen-year- old son, Benjamin Bryant odell, was riding in Newburg, N. Y., on Thursday the horse slipped and fell and the boys right leg was broken between the knee and ankle.
 The senate has confirmed the nomina. tions of James k. Garfield of Ohio to be United States civil service commission, CT and William Williams of New York to be commissioner of immigration for the port of New York.
 The editor of the Manila Volcano has been sentenced to one days i'm. prisonment and to pay a fine of S10O for demanding the removal of the judge who recently tried two editors under the sedition law.
 A destructive fire visited the south. western part of Kansas City on Sun day, laying waste a section of dwell long and d block wide and doing dam. age to the amount of S75,o00
 The house of bishops of the Protes tant Episcopal church, in session al Cincinnati, appointed Rev. H. B. Res terick of San Diego, Cal, bishop of Honolulu and Rev. U. s. Thomas of Topeka bishop of the diocese of Salina Kan.
 A forest fire on Scott's mountain near Belvidere, N. l., has destroyed hun dreds of acres of young timber and val uable buildings and woodland. The fire began on Sunday and was started by a party of tramps who were camping in the woods.
 In the presence of the president of the United States, the heads of many colleges and universities and hundreds of leading citizens Nicholas Murray Butler was on Saturday afternoon i'm stalled as president of Columbia col lege, New York city.
 The municipal council of Havana has decided to issue a new loan Of $2S. .000- 900 for the purpose of redeeming the first and second mortgage bonds of the city, to take up the floating debt and to provide money for the payment of the city sewer and paving contract.
 A report just issued shows that Gu ba's imports in 1901 were $665S3, ,9T3 against sec, S,5S9 for 1900, and sx- ports $63.27S,3SO against S4S,904,6 ,6SI for 1900. The export of Cuban sugar to the United States amounted fin 1901 to $3o. .S14, ,196, in 1900 to SIG. .763.S52,
 A verdict for the largest sum ever awarded in New York state for the de. struction of human life was rendered on Friday by jury in the supreme court before Judge Keogh in the suit brought by Mrs. Lottie G. Dimon against the New York Central railroad for the death Of her husband, killed fin the Park avenue tunnel disaster, the jury returning verdict of S00,00O against the railroad.
 Frank W. Redding of Newark, N l., has been made n mandarin by the sultan of Mindanao. Bedding former lv yyas a member Of tho X stor hatfarV