Connecticut western news., 1903-04-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy TaId.

The amount of 8 and per cent bonds actually exchanged to date for the per cent consols under Secretary Shaw's refunding offer Is S14, 10000.
 General Sir Evelyn Wood, who is now fin command Of the Second army corps of the British army. has been promoted to the rank of field marshal.
 Dispatches from Mclilla. Morocco. announce that the insurgent Moors have captured the fortress of Frajana. A part of the garrison escaped and took refuge in Melilla.
 Through service on the Siberian rail- way from Moscow to Dalny was begun on Feb, IS, says United States Consul Miller, reporting 10 the state depart. ment from Niuchwang.
 A hurricane in the vicinity of Bloc, ton, Ala. on Monday wrecked num- Der of houses and did considerable damage to farming property. The total damage Is about Sl5,000. ....
 Three masked men held up street car near Garfield park. Chicago. on Sunday and robbed seven passengers, the conductor and motormun of about $lo0 gold watch and some jeweiry.
 Governor odell has sent to the New York state senate the reappolntment of Frank NJ. Baker as a member of the state board of railroad commissioners. The term of office Is five years, and the salary is Ss,ooo per year.
 The strike of the painters, paper hangers and decorators in Saratogn, N. Y., which began April 1 and cost the strikers $4.O0o i'm wages. has been set. tied by arbitration. and more thnn POO members of the union are again at work.
 A thunderstorm crashed over pltts-i burg on sunday, pouring miniature rtv- CTS through streets, flooding cellars and infiicting damage that will reach thou. sands of dollars. One man was killed by lightning, and many buildings were struck.
 The case of James II. Tillman, for. mer lieutenant governor of South Caro. lima, who is charged with the murder of N. c. Gonzales, editor Of tho Colum- bla State. has been continued to the June term Of court on motion of his counsel.
 Asbury Park, N. l., completed the purchase of Founder James A. Brad ley's famous board walk on Tuesday. when bonds for S150,O00 were turned over to George w. Robertson of Potts vile, Pa, representing Pennsylvania bankers
 Andrew Carnegie has offered the TUTrs- lie library board of Cleveland, O.. S260.. 600 for the purpose of erecting seven branch libraries The offer is made on condition that the city furnish the sites and maintain the libraries. The ofrer will be accepted.
 !. c. Perkins, m ex-slave, who repre- scented the colored population of I.a- crosse county, Wis, when President Roosevelt visited that city April and who presented him with bouquet. has been elected judge of the shelby district of Lacrosse county.
 Colonel John E. MacGowan, the vet eran editor in chief of the Chattanooga Times and one of the oldest and best known newspaper men in the south. died at his home in Chattanooga, Tenn, on Sunday of n complication of diseases, aged seventy-two years.
 Baron Speck von Sternburg. the Ger. man envoy, has notified Secretary Hay that Herr von Holleben, his predeces- sor as ambassador to the United States has been retired owing to continued ili health and that the emperor has con ferred upon him the Order of the Red Eagle for distinguished services.
 The cable steamers Anglia and Colo nla have sailed from London to lay the remaining sections of the Commercial Pacific cable from San Francisco to Manila. IL is expected that the cable from Honolulu Co Manila. by way of Midway CBroolD island and the island of Guam, will be completed July 1.
 United States Assistant Attorney General James U. Beck has resigned his office in order to become a member of the law firm of Shearman & Sterling Of New York city. Mir. Beck was au- pointed by President Mckinley in JuIy, 1900. He had previously been United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.
 William Dickson, who ever since the close of the war hns been we'll known citizen of Washington, died in that city on Thursday, aged si1ty-two years. He was philadelpman by birth. He was always active In local politics and for twelve years was Il members of the Democratic national committee.
 Colonel w. F. Cody met with an acci. dent at the first performance of his show In Manchester England, on Mon. day afternoon. His horse reared and fell on him. The colonel was removed to a hotel. His injuries were not seri. ous. His ankle was badly sprained. but he appeared ip the arena in a carriage in the evening.
 A trolley car Of the pittsbufg Rail- way company was struck by a Balti. more and Ohio freight train at the Fleet street grade crossing in Rankin borough on Monday night. and the six teen passengers aboard the car wero all more or less injured. Two Of tue passengers. Mrs. Catherine Powers of Turtle Creek and Mrs. Jane Morton. were seriously hurt.
 The Rev. William Henry MIlburn, the blind chaplain of the United states senate, died on Friday in santa Bar. bara, Cal. Mir. Milburn was twice rlected chaplain of congress. the first time in 1S45. when a little over twen. ty.two years of age; was twice chap. lain of the house of representatives and lastly chaplain of the senate. 10 which office he was elected in 1903
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