Connecticut western news., 1903-04-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings Of the Wide World
 Briefly aud Tcr~cIy Told.

members Of the United States Panama canal commission arrived at Panama on Sunday.
 Jesse G. Hawley, proprietor of the Reading Eagle. of which he was one Of the founders In 1888, died in Reading. Pa, Sunday, aged sixty.three years.
 Two fires in St John. N. R., on Friday, the first in the Canadian Pa cific railroad yards and the second in the business part of the city, did dam age amounting to SlS000o.
 Mateo FaJardo, the native mayor of Mnyaguez, Porto Rico, and several oth- CT members of the city government have been arrested, charged with mu- nicipal frauds of large amounts.
 The Irish national convention held in Dublin on Thursday and Friday adopted certain amendments to the Irish land bill which, it is understood. will he accepted hy the government. and the passage of the bill Is considered assured.
 Announcement is made of the en- gagement of Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, fifth daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, one of New York city's richest heiresses, to Robert Hun ter, who is the manager of the Univcr- sity settlement in that city.
 Sir Oliver Mowat, lieutenant gov ernor of Ontario, died in Toronto on Sunday. He was eighty-three years health for some time, but an accident last week In which he broke his leg hastened the end. He was premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896.
 Two of the four biggest banks in the country are to be consolidated. negotia- tions having been closed for the mer- ger of the National Bank of Commerce in New York and the Western National Bank of the United States, also of New York. Each has a capital of x10,00O,- 900 and combined deposits of S15o,0OO,- 900.
 Lieutenant Governor John X. Lee of Missouri on Thursday slipped through the hands of the Kansas City authori- ties and left the city on n train bound for Chicago. Ii is believed he has no intention of returning to St. Louis so long as he is wanted 10 testify before the grand jury in the legislative poodle cases
 United States Assistant Attorney General James u. Beck has resigned his office in order to become member of the law firm of shearman & Sterling Of New York city. MT. Beck was np- pointed by President Mckinley in July, 1900. He had previously been United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.
 Judge w III. Sanborn at St Paul. after hearing arguments for and against a petition that the recent de cree against the Northern Securities company be so far suspended as to per init the payment by the railroads in- volved of the regular May dividends 10 the Securities company, has decided to grant the petition.
 Al Adams of New York city, known as the policy king" reported to he worth several million dollars. at one time believed to have a directing in- fiuence in the police department and credited with being the packer of sew eral of the big gambling institutions of New York city. was on Friday found guilty of conducting a policy game,
 While examining papers captured from the Filipino insurgents Captain John k. Nj. Taylor. acting under the direction of Colonel Edwards of the de- partment of insular affairs, has discov- cred a document indorsed on the back with a direction to kill General Otis. That indorsement. Captain Taylor in- sists, is in the handwriting of Agui. naldo.
 Two men charged with complicity in the murder of Jennie Hickey in Doug las Monument park. crime that has baffied the police department of Chica- go for nearly five years, have been ar rested. One is Richard R. Finn, well to do plumber. The other is Martin L.. Maroeney, a clerk for a big commer- cial house. Both men are held without bail.
 Colonel James Powell, retired, n vet eran of the Mexican and civil wars, four times brevetted by the govern ment for bravery in the civil war and during Indian campaigns in Colorado and Wyoming. died on Thursday at his home in Peoria. III. Colonel Powell was retired in 1868 as the result of wounds received at the battle of Chick. amaugua.
 A disastrous fire occurred at the ln- dian institute at Brantford, Ont, on Sunday and completely destroyed all departments of the building. The insti- ute was established several hundred years ago for the purpose of educating young Indian students. The loss will aggregate S35, 900. Among the furnish ings saved was the silver service pre- sented to the institute by Queen Anne. At the close of the trial in Indianapo- lis, Ind, of Sam Martin for grave rob ping the jury within half hour after leaving the court room returned yer dict finding Martin guilty of robbing the grave of Johanna Stilz. The pen alty is three to eight years in the re- ] formatory or state prison. As Martin is under twenty years~of age. he prob ably will be sent to the reformatory,
 Governor odell on Wednesday signed the Hill-Finch bill regulating the labor of women and children in factories. The bill forbids the employment in or In connection with any factory in New York state of any child under sixteen without certificate issued by the health authorities of the city or town showing his age and that he has at tended school the equivalent of lSJ days in the school year.
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 Goldfish.
 There are some goldfish in Washing ton which belonged to the same family for the last fifty years, and they seem no bigger and no less yivacious today