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NEWS OF THE WEEK. Happenings of the Wide World Briefly and Tersely Told. S. Davies Warfield has been appointed postmaster at Baltimore. Half a block has been burned in Port Dawson, Alaska; loss, $50,000. The president has appointed 201 second lieutenants in the regular army. The British steamship Brator stranded off Cape Henry life saving station. Mrs. Emily Maria Fish, wife of Hamllton Fish of New York, died in Washington. The annual New York state supply bill calls for $1,251,146, against $1,788,580 last year. Professor James Hoppins resigned the chair of history of art in Yale School of Fine Arts. A mild form of smallpox epidemic prevails among the colored people of Washington. Frank N. Sheldon, on trial at Auburn, N. Y., for wife murder, committed suicide in jail. The Republicans of Rhode Island have renominated Governor Elisha Dyer and the other state officers. The Democratic city convention of Chicago has nominated Mayor Carter Harrison to succeed himself. Colonel Jack Chinn has been indicted for threatening to assault former State Senator Bronston in Lexington, Ky. The rates on postoffice money orders drawn on Cuba will hereafter be the same as rates on domestic money orders. The American National bank of Lima, O., mysteriously robbed in December, has decided to go into voluntary liquidation. The New York state assembly has passed a bill for an East river bridge from Fulton street, New York, to Brooklyn. The Democrats of Rhode Island at their annual convention nominated George W. Greene, mayor of Woonsocket, for governor. "Dr." Nancy Guilford, accused of the murder of Miss Emma Gill in Connecticut, is III, and her trial at Bridgeport has been postponed. cago Governor Roosevelt will go to on April 8 as a guest of the Hamilton club and will stop at Ann Arbor, Mich., to deliver an address. New York's foreign commerce has decreased $39,000,000 in the last fiscal year, according to the Chamber of Commerce report, just issued. Eleven masked and armed men bound three employees of the Sayre and Athens Traction company at Athens, N. Y., blew open the safes and stole $175. John Hoffer of Buffalo fell into a pan of boiling sap in the sugar bush of Dana Green in Bennington, N. Y., and was SO badly scalded that he died. Frank A. Vanderlip, assistant secretary of the treasury, after severa! weeks' serious illness at his home in Chicago, has returned to Washington. Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Sharpe testified before the army board of inquiry that beef furnished the troops at Camp Thomas was hauled in dirty wagons and that some of the beef was filled with vermin. The management of the Manchester (N. H.) cotton mills has decided to raise wages for weaving in No. 1 mill 10 per cent, to take effect April 3. All reductions in wages that went into effect in January, 1898, are to be restored. By a bequest of Herbert Stewart, a wealthy New York engineer and contractor who died March 4 and whose will has been probated in this city, Yale university will receive fully $50,000 to establish the Herbert Stewart scientific fund. The British ship Bridstonhill has been chartered by the government to carry merchandise for the troops at Manila. She is to be paid the lump sum of $20,500. The Bridstonhill can carry a cargo of about 3,500 tons and should make the run in about 45 days. Thrasher Meade, the notorious negro train robber, safe blower and bandit, has been sentenced in Mississippi to the federal penitentiary for 20 years. In passing sentence Judge Niles expressed regret that he could not under the law sentence Meade to death. Dr. William Lewis, the secretary of the North Carolina state board of health, says smallpox is steadily increasing in that state. He reports the disease prevalent in 17 counties, and a letter from Burlington, 40 miles from Raleigh, states that there are 11 cases there. Papers have been filed with the secretary of state of New Jersey increasing the capital stock of the Havana Electric Railway company from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. Articles were also filed increasing the capital stock of the International Traction company from $85,000 to $15,000,000. The United States transpo t Sheridan, which salled from New York on Feb. 19 for Manila, has arrived at Port Said. The troops on board the Sheridan are the Twelfth United States infantry and a battalion of the Seventeenth United States infantry, all under the command of Colonel Smith. The American Shipbuilding company has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with a capital stock of $30,000,000. The objects of the company are the building and equinment of shins vessels wharfs