Connecticut western news., 1896-06-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, May 2S.


 The Standard oil Company intends to abandon Cleveland.
 Edward Berg committed suicide in his cell in the Tombs, in Now York. by hang ing himself with his neoktie.
 Sibyl Ssnderson of New York was rob bed of ts, 900 worth of iewelry while tray. sling on an Italian railway.
 Dr. Bullman, the star witness at Mrs. Fleming's trial, in New York, testified that Mrs. Bliss told him that she had been poisoned. lie also said that arsenic killed her.
 Gsorgiana and Florence Block, accused of robbing wealthy neighbors left New York secretly. Other robberies were re- ported, bringing the total value of the ar tlcles stolen up to t4, 900.
 Four Spsniards attacked the Cuban fair at Madison Square Garden. in New York, by throwing briukbats through tho win dows. No one at the fair knew of 1t, and the assailants fled when pursued.
 Friday. May 20.
 Emile Zola was again rejected by the French academy.
 The Methodist general conference in Cleveland adjourned sine die.
 The Prince of Wales formally opened the annual military tournament in Isling- ton, England.
 The czar received the congratulations of foreign envoys in the throneroom of the Kremlin palace, in Moscow.
 In New York Judge Wheeler handed down a decision upholding the Joint Traffic assooiation's agreement
 Archie MoCarter, an American en- gineer, says he was robbed and i'll treated by officials of Cucuta, Colombia The Presbyterian general assembly in Saratoga voted to refer the Presbyterian building question to a special committee. The New York state civil service oom- mission put the Raines special agents and about 800 other positions In the compsti- tive class.
 Samuel Coodey, alias John Heenan, a long term convict at Sing Sing, escaped from the prison by swimming during thunderstorm.
 The cutter of the flagship New York defeated the cutter Of the Cincinnati by five boat lengths after a hotly contested race of four miles in a rainstorm on San dy Hook.
 | Saturday, May 80. Professor Sir J. Russell Reynolds, phy- sioian in ordinary to her majesty's house- hold, died in London.
 The president sent to the house of rep
  resentatives a message disapproving the river and harbor appropriation bill. "A Life of the Czar" was produced at the Grand theater, Moscow, before the emperor and distinguished audience.
 Thomas A. Edison has begun to perfect the machinery which will make his won derful new light of commercial value and good for domestic use. i It is stated on good authority that an important flibustering expedition has landed on the coast near Trinidad, prov i ince of Santa Clara, Cuba President Cleveland held a conference ! with members of the senate foreign rsls- tions committee on the Cuban situation ! and insisted that there was no reason for 1 intervention at present.
 The fight between Peter Maher and Frank Slavin did not take place at Long Island City. as advertised. A police jus ! tice, by clever scheme, prevented tho i fighters from appearing in the ring. i Monday, June I.
 Smallpox is said to be raging in Morro castle, Havana
 Senator Allison expressed his belief that congress would be able to adjourn this | week.
 Fire destroyed the livery and boarding stable at 3l9 and 8a1 East Fifty third street, New York. Forty horses perishsd in the flames.
 The Cuban flibustering steamer Der. muda, whioh was chased away from Cuba while trying to land mon and arms for the insurgents, arrived in Philadelphia | Minnie Ehrmann, years old, was kill cd by a trolley car In front of her father's . home in Brooklyn, making the one hun. | drad md fv. nf inf h vi let m n n
 A thief, supposed to be an agent of the Spanish government seeking information, stole the mail box containing the letters of Treasurer Guerra of the Cuban junts in New York.
 Scott Jackson the murderer of Pearl Bryan, was removed from Newport Ky, to the Covington jail for safe keeping by order of Judge Helm, who considers the jail at the former place unsafe
 Tuesday, June g.
 Sophronia Beauregard was found dead in a Springfield (Mass.) hotel, and 1t is supposed she was murdered.
 The registration papers of the fllibus- tering steamer Bermuda were revoked by the British consul In Philadelphia
 Plans have been filed for a building for Columbia college in New York to be call. cd college of chemistry. It twill cost t40o,- oo0
 Emperor Francis Joseph addressed the Austrian delegation on the attitude of the triple alliance toward the eastern ques tion.
 A cholera riot took place in Cairo, iu which the governor of the city was wound ed. and the polioe were compelled to fire into the mob.
 Suit was begun by the Tabernacle Bap. list church, on Second avenue, New York to recover s1o, 900 alleged to be due ii from John D. Rockefeller on supposed gift
 Herman Fax. New Jcrsey farmer, wa, found on the track of the Raritan River railway with bullet wound in his hoad and his hand cut of. He died and Is sup posed to have been the victim of robbers
 Wednesday, June s.
 A flibustar expedition sailed from Mo bile with the purpose, 1t is said, of oaptur ing a Cuban seaport
 William Barnes Bement, a millionaire octogenarian of Philadelphia, and Mis-, Mary osgood Stearns of New York wer' married.
 The annual convention of tho grand lodge of Masons of the state of New Iorh was begun In the Masonic temple in New York city.
 One hundred and forty nine student. were graduated from the law department of the New York university, six womer being in the class
 Miss Julia, daughter of Vice President Stevenson, married In Washington Rev Marvin D. Hardin. President and Mrs Cleveland were among the guests.
 A dispatch from Havana says CaptaiI General Weylor has already sent Co th' American consulate General Lees cxequa tor as United States consul general.
 It was stated in court that the defens of Mrs Fleming, on trial for the murde of her mother, Mrs. Bliss, in New York will he that Mrs Bliss was a habitual ar senic eater and committed suicide.