Connecticut western news., 1896-04-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April 16-


 General Baratieri. late governor of Fry threa, Africa, will be tried by military court in Massaua.
 Kng George of Greece delivered the wreaths of victory to the successful com- petitors in the Olympic games- Eleven Americans secured trophies.
 James Wash, New York banker. and his son, Thomas were arrested on a charge of larceny made by Cooper Walsh, who says they have more than @, 900 of his money.
 The Italian immigrants confined in Commissioner Senner's stockade on Ellis island, New York harbor. broke out, hut were cowed by the keepers armed with re- volvers.
 President Cleveland's brother the Rev. Dr. W. \. Cleveland. filed protest against his dismissal as pastor of the Presbyterian church in Chaumont, \. Y., and will ap- peal to the sy nod.
 Friday. April IT.
 A branch of the state Mckinley league was formed at a mass meeting in Utica, N. Y.
 It Is reported In Rome that the Abys- sinians were defeated by the Italians at Adigrat
 A Mussulman was appointed governor of Zoitoun in defiance of the Zeitoun agreement that the governor should be . Christian.
 Sir Michael Hicks Beach, chancellor of the exohequer, made speech in the house of commons introducing a remark able budget
 Further details of the battle at Lechuza, Cuba. on Tuesday show that the Spanish forces met a crushing defeat at the hands of Antonio Maceo's men.
 Cuban delegates in Washington say that the presidents offer of mediation Is unac- oeptable, and that only the independence of Cuba will satisfy them.
 Marquis YamaRata, the Japanese field marshal, visited the oity hall in New York and was received by the mayor and the heads of various city departments.
 Saturday. April Is.
 A campaign button inscribed Harrison and Success has appeared in Indiana.
 The New York legislature adopted . concurrent resolution fixing April 80 as the date of final adjournment
 Five children were suffocated in Tur- ner's Falls, Mass. and three men were killed by an exp osion in Peoria, Ills
 Lizzie Lenz of New York, Is years old, ran two blocks in her bare feet and alarm ed the police. who captured three burglars. Field Marshal Yamagata of Japan sail cd for Havre on his way to Moscow, where he will represent Japan at the coronation of the ozar.
 Two men were injured by the explosion of a gas main in Hartford, and for two hours the column of flame shot up higher than the city hall.
 A poll of the New Jersey delegat slect- ed to the Republican convention at St. Louis shows that 17 of them are for Mo Kinley, 3 are undecided and is for Reed. Experts testified before the house oom- mittee on interstate and foreign commerce that the building of the Nicaragua canal according to the plans and estimates pre- pared by the company was impraoticable. Jay Dowd. once a rich broker on the New York Consolidated Exchange, was in the police cours charged with housebreak- ing He said he sought place to sleep In a yard, and, being shot at, crept into a eel lar.
 Monday, April 20.
 Rev. Thomas O O'Gorman was consscrated bishop of Sioux Falls.
 Tony Firia, a laborer. was called from a secret meeting In Baxter street in New York by Antonio Suonatore and stabbed in the neck. Police believe 1t Mafla case A Philadelphia dispatch says that Sena- tor Quay refused to recognise David Mar tin as the price of harmony in Philadel- phia. and Republican factions in that oity are still wide apart.
 The retirement of the president, the managing director and the New York manager of the Cotton oil trust Is follow ed by a rumor of the intended passing or scaling of dividend.
 The battleship Indiana made her first visit to the port of New York. Tests made during the trip prove unfounded the sto- ries that the arrangement of her batteries made them dangerous to those on board. It is stated that President Cleveland's 6 special desire Is the nomination of a sound money man on a sound money platform by the national Democratic convention, and be will be satisfied if Ex-Governor Russell of Massachusetts is chosen.
 Tuesday. April a1.
 A mass meeting in favor of Mckinley for president was held at Syracuse
 Juan Urralde San Martin, accused of being the man who robbed August Bel mont & Co of s24. 900, is being taken from Spain to Havana Emanuel Ringer, the supposed expert oounterfeiter. was held for the grand jury
  of passing counterfeit money.
 A bill providing for the reduction of rates on agricultural land was introduced in the house of commons and passed to its first reading with much opposition from the Liberals.
 The governor of Yakutsk reports roth- ing Is known about Dr. Nansen by the inhabitants of Ust- Yanak or the ivory seekers on the New Siberian islands This pretty thoroughly discredits the story that the doctor had found the north pole.
 The case of Mrs. Mary Alice Almont Fleming who is accused of poisoning her mother in New York, was put over till the May term of the criminal branch of the supreme court, as District Attorney Eel lows declared that the peoples case was not yet ready.
 Wednesday, April aa.
 The German reichstag calls upon the government to combat the practice of duelinR.
 Efforts to explode 20 cans of high grade powder in a train were discovered In Lam bertville, N. I.
 Baron de Hirsch, the philsnthropist, died on his estates paar Prassburg, Hun gary, from a stroke Of apoplsxy.
 Reports received from Havana state that Spanish troops under Colonel Villa have defeated the insurgents in several engage ments
 Maria Barberi of New York. condemned to death for the murder of Domenioo Ca taldo, has been granted a new trial by the court of appeals.
 The French senate refused to vote the Madagascar credits because of want of confidence in the Bourgeois ministry, and another crisis is imminent.
 President Cleveland received e petition from the Bar association of New York ask ing him to favor the establishment of an international court of arbitration.
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