Connecticut western news., 1896-05-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thuradar. May a1

Thursday. May a1.
 The New York State Association of Savings Banks unanimously adopted reso- lutions in favor of maintaining the gold standard.
 Thomas O. Platt and Hamilton Fish consulted with Governor Morton in Al bany, but Mir. Platt declared his visit was not of political nature.
 Nicola Tesla has perfected his vacuum tube light and with a three inch tube produced an illumination of 250 candle power and took perfecf photograph with only two seconds exposure.
 In New York, Tillie Lock, 19 year old girl, whose clothing became ignited from a gas stove, ran across five story fire cape into neighboring flat, which her burning garments set on fire. She died later in Roosevelt hospital.
 Freshman Otis of the New York uni versity was "hazed' by sophomores His comrades in revenge "duoked" Sophomore Griggs and attempted to break into the Remington. leader of the freshmen. was knocked out with an Indian club.
 Friday, May 22.
 Chief Justice Snodgrass of Tennessee was acquitted of assaultiDg Colonel J. R. 
 The British yachting season opened of Gravesend- The Satanita badly whipped the Britannia and the Ailsa
 There will be fight in the national Prohibition convention, to be held In Pittsburg, over the currency question.
 The czar of Russia, in a most gorgeous procession, made his official entry into Moscow, preliminary to his coronation.
 General Silverio Martinez, one of the most celebrated army commanders of Mex ioo died in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
 Many advocates of free coinage repudi- ate the demand of ex- Representative Bel ford for a revolution in the west if silver is not placed on an equality with gold.
 Lieutenant Craighill, adjutane of the army post at Willets Point, N. Y., admit ted that he ordered Private Abel Wallace dragged over the ground by the heels to the guardhouse.
 A Washington dispatch states that high administration official who sees the president daily said that MT. Cleveland has no idea of seeking third term, and that If any Democratic state convention had instructed for him he would have de clared himself not candidate under any circumstances before this
 Saturday. May 2s.
 The funeral of the Archduke Charles Louis took place in Vienna.
 The police of Riohenberg, Bohemia, fired into a mob, killing two persons and seriously wounding five
 The eighty second anniversary meeting of the American Baptist Missionary union began at Asbury Park, N. J.
 Samuel Cocbaran, former servant at the Players club of New York, was found floating in the East river with his skull fractured.
 There are grounds for the belief that the body recently washed ashore on Staten Island was. that of Mrs. Charles Cant of Toms River, N. T.
 The German-Amerioan Sound Money league was organized and will support, independent of political parties, the oandi- date who declares for gold.
 A dispatch from Madrid says, on the authority of the minister for the colonies, that General Weyler order restricting the sxportation of tobacco from Cuba affects only the better class of tobacco.
 Monday. May 20.
 Severe storms have done much damage In Kansas and Iowa General Lucius Fairchild, formerly gov ernor of Wisconsin, died at his home in Madison.
 It is reported from Mexico that arms are being supplied to the Yaqui Indians from the United States.
 Henry Seelig. who is supposed to be the head of the swindling firm of ''B. Blank, brokers, was arrested in New York.
 Moderator Withrow's sermon before the Presbyterian general assembly in Sara toga was a strong plea for peace in the church.
 Spain has yielded to the protest of the United States, and all existing contracts between Americans and Cuban tobacco growers will be respected.
 Bob Fitzsimmons, the prize fighter, was arrested at the Hotel Bartholdi, in New York. on warrant sworn out by tai Tor, s. Rosenberg, with whom he had a quarrel. He is charged with assault Tuesday, May ae.
 General Franz Kuhn, a distinguished Austrian soldier, is dead.
 The Cuban American fair was opened successfully in Madison Square Garden. New York.
 Henry Seelig, Franz Seelig and William Matzner Of 29 Murray street, New York arrested for imposing on merchants as "B Blank" were held for examination in q 900 bail each.
 The supreme court of the United States handed down decision upholding the va lidity of the sugar bounty appropriations by congress and setting aside the decision of Comptroller Bowler.
 At last the jury that Is to try Mrs Mary Alice Almont Livingston Fleming in New York has been completed, and her actual trial for murder was begun this morning. She is charged with having killed her mother, Mrs. Evslina Bliss, on 11- l. -A poisoned clam chowder to Mrs. Bliss by the hands of Oracle Fleming her 11-year- old daughter.
 Wednesday. May a7.
 The Baptist anniversaries in Asbury Park, N. J., came to an end. The new Methodist bishops were install ed at the general conference in Cleveland. A fund of s1Ss, 750 was raised for Johns Hopkins university at a meeting In Balti- more.
 The court of appeals of the state of New York unanimously upheld the constitu- tionality of the Raines law.
 Secretary Olney received information that the Spanish government had modified General Weyler's tobacco edict In accord ance with this governments request.
 Miss Georgia Brock and her younger sister, Florence, daughters of wealthy New Yorker were each held in s1, 900 bail, charged with stealing dresses from neighbors.
 Warner Miller Issued another statement, attacking T. c. Plast vigorously and an- nouncing that a contest would be made to take the next state committee out of the latter's control. John Hall, gateman on the Sixth ave- nue "L" road, was killed at the One Hundred and Thirty-flfth street station, in New York, while attempting to save . drunken mans life.
 The Rev G. Heathoote Hills, rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, West oh Do haa od I'll ha da h.