Connecticut western news., 1896-05-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April 3a.

tried again on the charge of murder, de- clare that their client will plead not guilty.
 The American schooner Competitor, with a party of Cuban fllibusters and
 arms and ammunition on board, was cap
 tured by Spanish gunboat off the coast of Cuba.
 The commissioner of immigration of
 New York received letter from an accom- plished Vienna beauty requesting him to find a suitable husband for her In this ! country.
 A rich vein of silver has been encounter
 ed by New York and Pennsylvania pros. i pectors at South Canaan, Wayne county, Pa. How extensive the lead is cannot yet be ascertained. The second trial of Dr. J. c. Moore for
 the alleged overissue of stock of the Man.
 chester Union (newspaperl company
 while an officer of the company was be- gun at Nashua, N. H. Friday, May I.
 The New York state legislature sd- | iourned.
 The National Society of the Sons of the l American Revolution met at Richmond. Prompt measures were taken in Colora- do cities for the relief of the homeless peo- pie of Cripple Greek. Theresa Kensington. who is probably driftwood in New York, is declared to be
 heirsss to q, 900, 900. William Herbert Coulson was instantly | killed by the explosion of a gas cylinder | at his home in Jersey City. Premier Moline of France made state ment of his policy, which met with the
 approval of the French chamber of depu. 1 ties
 Two boys in the House of Refuge, Ran l dall's island. New York. defied the keep
 CTS and were subdued by policemen, who
 fired over their heads. Louis c. Bloch, arrested at the Msrl- | borough hotel in New York because some
 articles taken from Senator Darby's room were found in one recently vacated by
 him, was honorably discharged. Saturday, May g. Comuissioper Roosevelt was TO elected president of the New York police board. Felix Quinonez. alleged to be one of the
 principal leaders of the Nioaraguan rebel | lion, has been captured and is now in | prison.
 Sigismund de KspL a Hungarian wis 1 count, pleaded guilty to forgery in general
 sessions in New York and was sent to the | penitentiary.
 Joseph Dreyer of First place, Brooklyn, | | found in Newark, N J., who called her | self Elmina Durand. A dispatch from Havana says 1t is prob
 able that the fllibusters captured on board
 the American schooner Competitor will be ! convicted and shot Jennie Powell. a child, was burned to
 death in Centerville Station, Sullivan
 county, N. Y., and her mother was fatally
 burned while trying to extinguish the | flames Judge Truax of the supreme court in | New York continued the injunction for
 bidding the Lloyds insurance companies
 transacting business pending the issue of
 the attorney generals suit to forfeit their | charters
 Monday. May {. general strike of the employees of the Adams Express company is threatened. l John Gallagher and John Summers of ! New York were drowned near Blackwells | island.
 Edwin F. Uhl, United States emhassa, | the kaiser in Berlin. l Germany will shortly exchange repre-.
 sentatives with the Transvaal without
 consulting England. Patrick Johnson was suffocated to
 death in fire which occurred early at s4s | East Thirty first street. New York A dispatch from Milan says that the grand international race for 2A 000 lire i was won by Signor Rossi's Demone. Ex-President Banigan of the United | States Rubber company will build a s1,-
 900. 900 factory In Providence and fight
 the Rubber trust. Claude Falls Wright and Miss Mary K. | L. Leonard were married at theosophioal
 headquarters in New York. a mysterious
 mahatma presiding. The couple claim to
 have been married 5000 years ago. | Tuesday, May s. i Kate Stokes Stetson, widow of the late
 John Stetson, millionaire theatrical man ager, died suddenly in Boston. New London, Conn, is preparing to | celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth an-
 niversary of the foundation of the city. Theodore Graham. managing partner of 1 Young, Smyth, Field & Co, Philadelphia,
 disappeared. He had lost heavily in stocks. De Witt Rodd, years old, was shot and mortally wounded by his li-year- old
 brother Raymond at their home in Brook
 lyn.
 Captain Charpeigne, a French army
 officer, committed suicide in Now York | because he failed to receive remittanees | from France.
 When Clarence Barnett, accused of forg- l ing Southern Pacific railroad tickets, fall l cd to appear for trial in general sessions
 in San Francisco, it was discovered that he had been released by straw bonds | man
 | Governor Morton opened the National l Electric exposition at the Grand Central l palace in New York. The pressure of
 key lighted the place, set the machinery | md Ara in al If nf ba
 country. Electric power transmitted from | Niagara falls operated a small model of
 the falls, while a telephone brought the
 roar of the waters clear across the state
 to add realism to the effect i Wednesday. May 6.
 The iftieth anniversary of Dr. William | Henry Green. president of Princeton Theo-
 logical seminary, was celebrated at Prince
 ton, N. J.
 The Italian minister of the treasury l says that the country's financial condition
 Is satisfactory. The deficit of 1000. 900
 lire will be made up by increased revenue. Bishop Potter, at the dinner of the | Church Association for the Advancement
 of the Interests of Labor. in New York,
 praised trades unions and the labor lead 1 CTS of the day.
 The mutilated body of Teresa Carney.
 n former Inmate of the Doyers street mis- | sion, was found on the track of the Long
 Island railroad near Evergreen cemetery,
 Brooklyn, where it had been run over by | a train.
 A dispatch from Bulawayo says that
 Earl Grey. administrator of the British
 South Africa company. in reviewing the
 garrison at that place expressed the opin-
 ion that the Matabele revolt has been
 broken and that Bulawayo is safe
 Killed by Lightning.
 CAMDEN, N. J., May 4.-An unknown
 man was killed by stroke of lightning
 while lying under a tree in this town. Pa