Connecticut western news., 1896-10-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Oct. a2.

Thursdsy. Oct a2.
 Antonio 6iglio, a supposed Matla assas- sin, was arrested in Long Island City, N. r., and held by the Brooklyn authorities.
 The international chess tournament at Budapest was finished. Charousek and Tschigorin were tied for first and second prizes
 The Rev. John D. Morrison, D. D., IT. D., archdeacon of ORdensburg, N. Y., was elected bishop of the new district of Duluth.
 Minister Terrell said in an Interview in Constantinople that it was highly improb- able that the United States would sock to meddle in Turkeys domestic affairs.
 Governor Mcnon has called a special session of the al Hate division, third de- partment, New York state, to hear the Ward. Fairchild contest over the Republic. an nomination in the Sixteenth congress sional district.
 Friday, Oct s2.
 Harry Furniss, the English character artist and humorist, arrived in New York on tho Germnnio
 A rich layman, whose name Is not made public, sent check for sibo, 900 to the Catholic university at Washington.
 The only daughter of Charles Broadway Rouss a rioh New York merchant eloped with his cashier, David Lee, and was mar ried.
 J. NJ. Criglar, a Florida lumber mill manager being besieged in his offioo by armed negroes, killed two and wounded four.
 Baron Foulton von Norbeck and four others of an Austrian exploring party were killed by bushmen on one of the Sol omon islands.
 Governor Morton declined to approve the report recommending the savage rife as tho gun for rearming the national guard of the state of New York.
 Horace w. Chipman, auditor of the New York Transfer company, fell dead from heart disease while riding a tandem wheel with his daughter in New York oity.
 It Is asserted that Sir Julian Paunoe- fote, who has just arrived in New York from London. is the bearer of instructions looking to an amioable settlement of the Venezuelan dispute.
 Saturday. Got. aA
 Columbus Delano, ex-seoretary of the interior died in Mount Vernon, O.
 Prince Louis of Savoy entertained Will liam Porter, former minister to Italy, in Philadelphia.
 The new Turkish minister to the Unit cd States, Mustapha Bey, was presented to the president yesterday.
 William I. Bryan made campaign tour from Terre Haute, Ind, to Peoria, Ills., and was greeted by large audiences.
 A woman died in Newark. N. l., from heart disease, believed to have resulted from the excitement caused by inheriting a small fortune.
 Major Mckinley was presented with a handsome mirror made by glass workers of Pennsylvania who visited him at his home in Canton. There was also a dele gation from Kansas.
 The tugboat William Horre was blown to pieces in the Gowanus canal in Brook lyn. The engineers body cannot be found. Two sleeping deokhands wore lifted, with their mattresses, and fell into the canal
 Monday. Got. go.
 The body of ex-Speaker Crisp was buried in Amcrious, Ga
 A Pasteur institute physician Tn France discovered an antitoxine for snake bites
 Mobs of masked horsemen overran the turnpike roads in Anderson county, Ky, destroying all the toll gates.
 Two women prisoners escaped from tho Tombs, in New York, by jumping from a window In the deputy warden's apart ments.
 Bismarokian organs view the Italian Montenegran marriage alliance as an in. trigue on the part of England to isolate Germany.
 Application has been made to Justice Barnard for the appointment of a receiver for the Empire Loan and Investment com pany of New York.
 The Rev Dr. Edward MoGlynn was hissed at the Amnesty ussooiation's meet In. In xyha ad V the "lion's tall be not twisted too hard. :" Over s2, 900 was raised for obtaining the release of Irish political prisoners in Eng- land.
 Tuesday, Oct. aT. NJ Challemel Laoour, the we'll known French statesmen and orator, died In Paris
 The appointment of Li Hung Chang as Chinese minister of foreign affairs was announced.
 Mrs Phoebe Hearst and other public spirited people of California will give $4, GOO, 900 to the state university. John Lawrence, aged 72, pleaded guilty | in Worcester, Mass, to theft, to forgery and to having impersonated priest. Mrs Eunioe Russ Davis, the oldest fe- male abolitionist living, celebrated her ninety. sixth birthday in Dedham, Mass Sir Frank Lockwood has been retained | to assist Sir Edward Clarke In the defense of the Castles, charged with shoplifting | in London.
 The ushers at St Patrick's church, Elizabethport, N. J., went on strike | Sunday, and the congregation was seated with difficulty.
 A thief entered the house of the Sisters of St Joseph, in Classon avenue, Brook | lyn, but fled when an invalid sister told him he was In convent Henry W. Cornell, a son of ex.Governor | Cornell, was arrested in New York on | the deposition of Buffalo hotel proprie- tor, who says that Cornell gave him two drafts that were returned dishoDored. Wednesday. oct 2s.
 The Albany police law was declared by the court of appeals of New York state to | be unconstitutional. | Nicholas Dorsch was killed by the burst | ing of a grindstone at which he was work ing In a Newark (N. J.) factory. Four masked bandits raided tho Sac and Fox Indian agency in Oklahoma rob bed three stores of s62o, but failed to get tI0, 900 agency cash. Minstrel Raymond Shaw was shot and probably fatally wounded while showing his ter-in-law, Miss Birdsall of Bloom field, N. J., how to handle a revolver. | Alexander Nj. Harris of the firm of Kahn & Harris, New York, committed suicide by shooting himself In the head in his factory, l49 and 1oi Greene street An autopsy was performed on the body of Mrs. Frances K Postel, wife of Albert H. Postel, in Providence, and evidences of poison are alleged to have been found. The engagement of Captain William Abrams, a great grandfather of so, worth | $500, 900, and Miss Laura smith, the vii. lage sohoolteaoher at East Rookaway, N. | V Nas nnnnnnnad