Connecticut western news., 1896-06-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursdxy. June 12.

Thursday, June 1s- A thousand people are reported to have been killed by earthquakes and a tidal wave in northern Japan. Rumors are circulated In Tunis that the Marquis de Mores has been assassinated by the Snoussis tribesmen. These rumors are denied In London.
 Nine girls employed by Bloomingdale Bros. in New York are charged with hay Ing formed a ring for the purpose of sys- tematioally robbing their employers
 Democratic leaders expressed great qualification that W. c Whitney had de- cided to go to the Chicago convention. Many thought with his aid the gold stand ard might win.
 The Republicans of Vermont held their state convention in Burlington. Josiah Grout was nominated for governor, and a strong sound money and protection plat form was adopted. Great enthusiasm was aroused by the mention of McKinley's name.
 Friday. June I9.
 The Yale freshmen crew was outrowed by an eight from the University of Wis consin.
 Lord Salisbury said there is every hope that Britain and America will agree to permanent arbitration.
 Mrs. Edna Borrier, a bioyolist, was run over by Madison avenue feed car and died of her injuries in New York.
 It was announced that the Fleming case, now on trial in New York, would be given to the jury early next week.
 Fighting between Venezuelans and British in Guiana was reported to Caracas by Venezuela's consul at Trinidad.
 It is now known for a fact that only three persons survived the wreck of the Drummond Castle of the coast of France
 The federal senate subcommittee of finance began an investigation of the bond issues under the Cleveland administration.
 Saturday, June go.
 George c. Wright was in the police court in New York on the charge of abandon ment, brought by the woman with whom he had been living.
 J. Pierpont Morgan testified before the senate committee upon the sale of United States bonds at the investigation which Is being held in New York.
 Dr. Leyds, secretary of state of the Transvaal, demands that the English gov ernment shall bring Messrs. Rhodes and Belt to trial without delay.
 David O. Brien, one of the foremost law yers in Cook county, Ills, committed sui eide by asphyxiation in his office in the Kinzie building, in Chicago.
 Senator Teller's name was formally pre- scnted to the people a candidate for president by the silver men who bolted the Republican national convention. New York delegates stopped over In Can- ton on their way east from St. Louis, and speeches wore made by Major Mckinley, Warner Miller and John E. Milholland. hrnE af Do fr,t ha Whitehead building, a wooden structure on the south side of Main street, between Kennedy and Chambers streets, burning everything between those points, includ- ing the Half Dime restaurant, Bay State hotel and Sondheim building. Loss, e100,- 900; insurance unknown. Monday, June ae. President Diaz of Mexico has been re- nominated for the presidency for the fifth time. Frank J. Harper, at the risk of his own life, saved his hancee from drowning in Jamaica bay. Miss A. c. Rettig, daughter of the late Captain Rettig of the Ward Steam ship line, will go to Cuba as a nurse among the insurgents.
 Perry Belmont has oabled to Chairman Hinkley of tho New York state Demo cratic committee that he will start for home immediately to assist in the fight for the gold standard at the Chicago con- vention. He will attend the convention as a delegate.
 An unknown woman was enticed into a deserted house four miles from Bridgeport, Conn, and was subsequently discovered by two farmers, covered with blood and dying. They went for help, and when they returned she had disappeared and no sign of her or her assailants could be found.
 Tuesday, June 23. American whist players begin their sixth annual congress at the Oriental ho- | tel, Manhattan Beach. Five people were killed and score in- | jured by the collapse of building in San Francisco. Seven people were killed and many in- | jured by the explosion of a tram engine boiler in Texas.
 Sir Augustus Harris, the we'll known theatrical and operatio manager, died at | Folkestone, England. The revolters in Iquitos, Peru, under | Colonel Amaro Larosa, have captured | Moyobamba. The fight took place on the | Ed inst.
 Highwaymen held up conductor on a | crowded trolley car near Bergen Beach, | South Brooklyn, and took from him all | the fares he had collected. Benjamin H. Bristow, former secretary | and in 1876 prominent candidate for the | Republican presidential nomination, died | in New York on his sixty fifth birthday. | A duel was fought at Kummersdorf, near Berlin, between Lieutenant Buch of
 
 ! ring of the Sixth regiment The weapons used were pistols. Lieutenant Luehring was shot and almost instantly killed. Wednesday, June aA Mark Hanna will conduct the Republic. an national campaign from headquarters | In Cleveland.
 The household and personal effects of | MS. and Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton were sold at auction in New York to a crowd of bargain hunters.
 David Belasoo, who sued N. K. Fair. bank, the Chicago millionaire, for $65, GOO for his services in preparing Mrs. Leslie | Carter for the stage, was awarded yer dict of s16,000 in the supreme court of | New York.
 In Cleveland Jennie E. Flynn sued Frank J. Flynn for divorce on the ground of desertion. Since then Flynn has fallen heir to $40, ,000. The common pleas court gave Mrs. Flynn her divorce and awarded her s10, 900 allmony. | Three burglars entered the store of S. D. Angell in Lonsdale, R. l., and blew open the safe, getting $450 and somo checks. They were pursued by oonstables,
 upon whom they fired, slightly wounding one. The thieves escaped. Democratic state conventions were held