Connecticut western news., 1896-10-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thur.day. Oct IS

 Hanna's iron mines arc located.
 Major Mckinley received st his home In Canton, O., 800 carly settlers from Cuyahoga county, O.. not one of whom was less than 70 years old. Many women wcre among them. IIe also received a large delegation from Mcdonald, Wash ington county, Pa
 Thomas White Ferry, ia years United States senator from Michigan, acting vice president after the death of Mir Wilson. during Grants administration, and a na- tional figure In the Belknap impeachment and the electoral count of is7o-7, died os spoplexy at Grand Haven, Mich
 Friday, oct ia.
 Colonel Spillman, n oiuhmAn of Cin- cinnati was garroted and robbed by woms ep in front of the Union League club in Chicago
 Mrs Mabel Howard, a pretty woman, 2a years old, swallowed Iodine in an at tempt to kill herself in flat In New York She was arrested.
 Miss Sarah Kellogg who was assistant to Postmaster Swift at Tnrrytown, N. Y., and Is charged with robbinR the malls will be tried In the United States supreme court
 Charles Bowe. Henry Singer and Peter
 
 stealing largo quantities of woolen goods from pisrro Matis in New York. They confessed their guilt
 John 6onda, a Yonkers (N Y.) tailor. has hired counsel in this city Co seoure for himself and two sisters an estate of ss,- 900. ooo loft In England by wealthy oous- In, who died leaving no family.
 Mir. Pineree, tho Republican nomines for governor of Michigan, refused to tell the registration officers his ase He will not be able to vote In November. Chaun- ccy l. Fillsy of Missouri also failed to reg istsr.
 Saturday. Oct n.
 MrS Janet Finloy Weir Little of Hunt ington, N l., has surprised that commu- nity by marrying her farmland. named Drake
 Professor Andrew Seth of the Edin- burgh university delivered his first ss@qui- centennial lecture at Princeton college Princeton, N. !.
 kearncy and Hume, who had hssn ar rceted in Rotterdam charged with con spiracy against England and the ozsr, ar rived in New York.
 Lewis Dressler. while returning to his home in Mcadville O., from Now York, while asleep walked of the train near
 
 It was decided by the court of appeals of Now York state that gold standard Dom ocrats arc entitled to . party column on the official ballot under the sitle National Democratic party.
 Miss Alice Irwin Jones, charged with forgery by John B. Yates. a Maiden lane jeweler, is engaged to bc married to Charles Cohn, a young lawyer, who de- tended her In court in New York.
 Monday. oe'. Is.
 A huge wave struck the steamer Ls Gasoopne on her way to this port smash ing lifeboat and throwing crcw and pas sengers about.
 William II. Johnston of the Meriden (Conn.) Britannia company was zandbax- god and robbed in the neighborhood of Twenty -cighth street and Eighth avcnue, New York.
 William Waldorf Astor has determined to build . lofty office structure fronting on Broadway. Exchange place and New street. New York, to cost betwcon e3,- GOO. 900 and e., GOO. oo0.
 The nasty burial of a young woman In Portsmouth. O. who had died of diph- theria was stopped by mob of women, who wished tho funeral delayed until the dead girls brother could arrive
 James Sweeney, a thief, made his escaps from Raymond street jail, in Brooklyn. He sawed of one of the bars of his cell and then ooolly walked out on the pass of n visitor. The visitor, not having psss was detained.
 Tuesday, Oct. SO
 The pope has sent instructions to She Catholic clergy In this country regsrding their attitude in the political campaign
 La are claimants to the sio0, 900 estate of Jo- seph II. whitelegee. Now York lawyer. One hundred and sixty seven Armenian refugees arrived at Eiis island, port of New York on the obdain. Most of them were detained tbcre
 King Humbert. through the Italian em- bassador, Baron Fava has presented Pres ident Cleveland a testimonial of esteem In the shape of . set of volumes of the great est historical value, touching the early history of America
 Miss Mary Swendolin Caldwell, founder of the Divinity college of tho Catholic university at Washington. was married st St Josephs church, in Paris Co the Mar quis de Monstriers. Mcrinville. a Frcnch noblemsn. Bishop Spslding of Peoria, Ills, otfioiated.
 William A. Richardson, chief justice of the court of claims died at his home In Washington at the age of 7t years. He hud been m for several months with complication of diseases, and, owing to his advanced ago his death had been gen orally expected.
 Wednesday. Oct. n.
 Two burglars entered foundry as South River, N. J., and shot the watch man.
 .. .=--.----..--. .-. xs.-t.s A. ts---t- will send 2h. 900 re endorsements to Cuba early in November.
 Ex.P President Harrison began . political tour of Indiana. speaking in behalf of the Rcpuhl loan candidates
 In London MT and Mrs Walter M Cas- tic were held in g40. 900 bail Cor trial al the Clerkonwell sessions, on Nov. 2
 Candidate William !. Bryan continued his campaign tour through Ohio, address. Ing large aSsemblagcs at the principal sta tiunS
 Miss Casette R. Orr, whose home was In Provideroa committed suicide in boarding house at ts East Ninth street. New York
 Miss Edith shepard, daughter of the late Elliot F. shepard and granddauahtc of the William H. Vanderbilt. was married to Ernesto G. Fahhri. in the shepard Memorial church, at Scarboroush-on'H Hud- son. N. \.
 The court of appeals granted new trial and leave to apply for change of venue to Police Inspector William W. Mo Laushlin. who was convicted of extortlon as a result of the Lcxow investigation In New York city.
 The great scsquioentennial jubilee of Princeton university began in earnest at D.. A.tA cred sermon on Religion and the Uni- versity," and President Eliot and other notables made addrcsscs
 
 4 Ptncuxhion Tree.
 One of tho oldest trees in the world is the yucca palm, which grows in the