Connecticut western news., 1896-07-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Jaly Ia

Pitssburs and Alieghany City, Pa, were vfsited by rainstorm resembling Q cloud burst. which caused $500. 00o damage.
 An explosion of a soda fountain in a factory In East Twenty ninth street, New York, badly injured three workmen, one of whom died.
 Walter L. 8. Langerman. who figured in the Aub trial in New York, was accused of the theft of $50 from the pocketbook of Mrs Merle
 Adolf Herschkopf. convicted of murder In the second degree by means of arson in New York, was sentenced to life impris- onment in Sing Sing.
 Two men were arrested on the charge of having stolen @, 500 worth of diamonds and jewelry from the American line steamship St Louis just before she sailed from the port of New York.
 Mrs. Fleming, who was recently aoquit- ted on the charge of murdering her moth or, announced that she would go on the stage and thinks her services would be worth q, 900 a week in melodrama.
 Startling reports of the ravagss of the army worm have been made to the agri- cultural department at Washington. The pests are particularly abundant in New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
 Strikers at the Brown Hoisting works, in Cleveland, waylaid nonunion men on their way to work and assaulted them with stones and clubS Two men were badly hurt. The city Is Eew under mar tial law.
 Friday. July IT.
 William c. Whitney of New York de- clared that he would not support the Chi oago ticket.
 S. W. Heller. an alleged lottery chief, was arrested in New York on a warrant sworn out by a man who says he lost s7,00O.
 Miss Adeline Tillman, eldest daughter of Senator Tillman of South Carolina, and the Rev. Robert A. Lee were killed by a bolt of lightning in Brevard. N. c.
 Arbitration between this government and Great Britain, especially with refer enoe to the Venezuelan question, is prao- tically assured, though concessions must still be made on both sides.
 A dispatch from Havana reaffirms the death of Jose Maoeo, the Cuban leader. It is asserted that he was shot, after being court martialed for insubordination, by the order of General Calixto Garcia
 Fifteen people were drowned by the overturning of ferryboat in Cleveland. They were laborers employed in unload ing ore at the docks of the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad.
 Saturday. July 1s.
 Tho New York state banks met In an nual convention at Niagara Falls
 Maurice Spillane of 1896 Lexington ave nue, New York, was killed by a cable car in front of his own door.
 dispatch from Havana states that Colonel Morot has defeated concentrated insurgent bands in Matanxas province with heavy loss.
 Secretary of State Olney gave out his correspondence with Lord Salisbury con corning the efforts to secure arbitration between this country and Great Britain.
 William R. Wilson, ex-proseoutor of the pleas forsUnion county, N. J., Is under arrest on the charge of the larceny of s1, 400. The charge is preferred by Miss Mary R. Betts niece of Mary A. Betts, who left large estate. The debt which Wilson failed to pay is part of Q mortgage held by the Betts estate against Lawrence Ussing of Easton.
 Monday, July 90,
 Three bodies were found in the ruins of the burned Chicago car barna
 Rollan Dewitt of Stantonvills, N. r., a gold Democrat, bolted the Chicago ticket, and his mother in-law horsewhipped him.
 A dispatch from Athens reports that a panic occurred at Canea owing to fire which was mistaken as a signal for oar mage.
 Mir. Cornelius vanderbilt continued to improve, his physicians saying that he Is stronger than at any time since he was stricken.
 x-Mayor Clapp Spooner, ex-vice presi- dent of Adams Express company, was run over and probably fatally injured in Bridgeport, Conn
 It was reported that a meeting of Elm peror Francis Joseph of Austria and King Humbert of Italy would soon take place to discuss the dreibund's affairs.
 James Griffin, 1a years old, of 317 East Eighty eighth street. New York, killed his elder brother during a quarrel by stab- bing him to the heart with a penknife.
 Tuesday. July aL
 The Colonia won her second race easily at the regatta of the Larohmont Yacht club
 Sixty Mussulmans and $40 Armenian Christians were killed in disturbances at Nikah
 The funeral of William K Russell was held in Cambridge, Mass. President Cleveland attended it.
 The trial of Dr. Jameson and his oom- pAnions in the Transvaal raid began be- fore the high court of justice In London.
 General Harrison left Indianapolis for the Adirondaoks. He says that he will make speeches for Mckinley in the fall.
 In the house of commons MT. Balfour' $ motion for longer sessions for the purpose of expediting the Irish land bill was adopted.
 Henry Irving. Jr., son of Sir Henry Irving, was married in London to Miss Dorothea Baird, who has become famous for her personation of the character oi Trilby.
 Wednesday. July a. A statue to John Brown was unveiled at the John Brown farm, near Saranac lake, N. Y.
 Gold Democrats In II western states do oided to hold a conference in Chicago and issue @ call for gold standard national convention.
 Howard Benedict, nephew of E. c. Ben, ediot, the banker of New York, was mar, ried to Miss Edith Lloyd of Cincinnati yesterday morning, and in the evening hs died.
 A dispatch from Havana states that oiti zens of the capital breathe moro freely, the police having captured bombs intended for use in blowing up the principal build ings.
 Katie Maybach, who claims to hays been struck with an iron bar by an un known person in Avenue A, New York, 1. lying at the point of death in the Presby terian hospital,
 Members of the finishers' branch of tho Brotherhood of Tailors caused the. .execu tive committee to declare strike which will throw out of work 8. 900 workers 1T New York and 4, 900 In Brooklyn Theodore Banta, aged 30 years, wa. struck by a m K train at Ridgefield Pa.k N. J., on Monday while he was walking on the track. His skull was fractured, ant hs was removed to the Haokensaok hospi