Connecticut western news., 1896-03-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. March 5.


 the oldest Baptist minister in New Hamp- shire, died in Exeter, N. H., in his nine tieth year.
 Willis Rogers Austin, = years old, one of Connectieut's most prominent citizens. died at Norwich, Conn.,, after an illness of two days of pneumonia.
 Princess Marguerite of Orleans, daugh- ter of the Due de Chartres, has heen be trothed to Major Patrice de MacMshon, son of the late Marshal MacMahon. Jokitthi Cchida, Japanese student at Cornell college, Mount Vernon, la, a ward of the Methodist church and we'll known as a lecturer, committed suicide while In a Respondent mood by cutting his throat
 Friday, March 6. Dr. Buhl, who was vice president of the reichstag in 1sSq died at Deidesheim, Germany.
 A oonilagration occurred in the small town of Asperen, south Holland destroy ing a church and 10 other buildings. Supreme Chancellor Richie of tho Knights of Pythias has issued a proolama- tion that the supreme lodge will meet in Cleveland on Aug %. Seventy-one bodies of victims of the Cleophas coal mine disaster at kattowitz, II the surface. Fifty miners are still unso- counted for.
 William Davis, colored, was sentenced to life Imprisonment in Dsnnemora pris- on for the murder of George Tankard, a le-year-old mulatto boy, at Elizabeth town, N. Y.
 Mrs. Mary c. Cunning, whose trouble with her husband, the Rev. Dr. Josiah H. Cunning, was recently aired in the su- preme court, Brooklyn, in suit for sepa- ration, has won her case She gets bill of separation and s3s a month alimony. Saturday, March .. The firm of Dan Talmage's Sons of New York, one of the largest houses in the rice trade has made an assignment Mrs. Frank Thomas, aged 55 years, was Instantly killed hy train whiis picking coal on the Erie tracks at Jersey City. At Watkins, St. Lawrence county, N. Y, Antonio Roucheau was killed while oiling a shaft. He was caught In the shaft and his clothes torn from his body.
 Andrew ]. Lorish, county judge of Wy oming county, N. Y., suffered stroke of paralysis on a railroad train between War saw and Attica and Is in a critical condi- | tion.
 Fire destroyed the house of G. Oldhouse carpenter, at Alma, Wis The entire family, consisting of Mir. and Mrs Old house and five children, were burned to death.
 R. G. Dun & Go, the New York oom- mercial agency, report that the failures for the week were 2s5 in the United States against p84 last year, and as in Canada, against 5S last year. Governor Morton has appointed Dr. Car los F. Macdonald, state luBacy commis- sioner, as special commissioner to examine IS to his sanity Carl Feigenbaum, oonfln- cd under sentence of doath in Sing Sing prison for the murder of Juliana Hoffman in New York city.
 Monday March 0. | J. H. McVicker, the we'll known theatri. cal manager, died in Chicago.
 Mrs. Minnie Demojean, an actress, died at Kansas City of pnuemonia, aged 60.
 State Examiner Jones of Missouri is in charge of the Farmers bank of King City. Liabilities about s65, 900.
 Justice Hiscock has appointed W. Jud- son Smith and F. B. Judson, Jr., reoeiv- CTS for the Syracuse Street Railroad com pany.
 The Kinderhook and Hudson railway was sold at auction at Hudson, N. F., for s100, ,000 to a committee representing hold CTS of the first mortgage bonds.
 Freeman R. Stewart, one of the men who met at Ripon, Wis and formed the Republican party in that state, is dead, aged 74 years. He was a native of Madi- son county, N. |.
 Tuesday, March 10.
 Hon. David K. Watson was renominated by the Republicans for congress in the Twelfth Ohio district
 George Fl. Burrows. for many years SUI perintendent of the western division of the New York Central. died in Buffalo.
 The president has nominated the follow ing postmasters: Charles D. Deshler. New Brunswick, N. J.; Daniel Randall, Me chanicsville, Pa.
 Warehouse No. of the Union Ware house company at Louisville was destroy ed by fire, together with its contents, The loss is about s250, 900.
 Chester Curtis Hulett. one of the firm oi Paxton, Hulett X Davenport, proprietor' of the Merchants hotel at Omaha, died oi consumption, aged 35 years.
 The three children of James Beausolie were locked in the house, few miles from Penetanguishene, Ont, while ths parents went to see neighbor. Shortl, after, the house was seen to be in flames and before assistance could be given thu bodies of the children were burned to [ crisp.
 Chief Justice Charles Doe of the New Hampshire supreme court was stricker with paralysis while waiting for train ir the Boston and Maine railroad station al Rollinsford Junction, and he died befor' medical aid could be summoned. He wal 6o years of age and was considered one O the able jurists In the United States
 Wednesday, March II.
 Miller & Kirby, malstsrs of Wecdsport N. l., filed a general assignment to Georg , W. Nellis, an attorney of Auburn. William Brown Smith, a pioneer of Syr acuse, and who was prominently connect ed with its business life, died at his hom in that oity.
 The fight over the delegates at large be tween the Foraker and Mckinley factions has been amicably settled, and the Ohi' big four will be Foraker, Bushnell, Hanni and Grosvenor.
 Fidel Tritschler, aged 34 years, a >promi nent baker and a member of select counci of Allentown, Pa, murdered his wife anS then fired two bullets into his own brain He cannot recover. During a debate in the New York as sembly over point of order Otto Kemp > ner of New York lost his temper ant struck several blows at an assistant ser . geant at arms who tried to make him talk his seat
 William G. Watson, superintendent O the Hudson river division of the Wes Shore railroad, who was shot in his off1o last Thursday by Detective Clifford il weehawken, died in Roosevelt hospital , in New York. Clifford Is in jail in Jerse i City.
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