Connecticut western news., 1896-05-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, May If.

burSlhrb NlSlt6u In6 ndyDOr IdInlly OI misers near Warwick, N. r., bound the members and took away a box of money.
 man, thought to have been Edward Friend, who recently failed in business, committed suicide at Park row hotel, New York.
 Mrs. Dora Phelps of Bridgeport Conn.,, denies that she tempered with the affeo- tions of George Hayes, damaging them to the extent of $6. 900.
 Citizons of Nyaok, N. r., arc quaking lest they be indicted for taking part in lottery held in connection with the benefit entertainment of a benevolent order.
 Mrs Sarah Schofield. wife of hotel keeper at Armonk, N. r., was found dead In a brook near Mosholu parkway with a wound on her forehead. It is believed that she was murdered.
 Alfred Schmidt and wife sat up in bed and watched three masked burglars by candle light rob their house at Wsehaw- ken. N. J. One burglar kept the couple quiet with a revolver while his oompan- ions collected the valuables. All three escaped.
 Friday. May 1b. Earl and Countess Spencer of England arrived in New York. Scott Jackson was convicted and sen
  murder of Pearl Bryan.
 Robert H. Dolan. photographer, was found impaled on the fence in front of his home in Wakefield, N. r., under ciroum- stances which point to murder.
 The body of young and finely formed woman, gagged and showing five ugly wounds made with knife and club. was found in the water on the south shore of Staten Island.
 Ernest Arnheim, son of millionaire of New York, was declared insane by a jury in general sessions and was sent to Mat teawan asylum. A fast life is said to have caused his mental derangement
 While attempting to get on moving train at Irvington. N. Y., Reginald H. Jaffray, a we'll known society man, who was recently married, had his right leg out of. He is grandson of the late E. $. Jaffray, the millionaire dry goods mer- chant
 Saturday, May 16.
 Surgeon General Forster of Boston dropped dead on the steamer Puritan just before she sailed from New York.
 The trotting mare Nightingale, the property of C. J. Hamlin, dropped dead at Louisville. She was valued at over $l0,- 900.
  will enter a formal protest against the ac- ti on of the United States In regard to the Cuban insurgents.
 George M. Clarke, who says he was for years private secretary to Thomas B. Reed, Is looked up in the Raymond street jail in Brooklyn, charged with swindling many hotels and boarding houses.
 The New York Democratic state oom- mittee met in New York city and fixed June 24 as the date and Saratoga as the place for the state convention to elect four delegates at large to the national conven- tion.
 Ex-Exciss Commissioner Andrews of New York had Edgar Nj. Tomlinson, the Lexow witness who accused him of accept ing bribe, arrested on court order In his suit for $50, 900 damages for criminal islander.
 Mondny, May IS. Governor Claude Matthews of Indiana has written letter opposing single gold standard.
 Suits have been begun in Iowa against | 8 number of western railroads for over | charges on grain shipments Mrs. Mary Burgess was found dead on | the floor of her room on Mott street in l New York, with bruises on her body. Her husband and son were placed under arrest Benjamin Stone. aged 19. leaped from the roof of 19O Allen street, New York. In | front of an "L" train. His skull was | crushed and his left arm cut of. He died in Bellevue hospital. Charles F. Schroeder of New York rode bicycle over a precipice while descending the Palisades, near Weehawken, N. J. with | his wife and died of his injuries In Roose- welt hospital. in New York. l rumor was current in Suakin to the effect that the khalifa. the leader of the dervishes, against whom the Sudan cam | paign is directed, is dead. No confirms ton of the rumor can be had. | William A. Thompson scion of an ex- cellent family, was held for trial in the Yorkville police court in New York for passing a worthless check for sy1S on Hsinemann Bros. riding academy, in payment for horses
 | Tuesday, May 19.
 A sharp fight between insurgents and Spanish troops, in which both sides claim the victory, took place in the province oi Santiago de Cuba.
 Lillian Russell, the opera singer, and her bicycle were injured in collisIon with soorcher on the hill in West One Hun dred and Sixth street, New York. | was probably fatally gored by bull be longing to Thomas Flood of South Orange N. J., by whom he was employed.
 Gold standard Democrats of Illinois TO solved to have a state convention of theil own, and there will be two sets of dele gates sent to the national convention al Chicago.
 Tobacco importers in New York saJ that General Weyler's embargo on the Gu ban raw material will cripple them ans throw out of employment nearly 100, 00t persons in the United States.
 The czar and czarina arrived in Moscow and were enthusiastically received. Thi was the beginning of the ceremonies con neoted with the czar's coronation. It wa the occasion of his twenty eighth birth day, which was celebrated with great sn thusiasm.
 Wednesday, May 20.
 Senator Quay announces that he will visit Mckinley at Canton, o.
 Witnesses in the Holt will oase In Wash ington said they were sure Judge Hol wrote the alleged will
 A serious financial crisis has rssulte, fn Baltimore from the fight between May or Hooper and the city council. The subcommittee of the Republioal state committee has made a report review ing the work of the late legislature.
 George W. Holt. wealthy Brooklyl fire adjudicator, and Harry N. Vaughn O New York were arrested charged with ool lecting false insurance olaim in Brook ! lyn.
 A dispatch from London states on tn , highest authority that a movement is o , foot in London. Paris and Brussels to si , feet a reconciliation between tho Arms ? nians and the sultan of Turkey. General opinion among tobacco dealer 3 in Florida is that many manufactures will be compelled to abandon business b , reason of General Weyler's edict prohibit , ing the exportation of tobaoso leaf fror 2 Cuba.