Connecticut western news., 1896-01-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Jan. 23-

Thursday, Jan. 23-
 Mime. Modjeska Is dangerously. Ill at Cincinnati.
 A fire broke outs in the Hotchkias rapid fire gun manufactory at St. Denis, Franco, causing damage to the extent of l, ,0oo, 900 francs.
 Ambrose West and wife, both over 70 years of age, were found dead In bed In Philadelphia, having been asphyxiassd by coal gas.
 The athletic team of the University of California has received challenge from the Yale team to engage in a number of contests next May.
 The rumor that the emperor of Germany and emperor of Russia intend to have a meeting at Laturbie is gaining strength in diplomatic circles.
 The legislature of Maryland, in joint session, elected Congressman George l.. Wellington to succeed Charles H. Gibson aS United States senator on. March 4, 1897.
 The boiler of an engine of the New York and St. Louis express on the Little Miami exploded near Columbus, O., killing Charles Trimble, engineer, and JaInos Waters. fireman.
 Friday. Jan. 24.
 It Is announced that two first class tor pedo boats will be sent from England to Halifax.
 By blowing open the postoffice safe at Natick, R. l., robbers secured moro than S700 in cash and stamps.
 It is announced that by the terms of a treaty signed Jan. Is the island of Mada- gasoar is declared French possession.
 The legislature of Utah, in joint session. elected c. +. Cannon and Arthur Brown to the United States senate, and they loft for Washington.
 M. Jacques Anatole France, the cele- brated poet and essayist, has been elected to membership in the French academy to fill the vacancy caused by the death of NJ. | Ferdinand dc Lesseps. In an open letter to Dr. Emil Pretorius, editor of The Westliche Post of St. Louis, Mayor Cyrus ". WaIbridge has announc- ed his candidacy for the Republican nom- ination for governor of Missouri. The secretary of the Oakland (Cal.) branch of the American Railway union has received a letter from the private seo- retary of F.. V. Debs, in which the state ment that Debs is to resign the presidency cf the union is denied. Saturday, Jan. e5. The queen of the Belgians Is seriously i'll at Brussels.
 Emperor William has appointed Prince Bismarck knight of the Order of Pour le Merite, for science and art, with voting power. a
 One of the blanket mills of Dobson & Sons extensive plant in Manayunk, Pa, was destroyed by fire. Loss, s35, 900; full ly insured.
 R. G. Dun &, Co of New York report that the failures for the week have been 378 in the United States, against 363 last year, and 6l in Canada, against 59 last year.
 Hon. John K. Cowen, representative in congress from the Fourth Maryland dis trict, was elected president of the Balti- more and Ohio to succeed Charles F. May CT, who resigned in November. . The United States ambassador at Lon don, MT. Thomas F. Bayard, sent Queen Victoria a message from President Glove land expressing the latter's sincere con- dolences with her majesty upon the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg. Monday, Jan. e7. Captain Marcus L. Taylor, U. S. A, re- tired, died in a hospital in Philadelphia.
 John E. Van de Carr has been appoint ed warden of the Tombs in New York to succeed MT. Fallon. Sir Frederick Leighton, the celebrated painter and president of the Royal acad- emy, died In London. Japan is placing orders for ten warships and plans for two dockyards with builders on the Tyne and Clyde. General Valeriano Weyler, the newly appointed captain general of the island of Cuba, has sailed from Barcelona for Ha- vana, accompanied by 1000 cavalry, amid | wild excitement.
 The American liner St. Paul, from Southampton for New York, struck the outer bar off the Hotel Brighton, Long Branch, and was stranded. All the passen- gers were taken off safe and with but lit tie inconvenience.
 Tuesday, Jan. 2S. Ex-President Bavier of Switzerland is l dead.
 James Edwin Campbell of Chicago. dia lect poet and story writer, died in Pom eroy, O. ....- Hiram W. Brundage, president of the village of Bath, N. r., died suddenly of neuralgia of the heart at his home, aged 52. John F. Wonsou & Co. of Gloucester, Mass, formally announced that t'ey have given up as lost their schooner John W. Bray and a crew of IA men. The Southern Pacific San Jose express
  South San Francisco, killing the engineer and injuring several passengers.
 The Hotel Broadway, the largest hostelry in Nanticoke, Pa, was destroyed by fire. The inmates barely escaped with their lives, not being able to save their clothing. A terrible explosion took place in col. fiery at Tylorstown, near Cardiff, Wales. Seventy-four miners were below the sur face when the explosion occurred nearly all of whom were killed. At Swanse, Ala, Frank Jones, superin- | tendent of the Swanse Coal company's mines, shot and fatally wounded his wife, a beautiful young woman 20 years of age. He defes any one to arrest him. Wednesday. Jan. 20. Frederick A. Hobbes pleaded guilty of smbezzlement at Pittsfeld, Mass Hon. George Rider, a leading Democrat in Chenango county, N. r., died at Nor wich, aged 72 years. George M. Hobbs of Manchester, N. IT., was blown to atoms at Hooksett while thawing out dynamite
 Sir Joseph Barnby, the we'll known mu- sician and principal of the Guildhnll School of Music, died In London.
 Isaac W. Levan, president of the Penn sylvania National bank of Reading, Pa, was found dead in bed at his home.
 Two children were burned to death and their mother was fatally injured in fro nt the home of John Steele in Pittsburg.
 James N. Tatem, aged 50 years, real estate dealer who is we'll known through out New Jersey, attempted suicide at Camden by shooting himself in the temple.
 The decree of divorce obtained by Mrs. Pearl Craigie, the American authoress and lramatist, better known as John Oliver IIobbes, on July last was made absolute by the courts in London. The call for the meeting of the Repub- lican state committee was sent out from