Connecticut western news., 1896-08-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Aug. 20.

Colonel Charles c, Sawtclle was an- pointed quartermaster general of the ar. my, with tho rank of hrigadicr general
 Daniel Nhnlen, who was cashier of the old excise board of New York city, was arrested on charge of having embedded 1000 In license moneys
 The coroner's jury at Ryde, Isle Of Wight, returned the verdict that Baron von Zedtwitz, who was killed in the col. iision of the Isolde and the Meteor, met his death by accident.
 Mrs London has brought suit against Dr. K. B. Foote, Jr., manufacturer of proprietary remedies in New York, for the recovery of Sis0. Tho suit tlisoloses the' fact that there Is a paying business in sell. ing the letters received by one patent medi- cine firm to another.
 Friday. Aug. 2I.
 An attachment was served on Ovington Bros, the china and glass dealers of Brook lyn.
 Frederick Tiedmann, a wealthy New York merchant, was arrested on Staten Island for assaulting crippled boy.
 The funeral of the lato Sir John Mil lais, president of the Royal Academy, was held in St. Paurs cathedral London.
 Burglars attempted to rob the store of Walker B. Adams at Bedford Station, N. Y. Mir. Adams and his son. William B., discovered them, and fight followed. Mir. Adams and two of the thieves were fatal. ly shot.
 New City, N. r., Is greatly exercised over an attempt by the Rev. William G. Harper of the Methodist church to effect the regeneration of tho town by what he calls cottage prayer meetings" and open air revivals.
 r-a ~kt.t r,...t.. D,..u.n .k u,..ut.., delivered an address on "International Law before tho American Bar assocla. tion at Saratoga. 1t was an able and ear. nest plea for peace and was received with marked evidence of approval by the largo assembly which heard It. Saturday, Aug. ga.
 The failure of Leopold Well < Go, jew elers, of Si Maiden lane, New York, was announced. Peter Perrine is In jail In New Bruns- wick, N. J., because of his inability to pay s2 so for poll and dog taxes His fami- ly Is destitute
 K +. C. Young, the receiver of the Ma tional Cordage company, began suit in New York against the directors for breach l of trust and misconduct Three of the four burglars who tried to rob the store of Walker B. Adams in Bod ford Station, N. Y., havo been idonti- fled as former criminals. Mir. Adams died from the shot fired by one of the mon Assistant District Attorney John Mo Intyte of New York, while trying to re- cover lost collars at a laundry In Asbury 1 Park, N l., was attacked by Cinnamon | with hot irons. MT. Mcintyre caused the arrest of tho proprietor of the laundry, | who was held for appearance before the Monmouth county grand jury on the charge of assault. Monday. Aug. aA.
 Four mon were killed by the wreck of a | train on the Northern Pacific road in Mon. | tana. A live trolley wire broke at Bridge port. Canada, and killed two valuable horses.
 The Atlantic squadron returned from its sea maneuvers and anchored of Tomp- | kinsville.
 Eighteen hundred members of the Knee ! Pantsmakers' union in Now York wont on strike against the contractors. Peter Fisher, l7 years old, shot and kill | ed his l2-year-old sister Elizabeth, in New York, while he was playing with fio- bert rifle. ... Mariners are greatly alarmed at a shoal which has formed in Gedney's channel about the wreck of the barge Andrew Jackson, which was sunk on May 2l and Is serious obstruction to ocean travel
 The funeral of Walker R. Adams, mur- dered by burglars at Bedford Station, N. Y., took place yesterday. Jacques, one of the men captured, was removed from the | Mount kisco jail to the jail at White \ Plains
 Tuesday. Aug. as. Emile Zola's novel Rome" has been placed on the Index Expurgatorius in Paris.
 IL Is said that Emperor William has or dcred the introduction in the reichstag of a new military reform bill
 R. D. wrenn defcated W. A. Larned at tennis in the national tournament st New port, R. l., and will challenge F. H. Ho- vey for the championship. | William Mckinley made two spcoohes- one to large delegation of potters from East Liverpool, O., and the other to oom- pany of farmers from Knox county l William l. Bryan left Dutchess county, | \. Y., to visit Major Hinkiey, the Dom. ocratic state chairman, at the latter's lodge in the Catskills, making several short l speeches en route.
 A laborer touched lighted match to a gas service pipe In East One Hundred and Twentieth stroot, New York. An explosion | followed, and Michael wynn's house was completely wrecked.
 A wreck on the Pittsburg and wcstorn railroad at Valencia, 22 miles west of | Pittsburg, resulted in the destruction of 3 passenger coaches Is freight cars and the injury of 20 passengers, of whom will probably die.
 Wednesday. Aug. ao.
 The czar and czarina left St. Petersburg for Vienna.
 The ninth annual convention of Repub- lican League clubs began in Milwaukee.
 AdvIoes from Washington are that Ham i'd bin Thwain, sultan of Zanzibar, Is dead.
 Speaker Thomas B. Reed addressed a Republican mass meeting at Old Orchard, Me.
 Postmaster Barker of Pattenburg, N. J., shot a burglar who had entered the post office.
 Garret A. Hobart, Republican candidate for vice president, called on Major Mokin- ley at Canton, O.
 Miss Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross society, has returned to London from Constantinople
 The crew of the British ship Moldayia, which struck an Iceberg in midocean, was rescued and brought to New York by the steamer Circassia.
 The efforts of tho Spanish Generals Il. mares and Sandoval to carry narrow pass held by General Garcia in Banabacoa, Gu. ha, resulted in failure and heavy loss to the spanish troops.
 It Is rumorcd that Italy will break ofi diplomatic relations with Brazil on so. count of tho recent assault upon Italians in the province of San Paulo, where six persons are reported to have been killed and many wounded.