Connecticut western news., 1896-04-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April 2.

Majestic from London.
 The treasury statement for March sbowi 8 net increase of s5, ETA, 7S2 in the public debt during the month.
 The boiler of Fred Groves sawmill, sit. uated between Milford and Elenor, O., exploded, killing W. K. Fitzwater and Earnest Martin, employees.
 Ten persons were burned to death in fire which broke out at 36 Union street, Brooklyn. There were F persons in tho house at the time. They were Italians.
 The ninety seventh annual New York conference of the Methodist Episcopal church opened with an all day session in the auditorium of the Union Methodiss church in New York city.
 Senator W. K. Chandler, in letter tn Senator Lodge, says that the Mckinley men trioked him into a cowardy surren- der to their plan for joint indorsement of presidential candidates at the Concord convention. He claims that the delegates are for Reed.
 A Friday. April 8.
 The resignation of First Lieutenant Lawrence D. Tyson, Ninth infantry, has been accepted, to take effect April Is. Professor !. B. Cummings, for 8e years an instructor in the department of science
  Pa., is dead. He was 69 years old.
 The following have been appointed ca dets at the United States Military acade- my: Joseph c. Kay of New Brunswick N. J.. Robert Roth of Ashland, Pa. James ". Furness of Philadelphia.
 Governor Morton sent to the New York state senate the nomination of Henry $. Holden of Syracuse to be fish, game and forest commissioner, vice Henry H. Ly- man, the recently appointed excise com missioner.
 Otto Kempner, accompanied by Judge Albert Hessberg, appeared before District Attorney BurlIngame. in Albany. and ask. ed that hs cite Speaker Fish and Repub- lican Lender O'Grady to appear before the grand jury and answer the charge of vio- lating the penal code in intImidating and restraining the freedom of the legislature during the passage of the Raines liquor tax bill.
 Saturday, April <
 Secretary Herbert has gone on a weeks visit of inspection to the North Atlantic squadron at Hampton Roads.
 Charles B. Rouss of New York asked Nicola Tesla to pass 100, 900 volts through his head in the hope that it will cure his blindness
 Cuba's sugar crop dropped from 1,O00,- 900 tons to 130, 900 or less. The tobacco crop is greatly diminished, and the other products are practically unobtainable.
 Six of the crew of the British steamship Oxus, at anchor in New York. attacked the officers and six of their comrades and fought for 90 minutes before being over powered.
 The raid on the Cooper Union hotel in fol tv.t ha 1f and his daughter and several other re- spectable persons. The police warrant did not authorize the arrest of guests Of the house.
 Assemblyman Andrews of New York has introduced a bill providing for refer endum of the proposed Greater New York charter to vote of the people. The bill Is believed to be the index of a desperate attempt to defeat the project.
 Monday, April G.
 Ernest Ange Duez, the painter, died in Paris.
 The opening games of the seven bun- dred and seventy sixth Olympiad begin in Athens. Greece
 By the burning of the training stables at the Buffalo Driving park go valuable horses were burned to death.
 
 new Raines liquor law were enforced throughout the state of New York.
 A serious disturbance was created In a Barcelona theater by cries of "Long live free Cuba' Two arrests were made.
 Congressman Henry Clay Miner and Actress Annie O'Neill were married in Brooklyn and went south on their we'd ding tour.
 Cardinal Gibbons issued an appeal, signed by himself and Cardinals LoQue of Ireland and Vaughan of England, for a permanent arbitration tribunal
 Tuesday. April :.
 The first Republican mayor of Harris burg in nine years was inaugurated.
 c. L. Magee gave sl00,U00 to the city of Pittsburg for a geological garden.
 It Is denied that the Rev. Mir. Knapp. an American missionary, has been eI- peiled from Bitlis-
 The Albany police bill was recalled from the governor by the New York state legislature to be amended.
 The Rev. Dr. Lanahan of Baltimore is- sued book reviving charges Of fraud In the Methodist Book Concern.
 Chairman Hinkley of the New York Democratic state committee said the Dem ocratic state convention will probably be held on June 23 In Saratoga
 The Holland society of New York de- cided to erect a statue of William the Si- lent the location to be chosen later.
 The New York Methodist Episcopal con. ference unanimously adopted resolutions asking that congress pass the nonssctarian Indian educational appropriation bill.
 The board of aldermen of Mount Yer non, N. r. have found City Clerk Pease guilty of misappropriating city funds to the amount of more than s3,000. He has been removed and his successor appointed.
 Wednesday, April 8.
 Ex-President Harrison and his bride ar. rived in Indianapolis.
 Edna Whitmore. 22 years old. of New. ark N. J.. killed herself by taking carbol- ic aoid because her mother drank to ex- cess.
 Commissioner Booth Tucker and his wife were "weloomed" at an enthusiastic meeting in Carnegie Music hall. in New York.
 Mamie and Johnny Timothy, juvenile thieves of Jersey City, were found to have committed upward of a score of highway robberie1 and burglaries.
 The Fage- Pavey compromise school bill removing trustees in New York city from office has passed the assembly and now goes to Governor Morton.
 It is stated that Secretary Olney ha asked Lieutenant General Schofeld, re- tired, to give him information as to the military situation In Cuba
 Fire, supposed to have been of inesndi- ary origin. destroyed Is stores In Yonkers, NY, and drove the tenants of upper sto- ries into the snow in their nightclothes.
 -A At Traction company of New York wrote to President Mahop of the eAmalgamated As sociation of Street Railway Employees, positively refusing to grant a conference to discuss the grievances of the men A strike may result.
 Measles In the White House.
 WASHINGTON, April S.-The meeting of the cabinet was postponed without date