Connecticut western news., 1896-08-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, July 80.

A bout o,oOo chllur, packet makers joined tho ranks of the striking coat tai lors in New York.
 Robert Garrett, former president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company died at Deer Park, Md.
 Spain so much fears mGtiny that the great body of re. achievements to be dis patched to Cuba In August will be sent unarmed, other vessels taking their equip ments.
 William F. St. John, treasurer of tho Democratic national committee, engaged permanent headquarters in New York fo the Bryan and Sewall campaign in tn, Hotel Bartholdi
 Mrs. Lillian Reynolds has brought sui for the annulment of her marriage w,tf Guy Reynolds in New York and for $50, 900 damages. It Is alleged that he has another wife living, and m action for big amy may result.
 Friday, July 31.
 The Tammany Democracy has decided to accept tho nomination of Bryan ana Sewall as regular.
 Secretary Hoke Smith says the story that he Is going to resign is beneath the dignity of denial
 Severe wind and rain storms did much damage in Pittshurg and otl,er places in western Pennsylvania. Three lives lost.
 The explosion of an empty oil still at Eagle works, Cavan Point, Jersey City, severely burned five men, of whom two are 1ikely to die.
 The preliminary step for an inquiry in- to the admins ration of the British South Africa company was taken in the British house of commons.
 Frank Wollweber, boy burglar, was -l~. T | m n. Meyers, after committing burglary at 392 Pearl street. New York.
 Attorney General Harmon dismissed the government suits against about 10000 settlers made defendants with the Union Pacific and other western railroads.
 Saturday, August 1.
 Cholera is said to be beyond control in northern Egypt; s,069 deaths have al- ready been reported.
 James Cody, an alleged west side rough, was shot in West Sixty-frst street, New York, by Policeman Kiernan while resist ing arrest
 Nineteen persons, two of whom are women, have been sentenced to death In Agram, Hungary, on the charges of brig andage and murder.
 Mrs. A. s. Rosenthal, wife of a silk merchant in Greene street, New York, has discovered that she is one of the heirs to an estate of S25, 900, 900 in Australia.
 Major Mckinley addressed delegation of veterans and others at Canton O., say ing in substance that pensions must be paid In money as good as gold.
 In New York James Butler, an old for mer convict, confessed having committed perjury to save his sister, who had mar ried policeman, the disgrace of having her brothers record exposed and was sen- tenoed to two years and six months in the penitentiary.
 Monday, August 3.
 Four men were killed in a battle be- tween sheepmen and oattlemen in Oregon.
 Fire in the Cramps shipyard in Philadel- rhia destroyed the big paintshop of the concern, with its contents.
 The opposition of Lord Salisbury to blockade of the island of Crete had a bad effect on the Berlin and Vienna bourses.
 Riots occurred on the east side in New York as the result of efforts by tailors to nonunion labor.
 According to the Berlin press, the un- disciplined action of the recent congress of socialists in London has been severe blow to socialism in Germany.
 Morris Connolly, 10 years old, was caught picking a mans pocket in New York. He says he was taught by Law renee Luttrell, whom the police have been unable to find
 James Cahill, while being shaved by Nicolo Cantagnolo in New York, objected to the razor's dullnsss and was attacked by the barber, slashed and struck with a hatohet and left for dead.
 A fugitive steer escaped from the stock yards at the foot of West Fifty ninth street, New York, and finally got into Central park, where he raised panic and was fruitlessly shot at by three policemen.
 Tuesday, August 4.
 The Right Hon. Sir William Robert Grove died in London.
 The pope is said to be confined to his apartments with an attack of rheuma- tism.
 The Rockefeller iron mines in Michigan have been closed, throwing 1000 men out of employment.
 The striking tailors on the east side, New York, were disorderly, and numerous arrests were made.
 Mrs Lenfeoty, a second cousin of the Princess Colonna, was arrested in Brook lyn on the charge of shoplifting.
 Judge Calvin K. Pratt of the supreme court, Brooklyn, died suddenly of apo plexy at his country home in Rochester. Mass.
 Walter O. Poor stabbed former "tao- klo'' of Princeton football team during a game of cards in boarding house In New York. The wounded man, who will live, is believed to be J. B. Riggs.
 Frank Davis killed Robert Pickett In Cripple Creek, Colo, cutting his head nearly of with razor, and also cut May Rivers so badly that she will die He then cut his own throat but it Is thought that the wound Is net fatal. Pickett was a dance hall proprietor, and Davis was the porter of the place. The woman was an inmate of the resort, and jealousy caused the tragedy.
 Wednesday, August 5.
 Frank Lomeo, an Italian blacksmith, shot his wife three times and killed him. self in New York.
 Mrs Annie Book vas mysteriously mur- dered in her fat at 207 East Twenty first street, New York. Twenty-Five hundred vestmakers de- manding shorter hours swelled the mum Der of striking garmentmakers In New York. Two wheelwomen were attacked by a l tramp near nenville, N. J. One struck him in the faoo with a stone and drove him l away.
 Jamos Phillips, son of former solicitor general of the department of justice in | New York, was indicted for forging the game of the Rev. Dr. John R. Paxton. Soldiers oH picket duty at the Brown Hoist works in Cleveland prevented two strikers exploding what Is supposed to | have been dynamite bomb. The strikers wore pursued by the soldiers, and about go | shots were eXOhanped While diving into the ocean from a horses back at Bath Beach, on Long Is- land, a hostler named Bartha was kicked | in the stomach. He sank and was drown ed in the presence of many people who were applauding his feats.