Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursdsy, Aug. Is.

Mollah Reza who on May assassinated the shah of Persia. was hanged in Tehe- ran..
 Celia Rose, daughter of an Ohio farmer, confessed to poisoning her father, mother and brother.
 There was a parade of visiting wheel men and a watermelon feast for the cy- slers at Louisville.
 The British house of commons rejected lome amendments to the Irish land bill md sent 1t back to the lords
 Mrs Florence Backenhus of 57 Wyckoff street, Brooklyn, oowed an armed burglar with rusty pistol beat him and put him to flight.
 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic seminary In New York for the philosophical eduoa- tion of priests opened with a papal bless Ing by cable and an address by Cardinal Satolli.
 Friday, Aug. 1k. Cooper defeated Bald in the two mile national championship bicycle race at Louisville.
 Sir John Millais, one of the most distin- guished of English artists, president of the British Royal academy, died in Lon- don.
 The United States Express company was robbed of s450 belonging to m Odd Fellows lodge and of $500 belonging to a l bank.
 The house of lords agreed to the house | of commons re amendments of the Irish | land bill, and the measure will now be- | come law. It was announced in London that pr. | Gallagher, Whitehead, Devany and Daly, the so called Irish dynamiters serving life sentences in British prisons, arc to be lib erated on license.
 Mrs. Sarah Apgell, who says she Is the widow of Jay Gould, transferred her claim on his estate to Amos J. Parker of Albany and Margaret E Cody of Denver. Tho | consideration named Is "$1 and other val | uable consideration. In a cistern beneath a house at Flush ing, N Y, in which lived Mrs. Phoebe Seaman. was found the ropebound skele- ton of her husband, who had been miss ing for year. She was arrested on suspi- cion of having murdered him. | Saturday. Aug. Is. | Secretaries Carlisle and Lamont visited the president at Gray Gables. ! The British parliament was formally | prorogued by the queen to Oct. 31. | Count Pallavicini killed himself at Blu dapest because a variety actress tilted him.
 Tom Butler of Boston won the mile na- tional championship race at the Louisville l.. A. W. races.
 Two cadets were dismissed from West Point Military academy for hazing. Their sentence was approved by the president.
 A troop of United States cavalry has been ordered to the Mexican border near Nogales, Ariz., to guard against raid of the marauding Yaquis.
 It was announced in the house of com mons that, owing to the proposal made by the United States, the Venezuelan affail would soon be satisfactorily adjusted.
 Gussie Eslofsky of 73 Eldridge street | who is 10 years old, ran away from home to Brooklyn. She has been guilty of such escapades nearly 20 times and once went to Texas. | Monday. Aug. IT. | MT. Moody closed the Northfield Bibl, conference with number of addresses tt crowded congregations.
 Fred Mead of Auburn, N. Y., student at Colgate college, while boating on Lak, Cayuga at Ithaca was drowned. Alois Dinkleman, once wealthy citizer of New York, crazed by business losses killed his wife and blew his brains out
 At Detroit the Rev. Thomas E- Sher | man, made the final vows and joined tn, Jesuit order.
 More than 40, 900 Germans, members O the Plattdeutsche Verein, gathered a Sohuetzen park, Union Hill, N. J., to be gin their annual festival, which will las eight days.
 Tuesday, Aug. IS.
 In fight over a game of ball between two oolored teams in Arkansas four play CTS were killed and several injured.
 A reception was given in honor of tn lord chief justice of England at Henr, Villard's country house near Dobbs Ferry
 In Eau Clairs Wis, men were killet and 20 injurad, some of them fatally, b, the collapse of building upon which the, were at work
 Five burglars blew open the safe of tn Beachside inn at Greens Farms, Conn. and stole g, 900, after keeping the guest in subjeotion hy leveled revolvers.
 In the Republican convention of tn Third Assembly district of Oneida county N. Y., Chairman Hackett of the Repub lican state committee was defeated by vote of 32 to 24.
 Harry s. Henry, well known million aire of Morrisville, N. J., was horsewhip ped on crowded street in Atlantic Cit, by his wife, who was jealous of his atten tion to another woman. He in turn knock ed her down. The affair created a grea sensation in the fashionable resort
 By the premature explosion of 10 pounds of dynamite at New Holland, Pa. three men were killed outright, three wer fatally injured and several were badl hurt. The dead and dying are c. F. Can non, F. Hammond, George Crossman, Mi | cha r r{O renoe.
 Wednesday. Aug. 1s.
 Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria am Hungary, celebrated his sixty sixth birth day.
 Dispatches from Canea, Crete, say that the Turkish imperial commissions has met the deputies, and that the prospec is hopeful.
 Mrs. Henry E. Abbey, wife of the wei known theatrical manager, was awarde' one-third of her husbands salary of $10, 900 year pending her action for limite divorce.
 Fire in a wholesale liquor store on Wes street, New York, did damage to tn amount of s40, 900. Edward Gross, TOT ter, was SD badly burned that his recover is doubtful.
 George Bronson Rae, the newspaper COT respondent or Brooklyn, who, 1t was re ported, had been killed by Spanish troop while with General Maceo In Cuba, 1 alive and in good health. The betrothal Is announced of Vitori Emmanuele, prince of Naples, eldest so and heir apparent of the king of Italy, an, Princess Helene of Montenegro, thir, daughter of the reigning prince of Monte negro.
 During the yacht race for the Vic Commodore's cup at South Sea, England Emperor Williams Meteor ran into an disabled Baron von Zedtwitz's Americal built yacht Isolde. Baron von Zedtwit was so seriously injured by the falling rig ging that he died soon after the collision Pensions For English Ministers.
 Has 0 minister anything to look for ward to on retiring from office? An ex