Connecticut western news., 1896-09-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Sept. 10.

NEW 0 UT ne WE Ns
 Thnrsday. Sept. 10.
 Fifteen hundred spanish troops lefs Barcelona for the Philippine islands
 Ex-United States Senator Henry B Payne, and father-in.iaw of William c. Whitney, died of paralysis In Cleveland
 !. B. Stanchfield announced that he had concluded not to be a candidate for gov ernor of New York on the Democratic ticket
 Two men held up Henry Hndobrand, messenger for George Ringler & Go, brewers, in New York and robbed him of e, 900.
 The Union National bank of New Or leans has been forced to close It's doors, and a mistake or a defaication of nearly s700, 900 has been found on its books
 Chaunoey NJ. Depew denied the report that he would resign from the Now York Central's presidency to take a cabinet poo sition under Mckinley if the latter be elected.
 Two small boys, IA and II years old, and a girl years old, who ran away from their homes in Providence were found In New York city making a living by sing ing In the streets.
 Friday. Sept. H.
 Isaac Zehr, the l6-year-old son of well to do parents in New York, cleverly forged the certifoation of a bank on a worthless check and Is fugitive from justice.
 Ernest Luooio Is under arrest in Plain fold, N. l., charged with abduoting Louise Giles, whom he subsequently, married, and who, according to her mother, is not yet l5 years old.
 Mrs. Agnes Devere, while on the way to meet her husband on her bicycle, came into collision with another bicyoliss and sustained injuries from which she died in Roosevelt hospital, New York.
 cable Dispatch from Rome announces the death of Professor Luigi Palmiere the noted Italian meteoroloeist, who for the last 70 years has lived on the edge of the crater of yesuvius and devoted his life to the study of the volcano
 Two daring robbers held up a faro gamo in local saloon at Pocatello, Ida, se- cured $500 in cash and backed out of the room, leaving the inmates too dazcd to follow them. The men arc believed to Do members of the outlaw gang which re- gently robbed the Montpelier bank They are still at large
 Saturday, Sept Ia.
 Olaf Laudsem, the Norwegian novelist was drowned at Scarborough, England.
 The members of the Diamond Match pool in Chicago have raised t2o0, 900 to settle the transactions of Moore Bros.
 Owing to the failure of the Labrador fishery, hundreds of fishermen are leaving Newfoundland for the United States and Canada
 An explosion of powder at the mills of the Ohio Powder company at Youngs- town, O., resulted in the Instant death of two men.
 Miss Kate Tedford Hickie has brought suit in the supreme court. Queens county, N. Y., against tho Rev. Father Enis, Dominican, of New York oity for alleged defamation of character.
 Professor Francis J. Child. Ph. D., LIa D., of Harvard university, died at the Massachusetts General hospital In Boston, aged 7l years. Professor Child was re- garded as the most learned gentleman in the community.
 John McClave, Stephen ". MoClave John .McClave, IT,, and Albert MoClavc, who composed the firm of John McClave & Sons, manufacturers of bicycles in New York. made an assignment for tho benefit of creditors to William Harrison.
 Monday, Sept 1&
 Incsndiaries started fires in tho village 
 A wild man was found in a cave in Ho- boken, N. l., where he had been living for months
 William J. Bryan insists that President Cleveland's indorsement of the 1ndianapo- lis ticket amounts to one moro recruit for the "army of generals.
 While practising with a rife in back yerd In Brooklyn 15-year old Bernard Shook was shot and probably fatally wounded by his ohum, George Pholer.
 The hotels of Leavenworth, Kan, re- fused accommodation to Lieutenant Charlos Young, Ninth cavalry, U. s. A, colored man and e graduate of West Point
 A great legal battle Is imminent be. tween the Bell Telephone company and the Western Union Telegraph company. The latter corporation insists that its priv ileges are being enoroaohed upon.
 Consul Read has scored victory for American enterprise In obtaining the ao- ceptance of the tender of the Baldwin Do- oomotive works, Philadelphia, to furnish all the engines for the Tientsin and Pc king railway.
 Tuesday, Sept. 1s-
 Senator German has yielded to the de- sire of National Chairman Jones and has taken control of the silver campaign In the east.
 The important dry goods commission firm of Coffin, Altemus S Go of Now York and Philadelphia failed. with liabilities of upward of q, 900, ,ooo A special cable dispatch from Havana states that Major Ambel sustained five engagements with the insurgents In Ma tanzas province and defeated them.
 The Armenian revolutionary committee has sent circular to all the foreign em- bassies except the German, warning them that unless their demands are granted they will carry death into the embassies. Dr. Joseph Fischer of New York, whose | wife died under very suspicious ciroum- stances, was arrested by order of Coro- ner Hoeber on account of preliminary re- port of the chemical expert that the wom- ans death was due to inhaling inuminnt- | ing gas
 Wednesday. Sept. Ie. The United States cruiser Bancroft sail ed for Turkish waters. The Australian cricket team arrived In New York to begin their American tour. A son of Representative Hepburn of Iowa was killed in a duel with a saloon keeper.
 Mamie Bryan, 6 1e-year-old schoolgirl | of New York, died from blow inflicted | by Patrick Goggins. The Grevery family of five persons, three