Connecticut western news., 1896-10-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Sept. aa.

on the year which makes her reign the longest In England.
 Actor Bob Hilliard has married again, his wife being tho former wife of Edgar Murphy, the wing shot. Twelve year-old Annie Eokert twice fired the house of her mistress because she had been scolded for not blaoking the stove properly.
 Joseph Harrison, a New York bank messenger, committed suicide by shooting himself in the cellar of his home after tying his body to pillar. A factory for explosives has been found in an Armenian church near the Eoole Centrale at Galata, together with some printing type and copies of threatening letters.
 The pope will be requested to appoint | papal ableeate to Canada to settle differ ences there arising from the interference of priests at the polls In the school ques- ton.
 Friday, Sept eS.
 Baron Geer of Finspang, formerly pre- mier of Sweden, is dead. James F. Joy. the railway man and capitalist, died at his home in Detroit.
 The great Puget sound drydook was formally accepted by the navy department Gladstone said at great meeting In Liverpool that England has "a just titlen | to threaten Turkey with coercion. By keeping sober for five consecutive | years George Crocker, son of the late Charles Crocker, has earned $500, GOO There was clash of authority at Lead. vile, Colo the provost marshal having arrested a correspondent whom the courts will release.
 Edward !. Ivory of New York was ar raigned in a London court, charged with being In dynamite conspiracy with Ty- nan, Kearney and Haines. Advioes from Madrid are that Cavite, in the Philippine islands, Is occupied by l5,000 insurgents Spain Is preparing to send 5000 additional troops.
 Saturday, Sept ga.
 The Dixon White 20 round fight for the featherweight championship was declared | a draw.
 The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst returned from Europe and talked about the national | campaign.
 Lord Salisbury went to Balmoral castle last evening to see the czar concerning the Turkish question.
 The demand to the French government by England for the extradition of F. F. J. Tynan. the alleged dynamiter, Is based upon definite criminal charge
 Major Mckinley addressed four delega- tions which came from Pennsylvania, In- diana and Ohio More than go, 900 visit ors are expected in Canton today.
 John Murphy, alias Whitehead, the seo- ond of the rish-American released prison CTS, developed dangerous mania He is to be placed in an asylum.
 The faculty of Yale refused to say | whether they will take~any official action on tho anti Bryan demonstration by the students Sentiment in New Haven con demns the disturbers.
 Monday, Sept 2s.
 Charles Gosler, a religious fanatic, was drowned near Defiance, O., while trying to walk on the water to demonstrate his faith.
 Spanish guerrillas maltreated Peter K Rivery, an American oitizen, on his plan tation. near St Luis, Cuba He was mar rowly saved from being shot by Spanish scout.
 Juan do Hoyis, an agent of the Cuban iunta, was attacked near Bath Beach, N. Y., by three men, who tried to throttle him and who, he says, were spanish sym pathizers
 Della o'Neill, a servant has brought a charge of grand larceny against her for mer mistress, Miss Jeanne Held, New York society woman, whom she charges with taking her gold watch.
 The clipper ship Solitaire reached the port of New York in tow, having been dismasted in cyclone In the same storm the steamship Rosse was almost wrecked. The steamships May and Nym- phea came together in fog In New York bay, both being badly damaged.
 Tuesday. Sept. go.
 All the train dispatohers on the Cana dian Pacific railway system wore ordered out on strike
 Dr. Johnston of Hazleton, Pa., shot H. | s. Henry three times and his wife once. Alleged infldelity was the cause. Major Mckinley received delegation of colored clergymen in Canton, O., and eschewed politics in addressing them.
 Patrick Quinn was killed and Andrew Reilly and John Noonan injured by a cave in of earth in Fifth avenue, New York.
 | Sylvanus Middlebrook. m aged miser, wns burned to death in his house, In Dan- bury, Conn, and the authorities believe he was robbed and murdered.
 Charges of unfairness in the selection of the savage rifle as the arm of the national guard of the state of New York are to be |
 Miss Margaret Jefferson, eldest daugh. ter of Mir. Charles R. Jefferson and grand daughter of the veteran actor Joseph Jef- erson, and Mir. Glen McDonough, the playwright, of New York, were united in marriage at Buzzards Bay, Mass. Presi- dent and Mrs Cleveland were among the guests.
 John wanamaker of Philadelphia has purchased the entire establishment of Hill ton, Hughes X Co, successors to A. T.. Stewart, in New York, and will conduct general department store. to be directed by his partner, Robert c. Ogden. The purchase price Is said to have been more than Sa, 900, 900.
 Wednesday, Sept. 30.
 George W. Aldridge, superintendent of public works, is Ill and confined to his bed at his home in Rochester.
 Nathaniel II. Clement, Charles F. Brown, Thomas s. Moore and stephen D. Stephens were named as candidates by the Democratic judiciary cS2vention of the Eleventh district, New Srk.
 Justice Andrew Jackson of Setauket, N. Y., fought prisoner who called him fool. When the prisoner recovered con sciousness, he was sentenced to six months Imprisonment for contempt of court
 During the celebration attending the raising of a Bryan and Sewall banner at Riyerhead, N. r., William Butts and All fred Holmes were Injured by the prcma. turs explosion of cannon cracker. Butts will lose a part of his right hand and Holmes two fingers from his right hand.
 Herman Paul Schultz, alias Paul smith, whose wife was recently found at Shohola, Pa, dead in bed by his side, from pistol shot wound In her head, was arrested on the complaint of his son Charles, F years old, who accuses him of arson. The young man will also try to have his father in- dicted for murder.
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