Connecticut western news., 1896-12-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Dec. 10.

| Thursday, Dec. 10. | A building for permanent Repubiican national headquarters In Washington was selected by Chairman Hanna
 Mrs. Hewlett Brower, at Cape May Courthouse, N. l., rcpollod three times tho attack of robbers and wounded one with pistol bullet Miss Lucy Follett Uhl, daughter of Elm bassador Uhl, was married to Guy Van. gordder Thompson of Yale university -s the American embassy in Berlin. | Colonel A. K. McClurc, editor of the Philadelphia Times. was the guest o< honor at a banquet to smmemor~ts ths | nfticth anniversary of ms entrance Into journalism. Many prominent Pennsylvs- nia, New York and New Jsreey newsp@~ per mon werc present
 It was stated in st Louis that in rs- cent conference between Mir Bryan and leaders of tho late silver campaign it was determined to make speaking canvass in | evcry county In tho United States, the orators to volunteer their services and con- tinue their work until che presidential | election of 1900.
 | Friday. D~c. m.
 The aquarium in Battery park. New York, was opened, and it is estimated so,- poo pcrrons saw the exhibit
 HwaDg Tsun Hsien, the recently sp- pointed Chinese minister to Berlin, turnx out to bc persona non grsts to the German government
 Carl Sohurr, Theodore Roosevelt Rob nrt K Bowkor and Rilas W. Burr made asidre-res before the National Civn Service Reform leaEue in Philadelphia
 Luigi Cappiello shot his wifs Franocsom thrce times In a crowded Sooond avenue | N.. n. return to him. She will probably die
 It was said at Washington that the ofrics l of secretary of the treasury In Pr~sidens McKinleys cabinet would be tendered te Nelson Dinglcy of haino and would be Se- copted by him.
 The Canadian Independence club hes been organized in hontreal to work witk other clubs throughout the Dominion se secure the national independence of Csnad& | by pacific nioans
 Saturday,, Dee. ls.
 Maria Barbcri the Italian woman wh~ | was acquitted of the murder of hsr faith less lover in Now York, refused an offer of $500 week to appear in museum.
 Ching Foo, a iaundryman on Mosx street, New York, attempted to oommlt suicide because his queue had bcen cut of while he slept. His loss Is believed to have driven him insane
 Tho tests made at Norfolk on the steel plates intended for the battleships Ken lucky and koarsargc show that their eio~- gatlon is only se per cent, while the ocn- | tract calls for a minimum of 20 per cent
 Four New York Bowery dodgers purs chased seven rcvolvers and went a mm~ raudlng expedition. They shot tramp ia freight train and were captured neax Pougbkcepsie afssr hsisk fusillads w'ish posse of police.
 In New York. Columbia univcrdT sopssarnores Kidnapped thrce frcshmen, iA- cludinr the oisss president, and fed them b@hy's food for supper. Police hsd to ssop fsht between the 1900 men. led by wil- liam R. Grnoc's son, and sophs, in which scvcral of the latter were roughly handled
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 The Rev Dr. James A. McCauisy disd in Baltimore.
 The pope approved tho selection of tAs Rev. ]. <. Quisiey to be bishop of tho dio-
 Dr. Eiiphalet Nott Potter hss resigned the presidency of Hobart college st 0snsr va, N. Y He has accepted a professorshtp at Union college.
 William Johns, an employee of the No tcl Le Grand of Chicago, wAs shet sn& killed by bandit because he refused "a throw up his hands
 The New York state officials srs ruEslsx over the problem of supplying work for the idio convioss of she state and ths i~- mates of the hospitals
 Rudolph Lederor, si years old, of Alh~- ny, believing that he was becoming In sane, shot himeelf in the loft breast in tk@ presence of his two brothers st ii EAss One Hundred and Thirteenth street. New | York.
 T.esdsy. Dec Is
 The First National bank of HoIlitsys- burg Pa, and connected private banks st Martinshurg and Williamsburg, oio~ed.
 Secretary Carlisle has written letter se Boston banker in which he says he shall not issue gold certificates for the preaonA
 The annual convention of the Americas Federation of Labor opened at CincinnsA President Gompors delivered his snnsd address.
 Charles A. Prouty of Vernon, was nominated by the president for n,enabss of the interstate commerce commissios ss succeed W. c. Veasoy, resigned.
 Alfred schluss shot and fatally w~uRd- ed Margaret Peters, for whom he had lefs his wife, and then killed himself in h@s rooms in Fifth street. New York. | Tho Argentine government has ordered tho governor of Fntre Rios to disperse the UruEuayan revolutionists assembled d Concordia. It was the intention of thc@s bands to nRain invade Uruguay. I've Eunboats have been sent to guard the coast
 In the mandamus case of Richard J. Wood against tho state oanvassing board of South Dakota, demanding certificates for Republican ''ectors on the partial osn- vass the court ....s rofuscd writ holding that the board has n right to adjourn tn order to secure further returns and se make n complete canvass. This gives the electors to Bryan.
 wednesd-y. Dec I8.
 Mrs. Sarah Bohling of New York ccma- mittcd suicide on the eve of her hushand'a birthday because she feared he would be- come intemperate
 The navy department has ordered hAs special investigating board to tcst the seeel intended for the battleship Illinois, as de- feots have been found in some plates
 A big girier fell from the Standard oil building nt 22 to 90 Broadway. New York, and pierced the roof of n cabinetmaker's shop, nearly causing the death of three men
 The Commercial Travellers fair st MaAi- son Square Garden, New York. was form- ally opened in the presence of a Rroak throng. The fair Is held to raise funds for the Commercial Travellers homo
 Alexander Salyini, romantic aotow, we'll known and admired In this country and a son of the celebrated Italian traee- dian, Tomaso Salvlni, died st FlorcDoe. aged 35 years. His most notable ohAract~w was D'Artagnan in the "1hrce Guards men,
 Governor Morton has dismissed ahs charges against sheriff Tamsen of New York. holding that they were not suffioienf to warrant his removal Sherifr TAmssn was charged with ncgligonoe, particularly in allowing the escape of federal prisonerx rom the Ludlow street jail