Connecticut western news., 1896-01-23
NEWS OF TtiE WEIR.
Thursday, Jan. 10.

was born in 1877.
 Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle Hn- nounces thGt the success of the Sl0o,ooa, GOO loan is assured.
 In joint session the Ohio legislature elected !. B. Foruker United States senu. tor for the term beginning March |, 1897. The steamship Cispar of Barcelona has been sunk in collision with the German ship Nereus. Nineteen of the crew os tho Cisgar were drowned.
 The City bank, ono of the smaller state banking institutions of Minnrsuols, sus- pended payment pending m examination by tho state bank examiner.
 Chief Engineer George W. Melville, United States navy, has been appointed engineer in chief and chief of the bureau of steam engineering nt Washington.
 Dr. Hiram Collins, U well known in- ventor, n forty y-nlner and n member of the Masonic fraternity, died at Amcshury, Mass, aged SC years. He was tho intl. mate personal friend of the late poet Whit tier for more than half century.
 Friday, Jan. 17.
 The Hon. W. Bourke Cochran Is booked for The steamship St Paul, which sails from Southampton for New York on Satur- day.
 Fx-Cu,.gressman N. B. Smithers, who was secrts.ry of state under Governors Cannon ana Maryil, died at his home in Dover, Del.
 A fire destroyed Jacob B. Rue's livery stable In Ma 1ie avenue, Red Bank, N. J. Eleven horses were burned to death. The total loss Is about s20,00o.
 Perkins &s Welsh, carrying on a gen. eral commission and export and Import business in sugar, coffee and other com moditics in New York, made an assign mcnt. The liabilities exceed slo0,ooo
 The Republican Editorial association of the state of New York held its annual meeting In New York city. Resolutions urging the nomination of Governor Nor ton for tho presidency were unanimously adopted.
 Tho worst storm In several years Is rag. ing in Montana The thermometer throughout the state ranges from to 90 degrees below zero, with snow to 20 inches deep Fears are entertained for the safety of cattle on the ranges.
 Saturday, Jan. IS. Ns
 S. l.. Schwahach. n customer of Char. don & Co, brokers, committed suicide at that firms office in New York.
 Frank Iawler, ex-congressman and present alderman from the Nineteenth ward, Chicago, died at his home of heart failnre.
 Tic New York state board of claims has awarded John D. McMahon SI, 3sl.0s as counsel In conducting an investigation of the New York city asylums.
 John Cork, who has been making beds at the Anchor lodging house on Lloyd street, In BuiIalo for three years past, has lenrred that he is the prcsumptiyo heir to n fortune of sI0, 900 or $50, 900 derived from an estate in Bolton, Lancashire, Eng.and.
 Owing to Justice Brewers arrangement on tho supreme court bench, the Ncnezue- Ian boundary commission has not been able to make much progress since its ad- journmcnt last Saturday. Severe Mallet- Provost of New York probably will be se- lected as secretary.
 Monday, Jan. 20.
 The American Association of Physicians and Surgeons elected Dr. C. Edson CoNey of Dctroit president.
 The National committee of the Populist party has decided to hold the national con yention at St Louis on July 22
 Lawrence H. Buchanan, junior in Cor. nell Law school, from Horseheads, N. H., is suffering from an attack of smallpox.
 NJ. Floquct, who was at one time presi dent of the French council of ministers and ulso minister of tho interior, died in Paris.
 The United States branch of tho docp waterway commission has elected Prcsi- dent Angell of the University of Michigan chairman and Commissioner Russell oi Massachusetts secretary.
 Calvin B. Dunham, one of the best known politicians In Rensselaer, county N. S., fatally shot himself because oi financial troubles at Troy.
 Tuesday, Jan. 21.
 The United States cruiser Cincinnati ar rived In New York from Key West via Norfolk.
 Daniel H. Pulcifer, late United states postoilice inspector, died suddenly of heart failure at Shawano, Wis.
 state Engineer Adams has appointed Horace G. McKelvey of Rochester drafts man in his office at Albany.
 The gold discoveries of Forty Mile creek in Alaska, according to survey, belong to the United States and not to Great Brit. ain.
 George Putnam of Syracuse charged with passing forged checks. waived ex. animation and was held for the grand jury.
 X small cabin near Almira. Wash, oc cupicd by Henry Leads, George Lewis and Henry Taylor was destroyed by fro, and the three were suffocated by smoke.
 Cardinal Guillaume Reno Meignan, archbishop of Tours, was found dead in bed at Tours, France He was born In lSlI and was created n cardinal in 1893.
 Otfo Sutro, one of the leading musical publishers of the south, died In the Mary. land hospital at Baltimore, Adolph Sutro, mayor of San Francisco, and Emil Sutro of Philadelphia arc his brothers.
 "Wednesday, Jan. sa.
 X vein of salt 300 feet thick and said to be thp richest In the world has been dis. covered under the town of Little River, Rice county, Kan.
 Judge Dennis has named receivers for the woulridge Fertilizer company of Ral- timore. NLessrs. Frank V. Rhodes, John :. Lusk and Julian Honry Leo wcro chosen.
 Mrs. B. F. Powolson, daughter of a rich retired merchant, obtained n divorce from her husband, Joseph A. Powclson, who Is a well known physician and wholesale druggist of New York city.
 Commander Booth, who has been in command of the Canadian wing of tho Salvation Army for the last four years, auEounccs that he has received instruc. tions from General Booth to prepare to leave Canada.
 Frederick W. Suttcrle, tho head of the Kcea- Sutterlo company of Philadelphia, whose sensational failure is causing SO much talk in the leather trade and who