Connecticut western news., 1896-02-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Feb. h.

ebrated musical composer. The directors of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad have ,lected Mir. A. G. Blair of Toledo president of that company. The Somerset Stove Foundry company's works in Somerset. Mast, were totally destroyed by Ire. The loss is ss5, GOO. Grant Atterhury was taken from the | jail at Sullivan, Ills, by a mob, dragged to the courthouse and hanged toa tree The president has pardoned, on account of broken health, Samue, D. Brown, sen fenced in Pennsylvania to four years im- prisonment and fine for breaking into a postoffice.
 | William Slyers, secret service agent, while assisting in flying switch in the Pennsylvania railroad yards in Camden,N l., fell in frunt of the cars, and the train severed his head from his body.
 Attorney General Hancock of New York state has d,... d tho application of Pitt Barrow to beg n an action to restrain the Central Trust company of New York from selling the consolidated stock certificates of the Chicago Gas trust.
 Friday, Feb. fl.
 Ten prisoners made dash for lihsrty at the county jail In Carlinville, Ills, and only one has been captured.
 The Amer'ca line steamship Paris, from New York, sunk the local steamer Her Majesty while docking at Southamp- ton.
 The main building of Charlotte Hall school at Bowie. one of tho oldest educs- tional institutions in Maryland, has been burned.
 Israel Goodman. a prominent farmer of North Lyons. N. Y, fell dead from heart disease while jumping ont of his sleigh in front of his barn.
 While small steamer was crossing the Brisbane river, In Queensland, with about so passengers on board, she was capsized, and only 70 persons were saved. The largest failure of the year at Mont real Is the suspension Of T. $ Vipond, Son & Go, wholesale produce merchants. The liabilities are believed to be about sa50. .o00.
 The Cramps Shipbuilding company of Philadelphia have been awarded the con tract for building revenue cutter No. far the Pacific coast. The new cutter is to b, 16O feet long
 1 Saturday. Feb 1J- Joseph Donohue. the champion fast skater. was fined S25o in the county court at Newburg, N. Y., for assault in tho sec ond degree. Governor Morton has signed the bill ! transferring the Palisades of the Hudson river to the national government for na- tional park
 A dispatch from Santiago de Cuba says | that the insurgent leader Felix Denis has been killed in an engagement with the Spanish troops
 A bequest of $50, 900 has been made to the college for women of the Western Re ] serve university in Ohio by Mrs. :. V. Hardness of New York. | Prince Boris. eldest son of Prince Fer dinand of Bulgaria, was baptized with i great ceremony according to tho rites of the Greek church at Sofia.
 Judge Morton. in the supreme court granted temporary injunction restrain ing the Rcv. G. F. Kenngott from preach ing in the First Congregational church at Lowell, Mass
 Monday, Feb. IT.
 Mrs. Eliza l. Nicholson, proprietress of The Picayune, died In New Or.eans.
 Thomas Hewes HincEley, an artist of wide fame, died at his home In Milton, Mass.
 The big oilcloth plant of Fair & Bailey. at Camden. N. l., was burned. Six build ings were destroyed.
 John Wright died at his home in Santa | blind for many years.
 MT. John l. Peak, the new United States minister to Switzerland, has arrived in Bern and presented his credentials 10 the president and vice president, who re- turned his visits.
 Miss Frances M. Goodwin, formerly of Newcastle, Ind, has been commissioned by the government to make a marble husi of the late Vice President Schuyler Col | fax, to be placed in the senate gallery al Washington.
 Tuesday, Feb. IS.
 The Buckeye e ass works at Martfn's Ferry, O., were destroyed by nre.
 Republicans of the First congressional district of Illinois nominated James K. l Mann.
 The president. has nominated William | Woodward Baldwin of New York to be third assistant secretary of state.
 The president has appointed Peter Vic | tor Deuster of Wisconsin to be consul of the United States at Crefeld, Germany.
 The Housman block at the corner oi Pearl and Ottawa streets, in Grand Rap ids was destroyed by fire. The losses vii aggregate s20o. 900.
 Sir Edward Clarke, o. O.. the d'stin l guished criminal advocate, has been re tained for the defense of Dr. Jameson up on his trial in England. Stour E. Nelson. an ex-nember of the Chicago police force. committed suicide by taking carbolic acid alter having sent out written cards inviting his friends to his | funeral.
 The United States embassador, Mir. Thomas F. Bayard. had an interN lew in London with the Marquis of Salisbury on | th pf hnnnUary dispute.
 Wednesday, Feb. 1s.
 Cristororo Negri, the Italian economist and minister of state, is dead.
 An earthquake shock, wh oh was pre- ceded by suhterranesn rumblings and alarming noises. has been experienced ut Santiago de Cuba.
 Dr. Joseph Jones, surgeon general of the United Confederate Veterans, ex pres ident of the board of health and one of the leading physicians of the south, died at New Orleans, aged 63.
 John Dillon, member of parliament for East Mayo, Ireland, was elected chairman of the anti Parnellite section of the Irish Nationa ist party by vote of 2S to 2l to succeed Justin Mccarthy. !. A. Strathy manager of the Bank of Commerce of Barrie, Ont, was fatally | wounded by an unknown man who called at his house and upon Strathys appear ance drew a revolver and shot him.
 The court of appeals erde-ed new trial granted to Michael Corey, convicted and sentenced to be electrocuted at Auburn prison for the murder of James George in Madison county, N. Y., Sopt. s7, 1894
 The United States grand jury has re- turned an indictment against Major Hon. " R. Oliver, president of the defunct Co lumbia National bank at Tacoma, and Cashier W. c. Peters, as accessory, for embezzlement.
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