Connecticut western news., 1896-07-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, June aS


 Consul General Lees report on affairs in Cuba Is said to strongly fayor the pa triots.
 Oxford university conferred the honor ary degree of D. c. L. on Ambassador Bayard and Professor March.
 Michael Redmond was arrested in New York charged with falsely impersonating sureties on a bond given 10 the comptroller to secure a contract to lay sewer in the annexed district.
 Mrs. Rebecca Sutton of Hampton Juno ton, N. J., who had deserted her husband and child ren for Martin Reed, heard that he intended to marry another. She lured him to the hotel where she worked, shot and killed him and then committed sui- oide. The Democrats of Indiana and Ohio held their state conventions. Both convcn- tions adopted radical free silver platforms, and tho proceedings were marked by great disorder. At Indianapolis Governor Mat thews was indorsed for the presidency, and the delegates were instructed to support him as a unit. B. F. Shivley was nomi- hated for governor on the first ballot, At Columbus a delegation to Chicago, beaded by John R. Mclean, was chosen. The sil- yer Democratic convention of Texas in- structed its delegates to Chicago to vote for Bland for president.
 Frids:t, June ee.
 The Spanish senate decided not to abro- gate the protocol of 1877 with the United States.
 Victories over C. n rebels in several severe engagements ted by Span ish generals
 An accident occurred on the Broadway cable line in New York by which four per sons were severely i'' ~''' and others slightly hurt.
 United States Senator Lyman Trumbull died at his home in Chicago after a long illness. His death had been hourly expect cd for several days. The quadrangular varsiH boat race was rowed on the Hudson rNsr of Pough- keepsie. It was won by Cornell, Harvard being second, Pennsylvania third and Co., lumbia fourth.
 A burglar attempted to rob ". B. Cut ter's country store at Dover's Furnace, Duchess county, N. Y, and was killed by George B. Ryan, clerk.
 British Ambassador Pauncefote and Venezuelan Minister Andrade conferred with Secretary of State Olney on the Har- rison case, and President Cleveland aud the secretary discussed foreign affairs.
  which Is to draft charter for submission to the legislature, met in Mayor Strong's office in New York city. General B. F. Tracy was elected chairman and George NJ. Pinney, Jr., secretary.
 Saturday. June e7.
 President Diaz of Mexico has been re- nominated for the presidency for the fifth time. 
 Miss A. c. Rettig, a daughter of the late Captain Rettig of the Ward Steam- ship line, will go to Cuba as a nurse among the insurgents. Perry Belmont has olbled to Chairman Hinkley of the Now York state Demo cratic committee that he will start for home immediately to assist in the fight tor the gold standard at the Chicago con- yention. He will attend the convention as delegate.
 An unknown woman was entioed into a deserted house four miles from Bridgeport, Conn, and was subsequently, discovered by two farmers, covered with blood and dying. They went for help, and when they returned she had disappeared. n
 Monday, June go.
 Stringent laws against the Socialists In Germany are to be relaxed In certain re- speots.
 It was reported In Berlin that Prince the German empire.
 Dominica Corso of Brooklyn is accused of having attempted to set fire to the house of Maria Chambre, for whose hand he was a rejected suitor.
 The police of Chicago are puzzled by number of daring robberies which have keav as,ikf fo1r fha la faE ing place close to the Harrison street po- lice station.
 Garret A. Hobart will visit Major Mo Kinley, and the attitude of the Mckinley men toward the regular organization in New York state may be settled before he returns.
 Administration officials are determined that the South American republic of Co- lombia shall apologize for an outrage oon- mitted upon the American schooner George R. Whitford by Colombian officials.
 Tuesday, June 90.
 Seven people were injured in collision between trolley car and brewery wagon in Jersey City.
 Francis William Fitz Hardipgo Berhe- ley, second Baron Fitz- -Hardinge, died in England.
 Theodore D. Wilson, formerly chief con struotor of the navy, died from stroke of apoplexy at the Charlestown (Mass. navy yard.
 The appellate division of the supreme court in New York has rendered a decision restoring John J. Fallon to the warden ship of the Tombs.
 In New York Judge Cowing sentenced Turner and Dunlop, the Burden diamond robbers, to nine years of hard labor at Sing Sing state prison.
 Mrs. s. F. McKeen, 35 years old who is supposed ito live at 57 West Twenty fourth street, New York, committed sui- eide at the Hotel Lafayette in Philadel. phia by shooting herself through the heart.
 Wednesday. July 1.
 A cable dispatch from Havana says ths< big fight has occurred in Pinar del Rio, the insurgents being defeated.
 Turkish troops, according to cable dis patch, refuse to leave Jeddeh for service in Crete because they have not been paid for two years.
 Two students of Oberlin university, Ohio, touring on bicycles, were attacked by highwaymen near Morristown, N. J. The highwaymen were routed.
 Natalie Mayser, I4-year-old girl, con- fessed to having set fire three times to the property of the Franklin Methodist Epis- copal church in New York.
 Dispatches from Para, Brazil, state that the rebel leader Seminarios has declared independence in the revolting province of Loreto and made overtures to Brazilian states.
 Baron Bernard Scrap de Gruenebaum, arrested for passing worthless check up- on tailor In New York, admitted that he had no right to the title he had claimed so strenuously for four years.
 In cable dispatch from Athens Deputy Schouloudi makes an appeal to the effect that the United States government should send the San Francisco to aid starving women and children in the island of Crete,