Connecticut western news., 1896-02-27
In the patent office reports of thi country 665 different sty les and ~xrxetle of pens are described.
 NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ThursSisy. Feb. %.


 directors have declared the regular quar- terly dividend of per cent.
 The twenty ninth annual encsmpmcnt of the department of Connecticut Grand Army of the Republic, was opened at Nor. wich. Lucie Freisinger, one of the leading la- dies of the Irving Place Theater company, died suddenly of heart disease at her real. dence in New York.
 c. K. Lord of Baltimore. third vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio. was elected president of the Consolidated Coal company to succeed Charles F. Mayer.
 John D. Lawlor. president of the First National bank of Mitchell. =. D.. and ter ritorial governor Of Dakota under Cleve- lands administration, died of apoplexy.
 J. P. Morgan x Go. and associates of New York have been awarded bonds of the face value of about si, TOO, oo0, in addition to those of which they have already been notified.
 Friday. Feb. si.
 Dr. Henry H. House, & prominent phy- sician of Coneers, N. Y.. was struck by a train on the West Shoe and fntally in- iured.
 Fire broke out at the Beta Theta Phi fraternity house at State college in Belle H. the handsome building was entirely de- xtroyed.
 A London dispatch says that the nc gagement of Mir. William Waldorf Astor 10 Lady Randolph Churchill. formerly Miss Jennie Jerome of New York, will shortly be announced.
 Attorney General Hancock has desis- nated Deputy Attorney General Hasbroaok to conduct the prosecution in the matter of the charges preferred against Sheriff Tamseu of New York.
 By the explosion of a boiler at the Worlds fair site in Jackson park, Chicago, five employees of the Columbian Salvage company were severely injured. The boiler was near Machinery hall
 Senator Page has introduced in the New York state legislature a bill to amend the racing commission bill. It provides that a tax of per cent upon the net profits of the associations be substituted for the present provisions
 Saturday. Feb. a. Angus D. Gilbert~ was hanged in the Charles Street jail in Boston for maltreat- ing and numbering a little girl in August. 1894.
 Almus Butterfield, 55 years old. a we'll known commission merchant of Chicago, reputei to be worth at least s2oo, 900, at, 1 tempted suicide by cutting his throat. Frank ". Hawley of New York hos dis posed of his noted herd of Jerseys in , which he had invested nearly s260, 900. George W. Vanderbilt purchased 50, and the rest are scattered. S P. Whites barn at Pulaski Tenn, one of the finest In the county. was de stroyed by fire. large amount of corn nd har htar all Zsaf Iar- sey cows and fine bulls. Charles Scapnell, formerly 0 private at Columbus barracks, O., was found dead on the river bank, near Jeffersonville, Ind. Everything points to murder. He was last seen in Louisville. where he had s200. | At Johnstown, Pa, Daniel Rsssler of Cramer, Pa, shot and fatally wounded his cousin. Ella Ressler, 16 years old. and then shot himself. Jealousy, prompted by a refusal of the girl to marry him, was | his reason. Monday. Feb. as- An incendiary fire caused a loss in Bos- ton of s20. 900 at Brighton abattoir. Hanford Weiner kdson. instructor of rhetoric and elocution at Williams college, | has become insane.
 Hon. George D. Robinson, formerly governor Of Massachusetts, died at his home near Springfield, aged 62. The chess championship of the state of | New York was won by N. Jasnogvodsky of the Manhattan Chess club of New York city.
 After remaining out ls hours the jury brought in verdict of guilty against James W. McCauley. ex-city treasurer of Tacoma, charged with using public money for personal gain.
 Hampton Junction. N. T., was visited | by disastrous fire. The general store of Joseph Brinly and four dwellings were totally destroyed, and six other residences were seriously damaged. Tuesday, Feb. a5. | The large drapcry establishment of Store Bros. in Johannesburg has been destroyed by fire. The loss is s75.000. Rev. William H. Boole a leading Meth odist minister, died at his home In Prehi- bition Park, N. T., from heart disease. | William Sweat, manager and treasurer of the Portland Safe Deposit company, died after brief illness at Portland, Me, aged 46 years.
 Professor Albion Dwight Gray, mathe- matioal instructor in the William Penn Charter school of Philadelphia, died of ty- | phoid pnuemonia.
 | Hon. Orlando D. Murray, one of the old est Odd Fellows in New Hampshire. an ex-state senator and a successful editor, died at his home at Nashua, aged 7S years
 The United States uf Colombia has pur chased the Danish steamship Horsa, which | will be converted into gunboat. The Horsa, 1t Is said, has landed no less than a dozen insurgent expeditions in Cuba.
 Advices from Las Palmas, Grand Ca | chnx haf a dfSaS ds hay Kf- cured In that island, destroying houses and crops and causing much misery among the inhabitants. The damage is estimated at sS5o. 900.
 Wednesday, Feb. ee.
 The annual grand encampment of the Odd Fellows of the state of New York was convened in Troy, \. Y.
 The New York, Pennsy sylvania and Ohio railroad was sod In Akron, O., by Master Commissioner John Tod for SIG, 900, 0oo
 Two boilers at the Centralia colliery at Ashland Pa, exploded, killing Michael Rubaok and fatally injuring Anthony Zocaski.
 Three children arc dead and one Is lying at Johns Hopkins hospital in a precarious condition as the result of the fire caused by the igniting of coal oil In the house of Frederick Rose, Canton, Md. Rev. William Alexander, D. D, lord bishop of Derry and Raphoe, has been elected lord archbishop of Armagh, pri- mate of all Ireland, in succession 10 Rev. Robert Samuel Gregg, D. D.
 The building occupied by the R. T, Steel Manufacturing company, builders of refrigerators, in Philadelphia, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The loss will amount to $40, GOO; Insurance. S20,000 The court of appeals reversed the judg- ment of murder in the first degree found against Martin V. Strait, convicted of having murdered his wife at Elmira N