Connecticut western news., 1896-12-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Nov. sA

seriously inlured and the guests thrown into a panic.
 Burglars blew open the safe in the Mount Carmel tConn.l postoftice, having first tied the door of nearby houses 70 that the citizens could not modest them. They securod little booty.
 The southern express on the penpsyl. yania rs.ilnnad crashed Into a dersiled freight train near New Brunswick, \. J., and was wrecked The engineer and nr~- men wer, killed Several passengers wcrs injurcd. hut none seriously.
 In the libel suit of Is rl Russell A9ninss his mother, in. law, Lady Scott, and others. endearing letters from the earl to Lady Scott were road, as was also one from Lady Scott to detective promising reward tor proof of her charges against the earl
 Friday. Sev. ss.
 Ambassador Bayard and srs BayArd dined with the queen at Windsor castle. asreeable to her ihalesty's co nmand
 Walter M. Castle and his wife, Ella Cas- tic, the wcalthy Californians who were ar restcd in England on charge of shoplift- ing have returnod 10 this country,
 The dock strike in Hamburg increaaed, there being ls. 900 men Idle Tom Mann, the English agitator, Is reported to hAvs been arrested while trying to enter Ham burg.
 Dr. William Fisher Grier, prominent New York physician, seized with acute in- sanity from overwork, fought thrcs mea and was taken to Bellevue hospital in & straitjacket
 The steamboat John K. Noorc, with a party of lSo fishermen. sank on tho Romsr shoal, about thrve miles outside of Sandy Heck. The passengers and crcw wcre rec cued with grcat difficulty.
 Leonard Mauffrand. aged n. who mur> dercd Gabriel Guarin, aged ss. on the night ot Nov. {. died at Linn. Mo, from wounds inflicted upon himself on Monday night while confined in the county jal there He frequently made threats of sui eide.
 s.turd.y. Nov. ss
 The Venezuelan boundary commlHsion Is prcparing the vast mass of evidence col- lected by it for publication. The tenth annual convention of the As soclation of Colleges and Preparatory Schools began In Philadelphia.
 The strike at the Hamburg docks con tinucs Tho warohouse company of Brcmen has offered to oompromise wish It's employees.
 Adoiph Skyrnetski. who lived near the powcrhouse of the Citizens Electric lAahs l eide by the noise
 Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles K. skinner of New York state de cidcd that teaohcrx in public schools must not wcar any religious gsrh John <. Rankin, wealthy timber doalsr of Detroit. was found dead on Fltxwilllaa island, Georgian bay, and. u is fsarcd. Thomas ]. Austin, his companion. was | drowned
 Evidence Is being taken in Corning. N. Y., to provo the legality of Ars Mary Dawson McCaffcrty's claim to the widows share of the fortune left by John McCsf- terty of Chicago
 Mesd.y. Nsv. a.
 The death of Baron Saviie tho British dIplonatist. is reported from London. | Dr Robert d'Ungor of Chicago has i'm vented a machine for transmitting over the wires pictures, writing and printed matter hy means of rays A eablearsm from sydney announces the death of Sadie Macdonald. a mcrnber Of Hoyt's "A Trip to Chinatown" oomp@- ny, which was playing fin Australia In New York a i5-ycar~old boy and ls-yesr-old girl arranged to slopo, and for the purpose of providing means the girl stole siso worth of diamonds from her ia thcr
 A friend of Samuel W Alcrton of Chi cago said on rcturning frNlm Canton, O, I to Chicago that he was confident Mir AL lerton would he MT. Moklnlcy's secrctary of aqriculturc
 Miss Minnie Scllg. IS ycars old and bride of ten months. died from the effects of paris srcen, which she took with sui- eidai intent at her uncles home, 1891 | First avenue, New York. Four burglars attacked a night watch. man in coalyard near Hopoken. N. J., and tried to gag him. He fought them and was clnbbcd unconscious but not be- fnrc he had made So much noipa that tho neighbors heard him, and the burgiaru ran away.
 Tuesday. Dee. |.
 Ira Shafcr. a well known lawyer, died at his home ncar poughkecpsis, N. Y.
 John Scott, ex-Unitcd states senator from Pennsylvania, died In Philadelphia
 NJ. c. Blaine. an army chaplain sta toned at Fort Ringgold. Tex, and his daughter were burned to death.
 Robert F.. Marshall superintendent of the Altoona division of the PennsylvHniA railroad, committed suicide in washington.
 President Elect McKinlcy's callers in- eluded Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and General Horaoe Porter of New York city.
 William Stslnway, the head of the plano manufacturing house bearing his name and a widely known patron of music, died in New York.
 The c. A. R. executive committee ss- lectcd Buffalo and the week beginning | Aug 2S as the place and time for holding the next annual enoampment
 Friends of Joseph II. Choatc of New York arc urging him for United States senator to succeed Mir. Hill 10 is said that he will ac ept the officc and allow his friends to make a contest In his behalf
 Wednesday. Dee a
 An Intimate friend of Mckinley at Can. ton, O., says that Hanna win accept the navy portfolio.
 The control of the Postal Telegraph company was placed In pcrpetuity with the Commercial Cable company.
 A fire. at which two iremen wcrs bsdly hurt, did about sioo, oo0 damage to the buildings 5t5, 745 and 74s Broadway, New York city.
 Delegates from is cities met In Indian apolis ard Issued call for national cur reney reform convention to meet In that city in January.
 The new cruiser Brooklyn was turned over to the government by her builders, the Cramps of Philadelphia, and placed in commission at tho League island navy yard.
 The glass manufacturers met in Indi- annapolis. divided the country up among the members, decided to allow furnaces to start up Dec. ii and left prices to be fixed by the trusts executive committee
 Governor Morton commuted the sen. tcuoe of Bin Ellison, now in sing Sing prison for assaultinT William II. Hen. riques in New York, so he will bs sct free Jan. s. The communication covers thc time be spont in city prisons before his trial.
 The Way of or.ter.-
 "I wonder why orators always have to drink so much wnterfn asked tho ip-