Connecticut western news., 1896-06-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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ThrrsdAy, June &
 Thirteen persons were in ;ured, some of ,hem fatally, by the fall of an elevator in Raltimore
 The inmates of a fiathouss In New York narrowly escaped with their lives from a fire There were several thrilling resoues One girl tried to jump from the roof. Major Stillwsll, commanding the north western division of the Salvation Army, with headquarters at Minneapolis, has re- signed his commission and gone over to Baliington Booth. The murder of a German officer named krauSe by the bodygusrd of the viosroy of Napkin Ia reported. The affair is likely to result In tho resignation of all German officers in Chinese servioa P. NJ. Arthur was re elected chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at | the session In Ottawa He was opposed by Haharatick ot Stevens Point Wis The voss stood S6s for Arthur and S6 for Ha- | baratick.
 Dr. Henry A. Mott, an analytical chem is1 exhibited large quantities of arsenic | and sntimony found is the body of Mrs Evelina NJ. Bliss, whose daughter. Mary Alice Almont Livingstone Fleming, Is on trial in New York for her murder. Friday. June \. Famine and pestilence menace ahe Pi- mar del Rio province of Cuba The Metropolitan club of New York | was robbed of sS, 500, which Super!nten- dent Callahan had placed In his desk. A lion belonging to a small circus visit | ing Canarsle, a suburb of Brooklyn, ss- capped from its cage and put the spectators ! to flight
 Sir Walter won the Brooklyn handicap at 6ravesend track, Clifford. the favories, | -l- IA. messed by sa, oo0 spectators
 Turner and Dunlop, the Burden serv. | ants who wore arrested In London with the family jewels In their possession. ar rived in New York in charge of detectives. The grand lodge of Masons of the state I of New York have decided to lease the old | temple at Twenty-third street and Sixth | avenue, New York and build a new home farther up town | A Long Island City jury found A yer | dict for s5, 900 against Dr. Seigbert Bala- | ban for making similar statement about | a woman patient as did Dr. PlAyfair, the London physician. Saturday, June c The Yale crew for the Henley regatta sailed from New York. | Cecil Rhodes. in bold speech In Bula- waya predicted self government for \ Rhodssia-
 Equestrian statues of Generals Meade and Hancock were unveiled on the battle field of Gettysburg The French expedition to the Niger has been routed by the natives Many were killed by poisoned arrowa Consul General Leo called on Captain | General weyler and interosded In behalf | of Dawley, the Imprisoned American art iss
 1 At the trial of Mrs Fleming for murder | in New York Lawyer Brooke accused Ex- pert Chemist Schsels of having manufao- tured the evidence of poison in the case i, against the woman. William Dunlop pleaded guilty to lar | ceny in stealing the Burden jewels. wn- | liam Turner said mot guilty" The for 1, were held at the custom house on . tech | nical claim for s17, 500 duty. | Monday. June 6. Arthur Padolford, first husband of Bet | tina Girard, died in Paris | The papers in the Competitor case have | reached the supreme court of naval appeal | at Madrid.
 The haoilli of tetAnus are said to be very \ prevalent in the soil of eastern and south. ern Long Island. Walter Street, young negro. went sud | denly insane on Sixth avenue L train in | New York and threw most of his clothes | out of . window. He was oyerpowsred aft | CT a desperate struggle and taken to Bellevue
 | The yacht Princess. owned by Vice | Commodore Frank Reade of the Bayswa- ter Yacht club. was oapsixed in Jamaica bay, near New York. The ten persons on | board were saved by the promptnsss and | hra vsrr of thrSa CanarSia fahayuan | Three wildcats escaped from their o@gs in a Bridgeport Conn saloon and made united attack on the cashier and iAnitor After a % minutes fight one of the cats | was killed and the other two wers sub ! dued.
 Tuesday, June @. | Captain John G. Bourke United States army. died in Philadelphia.
 Jules Simon. the eminent French statss- man and former premier, died in Paris
 The national saengerfsst of the North American ssengerbund opened In Pitts burg.
 Emperor Williams yacht the Meteor. won in the Royal Cinque Ports regatta at Doren, England.
 The Egyptian mixed tribunal decided against granting funds for the expenses of the Sudan expedition.
 Jimmy McNally. king of green goods | men. was sentenced to three years in the Illinois state prison under the name O. l Williams
 The administration has Informed Spain that the crew of the llibustering schooner Competitor. tried by drumhsad court martial, must not bc executed.
 Secret service detectives arc searching for counterfeiters who disposed of their handiwork in New York that was manu- factured in North Oxford. Mass.
 A cable received by Dr. ]. R. Broderick of Jamaica Plain, Mass. from John Hays Hammond of Johannesburg. South Afri- ca. says that Mrs Hammond Is improving slowly, and that NIT. Hammond expects to be released from custody this week.
 Wednesday. June 10.
 wysth City. Ala, was swept by tor nsdo. and six parsons wsre killed. | Cambridge university conferred honor ary degrees on Professors Simon Nswoomb and Francis A. March.
 The congress of British Chambers of Commerce was opened in London with a speech by Joseph Cham berlain. colonial secretary of state
 Secretary Olney will press upon Spain the claims of Dr. Jose DelRsdo and Pedro Casenova, American citizens, for injuries received at the hands of Spanish troops in Cuba
 Mrs westervelt of Paterson, N. l.,
 who had fled 70 Asbury Park as the wife
 of Peter Stein. killed herself when she found he would die as the result of being
 kicked by e horse
 H. H. Bliss, the stspfather of Mrs.
 Fleming. in her trial in New York for the
 murder of her mother. admitted that on
 the day of his wifs's funeral he practical.
 ly charged Mrs Fleming with murder by
 asking her squarely. Did you poison
 hers" He told of frequent quarrsls be-
 tween the two women which might fur.
 nish a possible motive for murder.
 The Sutherland Evfctions-