Connecticut western news., 1896-03-19
NEWS OF T1E WEEK.
Thursday. March ie.

Kretiit Ans;alt, died in Vienul.
 Twenty two countries have given notice If their intention to take part In the ex- hihition to be held In Paris In 1900.
 Mary TheiSS an actress, ms de three at tempts to kill berself while in the prison ers' pen in Essex Market police court.
 Alembert Pond. aged 14, distinguish od lawyer and member of the ccnstitu- tional convention of 1888. died at Saratoga.
 Thomas F. Murphy was appointed su- perintendent of Bellevue hospital in New York nt meeting of the board of public charities.
 A c, B. and Q, train struck the car riage of Willis B.ackman and killed in stantly Carlos, his youngest sun, and Samuel Russell, s negro coachman, near Hinsdale Ills.
 The schooner L. :. wyman of Boston sprung a leak oil wellf!esL Mass. and soon went down. her pumps being choked with sand and becoming useless. The crew escaped in a boat.
 Friday. March Is- The schooner Fairy Queen of Portland. Ma, with full fare of fish. went ashore on Nlggcr island, oil B.idefori and Is a total loss.
 The Clarksaale oil mill at Vicksburs, Miss, was burned. with an immense quantity of seed. The loss will approxi' mate $io0. o0a.
 A contrsot haa been signed Nt Peking with Rn Anglo 5ermsn syndicate for a new Chinese loan Of 4l6 oo0, Goo at D per cent The loan Is to he issued as 9i.
 The senate of Cambridge university, by . vote of ls0 to I'll, has ". ected the psup. ositlon ,o sppoiut a committee to consider the question of oonferring degrees upon women. Hiram Pearsall of Inwood, N. r.. was capsixed with hls boat, laden with oysters, in Jamaica bay, of Arverne. He was picked mp unconscious by Cornelius SSith and taken ashore. -.
 In the international hurdle race at Cat wick. England, Mir. Rothschild's Beyil won and the American horse Banquet II, formerly owned by Mr. Dwyer of New York, finished secoad.
 Dr. Arthur Ducstrow, the so called mil lionaire murderer of St. Louis. who was convicted iu ths circuit court here n short time ago of killing his wife and baby, was sentenced so be hanged on April a.
 saturday. March II
 The safe in James Schmidt's store, at Peoris. Ilfs.. was blown up by burglars, and the robbers secured slo,00a.
 At tho indoor bicycle tournament in San Francisco Otto Zeigler. Jr.. broSe the half mile indoor worlds record, making it in l minute , 5 seconds. ....-.
 A secret treaty has been concluded be tween Russia and China giving the former extraordinary rights in tho way of railroad building in China territory.
 A gas generator at the Goshen (N. Y.) gas works exploded. The building was wrecked. and Superintendent Frank Mielo WAS blown through door, but he escaped serious injury.
 Harry NJ. Fowle, defaniting hookkeeper of the shepard & Morse Lumber company, in Boston, was sentenced in the superior criminal court by Judge Dewey to the state prison for four years ..
 Archibald c, Pascoe. aged 4s years, 8 prominent resident of North Easton, Pa, while standing on the tracks of the Lehigh Valley railroad. was struck by a passenger engine and instantly killed.
 Edward Dopigan was killed by John Shanlsy In front of the latter's saloon in New York. The tragedy grew out of a quarrel about payment for drinks, iu which Don,gan mulcted Shanley's wife
 Monday. March aa.
 James Tinker, one of the most prcmi- nent sporting men in Rhode Island, died in Pawtucket.
 The Chinese government has purchased so, GOO Bavarian army rifles of the type of 1884 for sl apiece
 Kitchen sS Bros shoddy mill. In Ger mantown, Pa, was partly destroyed by fro. The loss Is estimated at 10000.
 Colonel Thomas H. Nelson died at Terre Haute, Ind. aged 76. He has been a con spicuous leader in politics for over half a century.
 The freight handlers In the Southern railway yards at Alexandria. Va, are out on 6 strike, The men refuse to work with negro labor.
 Over SEQ, 900 in bills, coin, drafts and bonds were found on Charles Stern, ar rested at Halifax for alleged grand larceny In New York.
 TaesdAy, March IT.
 It Is announced in Berlin that China will refuse to cede Lappa or Qucmoy to Germany.
 Carl Ncuheusen, a we'll known newspa- per man. died In St Paul after several weeks illness
 The death of Mrs. Morris. sister of FL len Terry, the we'll known actress, Is an nouroed in London.
 Herbert Booth, the heed of the Salva- ton Army in Canada, will give up his command and leave the country on June l.
 Dr. Charles Massbacher. a prominent young physician of Toledo, was found dead in his bathroom with bullet in his head.
 The circuit court has remanded Jackson and Walling. the alleged mu-derers of Pearl Bryan, to the sheriff of Campbell county, Ky.
 Mrs Ashmead- Bartlett, mother of Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett. NJ. F., and MT. William Lehman Bartlett -Coutts, has- hand of Baroness Burdett- Coutts, died ip London. John c. Graves, it's president, has issu- ed call for convention of the New York State Municipal league 60 be held in Al bany on Wednesday ard Thursday, the 18th and sdth of March. "Wednesday. March IS
 The Salisbury government disavows all sympathy with bimerallism. The hattleship Massachusetts started tron the Cramps yards. In Philadelphia m builders trial trip. Two persons were killed and seven In. iured in collision near Steelton, Pa on the Pennsylvania railroad. Premier Rudini announced that Italy would coutinae the war in Abyssinia and the chamber voted credit of sl7, 900. .ool therefor.
 It Is announced in Albany that Cor nelius. Van Cott, cx-postmnster of New fork city, will probably be state excise commissioner under the Raines bill. Don M. Dickinson, the we'll known Democratic leader. declares his belief that Benjamin Harrison will be nominated for he presidency at the St. Louis conven- ion.
 John NcMellen, who. It Is alleged, stole si.0oo in diamonds from Mrs. Wolf, 3 patroness of St. Bartholomew mission, was arrested In New York city and was held for further examination