Connecticut western news., 1896-01-16
NEWS OF. THE WEEK.
Thursday, Jan. ..

Thursday, Jan. c.
 Robert G. Still, colored, well known in Democratic political circles as leader among people of his race, died in Phila- delphia.
 A bank at Fayette, O., was entered by burglars and $43, 750 in money and about to the perpetrators.
 The steamer Ealing, Captain Meek, from St Johns, N. F., for New York, is ashore of Halifax She has been abandon ed by her crew.
 Passenger train No. 300 on the Erie rail- road ran into a freight train between Riv- erside and Fourth avenues, Newark, N. J. Three freight cars were thrown from the track and travel WAS blocked for sev- eral hours. Several passengers were slight ly hurt.
 A Detroit dispatch says that Thomas B. Reed is Mayor Pingree's presidential can- didate, and his honor announces 1t in tones of exultation. It Ia improbable that the mayors hatfooted declaration will do his own gubernatoFial boom any harm. Reed Is pretty certain to have most of the Michigan delegates.
 Friday, Jan. 10.
 Near Mount Pleasant Gadsden county, Fla, Henry Thomas and Albert Stafford fought a duel about gil Both were killed.
 E. B. Wight, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean and widely known as a journalist, died of heart fail ure in Washington.
 Unknown men called at the home of Ed Welch at Holton, Kan, blindfolded him, threw him to the floor, cut of his left hand with an ax and robbed him.
 Mr. Clement A. Griscom, president of the International Navigation company, has been elected commodore of the Corin- thian Yacht club of Philadelphia.
 The Fait & Slagle company, oyster packers of Baltimore, made deed of as- signment to John S. Gibbs. The cause of the failure is excessive competition. IL abilities are placed at $50. .000.
 As John Robertson, a prominent farmer in the town of Riga, N. Y., was passing g through his barnyard he was attacked by bull, and six ribs were broken before his son arrived and beat the animal of.
 John w. McDonald, alias George Allen, indicted for Kidnapping Lawyer O. O. Cot tie, pleaded guilty to the crime in the criminal term of the supreme court In Buffalo and was sentenced to the Elmira reformatory.
 Saturday, Jan. II. The Ontario and Western railroad depot at Rock Rift, N. Y., was totally destroyed by fire.
 Fire at Brushton, N. Y, destroyed five blocks, and only part of the contents was saved. The loss is estimated at s15, 900. Eight masked men blew open the safe of the Farmers bank at Verona, Mo, with dynamite and escaped with $9,00o in cash.
 A decree has been gazetted In Paris pro hibiting the export from France for the French colonies of warlike munitions in- tended for the island of Cuba. R. G. Dun & Co., of New York report that the failures for the week have been 431 in the United States, against 420 last i year, and 68 in Canada, against 54 last year.
 John Mcbride, former president of the | American Federationn of Labor, has writ | ten his farewell to that organization, in | which he says he will "never again seek or accept official responsibility in the la- | bor movement"
 Monday, Jan. IS. George Spengler, deputy postmaster al Chatham, N. T., dropped dead while at tending to his duties in the postoffice. ] Frank H. Lummus, who owned two oi the largest cotton gin factories in the south, died at his home in Brooklyn. Mrs. Addona P. Fotch, aged s4 years, wife of Walter Fotch of Stafford, commit. ted suicide by hanging at Batavia, N. Y. The annual exercises in commemoration of the founder of Cornell university wers held in the armory in Ithaca before ], 200 people.
 Governor and Mrs. Morton gave din. ner at the executive mansion in Albany to the judges of the court of appeals and 6 few other invited guests. l The Fifth Avenue Savings bank of Co lumbus, O., closed it's doors. The cause is alleged to be money loaned too freely. The officers say everybo is secured. | The Vassar College Glee club gave q concert in the theater attached to the Hudson River State hospital in Pough keepsie, where 300 insane patients com posed the audience Tuesday, Jan. 14-
 Peter Houghard, who Is thought by the police to have been insane, killed him. self, wife and five children in Chicago
 McGowan's undertaking establishment at Haverstraw, N. Y., was burned, with its contents. A. Saul's shoe store and Cohn's market were also destroyed
 'The steamer Royal, one of the tastes, vessels on the great lakes, burned to the waters edge at Evansville, Ind. The loss is $24, 900 and the insurance $15, 1000.
 In Philadelphia a scaffold, on which three painters werc working, fell. William Anderson and Edward Petroski were in stantly killed and Henry Petersen fatally injured
 At Newmansville, Fla, Henry Jordan @ negro desperado, charged with murder ously assaulting Dr. J. N. Cloud, wa. burned to death in house where he had sought to escape from mob.
 Richard J. Oliphant. one of the wealth fest, most progressive and influential bust ness men of Oswego, N. 'Y., died from blood poisoning, the result of contracting a cold in his jaw after having had some teeth extracted.
 | Wednesday, Jan. 15.
 Henry s. Tyler, mayor of Louisville died in that city. He had been i'll fol about five weeks.
 The French chamber of deputies reas sembled at Paris. NJ. Henri Brisson wa, reelected president
 In New York city Michael MoGowan guilty of murder In the second degree.
 James Farley of Philadelphia was found lead in an area in Railroad avenue il Newark, N. J. He had fallen into tn, area, and, striking on his head, broke hi,