Connecticut western news., 1896-04-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ThursdaY. April 9.

from William Sneaker. who is s3 years old London synlpathizers with Armenia urged the British government to step ii to prevent the expulsion of Christian from Turkey.
 Fort Guiana would blow the Britisl warship Cordelia out of water, Venezuei newspapers threaten, If she tries to sai up the Orinooo.
 Children of E. c. Havemeyer of New York have given a s45o. .o00 chemical lah oratory to Columbia university as a mem orial of their father.
 The Broadway tabernacle, one of tn most wealthy and fashionable churches i New York, decided by a vote of 14o 100 to aooept the resignation of Dr. Hen ry A. Stimson as pastor of that church. The opinion Is expressed by many per sons in Washington qualified to judg that the Cuban belligerency resolution. passed by congress will have the force O! law if the president does not veto them within ten days.
 Friday, Aprn 10.
 Dr. McLean's Berclair won the Tennes- see Derby at the Memphis races
 Senator Quay announced that he would not withdraw from the contest for the Re publican presidential nomination.
 Captain General Weyler has commuted the sentence of Jose Roque, who was tc have been shot Wedpesday. to imprison- mene for life. Gardner Williams, an merioan charged with having supplied arms to the uitlsnd CTS of the Rand, was committed for trial In the TransvaaL
 Father Strezelski of St Stanislaus', Polish Catholic church, in New York, was accused of assault by a parishioner, but the complaint was dismissed
 Comptroller Eckels addressed the Mary land bankers convention in Baltimore. X resolution declaring for the gold stand ard was unanimously adopted.
 William E. Daley, a barber was locked up In the Fast Thirty fifth street station. in New York, charged with attempting to kill his wife. He shot at her four times N and three bullets took effect
 Saturday, April II.
 It is reported Tn Ottawa that Sir Charles Tupper. before entering the next cam paign, will join the Roman Catholic church. MT. Belley, the Conservative member for Chicontimi, has sent letter to his constituents to this effect.
 In quarrel between negroes in Wash ington Bryant Mackall was stabbed and died instantly. Thornton Derrell is under arrest.
 c. A. Combs. oolored, who was born in 17s4, died at his homo in St Paul as the unusual age of 112 years.
 John Jaffrey, the dean of the customs service, died suddenly in New York of heart failure. Mir. Jaffrey was appointed to the customs service by Collector Odell In 1SS6.
 A dynamite bomb was exploded under hotel at Lithonia, Ga, where nonunion laborers were stopping. The building was badly wrecked, but no one was fatally in- jured.
 Joseph Banigan a rubber merchant of Providence, has made gift of s25, 900 tc the new St. Francis Xavier convent, 8 Catholic institution of that city.
 Charles Decamp and his To- year-old son, also named Charles, of Bellevue. Ky, were drowned by their skiff striking a barge in the Ohio river.
 Monday, April IS.
 The discovery of e valuable mineral in New Jersey was announced.
 A banquet was given in Venice in hon. or of the German emperor and empress
 McKinley's managers claim to have slt of the 496 delegates so far elected to the St. Louis convention. Experiments with X rays in New York agreed with Edison's theory that the rays are identical with sound waves.
 King George of Greece entertained the men who took part in the Olympic games in Athens at banquet in the palace and made a most appropriate address,
 The committee appointed by the New York State Bar Association to formulate plan for a permanent tribunal for the settlement of international disputes oom- pleted its task.
 Insurgent Leader Antonio Maceo ssnt word to General Weyler. 1t is reported. that he is l2 miles from Havana waiting for him. Jose Maoeo and Perez, Cuban generals. are said to have been wounded in a skirmish.
 Tuesday, April IA
 The objections of Mayor Strong and Mayor Wurster to the greater New York bill were read in the senate at Albany.
 Field Marshal Yamagata of the Japan ese army arrived in New York after hay. Ing been received by the governor at Al bany.
 Ex-Governor William F. Russell of Mas sachusetts was orator of the day at the Jefferson anniversary celebration at Monti- cello, Va He spoke strongly in favor of g gold standard
 A bomb addressed to President Roose-
 
 missioners, primed with powder and fixed up with matches and sandpaper, was in- teroepted in the postoffice-
 Secretary Carlisle was ordered by the District of Columbia supreme court to show cause why he should not deliver $4,- 500, 900 of the new bonds to William Graves and associates in New York.
 General Fitz Hugh Lee was appointed by the president consul general at Havana to succeed Ramon O. Williama resigned General Lee goes chiefly as a military ex- peyt to report to the president on the war.
 Wednesday. April 15.
 The Dublin press com mented favorably on the Tories Irish land bill.
 Emperor William arrived in Vienna and was dined by Emperor Franz Josef
 Two large ice companies in New York combined and raised the price of Ice to large consumers
 A wreck occurred on the New York Central railroad near Looneyville, N. r., killing two men.
 A fire in the dry goods district. on Grand street, New York city, in a building occu- pied by A. C. Auffmondt & Co, import. srs of silks and gloves, caused nearly q, 900, 900 damage.
 President Cleveland Is reported to have prepared a letter declaring he will not be candidate for renomination and urging Democrats to make the campaign on a sound money platform.
 The court of appeals declared constitu- tional the law relating to the closing of barber shops on Sunday In the state of New York. Strong dissenting opinions, however. were filed by two of tho judges Rev. William N. Cleveland elder broth CT of the president of the United States, has been busted from his charge at Chau- mont, N. Y., by the presbytery of St. Law rence county. Politics is said to have been the cause of the trouble
 The Speakers Lamented Magnitude.
 Mail pours in on Speaker Reed these