Connecticut western news., 1896-10-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thur.day. Oct. s.


 gold standard candidates for governor and lieutenant governor of New York state, wore formally notified before large moot. ing at Cooper Union, New York olty.
 In New York Miss Mary Titus was told to leayo her boarding house or pay &la she owed for board. She left Her land lady opened her trunk and found sl70 in cash and oheok for $500. Miss Titus has disappeared.
 Chairman Dantorth of the New York state Democratic committeo has received Judge Wilbur F. porter's formal nocept. ance of the nomination for governor, In which he declares himself to be fully in accord with tho platforms of the national convention of Chicago and the state con Sention at Buffalo.
 Friday. Oct. Q,
 George W. Morrison, former treasurer of Rensselaer, county was indicted at Troy for misappropriating public money.
 Count de Susini, onoo worth SS, GOO. 900 and known as the l,s,y of cigarette mak- CTS Is pennilcss anu il in the French hos pital In Now York.
 The New York Stato Loague of Repub- lican Clubs held it's annual convention in Syracuse and elected state Treasurer A. R. Colyin president
 In Now York little Charlie Clauer set nlS one- ltAf olu slbtef ctutnek hhlhAe while playing with fire and then watched her burn to death without giving an alarm.
 Dr. Carl k Nitx of Chicago stabbed his wifo and then sat down towatoh her die, making Rhastly written comments on the frlghtful spectacle. When he was about to be arrested, he shot himself. dying in- stantly.
 Lewis Stuyvesant Chanier. member of tho Astor family, who defended those ao cused of murder from philanthroplo mo- tives, announced while smarting under adverse rulings of the supreme court in New York that he would retire from the criminal bar
 Saturday. Oct. 10.
 Governor Morton dismissed the charges made against General Austin Lathrop. su- perintendont of prisons
 The Rif pirates plundored Fronoh ship named the Corinte, off Athuoomas and carried away her captain.
 Adyioes from Berlin arc that Prince Bismarck is suffering greatly from neural gia and insomnia, and no longer reoeivea visitors.
 The ozar of Russia. after reviewing 70. 900 French troops at Chalons. said at banquet that Russia and France are unit ed by unalterahle friondshlp." Mayor Patrick ] Gleason of Long Island ! City, N. r., was served with n summons secured by tho attorney general, requiring | him to show cause next Friday why he should not vaoate his office, on the ground that ho was not citizen of the United | States when elected
 The Fuerst Bismarck, upon Its arrival ! in Now York, reported that she had on. i oountercd tho American line steamship ] Paris proceeding eastward under one | sorrow, her slarboard engine being disabled | She was able to mako i5 knots an hour and no apprehensions for her safety were i folt
 Monday. Oct. Ia. Harry St. John, son of ex.Goyornor St ' John of Kansas. died Saturday in Okla | homa He was under indictment for mur- dor of his wife.
 ] Charles F. Leonard. tho fathor of LII. ! Han Russell the actress, died In Detroit \ Saturday from tho effects of a stroke of paralysis which afflicted him Aug 90.
 A polite man, who posed as book agent or a person desiring to rent rooms, stole s45 from Miss K Hector and two watches from Mrs Dozler in Now York.
 Mexican cable dispatch from 6uaya- i quil, Ecuador, says that incendiarlos at- tempted to burn tho parts of the city left standing after the great oonilagration. i Many arrests have been made Superintendent skinner of the state de- partment of public instruction, New 1 York, who is president of the National Educational association and chairman of the executive committee of that body. has l issued a call for the thirty.sixth annual meeting of the association, to be hOld in 1 Milwaukee in the first week in July, isa7. Tuesday. Oct. Ia. The queen has sent message of con- ] dolenee to the widow of the archbishop of | Canterbury,
 Major Mckinley addressed two doleRa- | tions from the Pennsylvania coal districts | who visited him at Canton, O. County Clerk Knopf was arrested at | Chicago charged with Issuing l, 1000 fraud ulent naturalization certificates.
 A party of i60 Armenian refugees, ex- l ported to this country, will be settled on | the Salvation Army farm at Ramsey, N. J. George Jossup and Frank Thompson ot | Brooklyn, while wheeling in New Jersey, wero held up and robbed hy two masked | tramps
 | Nicholas Muller, IT., former Democratic | state committeeman from Richmond county, died of consumption at Snug liar. | bor. N. Y.
 Mary Hopler, so years old. was run | down and perhaps fatally injured by a NluIh hN hIhahNhl dIu At1uhNan htftttt New York. Police had to rescue the driver, John Hunt, from mob Two stylishly dressed women, who said they were Mrs Theresa Jung and daugh. ter of Port, hester, N. Y., were accused ny n storo detective of shonltfting in New
 York. They were arrested and locked up. wedn.sday. oct. ta. Candidate William Mokinley received two delegations, whom he addressed nt ht l homo In Canton, O.
 The steamship Spartan. from Boston for Philadelphia, went ashore near An. glesea, N, J., and is likely to be n total | lose.
 A Mexican cable dispatch from euays quil Ecuador, states that the national 1 convention has decrcod amnesty t1 all pos | litioal exiles
 Candidate William ]. Bryan made . tour through Minnesota, from Minnearo- lis to Duluth, making two addresses at tho iattor place.
 prlnco Hilkoff. Russian Imperial min- I tster of ways and communications, ts In Chicago tho guest of prominent railroad and other business men. The marriage of Miss Mary 6wendolen | Caldwell. American heiress, Co the Mar | quls dc Merinvllle ot tho frcnoh nobility will occur at Dresden Oct ia Mrs. Josephine Wilson, overcome by do- mcstio trouble. took paris green at tho Ewing hotel, in Jersey oity. but was saved from death by tho prompt action of phy- | sielan.
 Rev John NJ Watson tfan Maclaronl appeared in Carnegie Music hall in New York and cave his first public reading In l America llo read from the Bonnie nricr | Bush. h
 
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