Connecticut western news., 1896-11-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thur.dsy, Nov. k


 el president of ths Royal academy In Jon- don.
 Shefik pasha WAS appointed to replace Maxim Pasha as Turkish minister of DO. ice in Conssantinople.
 Mrs. Louise watkinsan. a Christian sri. enlist. indicted on charge of lArnsny, was arr,stcd In New York.
 President Cleveland issued prcclsmA. tion designating Thursday, Nov. 20 as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, Henry H. Adams. cx.trasurcr of Kings county, \. N., was arrvsstcd in Brooklyn on an indictment charging misappropria- tion and was admitted Ia bail
 Old Chaunccy Johnson. veteran bank and sneak thief. 54 years old, who has haa n nsnlarkahlc criminal oar~cr, was arrsst d on suspicion In the Bartholli hotel In New York.
 Friday, Nov. c. John II. Inman. the wealthy cotton ro- kcr. banker and railruad man of New York, died suddenly at bis country place In the Berkshire hills.
 A full pardon was granted to ex-Quccn L!liuoSalani hy the government of Hawaii for allegd offensive partisanship in con ncction with the presidential election.
 Chief Engineer Parsons of the rapid transit commission of New York submit tod plan for rapid transit, with cast and west side routes, to cost less than sSo, GOO, 5 900.
 A careless painter thrcw match into an oil can. which exploded, setting fire to a flat In West One Hundrcd and Twenty. sixth strS>et, New York. Mamie Doacher, years old, was burned to death.
 Saturday. Nov. !.
 A burglar at New Brunswick, N. l., oponed a safe after having mAthcmatioally figured out the combination, took $500 and made his escape.
 Frsieriek Bollenbcck. A primary school pupil. tried to stab his teacher with pen. knife in Bloomfield. \. J., whom she at- tempted to corrvct him.
 Asssrmhlyman Nixon of Chautanqua, o'Gady of Munnce and Shener of Albany counties have announced their candidacy for the offioc of speaker of the New York assembly.
 The Right Hon. John Morley, NJ. P., In a speech delivered in Glasgow implied that he advocated Sir William Hanoourt for the leadership of tho Liboral party In Gnnat Britain
 Two masked men tried to roh the Cham. pion rsstaurnnt, on the Bowery, in New York. One of them carried n revolver. They were frightened away by the cashier ard two walters
 In the Clcrkenwell court of sessions, London, Mrs. Walter N Castle of San Francisco was found guilty of shoplifting and sentenced to thrc months imprison. ment, though specialists testified that she was mentally irresponsible Her husband. who had been indicted with her, was ex. oner,ted from all blame
 Monday. Nov. Q.
 The Cuban filihustcring tug Thrcs Friends was seized at Mayport, Fla, by the revenue cutter Boutwell,
 A burglar. % swathed In stolen fcmi- nine flnery that ho could not walk, was caught at the house of David Sicher in Yonkcrs, N. Y.
 It Is reported from Berlin that Prince Bismarck has been ordered to go to that city in order to como to an understanding with the emperor of Germany.
 Chairman Hackctt of the Republican state committcc announces that the organ. iEation will support Cornelius N. Bliss for membership in Mir. Mckinley's cabinet
 Adyioes from kansu. the northwest province of China, are that the imperial government In putting down the rebellion has executed an average of 1000 Moham. meSians day for two weeks
 James Byrnes, a burglar, who pawncd stolen goo,ls to consult fortune tellcr, was arneStcd as soon as he hRd hcard hcI prophecy success and good fortune and was identified and held for trial In Jcffcr' son Market police court In New York.
 Tuesday. Nov. 10.
 Twenty people wcrc drowned In \ colli sion between two steamships at the mouti of the Guadalquivcr river, in spain.
 The hattlcship Texas sank in the mud of the Cob dock in the Brooklyn navy yard Her engine room was filled with water.
 A dispatch to the London Standard iron Berlin announces that Baron von wiss mann late governor of German Easa AT rioa. has been elected president of the e 'o grapnics.l socicty.
 Dr Francis H. Rankin. ono of the mos prominent and most highly esteemed phy sicians I'm Rhode Island and well knowr in New York. Boston and all the larrs cities of the cast. died at Providence
 Napoleon Sarony, the distinguished ph, tographer and artist of New York, dicc suddenly. Mir. Sarony was found dead h his bed In his house at iad West Forty seventh str>ct. For some time past he hae been suffering from III hoalth, and it Is be lieved that his sudden passing away wal due to apoplcxy.
 Wednesday. Nov. n.
 Mrs William II. Vanderbilt was burics In the family mausolcum at New Dorp NY.
 CongrSssmcn in Washington assert thai special session of the Fifty fifth congr,@ will be called.
 Cuban residents of New York hay. formed a society to devise plan of govern ment for the island.
 The battleship Texas, which was partial ly sunk In Cob dock al the Brooklyn nav, yard, was pumped out and fioatcd.
 Mrs. Iangtry the actress, gave testi mony in London. in her divorce suit Sh. accuses her husband of dcscrting her.
 Cora Abbott was burned to death In he fathers house, in Milton, W Va. In fire which, it is alleged. was started hl outlaws for revenge on the young woman
 A cable dispatch from Panama, Coiom bia, states that an alliance has becn formcs between Nencxuela and Ecuador which cx cites suspicion and apprehension in Colom bia.
 Senators Hanshrnugh and Pettigrcv have declared that they would not. as sil yer men. offer any obstruction ia tariff act which President Elect Mckinley migh suggest
 The relatives of Aylmcr W. Cooper, wh' died on Monday in Roosevelt hospital, iI New York. frNnm injuries r,sceivcd In a ss loon last week. believe that he was mur dcnSi. and an investigation has been begun hy the authorities.
 John Rogrrs, a coachman employed n, Richard Brandes. a New York wine mcr chant, at his country place, near Whit Plains, N. N,, muricncd William smith farmland and accidentally killed him self while pursuing Henry Weiss with shotgun.
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