Connecticut western news., 1896-05-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. May q.

Thursday, May !.
 Several New Jersey militiamen are said to have engaged to go to Cuba and fight in the insurgents' cause
 Grace church congregation, Jersey City, Is rent asunder over a church entertain. ment in which girls in tights took part.
 The Boston athletes who took part in the Olympic games arrived In New York on the steamship Lahn and were heartily welcomed.
 It is reported from Brussels that Aubrey Beardsley, the English artist, is suffering from a lung complaint which Is likely to terminate fatally.
 Robert Fullerton's son made a scene at George Gould's office in New York, be- cause a letter of Jay Gould, written in 1854 and offered for sale to George Gould. was taken from Fullerton without pay. ment being made.
 Friday. May &
 Vice Admiral Sir Robert o'Brien Fitx Roy, K. c. B., died in London.
 It was semiofficially denied that Italy will permanently abandon the town of Adigrat, Abyssinia-
 H. H. Holmes, the story of whose crimes has been told and retold was hanged in Philadelphia, and with his last breath de- nied that he ever murdered anybody.
 Mir. Chamberlain, colonial secretary. de- clared in the house of commons that no communication had passed between him and Rhodes since the latter had left Eng. land.
 The seventh biennial convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians closed in Auburn. Resolutions supporting the cause of the Cuban insurgents and asking gov srnment aid for prisoners in English pris- ons charged with political offenscs wore adopted.
 Saturday. May Q.
 Spsniards report another victory over Maceo in Pinar del Rio.
 An expedition. possibly the one carried by the Bermuda, safely landed in Cuba
 The superintendent of the Jamaica (N. Y.) schools was arrested on a charge of excluding oolored children.
 Mrs. James J. Hearne was beaten into unconsciouspess bound and gagged in her home in Jersey City by robber.
 Fanny MoGee was arrested at 46o West Twenty sixth street, New York, charged with abducting a boy from Nsgaunes. Mich.
 A dynamite cartridge exploded In the rear of a saloon in Stapleton, N. Y., where 1b persons sat without causing ss- rious injury. Buildings wore shaken and many persons shocked
 Julia Grosa, . domestic in New York, was severely burned. her apron taking Are from gas stove. She ran out Into the street. where John O,Brien saved her life by tearing of her clothes.
 Frank Andrews and a man who gave his name as John Doe, but who, the po- t. A,~A ns manager of the Association For the Pre- vention of Fraudulent Auctions. were ar. rested in New York on the charge of oon- spiracy.
 Monday. May II.
 Three lives were lost and nearly s5oo.- poo worth of property destroyed in fire In Ashland. Via
 The death is announced in London of Mrs. Whistler, wife of J. N. MoN. Whis- tler, the we'll known artist
 Emperor William celebrated the twcn- ty-fifth anniversary of the treaty of Frank fort by paying a high tribute to Bismarck.
 Two women are oontesting for the right to be called the widow of Luis Edward Aoosta, Spaniard, who died in New York last week.
 The steamer Laurada succeeded In start Ing from New York for Cuba with . large amount of munitions of war aboard for the insurgents
 James E- Bennett schoolmaster of Sound Beach, Conn, attacked by an armed highwayman, saved his life hy soorching on his bicycie
 Missionaries and traders on the Solomon and other islands in the Pacific ocean were massacred by native cannibals and the mission stations sacked by the savaees
 Colonel Frank K. Hain, vice president and general manager of the Manhattan Elevated railway of New York, who had been at the sanitarium at Clifton Springs for medical treatment for the last two months. was run over and instantly kill cd at that place by a freight train on the New York Central railroad. It Is believed that he placed himself in front of the train with suicidal intent
 Tuesday, May 1a.
 Governor Morton signed the act provid- ing for the greater New York.
 An order was Issued by the British ad- miralty for the dissolution of the flying squadron
 A force of Indian troops is to be sent from Bombay for service with the Sudan expedition.
 Maude c. Williams. daughter of prom inent resident of Stonington, Conn, has been missing from her home for moro than a month.
 The Democrats of the Fifth Massachu- setts district in convention refused to In struot for Russell One of the delegates declared for HilL
 The case of Mary Alice Fleming. charged with the murder of her mother, Mrs- Eve lyn Bliss, by poison, was called in general sessions in New York.
 The indictment against ex- Police Cap tain ]. K. Price of New York was dis missed by Justice keogh on District At torney Fellows motion.
 Rachel and Mary Brewer. aged maiden sisters, well known in Methodist and charitable circles in New York, died with In three hours of each other. The last words of each wore an anxious inquiry as to the welfare of the other.
 Wednesday. May is
 Justice Alton B. Parker of Kingston, N. Y, decided that the Albany police bill was unconstitutional.
 The British home office has refused to reopon the case of Mrs Florence May brick, the convicted muderessL
 President Cleveland presided at the un. yelling of the bronze equestrian statue of General Winfield Scott Hancock in Wash ington.
 Mrs Edward Robbins of Brooklyn found two love letters in her husbands pockets. She has sued for divorce, naming an aged widow as correspondent M
 Princess Christian of Sohleswig- Hol' stein, daughter of Queen Victoria, was, at her own request, appointed 6 patroness of the New York School of Applied De sign For Women.
 An unidentified man. who is thought to be Leon Deverre of Bridgeport committed suicide by jumping from the bridge at Ninety seventh street and Park avenue in front of New York Central locomotive
 Charles H. Biller of Newark, N. J., made scene at the morgue in New York, declaring that the woman who committed suicide at the Colonnade hotel was his wife, though her relatives say that the