Connecticut western news., 1896-04-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. April B.

Extensive damage has been done to the fruit crop of California by frost
 Flames in the Cable building, Broadway and Houston street, New York, did dam age estimated at s25, 900.
 A dispatch from Havana says that Go meg is marching toward Havana prov ince to make a demonstration in favor of Maceo.
 The United States battleship Massachu- petts in its run from the Delaware capes to Cape Cod proved even faster than the bat tleship Indiana.
 Corporation Counsel Scott of New York has advised the police that hotels, to come within Raines law limits, must keep open regularly for guests.
 William H. Dieffenbach and other cred itors of the old New York, Lake Erie aud Western Railway company have sued to set aside the recent foreclosure and reor- ganization.
 Estelle Burmeister of Philadelphia, a demented stenographer, who created dis turbance by ringing William K. Wander bilt's doorbell, New Yoik, was committed to Bellevue hospital
 Friday, April a4.
 United States Minister Willis arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu.
 Mayor Strong of New York sent the compromise school bill to Albany with his approval.
 At the Hebrew Orphan asylum in New York a memorial bronze in honor of the late Jesse Seligman wae unveiled.
 The Bourgeois ministry of France rs- signed. President Faure immediately ao- cepted the surrender of the portfolios
 Louis P. Hermann and Charles Pus- talka, wife murderers, were killed by cleo tricity in the state prison at Sing Sing.
 Edwin Booths portrait, the gift of the New York Players club, was placed In the memorial theater at Shakespeare birth place.
 Pierce was given in the inquiry regarding the Home for Children at White Plains, N. Y.
 J. & Casey, an ex- Fenian. who in 1878 was sentenced to five years imprisonment for treason, died at Mitohelstown, County Cork, Ireland.
 Saturday, April e5.
 Mrs. Joseph Cooking and her sister, Miss Daisy Miller, were murdered in Hill Top. Md.
 The second anticoal trust bill has passed the New York senate and is now In Gov srnor Morton's hands
 The Venezuela boundary commission held meeting in Washington and decided to send an agent to The Hague to search the Dutch archives.
 Louisiana went Democratic at the rs- cent election by 27, 900 on the face of the returns, but fusionists charge fraud and say they will seat Pharr as governor.
 Booth Tucker, commander of the Amer ican Salvation Army, issued a statement urging the Darkest England" plan as a good one to apply in the slums of New York.
 Justice Patterson of the supreme court of New York, appellate division, all asso- oiates oonourring, declared the Raines liquor tax law constitutional An appeal will be taken.
 Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer won . suit against the collector of the port of New York as to the duty on some antiquities which be imported from France, but a penalty of sS,000 was imposed for under valuation.
 Monday. April a7.
 The Theosophioal society of America opened its convention In New York. elect ing Ernest T. Hargrove president
 Fourteen-ye year-old Arthur Haserman shot his playmate, Stanley MoDermott in an empty cottage at Asubry Park.
 Missionary Knapp in good health. was handed over by Turkey to the United States consular agent at Alexandretta-
 Mrs. Gaudefroy, who was born in O. Brien's castle Ireland, and was rich and petted in her youth, died in the New Haven almshouse.
 A conference of New York state Repub- lioan politicians decided that no measures k, %A. vtr bill should be passed at Albany.
 Rapid fire guns, arms and ammunition have been taken on board the Bermuda at Jacksonville, Fla. The vessel will at tempt to land her warlike cargo in Cuba
 Secretary Olney has made an attempt to bring about a settlement of the Anglo Venezuelan boundary dispute by arbitra tion. The administration has intimated to Lord Salisbury that the United States commissions report will be adverse to Great Britain.
 Tuesday, April 2s.
 The cruiser Newark arrived at Hampton Roads after four years cruise. A celebration in honor of General Grants birthday was held at Galena, Ills.
 The New York presbytery had lively debate over the licensing of candidates fer the ministry.
 The burning of Cripple Creek is thought to have been the work of a gang who de- sired to rob bank In the excitement
 Governor Morton signed the bill sbol. ishing school trustees and investing the board of education with additional power. The sum of s25, 900 was subscribed at the theosophioal convention in New York city for the founding of a school of oo- cultism.
 James J. Bush, cashier of the broken Elmira (N. M National bank, was in dicted after three attempts and placed un- der arrest
 Six suits have been begun in New York by three persons who claim they are enti- tied by reason of kin to part of A. T. Stewards estate A dispatch from Havana says that the destruction of property in the western to- baoco districts has been enormous and that suffering among the people is on the increase.
 Wednesday, April go. The New York court of appeals granted . new trial to Vincenzo Nino, convicted before Recorder Golf of wife murder. Lieutenant Colonel Ludlow attacked the plans of the Nicaragua canal promoters and reflected upon the work of Engineer Menocal
 Arthur Mayhew, the negro, was con- victed of murder in the first degree for killing Stephen Powell at Hempstecd, N. | Y., in March last. It was reported that the Rev. Dr. James Lewis Parks of Philadelphia had been called to succeed Bishop Satterlee as rec tor of Calvary church In New York. | Governor Morton nominated Daniel | O'Leary of Glens Falls, N. Y., for state factory inspector, and Captain J. H. Barker of New York for assistant factory inspector. The steamer Wyanoke of the Old Do- minion line ran into tho United States cruiser Columbia at Newport News, Va, and sank All her passengers and orsv | were rescued.