Connecticut western news., 1897-01-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thur.,i.y, Dec. 3t.

the latter Will return ta belRrauc sooh. Representatives of the sugar interests appeared before the ways and means com. mittee in Washington and asked for in. creased tariff duties
 John Gaynor. Is years old, of 220S Sec. ond avenue, New York, was accidentally stabbed through the hoart and killed by his playmate, John Summers.
 Martin LeonarSl, who has served time for cuunterfeitinE, was arrested In New York with several men and women who arc believed to be his confedcrates in n counterfciting scheme
 The Bankers Exchange bank of Minno- apolis suspended payment, and an arpli- cation was made for the appointment of a receiver for the Northern Trust company of the same city. The Commercial bank of Selml, Ala. failed.
 Miss Ella Collin. daughter of Peter Col lin. a tailor of ST Fourth avenue, New York became queen of the tannibal is- lands of Illika, of tho Now Heirides group, by her marriage with Colonel John r. Hobbs, who enjoys supreme rule of the barharic South Sea islands
 Friday, Jan. I.
 Sir William Eeresford. husband of the former Duchess of Marlborough, who was Mrs Hamersley of New York, was serious ly injured while hunting in Dorking, England.
 Assistant District Attorney John r. Mcintyre of New York sailed for England for the purpose of conducting the defense of the young New Yor@er, kdwarl Ivory, charged with conspiracy and held by ths English courts as dynamite-.
 Joseph B. McCullagh, editor of the St Louis Globe Democrat, one of the most widely known and able Journalists of the southwest, was found dead In yard in St Louis, having been killed by falling from window. It is said that he com mittcd suicide, but his friends believe that his death was purely accidental
 Governor Morton removed Inspector General AlcLeweo from office, notwith- standing that his term of office was to ex- pire within 2t hours Tho governor was indignant at McLowee's criticism of his superior officers, and on iutant General MoAlpin's advice summ ly dopoSed tho offending inspector general General Me Lewee denounced the action of the govern. or as outrageous, declared that ho had only done his duty and gayo details of some of the charges which were only out. lined or hinted at in hts report Saturday. Jan. 2. An excursion train carrying 100 Iowa teachers was ditched near Des Moines, but there wore no fatalities
 Henry A. Cowles, Hartford broker, Is uraeeountahly missing, and his friends fear some harm has bcfallen him. President Cleveland's last New Years reception to official society was a brilliant success Over 1000 people attended Justice Jackson O. Dykman of the su. prpme court cf the Second district of New Al. n. sN | of service as n supseme court justice. Christian Jacobson of 223 West Eighty. \ third street, New York, hanged himself and died while his wife stood wondering whether or not he was tryipg to frightcn her. Senator wolcott sailed iron. New York | for England with the avowod intention Of | investigating the attitude of European \ powers as to an international bimetoliic conference. bill to provide for which Is now being framed in Washington. Monday. Jan. (. | Jcssc Smith. eolored. of eses First ave nue, New York, was fatally stabbed by | his wife with n pair of scissors
 The popc hos conferred the title of count | ess upon Mrs. James D Mackin, a bcnutis i full American woman, now living in Parls Nj. II. Briggs, prominent lawyer oi Rochester and treasurer of road turn pike company. has been deposed by tho di- rectors for shortage of 5000 Colonel Otto A. Krauss a prominent \ New Yorker. has disappeared He left . I note for his wife that explained nothing I except that she would not see him again. I A Mexican cable dispatch states that iarv-n comment has been oauscd in Pana' | ma. Colombia, by dispatch from Pari, whica says that the Panama Canal com pany s so be rcorganized.
 Gonssio dc Cuesadn, charge d d'affaires oi the legation of the Republic of Cuba, In | Washinrtur, asserts that tho Cuban insur. gents demand absolute independence. and not autonomy, as resident Cleveland suE
 yests, and that they will be satisfied witl
 nothing less than absolute independence l Tu~sday, Jan. .. | Sir Henry Sa. John Halfor,l, the wei
 known English ISls shot, Is dead
 Sir Joseph Hickson. formerly genera n-cnager of tie Grand Trunk railway \ died in Montreal.
 A small army of farraors and blood hounds searched the woods and hills o | .passaic county, N. J., in search of n mar | who was accused of assault ny s little girl | Miss Bessie Ahildgaard of Perth Amboy | X. J who has been missing from home sssslid to have cloped with John Marks, | | sns-Yicd man, who leaves wife and child C8yrias Lyons. who was found with hi | skuis frasured in a road at EnRlewood K j.. died without regaining conscious ness sad Is believed to have been mur 6ered.
 Airs. Lottie Pope of New AmstcrSiam
 N. l., ran away from home with an actor
 but sent no aprcal :o her husband, and h'
 found her and their child and forgave th'
 woman.
 James Duty. the pueilist who wa
 taken i'll aftor bis glove fight with GeorR' I Justice at the Broadway Athletic club or
 Saturday night, died in St Nincent's hos
 pitll, Now York, of cerebral hemorrha2e | Wednesday, Jan. c.
 The appointments of Andrew Percy Ben ! nett as British conSnl In New York wa | officially gazetted.
 Nicola Cardenas brought from Paris t'
 tae Cuhan junta in New York Sl0S, 00'
 frOxu European sympathlzers.
 1be agricultural schodvle was consider cd as the tariff hearing by the ways an, nrcs,ns committee in Washington.
 Sl1 persons were Injured, three prob ably fa4ally, hy a wreck on the Chicago Bur .dpgton and Quincy railroad near Car son. h.
 The occaa going tug Luckenbach cam into sbe pot of New York and rcporteS belng ,,hased " the United States cruise Raleigh in misNsle for n Cuban fllibuster A cable car on Lexington avenue, Nes
 York, ran away aS Eighty first street, an,
 before inc able cctrsd be stopped it crash ed into two other cs~rs, wrecking then and iniuring six pe.eons
 1 General Francis A Walker president O
 the Massachusetts Institute nf Technolog.
 aud VI idely known as political eoonomis
 and litterateur. was stricken with apo { plexv at his home in Boston a al died sooI ! after.
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