Connecticut western news., 1897-09-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Sent. 10.

Thursday, Sept. 10. Hon. William l.. Wilson was instslled as president of Washington and Lee university. Lexington, Va. Miss Ethel Goldlng won 140 yard swimming race at Bath Beach, N. Y. Miss Leo Hultgren, one of the con. testants, tainted.
 A railway collision near Newark, N. Y., resulted in the burning of three sleeping cars and the blocking of the | New York Central tracks for several hours
 Five prisoners suspected Of numerous robberies were taken from jail and | lynched by a mob of 400 men at Yer | sailles, Ind. Governor Mount has or- | dered the arrest of the lynchers. Friday, Sept. IT. D. T. Watson, a colored schooIteaeher, was lynohed in Hamilton, Ark. From 15,o00 to 1s.Ooo coal miners re- | turned to work in the Pittsburg dis | trict.
 Two men were seriously injured by | the collision of the Montreal night | train to Boston with a local on the Cen | tral Vermont railroad at Essex Junc- | ton, Vt.
 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, pre-
  | Hungary, is said to have welded a for mer housekeeper of Krupp. the German maker of guns The report Is stoutly | denied in Vienna court circles. The governor of the Bank of Eng land announced at its semiannual meet ing that the institution had signified | its willingness. in response to the pro- posals of the United States and France | to hold one-fifth of It's bullion reserve in silver. as permissible under the act | of 1S44. It was also announced. though unoffieially, that the Indian hints | would be opened to silver at a ratio of | 15h to l.
 Saturday, Sept. IS. | Joseph Lloyd of Manchester. Mass. wonfthe open golf championship in the national tournament at Wheaton, Ills, Alanson Cary, inventor of the Cary | process for tempering springs and wide | ly known among wiremakers of this country, died of apoplexy at his home. IA West Seventy-seventh street New | York.
 Severe fighting was reported on the Afghan frontier in India, the British loss being 140 killed and wounded Two | officers were killed and several officers | including General Jeffreys, were more or less wounded.
 An Italian sailor, said by his captain | to be insane. was taken from the bark Spena by the harbor police in New York. He was chained in the forecastle and was much emaciated. He declared that he was sane and had been mal- | treated by the officers and crew of the vessel and partly starved.
 Monday. Sept. go.
 Silas c. Croft was appointed surveyor of customs for the port of New York.
 Two passenger trains came into colli- | sion at the Union station in St Louis. Only conductor was seriously hurt.
 The village of Imlaystown. N. J., was almost wiped out by a fire which Is supposed to have been started by bur glars.
 Two hundred Italian strikers near Waterford. Me. took a boss and two of his assistants prisoners and are holding them as hostages for unpaid wages.
 Elmer Hardy salesman. was att tackled and shot by highwaymen near New Brunswick, N. J.. but escaped SC. rious injury. sherifr's posse sent in pursuit of the robbers could find no trace of them.
 Queen Victoria sent her congratula- tions to the Duke and Duchess (Mlss | upon the birth of a son. The Prince of Wales offered to be sponsor for the young Marlborough heir.
 There are fears of a duel between Captain D. c. Purse. n prominent rnll- road lawyer of Savannah. and Colone' J. D. Massey, secretary of the Georgia state railroad commission. The trouble arose over business differences. | Tuesday. Sent 2I.
 Thomas L. Hicks was appointed post. master of Philadelphia.
 The British ship Favonins. bound from Pensacola, Fla, to Rio Janelro with a cargo of lumber. has been burned at sea,
 Senor Cuestas. who assumed the pres. idency of Uruguay on the assassina- ton of Borda, issued declaration of his policy.
 disastrous fire occurred in the Belle Ellen mines at Blocton, Ala. Five min CTS are known to be dead, and several others are missing.
 Adolph Lowell. a veteran of the civil war, committed suicide by shooting himself near his wife's grave. in New York Bay cemetery. Jersey City.
 The Republican organization carried the Republican primaries in New York city without opposition, assuring a solid delegation against Seth Low for mayor.
 Lieutenant R. E. Peary returned to Sydney, C. B., from Greenland on the Hope having made arrangements for an expedition in search of the north pole next year.
 The University of Illinois. which had S294, ,000 on deposit in the defunct Globe Savings bank of Chicago. has begun proceedings In the courts to establish preferred claim on the assets of the bank.
 Wednesday, Sept. ga.
 President Mckinley appointed Francis H. Wilson postmaster of Brooklyn
 Great Britain made a treaty with the mahdi, which ends the troubles in the Sudan.
 Queen wilhelmlna was present for the first time at the opening of the states general of The Netherlands. -..a#
 William Gantz of 1014 Fulton street, Brooklyn, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge and escaped with very slight in- juries.
 Lieutenant R. e. Hill. U. s. A, fren- zied by fear of rabies. attempted sui- eide by throwing himself from a nov ing train near williamsport, Pa
 Republican primaries held in Kings county, N. r., resulted in a victory for the regular organization over the oppo. sition led by Jacob Worth, the organ ization getting 1io of the l22 delegates.
 The daughters of Jason Rogers. the millionaire locomotive builder of Pster- son, N. J., who died in 1868, accuse their brother, Thomas Rogers. and Will liam cauldwell. as trustees. Of misap- plying s213,4so of the inventors estate and ask restitution.
 Sir Julian Pauncefote. the British embassador, it Is said will lay some propositions from hts government be- fore Secretary sherman on his return to Washington which it is desired to | have incorporated in the arbitration