Connecticut western news., 1897-02-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Feb. IS.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
 Thursday, Feb. IS.
 Senator wolcott left Berlin for Lon | don. returning from his mission abroad l in the interest of blmetalllsm.
 Chicago tanneries looked out about l 1000 men pending the settlement of dispute about wages and hours.
 X cable dispatch from Caracas states l that President Crespo in his message l to congress will advocate the ratifica- 1 ton of the Anglo-venezuelan treaty.
 The crew of the British ship Troop. | from Honolulu, charged the captain and two mates with gross cruelty. One sailor. they said. took his life to escape them.
 The extensive wooden and paper plate factory at Beaver Falls, N v.. has been burned to the ground, to- { Eether with nearly all of the contents, It employed 400 men. The loss Is sS0. 900.
 Miss Elizabeth Brown and Hon. Arr chibald Maioribanks of England were married In Nashville. The bride is q member of one of the most prominent families in Tennessee and the groom Is a brother of Lady Aberdeen.
 Friday. Feb. 1s.
 Bills to grant women the right of suffrage were defeated in Massachu- setts and Oklahoma territory.
 John Burns. the Socialist member made bitter attack on William Wal dorf Astor in the British house of com mons.
 Near winona, s. D., six members of the family of Thomas Spicer. a Metho- dist circuit rider were murdered, it Is e1lnnnSaH hy drnpEpn Indiana
 The Spanish government has prom ised to release Julio sanRuily. an American citizen who has been impris- oned for more than two years in Cuba
 The New York Parcel Dispatch com pany's bin was put through the New York state assembly secretly. but the leaders, it is said, have decided to have it reconsldered.
 Saturday. Feb. 90.
 W. Wallace. an oxford professor, was killed by fall from his bicycle.
 The police have made several arrests in Havana for an alleged plot of an- nrchists.
 A Boston girl of IS years confessed to setting fire to her home for the sake of excitement.
 Baron von oeyen committed suicide at Detroit after a career of adventure and misfortune.
 A woman named Hewitt became in- sane on religion at South Seaville. N. J.. and disappeared from her home.
 Frederick Ellison. an oarsman. was saved from the Passaic falls. In Patcr- son, N. J., by human life line
 In addition to large sales of steel rails to English corporations the Carnegie company has received an order for H. LOO tons from the Japanese govern ment. .es. .
 Princeton. N. J.. Is laughing over a story that three truckmen who assist ed In moving President Cleveland's ef- fects to his new home. in Bayard ave- nue there. drank 10 bottles of his cholc- est wine and betrayed themselves by unseemly merriment. Monday, Feb. ea.
 Emperor Francis Joseph has consent cd to be crowned king of Bohemia. A whale was killed or Amagansctt on Long Island after a desperate light, in which one man was hurt.
 Senator wolcott was told In Berlin that the assent of England was neces- sary to the calling of another interna- tional monetary conference. It Is said in Berlin that Bob Kneebs.
 
 another charge in Germany when hIs | present sentence is served out.
 The New York state canal board asks the legislature to appropriate the re- malning s5000. 900 of the ss. .000. 900 voted | by the people for canal improvement. There is trouble with the Papago In- | dians in Arizona Their chief. Pablo, has been killed while trying to escape 1 from prison, and his followers are on | the warpath. The new home of President Cleveland In Princeton Is almost ready for his | occupancy. Crowds are visiting it every day. but nobody Is allowed to | pass the portals Mrs. Cleveland is ex- pected there this week. Tus.day. Feb. aa.
 Floods in the Ohio river and It's trib- utarles caused great damage to proper | ty.
 Harry Fitch was sentenced 10 ten days imprisonment in the Jersey City | jail in an effort to break him of the | cigarette habit.
 The charter for Greater New York and supplementary bills for necessary legislation were presented in both houses of the legislature in Albany. A daring band of robbers under the | leadership of a woman named Mamie | Carter was arrested at Louisville. The gang robbed freight cars. Twelve-year-old Florence Hart dash ed into her fathers burning house In l KlInepoint. N. Y., and carried her baby brother 10 safety while her terrified parents looked on.
 The British expedition sent to Benin 10 punish the king for the massacre of lsaa kns f city. The king has fled. but the British are pursuing him.
 A man thought to have been David H. Gasbrook of Milton. Ulster county, | N Y.. was drowned in the Hudson rlv- CT at camelot. Three heroes nearly lost their lives trying to save him. Wednesday. Feb. 7G Richard Croker sailed from Now York | for Europe. -.... Two murderers committed suicide, ono at Emsdale, Ont, and the other at Talls hassee.
 Mark A. Hanna visited Major McKin- Icy at Canton. The lattcr's health is i'm | proving. Captain John D. Hart of the Laurada was convicted in Philadelphia of aiding a military expedition against Spain. Vice Admiral Jorge Montt, ex-prcsidont of Chile, arrived in New York and will study the United States navy with the view of improving that of Chile.
 A westchester county (N. Y.) grand | jury has returned presentmcnt to tho supreme court calling for tho indictment of 46 assessors for gross neglect of duty. George J. Gould was among the biggest | prize winners In the second days judging | of the dogs in the annual show Of the | al I'm A mass meeting of Greeks and sympa- thlzcrs with Greece was held in Chioker. | ing hail. New York, and resolutions of sympathy were passed Letters from Sen. ator Hoar and others were read, and | speeches were made by men familiar with