Connecticut western news., 1897-06-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursslay, May p7.

| absence from the navy in order that the officer may prosecute his arctic exc | plorationR.
 The strike of the New York garment makers is practically over, a large num- Der of the contractors having slrned an agreement to accept the conditions demanded by the strikers.
 General Horace Porter presented to | President Faure his credentials as Unit ed States embassador to France. He made his address in French, upon the insistence of the French authorities.
 Binger Hermann, commissioner of the general land office. announced his dee cision in the Chicago lake front case. reversing the decision of Commissioner | Lamoreaux and denying and rejecting the application of Harvey NJ. I.afollstts and Matthias Benner to locate Mckee scrip on the lands.
 Friday. May as. | Colonels Wade. Mizner and Graham were nominated for brigadIer generals by President Mckinley.
 The Presbyterian general assembly decided to meet at winona park, Eagle Lake. Ind, again next year.
 In Chicago Judge Hutchinson refused to allow Roentgen ray photographs to be put in evidence In a suit for dam ages.
 It is announced that the president will start from Washington on June 10 to visit the Tennessee centennial exhi- bition at Nashville,
 Earthquake shocks were felt last night between 10 and II o'clock at ur- lington, Vt, Syracuse and Lockport, N. f., and Montreal No damage, howev- CT, is reported.
 | chtca xo ,,au,.ron.r a..or,. .hu. Al late superintendent of insurance of H. iinois has not accounted for s21s,sle of the states moneys that passed Into his hands.
 Two Chinamen from the British vea- sel Herat, lying in New York harbor, have escaped and landed. The master of the vessel may be proceeded against by the United States authorities.
 Saturday, May as.
 John w. Foster. United States seal commissioner. left London for St. Pee tersburg.
 General B. F. Tracy announced that he could not be considered a candidate for mayor of Greater New York.
 The president has appointed ogden Mills a member of the special embassy which will attend the sixtieth celebra- tion of the accession of Queen Victoria to the British throne.
 Followers of the Kneipp water euro purchased 100 acres near Mamaroneok, a suburb of New York, and will pre- pare a sanitsrium modelled after the fa- nous Woerishofen of suabia.
 The Presbyterian General assembly, at Eagle Lake, Ind, had a sharp debate on the report ss to the use of wine at the alumnfs banquet at the seaquicen- tennisl anniversary at Princeton. It concluded it's work and adjourned to meet at the same place next year.
 John Redmond was suspended by the British house of commons and three other Parnellites were ejected because they persisted, in defiance of the chair, in rshearsing Ireland's financial wrongs. The Irish parliamentary party formally refused to take part in the celebration of the queens jubilee.
 | Monday, May sI.
 The test of the gunboat Wheeling in San Francisco bay was highly satisfac- tory.
 Mrs. Hans osbar. of Davenport. Ia.. was arrested on the charge of setting fire 10 her second husbands house.
 The Rev. Madison c. Peters and tho Rev. Thomas Dixon denounced prlze- fighting from their pulpits in New York.
 Leopold Tuck. New York lawyer, left his home last Friday morning to TO to his office, and no trace of him can be found. Pope Leo's new encyclicai decrees Rn- | nuel novenas in all cathedral churches for an awakening of faith and the re- turn of the Anglican church to the fold.
 John M Harlan, late Independent candidate for mayor of Chicago, bitter ly attacked the directors of the Gas trust and the street railways of that city for alleged attempts 10 purohase legislation.
 Tuesday, June |. | c. A. Soden, lad of ls, won the Irvington Miliburn handicap road race.
 Eight little children were Killed at Denver, Colo, by the collision of a train with wagon.
 H. B. Niles. president of the Equita- bie Mercantile company of Now York city, killed himself in that city.
 Ex-Governor Morton of New York was among the Americans presented at the Prince of Wales levee in st. James' palace. The Seventh regiment of New York was R feature in the dedication of the monument to Colonel Robert c. Shaw in Boston.
 IL is believed In Constantinople that Germany is trying to force Russia to declare openly for or against Turkey The Greeks are encouraged by the ru- nor of a contract given 10 provision 70 British ships 10 be gathered at PhAle- rum. The sultan has extended the ar mlstice for two weeks, | Wednesday. June s.
 Fighting occurred near Khsnia, in I ..a.- bashi bazouks.
 | William Chamberlain, formerly may | or of Pathway, N. H. was taken to the State Asylum For the Insane.
 A discharged papal employee shot and wounded Commander Martinuoei in the Vatican at Rome and then tried suicide. The Red ID" line steamer Valencia. which 1t was rumored had been lost ofr the south coast of Cuba. has arrived at | CienfueEos
 The International Commercial con- | gross has begun It's sessions in Philsdel- phia. President Mckinley will addresn the delegates.
 The cable chess match between mom- berr of parliament In London and eon- gress in Washington ended in a tle score. Each side won two games, and the fifth was drawn. | The one hundred and sixteenth ans | nual convention of the Masonic grand lodge of the state of New York opened I In the Masonic temple Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue, New York city, with more than 1000 delegates present. ! Trouble Among ths Kings Daughters. Hamilton. Ont, June 2.-At a meet Ing of the Canadian branch Of the Kings Daughters it was decided to sew CT connection with the international as- l soeln lion. whose haadnuartern arc ln