Connecticut western news., 1897-12-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Dec. 2.

John P. Jackson, a musical critic and
 translator of New York city, died in
 Paris.
 Thirty miners were killed and 40 in-
 jured by an explosion of fire damp in a
 mine in Rhenish Bavaria. The naval armor plant board made a report showing the impracticability of
 the project for a government foundry. Charles W. Spalding was sentenced to
 an indefinite term in the penitentiary
 in Chicago for embezzlement of BPS. 900
 of the bonds of the University of nli-
 nois. He denied his guilt. Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago street car magnate. proposes that 20 miles of docks be constructed on the lake front
 and the Chicago river transformed into a boulevard. He says a company with $50. 900 can be formed to carry out the work.
 Friday, Dec. 8. Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi was appointed register of the treasury by the president.
 The British punitive force on the Af- ghan frontier Is meeting with fierce re- sistence from the tribesmen. and an- other British officer has been killed. Horace Plunkett, member of parlia-
 ment for South County Dublin and president of the Irish Agricultural Or
 ganization society, arrived in New York.
 President Mckinley is said to have assurances from leaders in both houses of congress that his suggestion to await the development of Spain's proposed reforms in Cuba will be supported. The New York state forest reserve board, having spent nearly all of the s1, ,000, 900 appropriated for its use, will ask the next legislature for q ,0o0, 900 more and that of 1899 for like sum. Saturday, Dec. {. Yale won the intercollegiate debate with Harvard at New Haven on the question of Hawaiian annexation- Three firemen were injured and three horses were nearly burned to death in a fire which destroyed a sawdust ware house at BIO Fifth street, New York. Martin Thorn was sentenced to death in the electric chair in the week begin- ming Jan. 10, by Justice Maddox. in Long Island City. An appeal will be taken, and he cannot de before May. The prisoner will be taken to Sing Sing today.
 Edward Boucher and his wife, serv- ants in the employ of Mrs. w. s. Hoyt of "The Wayside," West Chester, N. r., were held in s5,0oo ball each In Morrisa- mia court on the charge of stealing s5. 900 worth of diamonds belonging to Mrs. Hoyt.
 George R. Blodgett, counsel of the General Electric company in patent cases and one of the leading patent lawyers of the country, was shot and probably mortally wounded by a bur glar at his home in Schenectady N. Y. The General Electric CO of- fered a reward of s5O.J .-.s arrest of his assailant.
 Monday. Dec. 0. It Is said that the widow Of George M Pullman will contest his will. The United States gunboat Newport has sailed with the Nicaragua commits sion on board.
 Diplomatic relations between Great
 Britain and Venezuela have been re- stunned after ten years. Samuel Parkhill of Brooklyn shot himself dead because the young woman he had secretly married refused to live with him.
 The fve-story brownstone building l48 Duane street, New York, was destroyed by fire last night. The loss is estimated at s120,000.
 The administration in Washington has decided to send the north Atlantic squadron to cruise near Cuba believing that this will do much to prevent jingo- ism in congress. Julius M. Rosenthal. wanted in Koch ester on a charge of forgery. was ar- rested last night in New York. He was
 recognized by a Rochester man. who saw him at the Thorn trial. General J. s. Easement of Ohio de- cIares that the recent reports of disor- der and turbulence in Costa Rica are
 tions between this country and the It, tie Central American republic have been
 injured as a result. Tuesday, Dec. !. One person was killed and others were
 injured In hotel fire at Milwaukee.
 King Humbert has intrusted the Mar
 quis di Rudini with the task of form-
 ing d new ministry.
 The campaign of Sir William Lock-
 hart against the rebel tribesmen in In-
 dia will be suspended until spring.
 Governor Griggs will not resign his office to accept the position of attorney
 general until after the New Jersey leg islature convenes on Jan. Il.
 Superintendent Aldridge of the state
 department of public works and State
 Engineer Adams assert that s5,000 900
 more Is needed for canal Improvements.
 To deputation from the German
 parliament Emperor William spoke strongly of his determination to in-
 crease Germany's efficiency as a naval
 power.
 A bill has been introduced in the low
 CT house of the Hungarian parliament