Connecticut western news., 1897-04-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. April |.

Thursday, April I.
 The battleship Iowa was docked in
 the Brooklyn navy yard, and in pre-
 liminary spin off Sandy Hook reached a
 speed of l5.75 knots an hour under nat
 ural draft.
 It was announced in Madrid the Spanish cruiser Maria Theresa will be
 sent to represent the queen regent and
 king of Spain at the Grant monument ceremonies.
 Hugh Miller confessed in Brooklyn to
 having set many fires. He is pyro-
 maniac as @ result. he says, of cigarette
 smoking and kindled the fires for amusement. In them ten lives have been lost.
 General Rivera Is thought by Cubans
 In Havana to have been betrayed by
 lawyer sent by General weyler to learn
 his views regarding the canovas scheme
 of reforms Weyier has ordered the im- mediate court martial of Rivera, and he
 may be shot Saturday. Friday, April g. Archbishop Plunket of Dublin died in that city.
 A severe blizzard. with a heavy fall of snow. prevailed in Nebraska, Wyoming
 and Colorado.
 Fire in Cambridge Springs. Pa., caused
 a loss of s200, ,o00. A man was killed and
 several injured.
 Miss Catherine Carlisle. n niece of
 John G. Carlisle. gave a reading at the Virginia hotel, Chicago. Lightning killed Convict Frank Dent the last man in a chain gang. near Att
 lanta. Two other men were injured. Forest fires destroyed much timber In central Long Island. and threaten a great stretch of country, taking in many villages.
 Jersey City evicted the squatters from the South cove land granted to the city by the state in 1865 and for possession
 of which the city has been fighting in court 20 years.
 Saturday. April q. Joseph Field died near He'd Bank, N.
 J., aged l04 years. He was married at 15 and left three children. Patrick Flannigan. a ticket agent of the Third avenue elevated railroad, was killed by train at Eighty-nint street. Mrs. Mary Esther Reynolds gave s225,- | 900 to Chicago university. This beqnest Is the fulfllment of a pledge made five years ago.
 Count Frank von Berg of the Aus trian army was sentenced to two years in prison In Indiana. He was convicted of obtaining goods under false pre- tenses.
 While on a train bound for his home in Babylon. N. Y., Roosevelt c. Rolston, president of the Farmers Loan and Trust company of New York. was tricken with paralysis. His chances for recovery are slight annls,n Ean.alsa y nnrraga Auto. nio Gonzales Borrego, Lauriano Ala rid and Patricio Valencia, members of the SO called Button gang, condemned to death for the murder of ex-Sherifr Frank Chavez, who was killed from am- bush on the night of May 2s. 1892. were
 hanged on one scaffold at Santa Fe. Monday. April .. Three men were killed in a family feud in Alabama Ramsay. the American sailor, was re-
 leased from prison in Peru. Beneficial rains have occurred in tn-
 dia, and prices are falling. A shipment of LOG. 900 bushels of grain
 was made from St. John. N. B.
 The uprising of natives of New Guinea Is not believed to be serious. Forest fires have caused considerable
 damage in the mountains Of Pennsyl- vania.
 A. E. Buck. the Republican leader of 1 Georgia, has, 1t is said, accepted the
 mission to Japan An outbreak Of starving work people
 occurred in Malaga, Spain. the trouble growing out of the lack of work Lieutenant General J. Nj. Schofield. | U. $. A., retired two years ago at the age of GA. is the father of girl baby.
 The representatives of foreign gov | ernments at Washington are closely
 watching the progress of the tariff bill. Tuesday, April c.
 The body of Charles H. Overlook.
 missing New York grocer. was found In the river at Chelsea, Mass. The United States supreme court set
 down the Joint Traffic association case for hearing on the second Monday in October.
 Secretary Gage has issued a circular of instructions to customs officials car rying into effect the provisions of the
 pending tsrirr act from April l. E. stern, said to have been a wealthy retired merchant. committed suicide by
 Jumping from the ferryboat Bowery
 Bay. III health and despondency there
 from were. 1t is believed, the causes. The United States supreme court has
 denied a motion by Russell Sage to dis-
 miss a suit brought against him as as- signee of the Hastings and Dakota
 Railroad company. The United States
 charge Mir. Sage with colluslon In the | suit.
 The trial of Alonzo J. whiteman for forgery began In New York. the cash
 Ter and paying teller of the Columbia
 National bank identifying him as the
 man who got s5So from the bank on a
 worthless check. He claims to be able
 to prove an alibl. whiteman was at one time a prominent capitalist and politician in Minnesota, having been
 elected state senator. Wednesday. April !. Andrew J. Garvey, former New York politician and millionaire. died in
 Southampton, England William J. Bryan argued In the United States supreme court in favor
 of the validity of Nebraska's maximum freight rate law. A girl who was graduated from Smith
 college. Northampton, Mass, last year | confessed to making trips from Boston
 and robbing the girl students, In the Transvaal raid inquiry in Lon-
 fon Sir John willoughby refused to give his reason for believing that he had imperial authority for the Jameson raid. Z T. Lewis. who disappeared from Urbana, O., two years ago after having
 been charged with forgeries amounting
 to s375,oo0 was arrested in Ypsilanti. Mich.
 Leonard A. Campbell, once a prosper,
 ous merchant fin New York. was found
 dead from starvation in his Brooklyn
 home, his body guarded by his wife.
 who has lost her reason and will prob
 ably die.
 It was stated in Washington that President Mckinley will send John w.