Connecticut western news., 1897-01-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Jan. ei.

health having been ruined by incar- ceration in prison.
 Dr Tinker. against whom a verdict | of s5o.000 damages was returned 10. alternating the affections of Broker Col wells wife. ignored an execution and ' was locked up in Ludlow Street jail In | New York.
 Three colored murderers were taken from the Amite City CLa.) Jail and lynched. Gus Williams. who killed his wife. was one of them. and the others were John Johnson and Arch Joiner. the murderers of the Cotton family. | The two latter were allowed to have light before being executed.
 Edward Lauterbach returned to New York from Canton. He said President Elect Mckinley Is favorably disposed to recognizing the Republican organ ization in New York by a cabinet ap- pointment. Mir. I.auterbach suggested the names of J. Sloat Fassett Serene k. Payne and General Stewart l.. I woodford.
 Friday. J.n. ga.
 The British government has issued a blue book on the correspondence with the powers in regard to Turkish re- | forms.
 The schooner Nahum chapin. laden l with coal from Baltimore for New York. went ashore off QuoRue. N. Y.. and her captain and crew, nine men in all. lost their lives in the storm.
 The New York State Republican Edl- | torial association was entertained ia Brooklyn with a trolley ride. visit to the navy yard. a banquet at the Union League club and an address by Dr. | Depew.
 | ~ was removed by Governor Morton from the position of inspector general. said that he would ask the legislature to | investigate the national guard of New | York state.
 | Representative clothing manufactur- CTS of the country het at the Hotel Sa- | voy in New York and formed a natioal association. They denied being trust or having any intention to interfere with prices or labor difficulties. | Saturday. Jan a3-
 Sir Isaac Putnam. the inventor of a shorthand system of writing. died in England.
 Michael Egan. one of the men who recently escaped from Ludlow Street jail in New York. was recaptured. | Resolutions favoring an extensive | system of defenses were adopted by the coast defense and harbor improve ment convention in Tampa. Fla.
 The British mission inspecting the famine districts in India found 4o. 900 coolies employed on the great rsaisf work known as the Jhelum canal.
 Oscar Hammerstein was indicted for maintaining a nuisance at Olympia Music hall in New York in producing a travesty on the Seeley dinner.
 Mrs. Martha Burns of Buffalo tried to throw herself and her two children in front of locomotive. The act was prompted by family troubles.
 Monday. Jan. aA
 Expressive measures against the So- cialists in Germany are favored by Emperor William.
 The French resident general in Mad agascar has levied per capita tax on all Asiatics and Ethiopisns on the is- | land.
 ! Henry Barnard and his wife Char lotte. two exceptionally clever coun- terfeiters, have been arrested by United States secret service agents in | New York after avoiding arrest through their skillful workmanship for more than year.
 Mrs. Elijah Carson. who died in | years on the ocean. She crossed the Atlantic 250 times and was infatuated with the sea. In her Will she makes liberal provision for the officers of the Luoania, her favorite steamship.
 IL is asserted in Washington that the Venezuelan treaty will he signed this week and sent to Caracas. IL is be- lieved that the Venezuelan congress will insist upon amendments and that the settlement of the contention will be left for the next administration.
 Tuesday. Jan SO
 A son was born to the Grand Duchess xenia, sister of the czar of Russia
 Twenty prominent politicians engaged in free for all fight in a saloon at Tren- ton. No one was hurt seriously.
 The eighty seventh anniversary of the birth of Henry Barnard. who is denomi- mated the Father of Education" was celebrated in Hartford.
 A delegation from Brooklyn called on Mr. Mckinley to urge the appointment of l Representative Francis H. Wilson of New York us secrctary of the navy.
 In the house of commons MT. Balfour said 1t was improbable that the English government would take tho initiative In a movement for an international monetary conference
 The thermometer in New York city reg istered closo to the zero mark, and st sew eral points in New York state and in New Jersey it fell below. The cold snap was general throughout the country, beinp es- ! pecially severe In the northwest, where at several points the murcury dropped to 80 degress below zero.
 Wednesday. Jan 2T.
 Two lives wero lost in n train wreck near Moncton, N. R.
 The insurgents blew up railway bridge in santa Clara province, Cuba.
 C. F. Fredelick Adam has been appoint cd secretary ot the British embassy in Washington.
 Mark Hanna and Major Mckinley had long consultation and, 1t Is believed, agreed upon Lyman J. Gage for secretary of the treasury.
 An elevator at 5a7 West Thirty fourth street. New York, fell fivo stories, and Ave men were seriously bruised or cut or had bones broken IL is believed all win re- cover
 Herbert Barrum Seeley, Theodore R. Rich and T. II. Phipps, prominent New York society men, were indicted by the grand jury for the disgraccful scenes at the Seeley dinner in that city recently
 The National Association of Manufac. jurors met In convention in Philadelphia. Its principal purpose Is to urge the estab' lishment of n new tariff which will pro. vide for the expenses of the government, and committee was appointed to draft resolutions.
 Secretary Akiyama of the Japanese lcya' ton in St Petersburg picked up Bible in the Sturtevant House, In New York, read it with interest, became convinced oi it's truth, consulted clergyman. adopted the Christian faith, was baptiIcd and loii for Yokohama
 Lovers Buried by Cave In.
 SHAMoKIN, Pa, Jan. e6.-while Frsd. srick Grseber and Miss Maud Gothic Were driving along the public road half a milo