Connecticut western news., 1897-08-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Aug. 12.

Drunami, the fugitive king of Benin, | surrendered himself to the British au-
 thorities on the west coast of Africa.
 The body of the murdered premier of Spain, Senor Canovas del Castillo,
 reached Madrid and lay In state at his late home.
 Jacob s. Coxey was nominated by ac-
 clamation for governor by the Populist
 state convention of Ohio in session at Columbus.
 The emperor and empress of Germa-
 ny said goodby to the czar and czarina
 and left St. Petersburg in the yacht
 Hohenzollern. The steamer Mexico. laden with gold
 seekers. tourists and supplies. was lost on the coast of Alaska. The passengers and crew escaped in boats. President Mckinley and Vice PresI- dent Hobart made an excursion to | Lake Placid and drove to the grave of
 John Brown at North Elba, N. Y. Friday, Aug. I3. Asa Charles Jackson. an American, committed suicide in England. President Mckinley took a trip to Vermont as the guest of Senator Red | field Proctor.
 C. S. Mullen and Daniel s. Lamont
 were chosen respectively president and
 vice president of the Northern Pacific. Preparations for the national rogat-
 ta on the Schuylkin river at Philadel- phia were completed. Ten Eyck will | not row. Thomas Edison is building at West | Portal, N. J.. great concentrating works
 for the reduction of low grade Iron ore | by electricity. Owing to the refusal of M. Stolloff, | the Bulgarian premier, to apologize for
 an insulting letter diplomatic relations | between Austria and Bulgaria have been severed. Saturday, Aug. Ia.
 Lord Kelvin and the Marquis Ito arr rived in New York on the steamer Cam panla.
 The president visited the Vermont state camp at Chester and reviewed the | troops. An outbreak, resulting in the killing | of 73 insurgents. took place at a military prison in the Philippines. The difficulties in the way of reach- | ing the Klondike fields are discouraging the gold seekers on the Pacific coast. Sir Isaac Holden, M. F., inventor of | the lucifer match and of a carding ma chine for wool, died in England, aged 91. Commissioner Powderly instructed | Ab MdANn TUT Allt l arrival of anarchists in this country. Annie Garrison is missing from the home of her foster parents in Rhine beck, N. Y., and it is believed that | boarder Kidnapped her Monday, Aug. 10. The body of Pom Kwang Soh, former | ly Korean minister to this country, was | cremated in Washington. | Wichita Kan GnpHau achnol
 perintendent is arranging to conduct the | exercises by telephone from his home. Frederick Vedder of Utica. N. Y., and | Miss Rose May of New York eloped | from Long Branch and were married. | Six of the crew of the steamer Vile | de Malaga were drowned when the ves- | sel was wrecked on the shore of Alder
 ney island. Dispatches from Wheeling say the
 striking miners in that state are mak- ing progress toward the closing down of | the mines.
 Samuel c. Reid. a we'll known lawyer
 and son of Captain Samuel c. Reid
 hero of the naval battle of Fayal, died | in Washington. | Miss Minnie Gibb, daughter of Mil- | lionaire Howard Gibb of Brooklyn, Is
 reported to be engaged to. be married | lo HIouHN I16nIy ut Mo9s SUI ol nlaiH
 quis de Moy of Paris. | Tuesday. Aug. n. | Charles Compton, the actor. Is dead
 in London.
 The Gerlache Antarctic expedition
 sailed from Antwerp. Two. prisoners escaped from the penl-
 tentiary on Blackwells Island. New | York. At least seven persons were drowned
 by the capsizing of ferry steamer at | Dresden.
 A special gold medal was presented to Sir wilfred Laurier, premier of Canada.
 by the Golden club in London.
 Storms did much damage around New York. Lightning struck buildings in | necticut.
 Michael Angiolillo. alias Coli, the
 assassin of Senor Canovas, was sem | tenced to death by the court martial
 which tried him.
 An officer and four men were danger
 ously wounded and three other men | badly hurt by the bursting of a gun on
 the British cruiser Champion. Frank Hinlsey. formerly a prominent football player at Yale. rescued eight
 men from drowning in the Niagara river | at Edgewater, N. Y. William C. Wilson, proprietor of Will
 sons circulating library In Phlladel- phla, was murdered at his place of busl-
 ness by robbers, who made their escape
 after committing the murder and loot | Ing the office.
 Wednesday, Aug. IS.
 General David c. Swain. judge advo-
 cate general, retired. died in Washing ton.
 The bank of Pinevllle. Ark, was rob-
 bed of $500 by members of a band of
 outlaws, supposed to be members of the
 notorious Collier gang.
 James Cullen, l7 years old. employed
 as office boy by the National Security
 company in New York. disappeared with | q, 600 belonging to George Godward, the | treasurer.
 News confirming the report that one | of Andree's pigeons had been shot on
 the coast of Lapland was received in | Stockholm. The bird was said to bear a
 letter from the explorer. An engagement took place near Slmla. | India between the natives In the In- | dian hills and the British forces under General Blood. The natives were routed. | Two British officers were killed. The Duke and Duchess of York start
 ed on their visit to Ireland. Their going to the island has caused a fever of ex-
 citement and an elaborate programme | for their entertainment has been arr ranged.
 Thomas Hussey, a resident of Mont
 gomery, Ala. with s32. GOO on his person,
 was found in the American Exchange National bank in New York suffering
 from the feebleness of age and was sent
 10 the Tombs for safekeepinR. Meeting of Army of the Potomac. Troy N Y Ann 1R-Thn fNnnlN-