Connecticut western news., 1897-10-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Oct. ai.

James K. Taylor was appointed su- pervising architect of the treasury by Secretary Gage.
 A French garrison In Madagascar was attacked by natives. losing several of- ficers and many men.
 A. J. Pepper, a wealthy farmer of Rush, Pa, died from injuries received at the hands of thieves.
 Mrs. Julia A. sherman. 90 years old, and Benjamin Hunt. widower. ss years old were married in watertown. N. Y.
 The British force an India met with severe losses in storining heights held by rebel tribesmen on the Samana range.
 Mir. and Mrs. David McLane of West chester, Pa, aged SC and 93 respective ly, signed a mutual agreement of sep- aration.
 Lord Salisbury replied formally 10 the proposals of the American bimetallic special commission, announcing the British governments inability 10 open the Indian hints at present The Brit ish government would however, con- sider any other practical suggestions from the United States.
 Friday, Oct. ea.
 Many thousands were reported to have perished in a hurricane in the Philippine islands. ..-
 At a Span,Ah cabinet council it was decided to make a strong protes, against filibustering in the reply to Min- ister Woodford.
 coroner's jury decided that the un- known man found in the abandoned copper mine near North Arlington, N. J., was murdered and thrown into the pit
 The board of directors of the Catholic university voted to refer to the pope the question whether Mgr. Schroeder shall continue a professor in the uni- versity.
 An unknown man threw vitriol in the faces of two mill girls in tie street in Norwalk. Conn. One may die. and if she lives she will be totally blind. The other will be blind In one eye.
 A syndicate of English and New York capitalists has been formed to build m ls-story hotel on Riverside drive, New York. The hotel will be known as the Hendrix Hudson and, with the ground. will cost s4,000.000.
 Saturday, Oct. 23.
 Dr. Newton Bateman, president of Knox college, died at Galesburg, Ills.
 Justin winsor. librarian of Harvard university, died at Cambridge. Mass.
 A dime museum manager offered to furnish s25,0 900 bail for Luetgert and to give the alleged wife murderer $500 g week to exhibit him.
 James l.. Butler, travelling salesman, fearing insanity, committed suicide with strychnine at the Putnam House, in Fourth avenue, New York
 Lord Aberdeen, governor general of Canada, received an honorary degree at Princeton university's charter day oele. bration, and he and ex-President Cleve- land made addresses.
 The details of the monetary negotia- tions between the United States. French and British governments, with the ac- tion of the Indian government were made public in London. The British government refused to open the hints of India for free coinage of silver and declined to send commissioner to an international bimetallic conference.
 Monday, Oct. as.
 Sir Richard Hem Collins has been appointed lord justice of appeal in Eng. land, to succeed Sir Nathaniel Lindley. A railroad laborer has been found al Logansport, Ind, who has two univer. sity diplomas and can growl at the fore. man in eight languages.
 The Japanese government has yield. | ed all the points in dispute with the Hawaiian republic and accepts arbitra. tion of every phase of the contention. Mrs. Willis Administer. an opera singer known professionally as Estrela BelIn. fante. attempted to commitss suicide by deliberately starving herself to death.
 Gold hunters who arrived Tn Victoria from Dawson City said miners there were suffering from plague and star vatlon. the deaths reaching five a day An award of over si50. 900 has been made by an arbitration commission against the government of Colombia In favor of the Cauca Railway and Land company.
 Tuesday. Oct. go. A column of troops commanded by General Hunter has started to drive Os- i>man Digna from the Atbara river.
 General Adolfo Castillo. an insurgeni leader in Cuba, Is reported to have been killed in an engagement with Spanish force
 General Weyler was ordered to re. main in Cuba until the arrival of Mar. shal Blanco, his successor as captain | general.
 The court of appeals declared that Seth Lows nomination for mayor Of Greater New York by the Citizens' un. ion was valid.
 Straw votes on the Produce and Cot. ton, exchanges and among number oi business men indicated an overwhelm. ing sentiment for Low It was announced in Rome that the pope had decided not to interfere in the case of Mgr Schroeder of the Catholic university in Washington. The refusal of the czar to receive the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Ba- den Is regarded by the German press as an insult to the German nation.
 Steps were taken by the United States embassy in Paris to secure the extradi- ton of William R. Foster, who in 1888 stole s19S0 900 from the gratuity fund of the New York Produce Exchange. Wednesday, Got. 27. | Heavy snowstorms prevailed in Colo rado, Nebraska and South Dakota. Thomas Monahan, a railroad ems ployee at ,Gorham, N. H., killed two men and shot third.
 Fire at Hudson destroyed the Union | Knitting mill, causing loss of s200, 900. Many employees had narrow escapes. Charles Bonai and David Weeks for whose arrest S4. 900 was offered after the murder of George Nichols, at Trumbull. Conn.,, were captured at Huntington. Thomas Gold Alvord. known as old Salt, died at his home in Syracuse of old age. He was widely known as a Republican politician, having served twice as speaker of the New York state assembly, and also as lieutenant gov | ernor.
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