Connecticut western news., 1897-03-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thur.day, M.rch IS.

Governor Bradley may be elected sem ator from Kentucky by deal with Democrats.
 Louis Mccoy. a convict In the Kings county penitentiary, twice attempted suicide. first by lighting his oil smeared body and then by banging. Both at tcmpts were unsuccessful. Miss Emile Grace Briggs, the nrst woman to be gradIfted from a Presby- terian theological school received her rating at Union seminary in New York, standing second in the class She is q daughter or Professor Briggs. Friday. March Is. Mrs. Annie Besant, theosophist. ar- rived in New York on the Teutonie and said Mime. Blavatsky has been re- lncarnated in an Indian boy. James M. Gordy was held by the coroner for the murder of his New York bride at the inquest into the cause of her death fin Milton, Del.
 There were threats of ynching him. | Edward Lauterbach was elected permanent chairman of the Republic | an county committee In the hall of the United Charities building at Fourth avenue and Tw<nty-seoond street. New | York.
 When u Hung Chang visited Brook | iyn. he was greatly attracted by a lit- | tie 12-year-old schoolgirl, who. with | childish curiosity. had ridden for some | distance on her wheel beside his rap idly moving carriage. He obtained her name and address. and she has | now received a gift of a scent bag from him. accompanied by an antosraph | letter.
 Saturday. March 4os | | American citizen. who has been in q | Cuban prison for some months. has been released.
 Amy Busby, the we'll known actress, was married in Rochester to Mr. Eu- gene Lewis, a prominent New York | lawyer. The wyndkoop-Crawford Printing company. state printers, have brought libel suit against the Albany Times | Union. claiming s1o0, GOO damagss- The Knights of Labor. in mass meet | ing in Cooper Union, in New York. ad- vocated municipal ownership or rall- roads and denounced the Metropolitan Traction company.
 Floods along the Mississippi and It's | tributaries caused the destruction of .
 vast amount of property and the loss | of many lives, the xreatsst damage
 and the largest number of fatalities
 being in Tennessee and Arxsnsss. Albert schmitt. John Perina and 1 Frederick Boose. whose ages range
 from Il to ls years. were arrested on a charge of having set Ire to public
 school No. e1. at Third avenue and | One Hundred and Sixty-ninth street, | New York.
 Charles O. Kaiser, Jr., aged 24 years. was convicted of murder in the first degree at Norristown. Pa, for the kill Ing of his wife. Emma F. Kaiser. on | Oct. 2s last. The woman was insured
 for s1o,o0o, the policy being made pay
 able to Kaiser. and the motive of the
 murder was to Eet the insurance. Monday. M.rsh ss.
 growth of the Christian Socialist party. Services In connection with the cen
 tenary of Kaiser Wilhelm were held | in Berlin.
 Major Charles Dick of Ohio has sc- | cepted the place of secretary of the Re- | publican national committee. Sharp fighting between the Span iards and the insurgents is reported in
 the Philippine islands. The spsniards.
 as usual. claim a victory. Between l6 and 20 miles of the Missls-
 sippi river levee has yielded to the high | waters, and thousands of acres of land south of osceola, Ark. are submerged. George Sheridan, Jr., of New BriGh-
 ton, N. Y.. was arrested on the charge of forging the name of the president of | the board Of education. He was held
 in s1 900 bail for a hearing. The clipper ship T. F. ORkes, which sailed from Shanghai on May If last, and had been given up as lost, was towed into the port of New Yorh by | the British oil tank Kasbeck. Her log contains a story of contrary winds. scurvy and starvation almost uuparal- leled in marine lore. Six of the crew
 died during the long voyage. Tue.dsy Msreh ss. The sailors of the United States cr-ils- CTS San Francisco and Cincinnati were
 pleased by the pope at Rome. Emperor William H unveiled the monument erected to the memory of
 his grandfather, William I. in Berlin. workmen on the Panama canal have
 engaged in a strike. and the police of Colon are under arms to be prepared for an emergency.
 The Citizens union of New York elected R. Fulton Cutting its president
 
 nonpartissn local administration. Judge Morris, In the court at Toledo, denied the motion for the appointment
 of receiver for the woolson Spice
 company. This is a decision adverse to the Arbuckle coffee combine and in
 favor of the Havemeyer Sugar trust.
 The village of Arlington. Ga, was
 swept by cyclone. which caused great
 loss of life and property. school
 house in its path was completely de-
 u1olished, killing eight children and in- turing a dozen others. Two teachers
 were fatally hurt.
 Wednesday, March s<.
 The two houses of the Kentucky ievIsls-
 ture voted separately for United States
 senator and made no choice.
 The New York state railroad oominis-
 sion organized In Albany and elected Colo
 nel Ashley ". Cole chairman. The Ward line steamship Niagara wa~ lowed to Charleston, s. C., with a broken rudder. Her passengers arc all safe.
 Mrs. Patton, wife of the president of
 Princeton, gave yellow ten to Introduce
 Mrs. Cleveland to Princeton society.
 The Lincolnshire (Enpinnd) handicap,
 in which Pierre Loriliard's DiakkA was .
 starter, was won by winkhcld's Pride.
 The Farmers and Merchnnts' bank of
 Paris, Tox., was forced so suspend by the
 failure of the cotton firm of Martin. Wise
 & FitzhuRh.
 President Mckinley granted a respite to
 tho four murdercrs of Francisco Chavez,
 who were to have been executed in the city
 of Santa Fe.
 The ore producers effeotually wound up
 the affairs of the ore pool in Cleveland and issued a statement blaming tho Rockefel'
 Ter r-Carnegie people for the siate of affairs A Gin to Masss schusetts,
 LONDON, March a4.-Upon the rccom-
 mendation of the Archbishop of Canter~
 bury the original log of tho Mayfowsr,
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