Connecticut western news., 1897-11-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Oct. 2s.

Fire destroyed the four-story building in St. Louis. in which the Wabash rsil- I way had It's general offices. In New York Annie Berliner got a verdict of sl,750 fer breach of promise against Jacob Sharlin. Both are deaf mutes.
 The win of the late George Nj. Pull | man was admitted to probate m Chi- cago. The bulk of the estate valued at Ss 000. 900, Is bequeathed to his wife | and daughters. while his sons receive only an annual allowance of s3 GOO each
 Samuel Milch. under indictment for arson, was witness in the trial of George w. Holt, in New York, who Is charged with having brlbed the former | to keep out of the way of the officers of justice. His testimony was all in support of the case of the prosecution. Friday. Oct. go. A wolf was shot yesterday in Little Rock just as 1t was about 10 attack a party of children.
 The forgeries of Professor Friedberg, the Toledo suicide. will run up to sbo,- 900. He had scores of victims.
 The fur seal conference in Washing | ton is said to have reached an agree ment providing for the limitation or en- tire stoppage of pelagic sealing in the north Pacific ocean.
 Mary M Kellard, who was a cont | spicuous figure in the Barbara Aub case | in New York, was arrested to answer | to an indictment of forgery, found last | December. in connection with transac- | tlons of William c. Wood. who is said to have squandered fortune upon her.
 Charles Fl. Cramp of the Philadelphia shipbuilding firm submitted a paper to the convention of the board of trade | and transportation in New York on "rhe American Merchant Marine" He said that the enormous subsidies paid by the British government have made | the north Atlantic an English lake. Saturday, Oct. 90.
 President Mckinley issued procla- nation fixing Thursday, Nov. 25 as | Thanksgiving day.
 The common law wife of the late Mill lionaire Gregory of Chicago was de- | his estate.
 Joseph Walton. Liberal was elected | to parliament as successor to Earl Compton in the West Riding of York shire, England.
 The Missouri Presbyterian synod has adopted a resolution condemning the | policy of Princeton university with ref | erence to the use of liquor. The British forces under General Sir William Lockhart captured Sempagha pass: the tribesmen making a feeble rec sistance, notwithstanding their strong position.
 The president appointed General | James Longstreet commissioner of rail- roads and Professor Henry s. Pritchett superintendent of the coast and geodet- ic survey.
 Monday. Nov. I. Fire in a cotton mill at Atlanta caused loss of $1i7oO0.
 David Bromley, a hotel keeper at Troy, N. Y., committed su. clde by shoot ing himself.
 Scott Kirby, while asleep on the track at Leominster. Mass, was struck by an electric car and instantly killed. l Ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower was chosen to the chairmanship of the board of trustees of Cornell university.
 Patrick Donahue fell beneath a train at Blackstone. Mass. and received fatal injuries. He was only % years of age
 There was an improvement in the | yellow fever situation, but there were four deaths at New Orleans, and num- Ger of new cases were reported.
 
 second degree murder at watertown. | N. Y.. for the killing of Mary Crouch | and Mary Daily at Sackets Harbor last April and was sentenced to life im- prisonment Tuesday, Nov. g. Burglars robbed a store in London of diamonds and jewelry worth S75,000
 Bills were introduced in the Georgia legislature making 1t a misdemeanor to play football.
 The National w. c. T. IT. convention voted to stand by the Chicago temple in It's financial difficulties.
 The report of the commissioner of in- ternal revenue shows a falling of in re- ceIpts of s2i1. OPP for the last fiscal year.
 The trial of Fritz Meyer for the mur- der of Policeman Frederick Smith was begun before Justice Fursman In New York.
 Lord Rosebery, in a speech at Man chester, dwelt on the advantages of free trade to England and deprecated an imperial zollverein. The Union Pacific railway and bonds in its sinking fund were sold at auction in Omaha to the reorganization com mittee for s57. 564. sS2.76 which covers the governments lien on the property.
 
 tor of Elizabeth street, New York. shot and killed Giuseppe Pecovare, near Elizabeth and Houston streets. because of the latter's conduct toward Butta- cavolrs sister.
 Special Agent Beverly of the interior department reached Washington and repeated his statement about s90, 900 of fraudulent Creek Indian warrants. He declared, however. that the government would lose nothing.
 Adolph Meyers shot and killed his wife on East Seventy-first street, New York, because she wouldn't give him any money, and then he went to his room, on East Seventy-fourth street, and killed himself with pistol.
 Wednesday. Nov. 8.
 Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard V. C., died in Taunton, England.
 Sir Rutherford Alcock. who was presi- dent of the British Royal Geographical society in 1876, died In London.
 The elections in Newfoundland result ed in a sweeping victory for the oppo- sition, led by Sir James Winter.
 Edward Hamilton. bank employee in Worcester, Mass, shot his wife and two children and tried to kill himself.
 The sale of the Union Pacific railroad was completed at Omaha, the reorgan- ization committee purchasing the first mortgage.
 The state railroad commissioners di- rected that toolboxes should be placed in the middle and not near the ends of railway cars.
 Alfred walling, Jr., of Newport, N. J., | a former judge of Monmouth county, { committed suicide on account Of pollt- | ical disappointment.
 Miss Jessie K. Parsons of Yonkers. | rich and handsome, killed herself in | hotel in New York because she could | find no work to satisfy her ambitions.
 A sea captain has found that the sails | of ship when filled with number of tmall holes bear it along more rapidly |