Connecticut western news., 1897-01-14

Pa. several mlSSlng. A. Sporting: Tom Butler won the national championship race at the Louisville l.. A. W. races.
 Obituary: Olin L. Warner, sculptor, in New York city; aged S2. Sister Irene, mother superior of the New York Founding asy- lum, a very prominent sister of charity, in New York city; aged 8. Dr. William Schrader of the University of Missouri, a prominent scientist, at Columbia, Mo. 15. Business troubles: George o. Berne 6 Co.,, leather dealers; Fl. M. Hosick, wool dealer, and the Chicago and Western Soap works, three Chicago firms having close fnanci al connections, assigned; aggregate liabili- ties, nearly $500. 900. The Chicago Consoh- dated Iron and Steel company assigned l; liabilities, about sJUO, 000. John Blcodgood, noted New York banker, died at Great Burlington, Mass. l6. Fires: Woodruff s department store burned at Rockford, Ills. The chemical laboratory buildings of the University of Illinois at Champaign burned; loss, sl0000O F. Obituary: Mary Abigail Dodge Gail Ham, ilton), at Wyndham, Mass. aged about 68. Accident: telephone hnemen killed and l2 workmen seriously injured by Q dynamite explosion at New Holland, Pa. IS. Miscellaneous: The yacht Isolde run down by the Meteor in race at Southsea, Eng land; Baron von Redwitz, owner of the Isolde, killed.
 Obituary: Prof. Frederick William Crouch, composer of Kathleen Mavourneen," at the age of S8, in Portland. Me. 19. Obituary: Prof. Joseph Dwight Whitney of Harvard university, at New London, N. H.. aged T.
 2I. Obituary: Dr. c. c. Raue, distinguished physician, tea4aer and author, in Philadel- phia; aged 76.
 22. Fire: The Exposition building, Buffalo Driving park, burned; loss, 500, 000. 23. Obituary: Sister Stella, widely known for charitable works at Dallas. John Cham berlin, noted Washington caterer. at Sara toga-
 2h Obituary: Hamid Bin Thuain Bin Said, sultan of Zanzibar; aged 40. Prof. Nicholas Rudinger, celebrated German anatomist, at Tutzing, Bavaria. B. Fire: The town of ontonagon, Mich., de- stroyed; loss, several million dollars; the Diamond Match company's plant, valued at s, ,000, 600, among the properties burned. Business troubles: Hilton, Hughes 6 Co.,, successors to the business of A. T. Stewart 6 Co.,. made an assignment and closed their store; liabilities over s1,0O00O0. p. Harry Hill, once a noted sporting charac- ter in New York city, died at Corona. N. r. Ii Hung Chang, Chinese statesman, arrived in New York on the St. Louis. 9. Fire: The Iowa State Institution For the Feeble Minded struck by lightning and burned; loss, $50, 900. 30. Obituary: Wordsworth Thompson, Ameri-
  56. Charles Stanley Reinhardt, the artist. in New York; aged 52. 81. Business troubles: The Kings County Ele- vated Railway company of Brooklyn placed in the hands of a receiver.
 SEPTEMBER. \. Fire: Masonic hall burned at Winston, N. C.; loss, s50,OO0.
 Miscellaneous: The thirtieth national en- campment of the G. A. R. opened at St. Obituary: Daniel Spraker, the oldest bank president in the UIASed States, at Fonda. N. Y.; aged 98.
 ]. Obituary: Lorenzo Niles Fowler, phrenolo- gist lecturer and writer. in West Orange, N. J.. aged S5.
 B. Obituary: Rev. Francis A. Shoup, D. D., of the University of the South, veteran Confederate general, at Columbia, Tenn. aged 62
 1. Miscellaneous: Dr. Gallagher, the released Irish political prisoner, arrived in New York. Maj. T. s. Clarkson of Omaha elect ed commander in chief of the c. A. R. Business troubles: The First National bank of Helena. Mon.. failed, with heavy ha- bilities.
 5. Fire: Yore's Opera House burned at Ben ton Harbor. Mich; Il firemen killed. Obituary: Dr. George Brown Goode of the Smithsonian institution, ,'a noted American scientist, at Mount Pleasant, near Wash ington; aged 45.
 3. Gen. R. C. Catlin, veteran of the Seminole, Mexican and civil wars, died at Mount Ne bo, Ark; aged 87.
 0. Obituary: Ex- Senator Henry B. Payne, al Cleveland; aged S6. D. Obituary: Luigi Palmieri, noted Italian meteorologist. at Rome; aged S9. James Lewis, comedian in Daly's company. al West Hampton, N. Y. Il. Prof. Francis J. Child of Harvard univer sity died at Cambridge, Mass. Q of the Mexican and civil wars, in Quin cy, Ills. aged S6.
 l3 Fire: The Delaware Oil works burned al Chester. Pa.; loss, sl5J.000. Obituary: Col. Norman Wizard, expert on ord nance and inventor of guns and proiec tiles. at Reading, Pa. aged 70. A. Obituary: Charles l.. Chapin, an old teleg rapher who aided the introduction of tho telegraph in Europe. at Philadelphia; aged 69. Gen. Edward R. Wadsworth, a Wiscon sin war veteran, in Chicago; aged 73 16. b deaths in a fight between the Young Turkey party and sofas at Galata. F. Tornado Srecked many towns in eastern Pennsylvania.
 Obituary: Enoch Pratt, banker, merchant and philanthropist; aged s8. 1S Tornado: Ogden, Utah, damaged to the extent of S20O, 900 by a violent storm. 21. Obituary: Prof. Winlock, astronomer O. the Smithsonian institution, at Bay Head N. J.; aged S7. Elbridge G. Blunt, Kan sas pioneer and war scout, in Chicago; aged T.
 9. Obituary: Katharina Klafsky -Lohse, wei known prima donna, at Hamburg; aged fl g. John Eric Ehrichsen, surgeon extraordi nary to Queen Victoria, died at Folkestone England; aged 78.
 24. Bessie Bellwood, a noted music hall singer in London. died in that city. 9. Obituary: Prof. Sir George Murray Hum phrey, author of noted medical works, il London. aged 76,
 26. Business troubles: Wolf Bros dry good establishment in Little Rock closed by at tachments; liabilities, s500.O0O. The Firs National bank of Springfield, N. Y., sus pended.
 27. Fires: Mount Holyoke college, at Soutl Hadley, Mass, destroyed. The wooden elephant at Coney Island burned.
 OCTOBER. l. Obituary: J. wilkie Moon, a Michigan pic neer, in Detroit; aged S2. 2. Fire: blocks burned at Jeanerette, La. loss. sl5o,000.
 8. Fire: At Camden, N. J.; knit goods fac tory damaged to the extent of $ll0,0O0 Obituary: William Morris. noted Englisl poet. in London; agel 32. 6. Accident: deaths in wreck on the A. T. and s. F. R. R. near Emporia, Kan. Conventions: The annual conven tion of GooC Templars of the United States convened a Chippewa Falls, Wis. The 18th annua
 
 Booksellers. Sp>>sdealers and Stationer opened in Bp>ton.
 Business troubles: The Car and Lumbe company of Tyler, Tex, failed with habili ties estimated at S250, ,0OO. John Maclean Co.,, wholesale millinery, failed in Mont real; liabilities sl75,000. B. L. Price { Co.,, clothing manufacturers, failed in Ney York; liabilities, s125.000. 2. Business troubles: The First National banl of Ithaca, Mich, failed.
 Obituary: Gen. Louis Jules Trochu, note, Frencn soldier. at Tours, France; aged 8l M. Victor de Lesseps, son of the famou engineer and projector, in Paris; aged 48. 8. Fire: A grain elevator and blot ks of bust ness houses burned at Corning, Ia. loss $50, ,000.
 Obituary: Gen. George A. Sheridan, note Federal veteran, at Hampton, Va. aged 5e 9. Obituary: Ex-Gov. Silas Woodson of Mis souri, at St. Joseph; aged 77. Baron Muel Ter, the Australian explorer. in Melbourne nged 75. George Du Maurier, artist am