Connecticut western news., 1897-12-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK. m
Thursday. Dec. a.

Richard Gran, an artist, while tsTn- porarily Insane, shot his brother, Dr. Arnold Gran, at New York.
 Trouble in the Ohio and psnnsyl- vania eoalfields is feared after Jan l. when the miners may ask for an ads vance of per cent.
 Secretary Gage made a report show ing the work done by the treasury de- pertinent in expressing filibuaterinm expeditions to Cuba.
 The senate foreign relations commit tee decided not to press consideration of the Hawaiian annexation treaty for a time, the votes necessary for ratln- cation being lacking.
 Hundreds of rats attacked a farmer in Fairview, Pa. who was imprisoned in a narrow space, and swarmed upon him tiil he fell senseless. His sight was destroyed while he lay unconscious.
 Friday, Dec. 10. Railroads have calculated on a aprins rush of 5O,oOo people Co the Kiondlxo. Fogs caused several collisions in New York harbor and on the elevated rail- roads.
 The leaders in the six day bicycle race at New York are over 200 miles ahead of previous records.
 Barber. arrested in New York for in, suranee swlndling, confessed to havink buried and collected insurance on fouf wives.
 Harry s. Farmer, young amateur oarsman of Newark, N. J.. committed suicide by shooting himself on the steps of a boathouse on the banks of the Passaic river
 Don Eugenio de Faria Teixeira. a Brazilian artist living In New York, is Co build and equip museum of an- thropology, the earnings of which he will devote to charity.
 Saturday, Dec. II.
 The author of n series of holdups in Chicago proved to be a 18-year-old boy. Embassador and Mrs. Hay dined and slept at Windsor Castle by invitation of the queen.
 Charles Fleischmann, millionaire dis- tiller. turf patron and yachtsman, died in Cincinnati.
 A negro was lynched in Mississippi for murdering a white woman and four of her children.
 Attorney General MoKenna took steps looking to the postponement of the Kansas Pacific sale.
 A Baltimore thief was caught with $10,000 worth of diamonds in the resi- denoe of Isaac Emerson.
 MT John Loughborough Pearson, the distinguished architect and member of the Royal Academy of England. is dead. Rivierre's mind gave way In the six day bicycle race in New York, and he was removed in carriage to a hotel. while the police ordered other men of the track because of their exhaustion. Miller maintained his lead.
 Monday, Dec. Is.
 General weyler went to Madrid. where the public treated him indiffer- ently.
 Mrs. Herman oelrichs may become blind as the result of an apparently trifiing though painful accident.
 bill providing for the establish ment of national university at Wash ington will be presented in congress to- day.
 John D. Rockefeller is said to have lost an immense sum. estimated at &s. .- 900. 900. in the purchase and develop ment of the Monte Cristo gold mines in Snohomish county, Wash.
 Mrs. Helen Banffy of New York. who is suing for a divorce frUm her hus- band, is the daughter of Baron von ZieRfeld, who was minister of the Aus tro- Hungarian empire to Turkey. The defendant is the cousin of the prime minister of Hungary. The two eloped and were married in Constantinople In 1887, their families opposing the match because of religious differences.
 Tuesday, Dec Ix.
 Henry Probasco, a we'll known resi- dent of Cincinnati has assigned, With liabilities of S100,Oo0 and assets of S200, 000.
 The first wife of ex-Mayor Frank A. Mcgowan of Trenton is suing to set aside the divorce obtained by him In Oklahoma.
 Mayor Strong appointed Maurice J. Power an auueduct commissioner and Henry C. McMillen supervisor of The City Record.
 Charles Butler. LL. D., lawyer and philanthroplst, died in his e6th year in New York. over 50 years ago doctors gave him up as a consumptive doomed to die speedily.
 The interests or J. Edward Addicks and his associates fin the Queen City Gas Light company of Buffalo have been acquired by new corporation. of which IT. Clifford Smith is president. for about Si.0OO.ooO,
 The body of Jennie Sumner, the last wife of Charles Zanoll, who is accused of having poisoned at least three wives in New York for insurance money, was dug from grave In St. Michaers cem- etery in Astoria and an autopsy made. There will chemical analysis of the remains.
 Wednesday, Dec. n.
 The Snn Francisco police are guarding the Rev. George J. Gibson, Durrants former pastor, whose life is believed to be in danger.
 General Blanco has granted amnesty to political exiIes from Cuba and as- sures them of protection if they return to the island.
 Abbie Kirby died of diphtherla in Camden, N. ]. Her father is a faith cur lst and neglected to call doctor, hop. ing to cure her with his prayers.
 Mrs. Ida Brocklesby, wealthy Book. lyn woman, on the eve of her departurs Co visit her stricken mother in England. committed suicide by taking poison.
 The charges Of bribery, duplicating the office of the district attorney of Hudson county, N. l., were presented to the grand jury and the Bar asso- citation.
 Maumee presbytery. in session at To- ledo. has adopted resolutions condemn- ing the grill oom at Princeton inn and refusing to recommend the university for patronage.
 George Seymoure, wanted for horse stealing in Binghamton, N. Y.. has becn caught in Canada. He feigned hypnotic sleep in BinRhamton and escaped while the vigilance of his guards was relaxed. The charge of homicide was made against Charles Zanoli. in New York. in addition 10 the one of larceny. He was held for further examination on Satur- day. Al the autopsy on Jenny Summers body no signs of typhoid fever were found. but this fact did not seem Co friShtep the aecvsea hsrher
 Wreck tho Panhandle.
 Logansport, Ind, Dec. 15.-The Pan- handle passenger train for Chicago col- lided with a south bound freight near Royal Center last evening. The freight was trying to reach the switch at Boone