Connecticut western news., 1897-09-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Sept. 23.


 nephew of Secretary Alger was ar- rested Tuesday in Canton. Ills. charged with embedding 1850 from a telephone exchange.
 President Mckinley and his party were warmly welcomed in the Berkshire hills. The president is the guest of an old friend and made speech to big prowd at the Hoosic Valley fair.
 A hurricane swept over Sava, Me- sagne, Oria and Latiano, near Brindisi. Italy, and killed nearly 100 persons, in- turing as many more. Two villages in the same locality rAere flooded and 20 persons drowned. A heavy snow has fallen in France.
 Friday, Sept. 24.
 c. B. Kilgore, judge of the United States court in Indian Territory and formerly a member of congress from Texas, died at Ardmore. I. T.
 Milton Meyers, a lawyer, was arrest ed, charged with complicity in the swim ding of the members of a Brooklyn brewing firm, for which two other men are under indictment.
 Robert Hibberd, who shot Mrs. Phoebe Phillips about three months ago in Att lantic City because he thought she would break her promise to marry him, was married to her in a cell in Mays Landing.
 Charles Hazard, a former New York newspaper proprietor and advertising agent, committed suicide by drowning in the Hudson river half mile above Fishkill Landing. Financial difficult ties are supposed to have had some thing to do with his death, although his family ascribes it to long continued III health.
 Saturday, Sept. 25.
 An explosion in a coal mine at Mar- ion, Ills, caused the loss of nearly a dozen lives.
 John H. Staats, superintendent of the Hotel Waldorf in New York, was ar- rested on a charge of stealing goods from the hotel which may aggregate value of s50,0 900.
 Miss Susan de Forrest Day of New York, owner of the yacht Scythian, was robbed of $6,000 worth of jewelry. The Jewels were on the yacht and are thought to have been stolen by cabin boy.
 Jacob Winters, a repairer, employed by the Equitable Gas company, was overcome by gas while repairing main at 205 West Twenty-third street, New York, and died before an ambulance ar- rived.
 Ex-Inspector General of Police Ed uardo Velasquez of the City of Mexico committed suicide in prison, where he was confined for having caused the death of Arroyo, the assailant of Pres ident Diaz.
 Monday, Sept. a7.
 Jacob Kahn of New York sued his wife for divorce, alleging that she has from to 13 husbands living.
 A negro accused of assaulting a white girl, was taken from the Jail at Hawes- vile, Ky, by mob and lynched.
 F. W. Valentine, Brooklyn lawyer, was instantly killed and Henry l.. Burt, a druggist of Putnam, Conn.,, was fatal ly injured by a runaway accident at the latter place.
 The whaling steamer Hope, returned from the arctic with Lieutenant Peary, has arrived at Boston and will leave there on Tuesday for Brooklyn, where the meteorite will be hoisted from her hold at the navy yard.
 Bird McClendon, colored boy, IA years old, of Allapaha, Ga, killed his half-brother. Neal Shipman, cutting his throat while he slept. The crime was committed in revenge because Shipman had forbidden the boy to attend we'd ding.
 The banking firm of Emerson McMil- lin & Co. of New York has just signed contracts for the purchase of over three-fourths of the stock and bonds of the Detroit Gas company, and an or ganization will be perfected with cap- ital of $5,ooo,00o.
 Tuesday. Sept. 2s.
 The British forces razed the village and towers of rebel tribesmen on the Afghan frontier.
 President Barrios of Guatemala has placed price of S100,Ooo on the heads of Morales, the revolutionary leader, and Fuentes, his aid.
 Edward s. Stokes has sold his inter- est in the Hoffman House, New York, to a syndicate, of which Graham Polly of Brooklyn Is president, and will retire from the hotel business.
 An official statement issued from the palace in Havana accuses the Cuban insurgents of atrocious cruelties at the taking of Victoria de las Tunas.
 Professor s. F. Delasco, a Brooklyn linguist, appealed to the police to help him find his wife and 2-year-old child, missing from their home, 283 Schermer- horn street.
 Judge J. S. Williams of Kansas is- sued a perpetual injunction to restrain Webb McNall, the state insurance su- perintendent, from interfering with a New York life insurance company.
 William Charles, business manager for Adolph L. Luetgert. on trial in Chi cago for murder, testified that the potash which the state contends was used in destroying Mrs. Luetgert's body was purchased for making soap.
 The deep waterways commission re- ported that the route for the proposed ship canal from the Great Lakes to the ocean would be identical with a plan formulated by the New York state en- gineer's department, the estimated cost of which Is over $82,000,00
 Wednesday. Sept. go.
 Oscar Michaels, a prominent citizen of Camden, N. J., committed suicide.
 The Mussulman notables in Crete have sent a petition for relief to the em- bassadors at Constantinople.
 Chandler Hale, son of Senator Hale, was married to Miss Rachael B. Cam eron, daughter of ex-Senator Cameron. at Harrisburg.
 It was announced in Paris that M. Jules Cambon, governor general of AL geria, will succeed M. J. Patenotre as French ambassador in Washington.
 Miss Trase V. Mainz of Providence has begun suit against B. B. Lederer. a wealthy manufacturing jeweler, for S50,000 for breach of promise to marry.
 Cashier Silverberg of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York has been arrested in Copenhagen on the charge of embedding 44,0O0 crowns and falsifying his account.
 Russia's commissioner to attend the Boring sea conference, M. Pierre Bot Kline, says he has not received any noti- fication of the Marquis of Salisbury,s