Connecticut western news., 1897-02-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Feb. II.

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 Pilgrimnges across Russian territory have been forbidden because of the In- dian plague.
 J. k. McCulloch of Winnipeg won the gold medal and the worlds champion ship at the Montreal skating meeting. The Republican members of the ways and means committee decided to fix the tariff on nails at half cent a pound.
 The British Niger expedition has cap tured Bida. capital of the Foulah tribe. One British officer was killed In the as- sault.
 A. l.. Garford of Elyria, O., was elect ed president of the national board of trade of cycle manufacturers at It's meeting in New York
 It Is rumored that Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller have formed an offensive and defensive alliance to control the steel market of the world. John. T. Shayne of Chicago tele- graphed to a friend in Washington that his brother. c. C. Shayne of New York. had been selected by Mir Mckinley for postmaster general.
 Friday. Feh. Ia.
 King Malietoa has offered amnesty to Matafa and the other exiled Samoan chiefs.
 Richard Croker was asked to become Tammany's candidate for mayor of Greater New York.
 The annual meeting of the New York Yacht club was held. J. Pierpont Nor gan was elected commodore
 Two employees of the library of con gress were held for trial in Washing ton. charged with stealing valuable au- tographs from the library.
 Chauncey M. Depew was elected chairman of the board of control of the Joint Traffic association at a meeting held in New York. He succeeds the late President Roberts of the Pennsyl- vania road.
 Saturday. Feb. IS.
 Captain General weyler has given 100000 francs to the Spanish war fund in Cuba.
 Robert NJ. Moore. past grand master of Masons in New Jersey, died at his home in Elizabeth, aged 57.
 The Greater New York commission adopted the new charter after making several minor amendments.
 A wreck occurred on the Virginia Central and Pittsburg railroad In which eight persons were badly injured.
  boat No. 6. wniving the usual formali- ties on account of the vessels fine per- formance.
 Howard c. Benhem. a private bank CT and prominent citizen of Batavia, N. Y, was accused by coroner's jury of poisoning his wife.
 Governor Blacks bill to abolish the capitol commission and complete the building by contract was introduced In the New York state legislature.
 Edwin F. Aller. a well known music al composer and organist of Baltimore, committed suicide at the Hotel Staff ford Laudanum was the means used. Rev. Edward Hunting Rudd. late of the Presbyterian church at Albion, N. r., has been called to the assistant passionate of Dr. Parkhurst's church in New York city.
 Monday. reh- 1H- Notice of 10 per cent reduction has been posted at the works of the Penn sylvania Steel company at Harrisburg. to take effect March l. Consul Iasigi. the sultan's represent | ative in Boston, was arrested In New York on a charge of embezzlement. He was remanded in Jefferson Market court.
 The regents of the university issued a protest against the bill permitting the New York Law school to confer degrees without regard to the regents | standard. The works of the Richard Grant company, dealers in cooperage supplies in Jersey City. have been almost com ] pletely destroyed by fire. entailing a i, loss of S5o. .o00 | s~N TgIa nel Carbo, says the Spanish win not permit Miss Barton to carry on Red | Cross work among the Cubans. even though Minister de Lome says she may go to Cuba.
 Miss Sophonisba Breckinrldge, attor- ney at law, Kentucky's first woman lawyer. filed her first suit in the Fay ette circuit court. She represented Mrs. E. NJ. Swigert, who sues her hus- band. Charles Swigert. for absolute d. | vorce.
 Tuesday. Feb. Ia.
 The new minister from Belgium was received by President Cleveland at tho White House.
 United States Senator wolcott arrived in Berlin and conferred with leading Ger man bimetallists.
 The trial of William I. Koerner for kill. ing his betrothod. Miss Rose Redgato last September was begun before Judge New. burger in New York. President Elect Mckinley was confined to his led by cold and by advice of his | physician declined to sec any visitors. His condition, however, is not regarded as se- | rious.
 Alfred Dolphy, a cook, 46 yoars old, made a murderous onslaught on his wife and her family in New York. He shot his wife twice. and she may die. A crowd was near lynching him on the way to the sta ton.
 A large powder was placed on tho Con. | solidated railroad tracks neur New Haven and securely wedged iu with ties, with the evident purpose of wrecking trnin. It was discovered and removed with difficult ly just before a freight train arrived.
 wedn sday, Feb. IT.
 Mrs. Polly Cloud Graves of Lexington, Ky, celebrated her one hundredth birth. day.
 The battleship Texas arrived in Gnlvol- ton after remarkably fast run from New York.
 Bishop Doane of Albany declared that Mormonism prevails in New York city to an alarming extent,
 Cecil Rhodes testified before tho parli,- mentary commission In London that he did not order tho Jameson raid upon the | Transvaal.
 Alberto Tedeschi, an Italian barber was strangled after a desperate struggle in his shop, at Mulberry street, New York, by men who hoped to get his savings
 Three men attempted to rob Henry Ry- lands and his brother, Thomas H., of n satehel containing s2 900 at Bridgeport, Conn. Two of the highwaymen were shot, one fatally. The other escaped.
 United States marshals forced the door of A. Elllnger tS Co. s cloak factory in Chicago and took possession under an at- tachmept. The factory had been closed under two chattel mortgages, and custo-