Connecticut western news., 1897-07-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, July I.

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 The Rev. Dr. Robert Gibson of Cin- cinnat was elected coadjutor bishop of Virginia by the diocesan council at | Richmond.
 Sixteen sailors were drowned in the | Dardanelles ns the result of collision between the German vessels Rembeck and Berthllde.
 The president appointed John Russell Young of Pennsylvania librarian of congress and Francis L. Loomis of Ohio minister to Venezuela. William Dickson Of Hoboken. v. l.. disregarded a warning and took s-fd of an electric wire to prove that it was Insulated. He met instant death. The pan-Anglican conference opened at Lambeth palace, Londun, with over 200 prelates of the Church of England and allied churches throughout the world in attendance
 Serious wrecks ID which several lives were lost and many persons were inc | Iured occurred to trains filled with | Christian Endeavor delegates on the Northwestern and vandalia railroads. l Two delegates were killed and several | injured.
 Friday. July 3.
 It Is said that peace negotiations be- l tween Greece and Turkey will be com pleted in three weeks.
 w. w. Rockhlll. former assistant sec- retary of state. is said to have been de- cided upon for minister to Greece.
 The grand jubilee review took place at Aldershot, 25, 900 home and colonial troops filing past the queen and a bril- liant throng of royalties and titled per- ! sonages.
 Francis. son of United States Sena- | tor McMipan, was secretly married last November to Miss Lewis of New Ha- ven. and the marriage Is just an- | nounced.
 Constance Mackenzie. whose father. R. shelton Mackenzie, was famous as an author and critic in both England and America, married a negro in Phil- adelphia.
 Miss Lena Blumenshine a New York | Sunday school teacher, has married her l Chinese pupil Ching Lung. The latter changed his name Co Thomas Tome to oblige his bride.
 All the union mills in the AmalRaa mated Association of Iron and Steel Workers closed down owing to the failure of the wage conference, between 7b,00O and S0,000 men becoming Idle.
 Saturday. July 8.
 A. w. Tenny of Brooklyn was nomi- mated for United States judge of the Eastern district of New York
 F. J. Radcliffe. an actor, disappeared from his hotel in Chicago in order to avoid extradltion to New York. He is charged with wife beating.
 Testimony tending to show the com plciiy of The London Timeg in the Transvaal raid was brought g1t at the session of the parliamentary South Af- rican committee in London.
 
 ming. hail. rain and furious wind, swept down from the northwest and wrought serious damage in New Jersey West chester county, N. r., Long Island and neighboring regions Charles Ferdinand IIerve shot and fatally wounded Mrs, Rosina Bureau | Drolet at 271 West One Hundred and Fourteenth street. New York. and then committed suicide. Jealousy was the motive of the double crime.
 Jeremiah o'Sulivan. sentenced to is months in the Salem ttfagsl jail for lbellng a member of the Lawrence common council wns released by par don from Governor wolcott. .it was said by the medical examiner Of the jail that an immediate release was eaHeh- tial for the protection of o'sulliyan'a life.
 Monday. July ..
 A storm caused s2oo,oO damage In and near Duluth
 Many delegates to the conference of the Popuiist party arrived in Nashville. Intense heat continues throughout the west At Akron. O., the heat started A s100. .0o0 fire.
 Fourteen bodies have been recovered from the floods caused by the rising of the river Garonne. France.
 James Murtha of New York unwIt- l<tlngly told a policeman In plain clothes of an assault committed by him on an- other policeman. He Is now In jail
 Cuban women of wealthy ouanaba- eoa families were taken from home at night by Spanish troops. and Havana pays no heed to the plainta of friends trying to find them.
 Tuesday, July q.
 Henry Haag was killed by an express train at Mount Vernon, N Y. after warning excursionists Of danger.
 Hugh ]. sadler. eoxswain of tho 1 Middlestream eight. dropped dead near Boston at the finish of hard race
 The theosophists of New York dedi- cated the Lotus home their new inHti- tuition, established for the care of desti- tute children of the cast side, at Pleas ant Valley, N. J.
 George E. Crockett. Inspector for the American Book company of New York. shot himself In n Coney Island hotel, The bullet went through him, penetrat- ing a lung. and he will die.
 Ellery H. Clark of Boston won the Amateur Atheltie unions all around championship at the New Jersey Attn letic clubs grounds. The New Jersey Athletic clubs men scored most points in the open events.
 Women were allowed an equal share In the government Of the new town of Lincoln, N. J., which has just been-or- ganized. At the caucus man was elected mayor but two of the four members of the common council chosen are women.
 Wednesday, July !.
 President Mckinley returned to Washington from his visit to Canton.
 John Henry Barker, colorcd. was klil- ed in the electric chair at Sing Sing for the murder of his wife on Aug. 90, 1885, at Nigger Hills. settlement near White Plains. N. Y.
 Charles R. skinner New York state superintendent of instruction, delivered an address before the National Bduoa- tionaf Association of the United states In Milwaukee. His subject was The Best Education For the Masses"
 The deposition of Mrs. Susan ]. Fill- more, a witness in behalf of Mrs. Sarah Ann AnRen. who claims dover right in Jay Gould's estate. as having been hts first wife. was filed in the supreme court in New York. Mrs. Fillmore teHtihcd that she met Gould fin 1856 or 1857 on railway train, and that Gould told her he was married and had one child. |
 Another south African Rebellion.
 London July LA dispatch to The Times from Cape Town Says that the native outbreak in Gazaland is assum- ing alarming proportions. The govern or of Mozambique is personally in com- mand Of the column sent to suppress