Connecticut western news., 1897-10-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Oct. I4.

of 96 to 6, has adopted a bill making accident insurance compulsory in the case of all persons not having inde- pendent means of existence.
 Reports were received in London that an Abyssinian army of 3,0oo men under Ras Mackonnen w9e annihilat- ed by Somalis at the end of June, only 69 men escaping to tell the news.
 The organization of the greatest combination of window glass makers ever formed Tn this country was com pleted at Camden. N. J. Pittsburg was chosen as the general selling agency.
 Friday, Oct. I5.
 Tito Crespo, son of the president of Venezuela, died in Paris.
 Four men were killed in a collision on the Canadian Pacific railroad.
 Thirty race horses belonging to the Marquis of Zetland were sold for 21 .02i guineas.
 It is proposed to carve out of Alaska a new territory, to be called Lincoln with its capital. Weare. on the Yukon river.
 The president appointed ex-senatoi John A. Kasson of Iowa as special com. missioner to negotiate reciprocity Urea. ties with foreign countries.
 Samuel Binders and Henry Conrad who were sent to the Kings county pen itentiary from Westchester. N. Y., foi larceny, made their escape.
 Frank Loretto, aged so years. com mitted suicide by plunging down an air shaft from the fifth floor of a tenement at 20 Roosevelt street, New York.
 Saturday. Oct. 10.
 President Mckinley reviewed the parade of the Washington police and fire departments.
 Henry Gordon. a young mechanic in New York, on account of lack of work offers to sell himself as a slave for $l0C and his board and clothes.
 The British government intimated to Ambassador Hay that 1t would take part in a sealing conference In Wash ington in which Japan and Russia would not participate.
 The warshp Yantic, against which there have been many protests In the Canadian press, sailed from Boston foi Detroit. to be used as the training ship of the Michigan naval reserve.
 Katie Cum, the pretty 17-year-old daughter of Henry Cum, a well to do farmer of Prattsville, Greene county, N. T., was abducted from her home by three negroes, Henry, Frank and Mary Dorr.
 Monday, Got. IS.
 The schooner Alfred A. was wrecked off Marbehead, Mass, and two of the crew were drowned.
 Algernon s. Paddock, who represent ed Nebraska for two terms in the Unit ed States senate, died at his home in Beatrice. Neb.
 The city of Windsor, N s., was al- nl al Haut hx f1ra dering 5000 people homeless. The loss is estimated at s3,000.0 900.
 The coastwise steamer Triton. plying between Havana and other towns on the island of Cuba. was wrecked. and fully 150 persons were drowned, mos, of whom were Spanish soldiers.
 Information was received In Troy. N. r., of the death in Alaska of H. E Tucker, formerly of that place and son of Henry OR. Tucker. editor of tn, Troy Press. Young Tucker died iron exhaustion on the trail to Klondike.
 The Rev. A. R. Simpson of the Chris. tian alliance collected S7S,000 for for eign missions at three meetings In the American theater, in New York. One man contributed his New Jersey farm, another his library and several women their jewelry.
 Tuesday, Oct. 10.
 President Mckinley appointed Frank c. Partridge consul general at TanRier. Marocco.
 Surgeon General Newton l.. Bates of the navy died in Washington. He was President McKinley's family physician.
 William A. Collins of the Brooklyn Bicycle club was arrested at the end Of a century run, charged with stealing a bicycle.
 Sir Edwin Arnold. most widely known as the author of "The Light of Asia" was married in London, the bride being a native of Japan.
 The United States supreme court con hrmed New York states title to many thousand acres of Adirondack land ta- ken under tax sales.
 There are further reports from Lon don to the effect that England will not make favorable reply to the American monetary commissioners.
 Prominent Cuban merchants and planters are said to be arranging a movement to secure annexation to the United States believing that no scheme of autonomy will be satisfactory.
 Frank M. Halnes, IS years old. has disappeared from his home in Brook lyn. and local tradesmen complain that he passed worthless checks on them Miss Ethel Cowell, whom Haines knew, Is also missing.
 Wednesday, Oct. 20.
 The Catholic archbishops of the Unit ed States began their annual meeting in Washington.
 Ex-King Milan of Servin returned to Belgrade for the first tine since his ab- dlcation in 1889, and the cabinet resign ed in consequence.
 Armed men are searching in the Cats kills night and day for the four negroes named Mondore who abducted Kate Cum, 17-year-old girl.
 Captain Lowering has elected to have his treatment of Private Hammond at Fort Sheridan made the subject of court of inquiry rather than to be court martialed.
 The steamboat Favorite, with 300 members of the Evans Outing club of Brooklyn on board, ran ashore or Whitestone Point, N. Y. All on board were saved
 The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse arrived in New York, and a rough passage was reported. The ves- sel beat the St. Pauls best record, bus did not equal her own previous one.
 The New Jersey state board of can vassers declared the antigambllng amendment recently voted upon carried by a majority of SOP and denied n mos tion submitted on behalf of the race track men to send the returns back to the county canvassing boards m the ground that certain ballots had been rejected illegally.
 Threatened to XIII Premier Laurier.
 Ottawa Oct 20 2O-Eerdinand Carriere who says he halls from Rimouski Que, was arrested on Wellington street while firing off revolver and shouting that he was on his way to shoot Premier Laurier because he could not get a gov ernment job. The man was crazed with