Connecticut western news., 1897-04-29
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Thursfaay April 02.

S Thursdsy. April ga. The New York state senate adopted l c resolution ordering an investigation
 of the administration of Frederick c. .Easton. superintendent of public build ings.
 Colonel John Hay, American embas- Bador to Great Britain, arrived in Lon- don. He was received with formal cere- mony by the municipal authorities at Southampton.
 Frederick Enringhaus was arrested
 on arrival in New York from Prussia for heavy forgeries in Germany. He Is said to have forged drafts amounting to ]. .000. 900 marks.
 Flood area statistics have been com piled by the treasury department show ing that since the 10th instant lands worth 5000. 900 have been submerged. on which last year s4,500, 900 worth of produce was raised. The value of ag- ricultural property in the entire sub- merged region Is placed at sso, ,176,177. Friday, April a3. President Mckinley nominated liar old M. Sewall Of Maine to be minister to Hawaii.
 The Spanish military and naval forces In Cuba are attempting to recapture the port of Banes from the insurgents. A memorial from the Federation of Labor asking for legislation to relieve the distress among workingmen was presented to the president. George Lamorree and his wife of Poughkeepsie. N. r, who are more than 70 years old, were robbed and tied for the third time in six months. Representative William s. Holman of Indiana, died in Washington. From the close watch he kept upon the finan- cial affairs of the country he was known as "The Watchdog of the Treasury" and The Great Objector." Saturday. April a4. It was announced in Washington that Bellamy Storer will be appointed min- ister to Belgium.
 Fire near Binghamton, x. Y., de- stroyed property whose estimated value was S250, GOO. The insurance is estimated at SSO, 900.
 The demonstration of the British fleet in Delagoa bay is said to have been made to frustrate designs of Germany. Portugal and the Transvaal. Samuel Scoville of Stamford. Conn, grandson of the late Henry Ward Beecher, was shot by a burglar while he was lying in bed He was not dan- gerously wounded. New York liquor dealers have discov- cred that the Raines amendments give the state excise commissioner power to | try them for alleged offenses before ju- ries anywhere in the state. Joseph Andrew Iasigi, Turkish consul to the port of Boston, was arraigned there. charged with embedding s135. 900 ov,I Charles A. A. de la ViHadaire. He plead ed not guilty and was held in s25.000 Monday, April %. Negroes have been driven from their homes in Indian Territory by threats | of regulators.
 Germany Is seeking an alliance with France and Russia against the African | policy of Great Britain. The czar has conferred a decoration upon M. Kotzebue, the Russian min lster to the United States. A patent leather combination Is in process of formation in Newark. N. J.. the object being to control the entire business in this country. NJ. Clemenceau and the Prince de Caraman Chimay fought duel in Paris. each receiving slight injuries. | | missing mill treasurer of New Bedford. Mass, believe he did not commit sui- l eide but Is alive.
 Edward S. Farrow, a former army | lieutenant. who Is wanted in Pittsburg | for alleged complicity in an attempt to ! defraud insurance companies, was ar rested after leading the detectives a chase of 1.600 miles.
 Tuesday. April 27. Delegates to the International Postal | congress are arriving in Washington. Twenty-Five thousand insurgents are | still resisting the Spaniards in the | mountains near Manila, on the Philip | pine islands. It is reported at Buenos Ayres that | Brazil and Chile have formed an alli- | ance for the maintenance of peace in ! South America
 An explosion. probably of gas. wreck ed a car on the underground railway in London, and many of the passengers were badly injured.
 The Democrats of the senate finance committee rejected the proposal of the | Republicans to report the Dingley tar | fir bill directly to the senate. Henry A. Cassin, cashier of the | Georgia Savings. Loan and Banking | company of Atlanta, was arrested as a | defaulter, and the company asked for | a receiver.
 Lieutenant Eloff, grandson of Presi- ! dent Kruger of the Transvaal. who was | accused of slandering Queen Victoria, was acquitted on the ground of con- | fiicting evidence.
 Wednesday, April as. | rba oluhho,ra oF ha uar,,po poaf | club, in Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire. with loss of s1O,oOo. The watch | man Is missing.
 A receiver has been appointed for the | Washington Loan and Investment com pany of Atlanta as a result of the | financial crash there. A trolley car ran away In Portland. | Or, and plunged through bridge into | slough 25 feet below. Three of the | passengers were drowned. Lorin A. Thurston, former minister
 from Hawaii. presented to the sena e committee on finance a protest against the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty \ with Hawaii.
 Lieutenant Farrow, who is under ar- rest in Pittsburg for alleged insurance | frauds, declared he would make serious | charges against the Mutual Reserve | Fund Life association of New York. The Pennsylvania ferryboat Wash
 ington smashed the pontoon in the | Cortlandt street slip, New York. and
 her 1000 passengers, thrown into heaps. | greeted the mishap with laughter and | cheers.
 Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Hungary was cordially received by the | cZar at St. Petersburg. and each
 | pledged to the other his friendship and
 support. It was in effect a declaration
 | of a closer alliance of the two powers. 1 Fire at Newport News, Va. destroy
 | sd property valued at g, ,0o0. 900. includ- \ ing two piers belonging to the Chesa- \ Deake and Ohio railroad fhree yesaals