Connecticut western news., 1897-08-26

 Bankers association held in Detroit Comptroller of the Currency Eel els spoke on commercial banking and the national credit
 A tornado and two watersgeuts did great damage in Queens county. N. Y.. between Springfield and Hampstead, The tornado wrecked number of houses. swept out several ponds, almost emptied Hampstead reservoir and blew cows out of their pasture lots. The wa terspouts on Jamaica bay drowned one man. smashed number of boats and wrecked the Long Island roads trestle at Hollands.
 Friday. Aug. go.
 The annual convention of the Young Peoples societies of the Presbyterian church has begun in Indianapolis.
 James Reilly. tramp. found 60 pounds of nitroglycerin on the tracks of the New York and Long Branch railroad in Morgan N. J.
 The religious leaders of the tribes In revolt in the Swat valley, India. have offered to submit to the British authori- ties on any terms.
 Foster B. Chichester of Jersey City died from strangulation. caused by a carhuncle. which acted as n compress upon his windpipe.
 The question of a treaty between France and the United States under the reciprocity clause of the new tarifr law is under consideration.
 The middle of the road populists of Iowa held a state convention at Des Moines and placed ticket in the field headed by Charles A. Lloyd of Musca- tine county for governor.
 saturdny, Aug. 2I.
 Michael Angiolflo. the assassin of Senor Canovas del Castillo, was put to death by the garrote at Vergara, Spain.
 Pirates boarded an Italian bark off the coast of Marocco, footed the vessel and carried off the captain and two sailors.
 Much excitement marked the rise of wheat to sl bushel in the cities of Minneapolis. Chicago. St. Louis, Baltl- more and Philadelphia.
 Another bomb explosion occurred in a suburb of Constantinople and more Ar- menians have been arrested for com plicity in the outrages.
 Commander Booth Tucker of the Salvation Army has returned from England. and 1t Is believed he brings back with him General Booths approv- al of his colonization scheme.
 James F. Roberts, son of the late Colonel William R. Roberts. formerly minister to Chile. will sue to recover property his father is said 10 have deeded to c. NJ. Siebert and his wife on the allegation that they have used un- due influence. Monday, Aug. 23. The wild man who terrorized Long Ridge, Conn.,, was captured naar Greenwich.
 It was announced that President Mc- Kinley rendered the office of Postmaster of Brooklyn to Congressman Francis II. | Wilson.
 | An anti-Jewish outbreak In Pilsen. Bohemia, was suppressed by the snl- diery. who put the town under military | control.
 Three strikers were shot and badly wounded in a conflict with men working | for the New York and Cleveland Gas | Coal company in a saloon near Pitts burg.
 Advices from Honolulu say that In accordance with their promise to com gress the Hawaiian government re- fused to grant permanent register to the Pacific Mall steamer China. Mrs. George Kuenzli was run down by a bicyclist in West New York and re. | band was also run down at the same place recently and severely injured. The rise in the price of bread has caused serious agitation in French cit- | les. In Marseilles the mayor has an- nounced provisional scale of prices, but an outbreak on the part of the peo- pie is feared.
 Tuesday. Aug. a4,
 The French president was warmly re- | ceived in Russia by the czar and cn. | thusiastleally cheered by the populace. The striking miners at Pittsburg call | ed a meeting of organized labor to take action on the recent shooting affair near | Oak Hill.
 Nisbet beat I.arned. and Eaves beat | Ware in the Newport tennis tourna- ment. and 90 an Englishman will play | wrenn for the American championship Mrs. Angell who sued the Gould es- | tate, claiming to be the widow Of Jay | Gould, is reported to have confessed in a dispatch to George Gould that her claim was false.
 French authorities made formal ap- | pllcatlon to the state department al | Washington for the eNtradition of Gil. laume Ralensi, alias William A, Bell | wood. accused of feecing Max Lebaudy | In Paris.
 All the trolley companies and elevated roads In Brooklyn signed contracts with the trustees of the New York anc | Brooklyn bridge for the passage of thei | cars over tNe structure and work will be begun in ten days. Wednesday, Aug. ss. An attempt was made to wreck a train on the New York and Long | Branch railroad in Perth Amboy. N, l., | by tying a heavy timber to the rails. The Sugar trust has begun to perse- | cute dealers In Dutch sugars, it is said, | and the Dutch government has protest ed to the United States government. The body of Captain Gus smith. oth- erwise Peavy, was found in a Cherry | Hin flat. New York, where it had lain a week. while his common law wife con | tinued to occupy the premises. Colonel Clayton McMichael was nom- mated for city treasurer in Philadelphia by a Republican convention in which | all factions were represented.
 Mrs. otinie Kiraly. the divorced wife of an Austrian lieutenant colonel and once a prominent actress in Vienna. | was found dead In her flat in Brooklyn, having apparently committed suicide after failing to shoot her lover. The eastern central part of New Jer- l sey was deluged hy rain and much | damage done. Streets were inundated, railway tracks washed out, houses and shops flooded and crops destroyed, Boats were used as a means of travel | In, Na of f,t.aHa