Connecticut western news., 1897-02-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Jan. as.


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 James Howell. president of the trus. tees of the Brooklyn bridge and former mayor of Brooklyn, died in that city after a long Illness. Flags on Brooklyn municipal buildings and on the bridge were hung at half mast
 E. Reynolds Of Chicago captured the quarter mile championship of the Ma tional Amateur Skating association on Silver lake. Staten Island. l., A. Thomas of Newburg. N. r.. won the five mile championship race.
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 George D. Phillips won the national amateur figure skating championship at the St. Nicholas skating rink, New York
 Count Iuraviefr. the Russian foreign minister, arrived In Paris and was re- ceiNed with high honors by the presi- dent
 Thomas King of Saugerties. N. Y.. Is under arrest at Kingston. charged with killing Captain Muliigsn at Sauserties Nov. 2o, 1896.
 Mrs. Anna Allen, tho richest woman In St. Louis. died at Pi'tsfeld. Mass. She Is supposed to have left si0. .0oo, ,ooo but no will. There are sa heirs.
 Engineer Gaffney was killed and sis persons injured by a collision on the Brooklyn Union Elevated railroad. in which an engine and car were thrown to the street.
 In fit of jealous rage Morris Jack son of Little Falls. N Y., shot Fred Mcintosh and Miss Ella Ausman while they were sitting at the dinner table in their boarding house. He then turn ed the revolver on himself and at tempted to commit suicide.
 Saturday. Jan. 30.
 The Oklahoma legislature passed bills abolishing the militia and prohibiting gold contracts in the territory.
 Thomas Jackson, a colored burglar was sentenced by Judge Ewing in Chi cago to five terms of 20 years each, making his full term an even century. Charitable ladies In Camden. N. J., who had given money to a supposed widow with which to bury her hus- band, were surprised to discover the corpse" sitting up and counting the money they had given.
 A cable dispatch from St Petersburg says that anxiety Is felt there concern. ing the movements of 70 English war
 
 there is much resentment in Russia In regard to the recent attacks on Russia in the French press.
 The semicentenniai celebration of the New York Academy of Medicine wns held in Carnegie hall. President Cleve- land made an address. as did a number of prominent physicians. Mir. Cleveland spoke of the duties of doctors as oiti- zens, and also of the importance of physicians seeing to it that sound laws for the welfare of the people are err acted
 Monday. Fob. 1.
 George Hay. the eleventh earl of Kim noul died in London.
 Sir George Otto Trevelyan. the Lib- eral leader. has resigned his seat in parliament. owing to ill health.
 It is said that Germany has joined England. Austria and Italy In the nol- icy of coercion of the porte unless promised Turkish reforms are carried out.
 Andrew Fagin. colored, leader of the gang that wrecked the Washington ex- press near Birmingham. Ala, on Dec. g, was convicted at Birmingham.
 Thomas H. Stout. who in 1891 com mitted forgeries amounting to from sl6. 900 to t22. 900 while bookkeeper for Jones. Kenneth & Hopkins, in New York. has been arrested in Cincinnati. Judge Nathan Gofr's reported refusal of the attorney generalship in the Me- Kinley cabinet is explained by the as- sertion that Judge Con is pledged to support James A. Gary of Maryland as the representative of the south.
 Tuesday. Feb. g.
 Sims Reeves. the London singer, has been declared bankrupt.
 Two more Cubans were shot in Ca banas fortress, Havana, for the ''crime Of rebellion"
 Attorney General Harmon instructed the United States attorney at Jack sonville. Fla, to proceed against the all legged flibustering steamer Three Friends for piracy.
 In the byelectlon In Forfarshire. Scot land. Captain John Sinclair. the Lib- eral candidate. was elected to parlia- ment by an increased majority over the vote of his predecessor.
 Mrs. Louisa woerner of Kingston. N. Y. crazed hy grief on account Of her husbands death, tried to commit sui- eide for the fifth time and for the sec ond time tried to kill one of her chll- dren.
 Charles c. Dawes of Illinois an- nounced his acceptance of the position of comptroller of the currency under President Elect Mckinley. His term of office will begin In 1898, when that of James H. Eckels expires.
 Wednesday, Feb. s.
 Baron de Soubeyran, French scientist died in Paris.
 Infanta Mario Louise Fcrdinnnde, Duch- ess of Montrensier, died in Madrid
 The university In Rome was closed. ow- ing to the riotous conduct of the students The Six Companies, the powerful Chi. nese organization, went out of existence in san Francisco on the Chinese New Year.
 The fifteenth annual charity hall was held at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Dr. Chaunccy NJ. Depcw led the grand march.
 It was n,ported in Louisville that Gov ernor Bradley of Kentucky had decided to appoint Major A. T, Wood United States senator to succeed Blackburn.
 Miss Emma Hendrick, ls ycvrs old, was attacked in the stleet at New Rochelle, N. Y.robbed of money and rockethook and thrown violently against n stone wall
 A freight elevator In the new building of the New York Life Insurance company fell from the seventh floor to the cellar Six men went down with the elevator, but none of them was seriously hurt.
 Suits have been brought in New York against |. Townsend Burden by Jean Lu- cicn Boyle for the sl0,0o0 reward offered for the lost jewels and by Mrs Edla Junk for SEQ, GOO damages for false imprlson- ment .-.....-
 The W. c. '. U. Convention.
 BosroS, Feb. a-The interesting and important announcement of tho dates for i the great conventions of Women's Chris. tian Temperance unions has been received in this city. The Dominion convention will hc held at Toronto on Oct % Ca ga, the concluding session being In the naturc of a mass meeting, st which Miss Willard and Lady Henry Somerset have promised to speak. Ire worlds convention will i'm. mediately follow at the same place, opon ! eNgl