Connecticut western news., 1897-12-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Dec. 23.


 Four Chicago men were frozen to death while on hunting trip in Ar kansas. and other similar fatalities are thought to have taken place.
 Dr. Noah Fields Drake. a graduate of Stanford university. has been appoint ed professor O. mining engineering and geology at Tientsin university, China.
 The loss of cattle In the western and northwestern portions of the state of Texas in consequence of the snowutorm there will be unprecedented. it is said.
 The poor box which was in the church at Delftshaven. Holland, when the pill grims worshiped there was presented to the New England society Of Phila- delphia-
 Friday. Dec. 24.
 President Mckinley pardoned William F. Burr. Jr., the St. Louis banker who on Jan. 27 last was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for embezzle- ment.
 A father and son living in Jersey City were arrested for stealing Si. 500 in silk patterns belongir to New York merchants. The father is an old of- fender.
 Stephen Shellen, who murdered hIs sister's sweetheart In Dubois. Pa, wounded three men and did not sur render until he was himself fatally wounded.
 The Illinois supreme court has affirm ed the annulment of the Orchardson- Merrick marriage. which was contract ed at a Spiritualist seance through the instrumentality of Mime. Dis de Bar
 Damage to the amount of s50o. 900 was caused by fire in the business center of Cleveland. The Power building was al- most completely destroyed and the Wilt shire and Blackstone buildings dam aged. .-. Mrs. Knud Knudson of Norway was granted 5000 pension. Her husband was killed in the civil war. but she had never been in the United States. Her claim was not brought until 30 years after her husbands death. Saturday. Dec. 95.
 President Mckinley through secre- tary sherman, issued an appeal to Americans to aid sufferers in Cuba. A suit has been brought against the railroads. alleging conspiracy and ask ing for damages of s65s. .46l.
 The interstate commerce commission issued an order extending for two years the time within which railroads are re- qulred to equip their cars with safety appliances.
 James Clements, from the Klondike. l celebrated his rise to affiuence with | Christmas tree trimmed with 370.0o0 worth of nuggets and coin, at the Hotel Lafayette, in New York Two men were killed, three were in- jured and great damage to property was done by the explosion of IS gas cylinders in the works of the United States Acetylene company in Jersey | City. The dead are Max Grimm and | Theodore Taller.
 Monday, Dec. as. Giovanni Turini, a New York sculp- tor has completed a statue of Liberty for the Venezuelan government. There are fully dozen candidates and dark horses for the Maryland sen. atorship. Governor Lowndes appears to be in the lead.
 The Salvation Army has abandoned its Prison Gate home. for the reforma. | tion of ex-convicts. in Contra Costa county. Cal
 The pilot boat Somers N. Smith. which is at Mobile. is suspected of being en- gagged in hlibustering, and Is being watched by government officers.
 The Rev. Morris Carroll has present
  | in Brooklyn, n s10.0O0 group of moving bisque figures. representing the birth | of Christ in the manager In the fire which destroyed the house i of Mrs. Adelaide A. Sherlock. at Union- dale. on Long Island. Meadow Brook | huntsmen saved many valuable paint. ings. Property valued at s2O. 900 was de. stroyed.
 It was announced that Charles A. Ball of Alleghany county has with drawn as a candidate for clerk of the | New York state senate. and James s. whipple of Cattaraugus county will be elected to succeed John s. Kenyon. Tuesday, Dee. 2s.
 Kurdish raiders have massacred 800 people of Persian Christian town.
 The Stoneali house at Maplewood. N. | J., which was built 10 years before the Revolution. was destroyed by fire. General Ruiz Rivera, the captured l Cuban leader. arrived in Spain and | will be imprisoned indefinitely In for | tress.
 The governor of the Cameroons rec ports that the Germans have defeated | the Mboulies tribe Of natives and oc- | cupled their capital. The suit of the state against the Ar mour company of Chicago to recover penalties amounting to S1. 700. GOO for sell ing oleomargarine is likely 10 be set- tied.
 Francis II. Loomls. United states minister to Venezuela. arrived In New York on his way to Washington to con. fer with the state department about rec. | iproelty and extradition treaties be. tween this country and Venezuela. | Wednesday. Dec. 9a.
 Comptroller Eckles approved the plan
 for settling the affairs of the failed | Chestnut Stree; National bank of Phil adelphia.
 Six sailors lost their lives on the Brit Ish ship Vanloo owing to the fall of a | spar while on a voyage from Cardiff to St. John. N. B,
 The Orange Free State has ratified an extradltion treaty with the United | States, and the document has been re- | turned to Washington. | Frederick welsen. a Denver million | aire returned to St. Louis 10 wed the daughter of the man who nearly 70 | years ago befrlended him. | Judge Garrison. in Camden. N. l., | fixed Jan. as the date for the trial of Ell Shaw. charged with killing his mother and grandmother. to begin.
 Martin Julian. manager of Robert | Fitzsimmons. the champion pugilist, announced that the latter had recon sidered his determination to retire and would meet Corbett and Mccoy under certain conditions.
 The will of Charles 1T. Contolt. filed with the surrogate in New York shows him to have been the last of his family so far as known. His property win go
 mainly to 19 charitable organizations. It Is estimated to be wotth over fl,e00 o0o-
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