Connecticut western news., 1897-04-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. March n.

 of Aberdeen as governor general Of Canada in 1898.
 An alleged plot against the French general commanding in Madagascar is now given as the cause of the recent exile of Queen Ranaealona to Reunion island.
 Three ships grounded in fog-thc Saginaw and the Emily E. Johnson on the New Jersey coast and the Wan drian near Jones' inlet. Long Island. No lives were lost. and the damage was slight.
 Ex-Mayor William R. Grace caused to be incorporated the Grace institute of New York. which Is to be devoted to benevolent and educational work Mir. Grace win ahundantly endow the institution and, 1t Is said. devote con siderable portion of his fortune 10 It's maintuinance.
 Friday, March 2G.
 A new political party was launched in Lincoln. Neb., to be called Free Sil- v,r Republicans of Nebraska.
 Wallace II. Halsey of onlSers N. Y., is accused by his wife of trying to poi son her with carbotic acid placed in some tonic she took for a cold.
 The pretty daughter of u rich farmer at Derby, Conn, engaged to d young commercial traveller with sn income of sl 200 year, eloped with her fathers farmland whose income is SIP a month. Kate Lyon, an insane old woman living in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. was re- moved to the Hudson River State hos pital March 13. The superintendent of the poor has now found in the hovel she had occupied s24SSs in cash and a handbook calling for S3,13f. Saturday, March e7.
 Yale won in the debate at Cambridge. aaass., in which Harvard was the other participant
 President Mckinley nominated Fcrdi- narAi Eidman for collector of internal revenue of the Third New York district. Senator Piatt was slightly wounded over the left eye in Washington by a hurrying page swinging the door of the senate chamber against him. Dr. A. H. Doty, health officer of the port of New York, made report on his | efforts to find an antitoNine to the bu- bonic plague. The results give encour- agement that an antitodne can be found.
 The Surety Building and Loan asso- citation of Philadelphia, whose stockhold- CTS are well known residents of that 
 benefit of creditors. Charles B. D. Rich l ardson. the solicitor of the association, | IS the assignee. The liabilities are s6b,- ! GOO; assets. S55.00o. Grand Marshal Dodge appointed these | chief marshals for the Grnnt monument | inaugural parade: Major General Mer- i ritt, II. s. A.. first division. military and ' naval forces: Major General Howard. | second division, veteran and patriotic societies of the civil war; Colonel c. F. Homer, third division. civic organlza- tions.
 Monday, March 70. | Secretary of State sherman Is con- nned to his room in Washington with an attack of rheumatism. IT. w. Tobias ended his life wlth lnudanum in Prospect park, Brooklyn. on account of rheumatism.
 A fire has occurred at Portsmouth, | vs.. making 60 families homeless and causing Sl0o,oo0 damages. A Catholic church was among the buildings burn | ed.
 Philip Sexton. a Brooklyn wheolnan, was run down by a surrey driven by unknown men. His skull was fractured and he is expected 10 die at the Nor wegtan hospital
 The tug Alfred F. walcott sank of Seabriuht N. J.. breaking her seaeock valve like the battleship Texas. Her crew was taken to New York.
 A destructive cyclone visited Austin and other towns of Texas. causing great damage 10 property. Many houses were demolished. and one or two persons ale reported killed. With suicidal intent Hinrich JiIntke leaped from the ferryboat New York near the Battery, New York, and was rescued by two of the crew. The man was penniless and Respondent.
 Tuesday, March so.
 Eight lives were lost off Pensacola. Fla, by the laundering of m oyster sloop.
 Thieves stole jewelry valued at st.5oC from an apartment in the Hotel Buck ingham. New York.
 The gunboat Helena showed a speed of i5.S knots in her trial run on Long Island sound and earned a premium of s56, GOO.
 Archie Campbell. the younger son o' a retired British army officer. commit. ted suicide in fit of despondeney fin | New York.
 l Latimer E. Jones, who was extradited from London for forgery, was commit. ted to the Tombs in New York by Judge McMahon in the court of general ses- sions.
 nr. Ricardo Luis convicted of engng. Ing in a Cuban filibustering expedition was sentenced to IS montsls' imprtson' ment and to pay fine of $500 at Balti' more.
 Wednesday, March 3I.
 It Is announced fin Washington thai | Consul General Lee at Havana will b, granted a 60 days lenve of absenc, from April Is.
 Two women and an infant were sui located by a fire in 6i West One Hun dred and Fifth street, New York, ana another woman and boy are miss Ing.
 Isx-L.ieutenant Governor Charles T Saxton and John r. Parxhurst wer, nominated as judges of the New Yorl state court of claims. Mir. Saxton'i nomination was confirmed immedi ately.
 A dynamite explosion at Sootci Plains, N. J., killed William Beidel 1 stetter and mortally wounded Rober Peltz. What remained of the barn o John Cook, where the dynamite wal stored. was destroyed by fire.
 Fire in the east wing of the inssn, asylum on Wards island. New York J did damage to the amount or s50,O0O \ panic among the patients was avert ed, and no lives were lost. No one wa 1 injured, and none of the demented pa ! tents escaped.
 Antonio Christensen, an alleged de { faulter, arrested In New York an, given into the custody of a Michigan sheriff on Monday, was found roamni l leisurely about the Grand Central sta | tion, where. he said, he had seer I the sherirf off,"
 Prisoners Daring Escape.