Connecticut western news., 1897-06-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Thursday, June 10.


 Hawaii, after being greatly modified, have been acceded to by the Hawaiian government.
 William D. Andrews, a negro. was beaten into insensibility at Princess Anne, Md, and hanged by a mob after he had been sentenced to death. The lynching occurred near the courthouse and within the sight of the judge who sentenced him.
 It is asserted in London that strong pressure will be needed to force Turkey to consent to the retrocession of Thes- sally A memorandum submitted to the porte contains the proposal that Turk ish troops shall occupy the frontier mountains and that there shall be modification of the Greek capitulations.
 Friday, June II.
 The cruiser New York sailed from Boston under sealed orders, but Sec retary Long says she is not bound for Cuba.
 Commander J. w. Miller of the First battalion of the New York naval mili- tia has resigned. His successor will be elected on June 15.
 The steamer Windward sailed from London for Franz Josef Land to bring back the members of the Jackson HarmSworth party.
 The Purroy home rule Democracy of New York city declared for fusion against Tammany, with Seth Low as the candidate for mayor.
 Charles Grassi. years old, of Pater- son, N. J., probably fatally wounded his infant brother with a .ffobert rifle that was not supposed to be loaded.
 A dinner was given for the pan-Amer- ican delegates to the recent conference in Philadelphia by New Workers at the Waldorf. They also saw an exhibition of the fire department, attended a luncheon at the Wool Exchange and inspected the Brooklyn bridge.
 Saturday,. June 1a.
 James M. Gordy was hanged in Georgetown, Del, for the murder of his wife.
 Three men blew open the postoffice safe at Collinswood, N. J., got $500 and escaped after shooting policeman.
 Dr. Sanarelli of Montevideo announces that he has discovered the bacillus of yellow fever and calls it '1chteroid."
 William Rockefeller, president of the Standard Oil company, was a witness in damage suit against the Pennsyl- vania railroad. He declined to answer embarrassing questions.
 A British expedition on the Afghan frontier was attacked by hostile na- tives, and several British officers and many of the Indian troops were killed The attack is thought to have been in- stigated by a fanatical Mohammedan priest.
 President Mckinley and members of his cabinet visited the Tennessee cen- tanntQ1 nXnnCitinn NaShUflla were received with great enthusiasm. The president delivered an address, paying high tribute to the city of Nashville and the state of Tennessee and complimenting the exposition man. agers.
 Monday, June IA.
 A tornado caused some damage and the loss of three lives at St. Vincent island of the Windward group.
 It was rumored in Paisley, Scotland, that an American syndicate would build mills ito compete with the thread mo- nopoly.
 Ex-President Grover Cleveland has declined to accept an honorary degree from Harvard, but may accept one from Princeton.
 A little boy at Grassy Plains, N. J., tried to break up a prayer meeting by sneezing. He has been sneezing ever since, and the doctors fear he may die.
 Nellie Howarth, a Salvation lass whose insanity was kept a secret by her family, has been found by Army CO., workers confined in the asylum at Snake Hill, N. J. H. F. Guilmette and w. Morton Smith were drowned by the capsizing of catboat in the Hudson river, off Fort Lee, N. J. Miss Emma Guilmette was rescued in an unconscious condition. Tuesday, June 15. Emanuel Boochi shot and killed Vito | Cenni at 94 Clinton place, Brooklyn. | Bioochi said he had to shoot to prevent 1 the other man from stabbing him to | death.
 The Manhattan Democracy was or- | ganized and put forward Andrew H. | Green, who was chairman of the Great | CT New York charter commission, as It's | candidate for mayor.
 The trial of the Tobacco trust mag | mates was interrupted by an examina- | tion rendered necessary by the publi- | cation of an interview with Juror Bry- | on. who expressed his views on trusts. Lord Fermoy is reported dying in | London. His brother, James Burke | Roche, will succeed to the title, and de- | spite her Delaware divorce, which the husband never recognized, the daughter | of Frank Worth of New York may be- come Lady Fermoy.
 Mrs. J. B. Bond of Newark, N. J., and John Stirling of Latrobe, Pa., returned to this country from Scotland, where | they had gone as claimants of the | Drummond estates of the Earl of Perth l The earrs. grandson, Viscount Forth 1 died in this country in poverty several | years ago. having estranged himself from his family by his marriage. l Wednesday, June 10. pr. George F. Edwards. a graduate of | Princeton, who returned to the univer- sity to die, left the bulk of his fortune l of $150, 900 to the institution. | The heirs of Joseph Richardson, who recently died in New York. under the | inheritance tax law mayrh have to pay | $500 900 into the state treasury.
 The trial of John s. Shriver, New York newspaper correspondent, for re- fusing to testify before the senate sugar Investigating committee was begun al | Washington.
 A committee of prominent New York | business men welt to Washington tC try to prevent the confirmation of Will liam F. Powell, a colored man, as min | ister to Haiti.
 General Miles and Admiral Miller | representatives of the American army and navy at the jubilee, were guests al dinner of Whitelaw Reid, American special envoy to the jubilee.
 The trial of the Tobacco trust direct. ors for conspiracy opened in New York. Joseph Park, the millionaire grocer, told how the trust had forced him to return goods bought of a riva