Connecticut western news., 1897-09-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Sept. g.

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 A rowboat containing adults. a child and dog capsized in the Harlem river, New York. The dog seized the sinking rhild by the dress and, holding her up, swan ashore with her.
 Ernest Mas of Brooklyn is suing a glucose manufacturing company lately absorbed by the Sugar trust. He seeks to recover pay for a discovery which, he says, will enable the company to add to its millions of profits by refining corn oil
 Dr. Justo Garcia, son of the Cuban patriot and fighter, General Calixto Garcia, arrived In New York after os- caping from Spanish penal settlement near Algeria. He was arrested in Spain solely because, he says, of his fathers brave record.
 Friday, Sept. 3.
 Prince Louis of Savoy, who recently ascended Mount St. Elias, arrived in New York.
 General IgnacIo Andrade. the Liberal candidate, was elected president of Venezuela.
 John D. Rockefeller has given the Baptist Missionary societies s250.0 900 to pay their debts.
 Colonel George Bliss. prominent New York lawyer and Republican. died at Wakefield, R. I.
 President Mckinley attended re- union of the survivors of his old regi- ment at Fremont, O.
 Postmaster General Gary Issued an order establishing a mall service to the Klondike gold region.
 Senator Joseph Mullln of watertown. Na1 Ia, t.l sh University club In New York.
 George P. Irving. an aeronaut. fell POO feet at Reading. Pa, but saved his life by his presence of mind in keeping his feet under him.
 A south bound vestibule train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad ran off the track near Cortland, N. Y. One person was killed. and l5 were injured. Saturday, Sept. |. It was announced that Rifaat pasha Is to succeed Mustapha Bey as Turkish minister at Washington.
 The receivers of the Massachusetts Benefit Life association were ordered by the court in Boston to wind up tn. affairs of the concern. In the pacing race between Star Pointer and Joe Patchen at Hartford, Star Pointer won in two straight heats, the best time being 2:03A. A company has been incorporated in New York with a capital of s75, ,000, GOO to construct a ship canal through Flor ida, connecting ocean and gulf A passenger train and a freight train met In a head on collision at Floral Park, on the Long Island railroad and five persons were injured, none fatally.
 Monday, Sept. c.
 Queen Margherita of Italy was ap- pointed chief of the Eleventh battalion of chasseurs by Emperor William. Eight armed negroes held up a freight train on the Pennsylvania railroad near Metuchen, N. J.. facing the crew with revolvers and robbing two men. In rear end collision In Fort Lee, N J.. nearly all the passengers in two troll ley cars were more or less injured. and a motorman, taken from the wreck un- conscious, may not recover. England and France will import the American bronco for cavalry service | Cowboys rode two of these horses as a test from sherman. Wy, to Chicago 2,500 miles, at an average of 45 miles a day.
 The opening of the Christian alli- ance convention on South mountain, near Nyack. N. r., attracted large crowds, to whom Rev. pr. simpson de- clared the end of the world was near at hand.
 Tuesday, Sept. '. The court martial at Barcelona, Spain. sentenced Barril, the anarchist, to ie years imprisonment. President Mckinley left Canton for I A. t.. sf.Is k Ia brother, Abner Mckinley.
 It Is reported that Herr Krupp's of- fer of f25.000 for Dr. Peters next expe- dition to Africa has been withdrawn. William F. Cochran formally present. ed fully equipped six-story clubhouse to the workingmen of Yonkers, N. Y. It was estimated by The Mark Lane | Express that the deficiency in the worlds wheat supply would be lAcOO,- 900 quarters.
 | pup which he attempted to carry away | from the kennels of J. Pierpont Nor gan. near Highland Falls, N. Y. Residents of Herber. Ark, and South | port. N. C., threaten to take Into their own hands the work of driving out two peculiar bands of religious fanatics. who are growing in influence in those places. | Fred J. Titus of the Riverside Wheel men, New York. won the final heat in the Quill clubs two mile handicap race at Manhattan Beach, defeating Eddie Bald among others. The prize was si,oOo in gold.
 Wednesday, Sept. &.
 The Marquis de Rochambeau died at the Chateau Rochambeau, In France.
 The United States team was beaten at cricket by the Canadian team in To- ronto.
 A floral fete. consisting of a parade. a battle of flowers and a ball. was held in Saratoga.
 Two women. caught by a train on a railway trestle near Newport, N. T., Sunday, saved their lives by leaping to the ground, 20 feet below.
 Grover Cleveland told the tax assess ors of Princeton. N. J., that he owned s20 900 worth of real estate and ti30 900 worth of personal property.
 Richard Croker arrived in New York from Europe. He said he had express ed no preference as to Tammany's can- didate for mayor and declined to dis cuss his own candidacy.
 Lord Salisbury's proposal of an inter national commission to control Greek revenues has been accepted by the pow CTS. The acceptance of this proposition will doubtless result in che speedy set- clement of the Greco-Turkish contro- | versy.
 Important evidence against Luetsert was given by two witnesses in the mur- der trial at Chicago. One witness tes- tiied to hearing the screams of a wo- man In the Luetgert sausage factory at the time the murder is alleged to have | occurred.