Connecticut western news., 1897-03-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Feh. 25.

and he complains of treatment he re- ceived from central office detectives.
 Destructive floods ragged in the val leys of the Ohio. Alleghany and Mo-
 nongahela and tributary streams. do- | Ing great damage, particularly at Pitts
 burg, Alleghany City and Cincinnati | Nineteen people are reported to have
 been drowned, and the property loss is
 roughly estimated at q. .000. .ooo Delegates representing gold standard | organizations from IS states met at the chamber of commerce.. New York, and | formed an organization to be known
 as the National NonpartIsan Sound | Money league. Constitution and by i laws were adopted after debates that | proved the intention of the league to | light the free silver idea. | Friday. Feb. aG. Edwin Gould's match factory at Pas saic. N. l.. was set on fire. and a dis
 charged employee is suspected of be-
 ing the ineendiary. The disabled German tank steamer Diamant, which was thought to have
 been lost, was towed into Halifax by
 the steamer British Empire.
 Thomas King of saugerties, N. r..
 has been indicted for the murder of Captain Mulligan, which occurred at | lHdl pidGS Sonlc dSO. fNluk lH uU- | der arrest
 It was announced In New York that
 banquet will be given by the Reform
 club in the latter part of April to com | memorate MT. Clevelands eighth year
 of service as chief executive of the na-
 tion.
 A Spanlard whom Senor Jose c. Acuna, the Spanish vice consul in New | York. had befriended and taken into
 his home stole s2o. 900 worth of jewelry and heirlooms from his house on Mon day night and got away safely. The Reform club of New York passed resolutions strongly indorslnR the iati- | fcation of the arbitration treaty. Ex-
 Secretary Charles s. Fairchild. Edward | Atkinson. R. R. Bowker w. W. Wit | mer, Dr. l.. T. Chamberlain and others took part in the discussion preceding
 the adoption of the resolutions. Saturday. Fob. M. General Russell A. Alger. the next
 secretary of war, arrived in Washing
 ton.
 An Idaho legislator has made aftida- I Wit that he was brlbed to vote for the
 election of Senator Heitfeld. Hi Wang, said to be the first Chi
 nese pauper ever received at the Kings | county slmshouse, has refused the aid of his countrymen. He has no cue
 and therefore does not want to go back | to China.
 William J. Bryan delivered an ad- dress at Carnegie hall. New York, on | Money" He regarded the future of
 the Democratic party as bright. He | believed no permanent prosperity could
 be expected as long as the country re- | mained on a gold basis. Three burglars broke Into the coun- | try house of John D. Rockefeller neat Tarrytown. N. Y. The butler pursued | them with revolver and shotgun and
 saved several thousand dollars worth
 of sllverware which they had packed
 up to carry away. | Monday. March |. Four we'll known men of Shreve. O.,
 have been arrested. charged with being
 members of gang of robbers.
 The Brewers National union warned | all workmen in It's ranks of s threaten
 ed lockout in and about New York on
 April IS.
 Typographical union No. of New York adopted resolutions declaring
 against the adoption by congress or the
 legislature of antiscalpers' bills. Mrs Ray Aldrldge, a variety actress, l AEGNSGu 1naTltH GptnNtf ol uIhNkihk
 and robbing her of sioo in house Tn
 West Twenty-second street. New York | At the request of the Whisky Bot. tiers union the Central Labor union of
 New York resolved to drink only that
 whisky which had been bottled by
 union men.
 Tuesday, March .. One man was killed and others in. | jured at Knoxville in a riot growing | out of the claims of rival street railway
 companies to occupation of the streets Jay Koerner. the murderer of Rose | Alice Redgate, was sentenced to death | by Judge Newburger In New York. The
 execution will occur at Sing Sing in | April
 An avalanche demolished the left wing of the famous St. Bernard monas
 tsry In the Swiss Alps The monks es. capped by tunneling under the snow
 and ice.
 George Kemp. wealthy young club man of New York, Is to be sued by
 Mime. IT. sehmltt-ordody. a rich wom
 an of Budapest, for part of the rent
 of a villa in that city The friends oi Mir. Kemp, who, it is believed. is now | in Russia. are sure there is some mis | take.
 The United States supreme court. 1T
 session at Washington. overruled the
 lower courts decision In the case of tn, | illbustering steamer Three Friends. de.
 elared the neutrality act in play and | directed a continuation of the prosecu.
 tion of the steamer. Justice Harmon
 dissented.
 | Wednesday, March a.
 John D. Rockefeller has given Noun | Holyoke college $40, 900 for n new dorni tory.
 | President Elect Mckinley wrote to tn, Republican Woman's Union lenRue thank
 ing the league for the golden vase recently
 sent to his wife.
 Committees of the Massachusetts legls lature ordered adverse reports on a resolu. | ton appropriating $50, 900 for a statue of Benjamin F. Butler. New England shoe and leather men pro.
 test against the imposition of duties on degras. or wool grease, which Is used in
 making leather and Is now free of duty. The New York court of appeals sustain
 ed the constitutionality of tho Percy Gray | racing bill and the law leRsslatinR the | police justices of New York city out of | office
 The house of Mrs. O. H. F. Belmont. nt | Madison avenue and Seventy second street, | New York, has been purchased for w. ] Bayard Cutting, who paid $500, 900 for the | property and furniture. !. Pierpont Morgan has given m altar. | piece of silver and enamel to tho Metro | politau Museum of Art, New York. Col.
 lis P. Huntington gave . portrait ot | George Washington, painted by psale | Princeton Hazers Suspended. | PRINCETON, x. l., March 3. - The | Princeton university faculty are metina | out severe punishment to tho soph | ....,.r. h.,u.,rr uh,.,n rnt,hnt,,nrns hn,,.