Connecticut western news., 1897-07-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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state convention of lowa's gold stand ard Democrats advising them to stand firm.
 Lieutenant Governor Woodruff said that he would acquit Superintendent Easton of wrongdoing in connection with the New York state capitol.
 Five hundred persons were poisoned at picnic at Wappingers Falls. N. Y., by eating corn that hG h been boiled in copper kettle. Many of them are seriously i'll, but the physicians believe that there will be few if any fatalities
 Friday. July 9.
 Fourteen people were killed In the cyclones and cloudbursts in the vicinity of Duluth. Great damage was done to crops and railroad property.
 Senator Isham G. Harris of Tennes- see died at his home in Washington, aged @ years. He had been continu- ously a senator% for 20 years. and his career in public life covered nearly half century.
 The dock warehouse of the Chicago and Alton Railroad company at Chi- cago has been burned. Besides the warehouse about 40 loaded freight cars were consumed. The loss is estimated at S200. 900 to $25oo
 
 deavorers in San Francisco began with two mammoth meetings. At the Me chanics' pavilion there were 10000 peo- pie. The crowd was almost as large at Woodward's pavilion.
 Fire broke out on the naphtha launch Rambler. lying In Gravesend bay, at Bath Beach. and the boat was com pletely destroyed. Three men aboard of her were severely burned. The flremen were compelled to go out in boats with chemical extinguishers, but their efforts were unavailinR.
 Saturday, July 10. Thomas II. Merritt was shot dead in Lexington, Ky, by Jacob F. Harris while with the latter's wife.
 President Mckinley, Vice President Hobart Secretary AlRer and Private Secretary Porter and their families will summer at Lake Champlain. The Bradley Martins of New York are reported to have taken the London mansion Barney Barnato was erecting at a fabulous cost at the time of his suicide.
 one of a gang of workmen digging in Lexington, Ky, struck what appeared to be a piece of pipe with his pick. It proved to be a 64 pound dynamite car
  five of the six negroes at work. Rev. Dr. Samuel Bryan Halliday, pastor of the Beecher. Memorial church in Brooklyn and formerly assistant to the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in Plym- outh church. died at Orange, N. J., where he was spending the summer. Monday, July 12. Mrs. Gress of Atlanta stopped a train as 1t was leaving Jersey City and caused the arrest of her stepson on a charge of abductinR her 10-year-old daughter, | who had been placed in his charge bs their father
 Agnes Judson, the pretty young daughter of the lighthouse keeper a. | Stratford Point, on Long Island sound swam out half mile and rescued two men who had been upset in their row boat and were drowning. Holder Alonzo TrIpp, a farmer of | Westport, Mass, died in the highway near Fall River, from injuries Inflicted the Fall River police believe, by Jercs miah Manchester. Manchester a shori time ago married a woman who hat been Tripp's housckeeper, and there wa l i'll feeling between the men on that ar- | count.
 Word was received in Brooklyn that l | prayer of Miss Mary Carter and par. doned her father, E. R. Carter, impris. oned for embezzlement from the Ma. tlonal Bank of Commerce. Miss Carte, had worked unceasingly for the releas, of her father ever since the term Of i'm. | prisonment began in 1895. Tuesday, July IS. George Van Ness Lothrop. formerly | I,.la Ns \ n | Tn Detroit.
 Governor Black disapproved of Mayor \ Strong's action in removing Police Commissioner Andrew D. Parker Of | New York city.
 It was announced that college for | Catholic women is to be established in Washington under the auspices Of the | Catholic university. Four carrier pigeons. labeled North | Pole Expedition" exhausted and bear ] ing no message. alighted on steam ship crossing the North sea. They are believed to have been sent out by the Andree expedition. Corporal J. J. Mcdonald of company | A, Twenty-second regiment, New York, was instantly killed by lightning while seated in the Y. NJ. C. A. tent at the | New York state camp of instruction at | PeekskilL Several other guardsmen were severely shocked, but not fatally | injured.
 Mrs. Pauline Richter, teacher who had recently returned to this country | from Japan, took csrbolic acid in Cen i tral park, New York, and was sent Co the Presbyterian hospital where she died Papers found on her showed that she had been m at Saigon, Japan, and was practically pennilcss when she re- turned here.
 "Wednesday, July "a. Decker. Howell & Co. brokers on Wall street. New York, made an assignment, the cause being that they were short of Sugar trust stock.
 At a fire in Jersey City a man went insane his two children were suffocated, l and six persons were injured by jump 1 ing from windows.
 Walter R. wellbroolt of Brooklyn, who , received nine fractures in the Merriclt road tallyho disaster. has sued the Long Island Railroad company for sl00.000 damages.
 E.. F. Wilbur resigned the presidency of the Lehigh Valley Railroad company, and Alfred Walter was elected his suc- eessor. Two other directors were also elected by the J. pierpont Morgan inter | ests.
 The parliamentary South African commission, which has been in session in ' London. in its report blamed Cecil ! Rhodes for the Tranvaal raid and held , Director Belt of the Chartered com pauy equally responsible. The national convention of the Re- publican league was opened in Detroit. Addresses of welcome were delivered by Governor pingree on behalf of the state of Michigan and Colonel Dutiield on be- I half of the city Of Detr3It. l Iunrnna.h II. Gnr,ItnI sInru-