Connecticut western news., 1897-03-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thur.,Iar. March II.

Hatteras cove. N. C., and the cruiser Columbia has been sent 10 her relief
 Five persons were killed and two oth- FITS seriously injured by the wrecking Of Louisville and Nashville train near Hazelton. Ind. The accident was eaus- cd by the heavy rains.
 The New York police were asked 10 help find the Rev. Anthony Halst os St, Patriclt's (R. CD church, Long Island City. who mysteriously disappeared and has not been seen or heard from since. General Russell Hastings of Bermu- da, an old friend of President Mcl<in- ley, was injured in an accident at Washington. He was knocked down by a wagon on the street and had q leg | broken. The president. upon hearing | the news, drove to the hospital to call on the general and express his sympa- thy.
 Friday. March 1a. The Rev. nr. simon ]. MePherson of | Chicago was elected a trustee of | Princeton university.
 A bin to legalize the opening of race tracks was introduced in the New Jor- | sey legislature.
 Queen Ranavalona III has been ex- | He'd by the French from Madagascar | to the island of Reunion. The University of Cambridge. in | England, conferred the degree of ILL. | D. upon Ambassador Bayard. Four men threw John Hoppin of Mountain View. N. J., from his wagon and made off with his team. It was announced in Madrid that | General Primo dc Rivera will succeed | General Polavieja as governor of the | Philippine islands.
 IT. Clay Evans of Tennessee was se- lected by President Mckinley for com | missioner of pensions and Perry Heath for first assistant postmaster general. | Saturday. March Ia. Arthur Mayhew was put to death by | electricity at Sing Sing prison for the murder of stephen Powell in Hemp | stead. N. Y. on March [. 1896 with declarations of innocence on his lips. Frederick WIlroth of Jersey City, ar- rested for embezzlement. shot himself | in the head on the ferryboat Fulton ! while on his way to Brooklyn In cus- | tody of detective. The wound was | not fatal.
 Elliott Samuel c. Newton, a son of a wealthy English shipowner and hus- | band of Katherine Lucille Foote, an actress, committed suicide In the Hotel | Warwick, New York, because he was | without funds and Respondent. It was announced that committee | of the Grand Army appointed at St. | Paul last year will report that none of | the histories used in the public schools | properly treats the civil war and events | connected herewith.
 The Rev. E. J. Oldknow Millington, the mysteriously missing pastor of the Fairmount Baptist church of Newark, | N. J.. has confessed that he went to Montreal with Mrs. Dorothy Dickerson, l one of his parlshioners, and now begs | forgiveness.
 Ex-Governor Merriam of Minnesota decided to withdraw his name from the list of candidates for diplomatic | positions. His appointment as embas- sador to Germany was opposed by Senator Davis. it is said, as the result | of an enmity existing between the wives Of the senator and the ex-gov- | ernor.
 l Monday, March I5. Special advices from Havana state | that the news of the Spanish reverses in the Philippine islands has cast . gloom over official circles fin Cuba.
 The Rev. John l.. Scudder, In the Jer. sey City Congregational tabernacle sexerely criticised the New Jersey leg. isfature for its failure to correct tho taxation evils of Jersey City.
 The interstate commerce commission decided that the milk rates of the rail. roads entering New York city are un- l just and unreasonable. An order was entered reducing the rates.
 The expense of maintaining the New York state capitol has increased great. ly in the past two years, and there is talk of appointing an Investigating committee to inquire into the causes. tl Two little children were locked up al night in the Kingsbrldge police station ! in New York city, on a charge of steal l ing two oranges At the hearing nc 1 prosecutor appeared and Magistrate Mott sent them home with policeman
 Tuesday. March 1o.
 The old whalere of Amagansett, or l Long Island, sighted and captured q whale, the second within a month. The Boston Rubber Shoe company and the Rubber trust announced a cut In | their price lists of from l2 10 10 per cent.
 An entire family perlshed as n result of the flood at Marion, Ark, and 1t Is feared that other casualties will be re. ported.
 NJ. c. Cope. ex-president of the First | National bank of Pnducah, ky, has dis. appeared, and it Is charged that he Is a | forger.
 Frank Sheldon of Brutus. N. Y., was found guilty of the murder of his wife Eva Sheldon, and sentenced to be cleo. trocuted In Auburn prison the week be- ginning April g..
 | Dr. Castillo and General Roloff, allcg- cd Cuban ilibusters, failed to appear in | tI,a f.I fn and their bail S6, 000-was forfeited
 They are said to be on their way to Cuba with an expedition.
 Wednesday. March IT.
 Ella Burden, St Louis heiress, II vn"rs "'a 's 'nissing, and 1t Is thought sht w;:s kidnapped.
 Mucn ua nage has been caused by lood' in the lower Mississippi valley. Several lives are reported to baye been lost.
 Tip, the man killing elephant of the
 Barnum circus, was stranglod at Bridge port Com. He refused to take poison, and the keepers feared 10 shoot him.
 Fred Titus. the bicycle rider, has at last been renstated and, it Is said, will re. sume racing. The success of his efforts for reinstatement is credited to President Pot ter of the League of American Whcelmen.
 R. C. Leonard made new record at fly casting at the Sportsmen's show in Now
 York With an overhead cnst he put tho fly no feot 3 % inches. F. Cooper Hewitt, won first prize with a switch cast of l0t feet 5 la inches
 It was reported in Havana that Cuban insurgents had blown up with dynamite a Spanish troop train In Pinar del Rio, kill Ing and injurlnR oa0 soldiers. Three hun drod prisoners were reported captured, the privat,s heinR subsequently released, but the cers were held as hostages for sap
 two insurgents