Connecticut western news., 1897-11-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thur-day, Nov. (


 Damodar Chapekar, a Brahmin advo- cate. accused Of the assassination of plague officials in India, was placed on trial In Poona, Bombay presidency.
 R. c. Lehman. Harvard's boating coach. has arrived from Liverpool. He said that new system of rowing exer- cises would be adopted at the univer- sity.
 President Mckinley attended Found er's day exercises at the Carnegie libra ", in Pittsburg. He expressed himself as we'll pleased with the result of the election.
 A freight on the Kansas City and Birmingham road was ditched at Car bon Hill. Ala. by two men, who had misplaced a bolt with the expectation of wrecking an express train. Three men lost their lives.
 Friday. Nov. 6.
 The newly constructed Buluwayo raii- way. In South Africa, was formally opened.
 The Canadian minister of the interior said that all the Canadian routes to the Klondlke would be opened.
 Harry Tooker, 22 years old and Miss Eva Gildersleeve. 1s years old. elopsd on election night on a tandem from Echo, N. r.. and were married.
 The treasury department has com pleted arrangements 10 prevent a dis turbance of the money market resulting from the sale of the Union Pacific rail- road.
 The Spanish cabinet has under con- sideration the impeachment of General weyler on account of the sentiments expressed by him before sailing from Havana for Spain.
 The contest of the will of Joseph Richardson of spite house fame. who left an estate estimated at sso o00. 900. was begun before Judge Fitzgerald in the surrogate's court. New York.
 Saturday. Nov. c.
 The forest preserve board of New York state bought many thousand acres In Hamilton county for the Adirondack park.
 General Collis. superintendent of pub lie works In New York. mas brought suit for libel against The World, de- manding s2oo, GOO damages.
 Mrs. Ellen Peck. who was convicted of swindling Christopher Gini out of q, POO worth of jeweiry. was sentenced to five years imprisonment.
 Cecile Guimareas. aged IS. pretty and the child of wealthy parents at East Orange, N. J., shot herself dead after q petty quarrel with her father.
 Senator wolcott and General Paine. monetary commissioners 10 European governments. returned from abroad. They declined to be interviewed on the results of their mission.
 Commissioner of Pensions II. Clay Evans has made his first annual report to the secretary of the Interior. II shows that 54.o72 names were added to the roll and 4i.122 lost by death. The disbursements for the year were nearly 3140 000, 900.
 Monday, Nov. &.
 The Brooklyn police arrested 37 Chi- namen In Brooklyn opium joint while smoking and playing fan tan.
 Ghouls violated the grave of Mrs Phoebe Triton. in Millville. N. J., and carried off portions of the body.
 William weidenhammer. organist in a fashionable church of Bridgeport Conn. is sued for alternating the affec. tions of Burton A. Merrill of that city.
 John R. Mclean. the Democratic can. didate for United States senator from Ohio, left Cincinnati for Washington which was regarded as a concession of
 
 The Spanish cabinet council has ap. proved the proposal of political amnes' ty for Cuba and the Philippines. The leaders of the Autonomist party in Gu. ba have accepted the appointments ten. dered them on the nomination of Mar. shal Blanco.
 Tuesday. Nov. 2.
 Secretary of War Alger will ask con. gress for two additional regiments oi artillery to man seacoast defsnses.
 Rear Admiral Alexander Golden Rhind of the United States navy dieo at his home in New York after long Illness.
 Two young men named o'Toole and McGunness fought i5 rounds in ter. sey City for the hand of Miss Crow O'Toole won.
 The lower house of the Georgia legis. lature passed bill making football playing misdemeanor. The bill will probably pass the senate.
 William Nixon of Passaic, N. J., was killed in McCabe's hotel. at Garfield, N J., in an altercation over the steal ing of his bicycle. The murderer es- capped.
 Syracuse admirers of James K. Mo. Guire, recently elected mayor of that town, say that he will be a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomi. nation next year. .......
 At a conference of cabinet officials at the White House 1t was decided to send the revenue cutter Bear to the relief of the whalers who are reported to be ice bound in Boring sea.
 Joseph k. Kelley. the self confessed murderer of Cashier Joseph A. stickney at Somersworth on April IS last, was placed on trial at Dover, N. H. The plea of the defense is insanity.
 Wednesday. Nov. 10. The annual meeting of the National Baseball league was begun in Philadsl- phia. The report of the treasurer showed that last year was remarkably rioh in gifts to Yale university. Count Okuma the foreign minister of Japan, has resigned. and Count Nishi has been appointed to succeed him. War on football was declared by a Chicago alderman, who proposed an or- dlnance forbidding the playing ef the game in that city. Secretary Cages son. who has recent ly come from Dawson, stated that the first steamer from the Klondlke in the spring would probably bring down tl5,- 000 900. Three leading life insurance compa- nIes of New York have decided to raise the price of policies on and after Jan. 1 next, because obliged to invest money at less than per cent for ssfsty's sake. The lord mayors banquet was csls- brated in the Guildhail of London last evening. The Marquis of Salisbury dis- | cussed the foreign relations of Great Britain in responding to a toast, de- clarins that the government was for peace.
 Teacher Beaten to Death. | Sedalia, Mo, Nov. 6.-James Allen, teacher in a school at Wheatland, Hick- ory county, has been beaten to death by his pupils. As punishment for | Mir Allen kent several bows