Connecticut western news., 1898-09-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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 The Ocean hotel at Newport, R. l., was burned Friday.
 Sugar with arsenic In it was sent to a widow in Newark, N. J., Thursday.
 Former Judge Thomas F. Mccormick of Elizabeth. N. J., shot himself dead Tuesday.
 Secretary Gage said in an interview he was not alarmed by the financial situation.
 Robbers bound and gagged a clerk ir Wilkesbarre Tuesday. riled the safe and escaped.
 The government is arranging for the return from Alaska of the mon who need assistance.
 An explosion of gasoline wrecked three buildings and killed several persons Tn Philadelphia Sunday.
 Four persons were killed and many injured by the collapse of railroad bridge in Texas Monday
 Three men were killed by the blowing down of barns la a tornado near To wanda, Pa. Wednesday.
 President Mckinley Is determined to compel Turkey, by force If necessary. to pay the AIlefiCuD ClalNlS.
 Judge Thomas M. Cooley. the wei known constitutional lawyer, died ai Ann Arbor. Mich. Monday.
 Lack of transportation facilities VII prevent the removal of the troops iron the Montauk camp this week.
 One man was killed In a collision OF the elevated tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad In Jersey City Sunday
 The St. Lawrence river gave up six more victims of the Ottawa and New York bridge catastrophe Sunday.
 The American Telephone and Tele- graph company has increased its capi- tai from s20,000,00O 10 s25, 5,o0o.00O.
 Three workmen were burned to death in fire which followed an explosion in vesey street. New York, Thursday.
 w. H. Lawrence of Cleveland. who was shot at Denver on Friday by Flor ence Richardson, died from his wound.
 The will of the late Rowland Hazard, the wealthy Rhode Island wooden man ufacturer, hsqueaths sioo GOO to Brown university.
 District Attorney Marean says he will invoke the law If necessary to shorten the hours of labor of Brooklyn trolley employees.
 Representatives of large American in. dustries were heard by the Canadian American joint high commission in Que bee Thursday.
 It Is said by New York Democratic leaders that the Chicago platform will probably be practically ignored in theu state campaign.
 Now York gold Democrats may place a full state ticket In the field whether the Syracuse convention affirms or ig- nores the Chicago platform.
 Colonel John Hay. ambassador to England, was addressed in laudatory terms by . committee of the Anglo American league Thursday.
 Nat Goodwin. the comedian, while riding near woolwlch, England. Tues day. was thrown from his horse and sustain cd two serious fractures of the leg
 Heirs of George M. Pullman object to the transfer tax upon the property in New York state. declaring that at the time he died he owed more than he own ed here.
 Margaret Woods. the Scotch girl who came to this country to marry Nj. V. Hamilton, a negro. was permitted by the immigration authorities to wed him Tuesday.
 At the opening session of the none tary conference at Omaha Tuesday pa- pers in support of the gold standard were read by Edward Atkinson, Hor- ace White and Louis R. Enrich.
 Louis B. Smith of Elizabeth, N. J.. crazed by love. hid under his former fiancee's bed Sunday night and when discovered wounded her relative. He fled and was killed under train.
 John k. Grant. senior member of the firm of Grant Bros. of Boston, which has the contract for making the air bags to raise the cristobal Colon. was found dead In bed in a hotel Thursday.
 Mir. Overstreet. secretary of the Re- publican congressional committed, says the Maine and Vermont elections show "that nothing is to be feared from the dissatisfaction of the returning sol- diers.'
 A gift representing s1,6o0. 900 has been made to Cornell for the new medical school to be established In New York city by one of the members who retired from the council of the New York uni- verslty.
 Delaware Democrats scored the ad- ministration Tuesday for not seeking to correct admitted evils in our currency system and demanded that war taxes be lessened and the conduct of the war department investigated.
 John T. Williams steam yacht Embia caught fire off Shippan Point, Conn, Wednesday from explosions of gasoline and was scuttled to save her from de- struction. Two of the crew were so badly burned that they may die.
 District Attorney Kenefick and Sher- fir Kilgallon prevented the Lavigne- Erne fight Monday at Buffalo. The sheriff even refused to permit a box Ing exhibition. This action means that the Mccoy-Corbett light will not take place at Buffalo.
 Joseph Chamberlain. Great Brftaln's secretary of state for the colonies, arr rived at New York Wednesday on the Majestic and talked freely on interna- tional questions. Anglo Saxon union and the results of the war between the United States and Spain.
 A destructive storm swept over New York Wednesday blowing down pier in course of erection at Bethuno street, North river. Two workmen were killed and many had narrow escapes from death. In New Jersey great damage was done. and two persons lost their