Connecticut western news., 1898-10-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wide woriS
 Briefly and T~rseIy ToId.

Happening. of the wide woriS
 Briefly and TerseIy TeIa.
 Eli Shaw was acquitted at Camden N. J.. on Saturday of the murder of his mother.
 The International commission held . shert session at Quebec Monday and adjourned to meet at Washington on Nov. 1.
 Edith Easton, a New York actress. killed herself Monday because she could not attain a conspicuous place on the stage.
 William P. Douglass, a Jersey City lawyer and politician. Is believed to have committed suicide by jumping from steamboat.
 geological survey party reported the discovery in Alaska of the highest mountain in North America. over 2o.- 900 feet in altitude.
 Dr. Alexander Conneli of London will probably succeed the late Rev. Dr. John Hall as pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church.
 Chauncey M. Depew delivered a po- ntical speech Monday night at the Ham, ilton clubs Chicago day celebration in the Auditorium theater, Chicago.
 
 respectable citizen In schermerhorn street, Brooklyn. was arrested in New York Sunday as a notorious burglar.
 Daisy Smith. ls years old. was found murdered Monday In a field near her home. at Boiles Run. Snyder county. Pa. Her body was brutally mutilstsd.
 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. the Re- publican candidate for TPernor of New York. has announced thSt he will begin a speaking tour of the state next Mon- day.
 The British oil steamer weehawksn. which cleared from Philadelphia for Venice on Saturday. was destroyed by Are on Cherry island flats, In the Dsla- ware. Monday morning.
 Sidiey l.. Becker. aged s6. a wealthy farmer residing one mile east of Cana sersga, N. T., committed suicide by hanging in barn on his farm. No req son is assigned for his act.
 The house of Mrs. McGair in East Chester, N. Y.. was footed of ss.ooo worth of jeweiry and plate. supposedly by Long Island sound pirates. who aft erward escaped in their boat.
 A declaration signed by 1.Boo bishops and clergy has been prepared for pres entation to the Protestant Episcopal convention to influence legislation against the marriage of divorced per sons during the life of either.
 The representative of a Pittsburs company is negotiating for 90 acres of land on the banks of the Manchester ship canal in England. where it in pro- posed 10 erect manufactory of nom corrosive metal. which will employ b.ooo men.
 As a preliminary to the annual meet ing of the archbishops of the Roman Catholic church the board of directors of the Catholic university met in Wash ington Tuesday. The condition of the institution was shown to be satisfae- tory.
 Admiral John Carson Febiger. U. s. N. retired. died Monday at London derry. his residence near Easton. Md. in his seventy-eixhth year. Admiral Febiger was the last survivor of the third generation of that name in this country. He left sons, however. to per petuate the name.
 The hostile Pillsxer Indians of north- ern Minnesota have announced their readiness to hold a conference. and a delegation has been sent from the Leech Lake agency. General Bacon has ordered more soldiers to Walker, and two infantry regiments gre held in readiness to move.
 Governor woicott and the other state officers of Massachusetts were renoml- mated by the Republican stata oonven- ton in Boston Thursday The platform declares in favor of territorial expan- sion and asserts that the islands we A should not be returned to her.
 The Tourist hotel. under construction by the Northern Pacific Land company at Tacoma. Wash. was burned Monday night. There had been expended on the structure up 10 date seoo 900, upon which there Is no insurance. It was the pur- pose of the land company to make this one of the finest hotels in the country. and it would have cost completed over q. 900 900.
 The London police and the officials at the American embassy in the English capital express the conviction that the woman now in custody there In connec- ton with the death of Emma oil Ia Dr.. Nancy Guilford of Bridgeport Conn. The grand jury at the latter place has indicted Harry and Eudora GuIlford and Rose D~syton. Eudora .Guiiford has disappeared.
 The trfenniai council of the Protestant Episcopal church opened It's sessions ln Washington Wednesday. Bishop Tut tie of Missouri preached a sermon bear ing upon the religious aspects of the new questions in our foreign policy. The Rev. pr. Morgan Dfr was chosen pre- siding officer of the house of deputies. Bishop Doane of Albany serves the house of bishops in a similar capacity.
 After an iilness of only a few hours duration. A. Oakley Hall died of heart disease Friday night at his home In New York. He was mayor of New York during the Tweed regime. MT. Hall was a man of great versatility and tried his talents variously fin the fields of journalism, law, politics and the stage. His career as an actor was short, and he returned to politics and law. In recent years he confined himself almost entirely to literature and journalism.
 Blanche Willis Howard Won Tieffel, . we'll known American suthoress. died ln Munich on Friday. She was the wife of Dr. Won Tuefrel. physician in ordina- ry to the king of wurtembers to whom she was married eight years age. Among the best known of the books written by Blanche willis Howard are "one sum mer," "Guenn." Aunt Serena" and The Open Door" Most of her work has been the delineation of American. and especially New England. life. but In ad- dition she wrote considerable number of sketches of European travel.
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 The Paris exposition commission has received cablegram from Conimlm- sioner General Ferdinand w. Peck,