Connecticut western news., 1898-03-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thurstiay, March 3.

John Wild. an old time minstrel and
 comedian. died at his home, at Burden
 Lake, near Troy, N. Y. The appellate division of the New York state supreme court granted a new trial to Maximilian Shinburn, thi
 noted bank burglar, convicted of break ing into the First National bank of
 Middleburg. N. |.
 Le Roy Edwards, 21 years old, and
 Bessie Parsons, IS years old, eloped from East Hampton, N. r., behind fast pacer. They were chased by the brides brother-in-law. who is constable, and
 he caught up with them just in time to see the minister kiss the bride after tying the knot
 A mass meeting at Cooper Union, in New York, adopted resolution protest
 ing against the Lodge immigration bill. Speeches were made by Bourke Cock ran, Congressman Mahany and ex.
 Mayor Schieren of Brooklyn. and letterJ from Carl Schurz, John De Witt War
 ner and William Lloyd harrison wers
 read.
 Friday, March 4. Cubans in New York give list of 30 successful filibustering expeditions to Cuba since the beginning of the revolu- tion.
 
 York board of health, resigned ani
 Michael c. Murphy was appointed in
 his place.
 The Rev. T. c. Hanna of Southing- ton, Conn.,, who lost his memory
 through a fall, met the fancee whom ht had forgotten and wooed and won hes
 the second time.
 Civil suits for s12,00O were begun in New York against G. s. Bell, president and H. l.. School, treasurer, of the de-
 funct Home Mutual Building and Loan
 Association of the Bronx. William A. Cook. an aged lawyer, was locked up in the Tombs in New York in default of bail on the charge of misap-
 propriating s3,O0O from the estate O. Charlotte E. Harries, for which he wa executor.
 Saturday, March 5. The jubilee anniversary of the Italian constitution was celebrated with gen. eral rejoicing in Rome and throughout: Italy.
 The Republican primary bill was in-
 troduced in the legislature at Albany
 and also the penal code amendments t' punish violators of it. Judge Bradley of the United State supreme court at Washington, findin,.
 a colored murderer fippant after sen. tence, said his was case in which lynching would be justifiable.
 A dispatch from W kn ington sayI | that maps and data suss,.in the conten.
 ton that Summit lake. where the Brit.
 ish flag was raised, is in American ter.
 ritory, but that a construction of treatJ terms may enter into the question. Monday, March '. Governor Otero of New Mexico hat
 removed from office Solicitor General Fall of that territory on the charge O,
 neglect of duty. Charles E. Willard, a we'll known in-
 surance man. was killed by fall on n
 Ninth avenue elevated railroad stair
 case in New York. .. The Bessemer blast furnace operators
 of Cleveland, Pittsburg and the Shenan-
 go and Mahoning valleys are endeavor- ing to effect combination. Hugh J. Jewett. the famous railroad ! financier. ana for many years receive.
 and president of the Erie railroad, dieI
 at the Hotel Bon Air. Augusta, Ga. Adrian Braun, a convict in Sing Sing (N. Y) prison, murdered his wife. WI
 was paying him a visit, at the prison. He would give no reason for the crime. In a duel with swords at Rome Felict Carlo Cavallotti, deputy for Corte-Olon and well known poet and dramatlst. was killed by Signor Macola, also ;, deputy and editor. The Vermont supreme court has over.
 ruled the demurrer of Miss Mildred
 Brewster to the indictment ehargn.: her with the murder of Miss Wheeler a
 Montpelier last May. ...- In New York Mary Burney. grieve1 l because her sweetheart had taken an. other girl to a dance. drank poison in the presence of her parents. who tt frs
 thought she was joking. Little hope | her recovery Is entertained. Tuesday. March 8.
 The octagon hotel at Fort Lee, N. J,
 was totally destroyed by fire. Nebrasaa's maximum freight rate law was declared unconstitutional by tEt United States supreme court. Sixteen engineers who have formed
 mining company started for the Klon-
 dike last night from Jersey City.
 pr. A. A. Matthews. the physician O. the village of Gladstone. O., was calle
 from his bed and shot by an unknow man.
 Harrison Grey Fiske. editor of dra- matic paper. was arrested on a chargi of libel preferred b q several theatrical
 managers.
 The Cunard line steamer Catalonia.
 bound from Liverpool to Boston, wal
 towed into Halifax disabled by tn, steamer Delaware. Seven students from Princeton, N. J.. got drunk in Trenton and were arr rested. This escapade became known. and they will be called upon to facs the faculty.
 Charles H. Cramp head of the Phila- delphia shipbuilding firm, said that the
 widespread talk about buying warshipg abroad was part of plan instigated by' a syndicate having a big commission in view. Wednesday, March Q. As the result of a gasoline explosion in Monroeville, N J., woman and her ! three children were badly burned. William J. Calhoun of Illinois was nominated for interstate commerce
 commissioner by President Mckinley It is understood at Albany that the
 Ellsworth newspaper bill has been abandoned on account of the governors opposition.
 Henry Southgate, son of a Protestant Episcopal bishop. was sent to jail by ! Magistrate Flam.ner in New York be- cause he could not pay s6 Q week for 1 his wife's support
 The postoffice appropriation bill,
 agreed on in the house committee at
 Washington, provides for an expendi- , ture of over $100. 900, GOO and enables the postmaster general to consolidate tho Brooklyn and New York city postof-
 fees.
 Prince Albert Leopold. nephew of the king of Belgium and heir presumptivt to the Belgian throne. arrived in New York on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, accompanied by his suit He intends to tour this country and left
 for Washington, where he is to be en- tarfa at l.r