Connecticut western news., 1898-08-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Harr~nings of the Wide World priea
 and Tersely Told.

Harr~nings of tho Wide World Briehy
 and Torsciy Told.
 Seven persons were killed by a de. structive tornado in Minnesota on Mon. day.
 Twenty thousand acree of grain in North Dakota were destroyed by a hail. storm Monday.
 Seventeen people are reported to have been drowned by a sudden flood in Ten. nessee Saturday.
 pr. James B. Angell the retiring American minister to Turkey, left Con- stantinople Saturday. Isaac H. Bromley, editorial writer on the New York Tribune. died at Nor wich, Conn. Thursday.
 The Polynesian Steamship company with a capital of s1.50o,oOo. was incor. porated at Trenton Tuesday.
 The American bark c. C. Funk was wrecked in the south Pacific ocean. ane Il of thoee on board were drowned.
 The latest estimate of the gold pro duction of the Klondike region this sea- son places the total at about ss.ooo, 900. J. Addison Porter. private eecrotary tc President Mckinley. is announced as B candidate for governor of Connecticut. Rear Admiral William A. Kirkland. commandant of the Mare Island navy yard. died at Vallejo. Cal. Friday even ing.
 The internal revenue receipts for the last fiscal year were si70, 1888. .5le be,ng e2<. .a<9.s s25 more than for the preceding year.
 Bogus bids for the government bond {, Issue amounting to many miilions of dollars have been discovered in New York city. A monument to Francis Scott Key. author of .'The Star 6pangled Banner.s was unveiled in Frederick Md. on Thursday.
 The losses by the f,re which destroyed the greater part of the bxsincss section of the city of Bismarck. N. D.. amount cd ne~riy to t75o0oo
 Judge J. Nj. Hohson, father of Ltsu- tenant Hobson. the hero of the Merrf- mac. was on Thursday appointed post master of Greensboro. Ala
 In Jersey City church Sunday an unusual double service was witnessed. A woman's funeral was held and her in- fant daughter was baptized.
 Workmen on public school buildings
  out on strike unless contractors agree not to employ cheap mechanics.
 Ambassador Hay has accepted the office of secretary of state. to take the place of Judge Day. who retires to be- come one of the peace commissiVners.I Mrs. J. Polk Deane of Dover. Del. and her sister. Mrs. J. P Dunning. died on Friday as the result Of eating poisonous candy which came by mall from an un- known source.
 President Mckinley on Monday ap- pointed Alexander Heingarten of Ohio United States consul at Catania. Italy. and R. c. Nichols of Alaska land reg ister at Nulato. ;, Major F. w. Reid of Savannah was found dead In his room at the Hotel Marlborough. in New York. Monday. by a messenger who bore a telegram an- nouncing his wifs's death.
 Walter Kelley of Mount Vernon, N F.. confessed to stealing ss.o0o worth of bicycles during the last three months. Bernard Abrahamson. accused of re- ceiving stolen goods. was arrested.
 Reports were received in Seattle. Wash. on Sunday that a rich gold strike has been made 10 milee below Lake Tagish, in Northwest Territory. There has been a stampede from DYea and Skaguay to the discovery.
 Fire swept the Southern Pacific rail- road reseryation at Fresno. Cal. from Mariposa strce to Mono street. a dis- tanoe of three blocks. Saturday nigbe and In a little more than an hour $500, : 900 worth of property went up in smoke. Miss Emeline c. Reynolds. book canvasscrs. was found murdered in a room in the Grand hotel, in New York. Tuesday morning. s. J. Kennedy, a dentist, ts under arrest. Valuable jew els and $500 which the girl had cannot be found. r Policeman Henry c. Hawfey of the West Thirtieth Street station. New York. in a at of frenzy following a long debauch and a quarrel with his wife shot his entire family. killing his moth- CT and two children and fatally wound ing his wife. He killed himseh just as two policemen were about Co arreet him. The sioop yacht Leona. with i7 men aboard, while anchored outside of Bos- ton light. was run into by a barge in tow of the tug Honeybrook Sunday, and five men were instantly swept from the deck by the heavy tow line. Two of the numhSr. c. W. Seliman and Albert Nordcil. pyre drowned: another, Augustus Casperson, was killed by be- ing damned between the towiine and the deck. while the other two, Peter Nelson and John Harkineon. afthouxn sustaining injuries. were r~ecvcd