Connecticut western news., 1898-12-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide w~wla
 BrIeny and TerseIr ToId.

Walter Lacy, a veteran actor Of the Phelps-Kean period, died in London Thursday.
 King oscar II of Sweden ana Norway is confined to his bed, the result of sud- den Illness
 A conference in furtherance of the czar's proposed peace conference was held in London.
 Agents of the Russian government are said to be in New York negotiating a loan for the crar.
 It is cabled from Paris that a war rant has been issued for the arrest of Count Esterhazy
 bitter attack was made upon the German emperor in the reichstaw We'd nesday by the Socialist leader.
 St Mary's Episcopal church. New York, celebrated the seventy-fifth anni- versary of It's founding Sunday.
 Colonel Carlos Garcia, eldest son sf the late General Callxto Garcia, arrived in New York from Cuba Sunday night.
 The Duke of Connaught, ft is report ed, will go to khartum to lay the corr nerstone of the Gordon Memorial col- lege.
 The British steamer Brinkburn was wrecked on Maiden Bower rock, sciiiy islands. on Thursday night. Her crew was saved.
 The resignation of the Rev. pr. Ly- man Abbott was finally accepted Sum day by Plymouth church and society in Brooklyn.
 "old Sleuth" Harlan F. Haissy died suddenly Friday at his home. III Mc- Donough street, Brooklyn, of cerebral hemorrhage.
 Henry White. United States charge d'affaires in London. has gone on a visit of two days to Lord Salisbury at his country residence.
 A cabinet crisis was narrowly aysrted during a stormy debate in the French chamber Friday. when two ministers threatened to resign.
 Ex-Judge Steele has notifed Govern or Elect Roosevelt that he is willing to succeed Mir. Marean as district attorney of Kings county, N. Y.
 A monument to the Russians who feu in the Russo Turkish war was unveiled by the Grand Duke Nicholas at San ste- fano, near constantinople.
 The steamer Georgios, the first of the line between Russian Baltic ports and the United States. has sailed from Riga for New York and Boston.
 News was received Tuesday In Seat tie. Wash, of the loss of the lives Of six persons by an avalanche in the chii- koot pass, Alaska. on Dec. 2.
 The British steamer aovlno. bound from Lelth to Baltimore, foundered at sea on Dec. II. Her crew was saved by the Danish steamer Thingvalia.
 Lord Salisbury, the British premier. at the Constitutional club, London. Friday night, delivered a speech upon the governments foreign policy.
 The first peAtion In voluntary baHk- ruptcy from a Chinaman was filed In the clerks office of the United states district court in New York Saturday.
 It is said that the international con- ference on anarchists which met In Rome laid the foundation for uniform action against criminals of that class.
 The Georgia legislature Thursday adopted resolutions commenting the presidents speech referring to federal care of Confederate dead and approv- ing his conduct of the war with Spain.
 Frank knaak of New York has been acquitted of leze majesty in Berlin for calling Emperor William a sheep's head on the ground that he was intoxicated.
 A deputy in the Italian chamber as- serted Friday that an agreement eQuiv- aient to a formal treaty existed be- tween Great Britain and Italy relative to North Africa.
 Colonel William J. Bryan returned 10 Washington Sunday night after spend ing a quiet Sunday in New York He said his visit to the metropolis had no political purpose.
 Samuel Gompers was reelected pres ident of the American Federation of La Dor at the closing session of the annual convention of that organization at Kan sas City Tuesday.
 Fire in the shopping district of Terre Haute, Ind. destroyed property worth s2. .oo0. O0O Many people narrowly escap- cd being burned to death and several were severely injured.
 The funeral of ex-senator Calvin s. Brice took place in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church. New York, on Saturday. The remains were taken Co Lima, O.. for interment.
 The London Daily Chronicles dirigi- ble balloon travelled from London to St. Romain, near Havre, Tuesday in hours and 57 minutes. but the aeronauts had narrow escape in midchannel
 IL was reported inPhlladslphia Thurs- day that a plan to Organize in one con- cern all the large street lighting com panies east of the Mississippi river. with Si2, 900, 900 capital. had been formed in that city.
 A Paris paper announces that the se- cret documents in the Dreyfua case have been handed to the court of cassa- ton under the pledge that they shall not be communicated to Dreyfus' coun- sel or to any one outside the court.
 Three women were killed and several n at Ara x.rh partially destroyed the residence of Charles H. Raymond. general agent of the Mutual Life Insurance company, at 260 West Seventy-third street. New York. Tuesday.
 The will of Edwin F. Knowlton. whe committed suicide at West Upton. Mass, has been admitted to probate in Kings county, N. Y. It bequeatha over s1,0o0.oo0. the largest sum of which goes to his daughter, a German countess.
 Adviees from La Pax, capital Of Bo- livia, announce that the revoiutionists have formally proclaimed a federation. Senor Severe Fernandez Alonso, presi- dent of Bolivia, is still at oruro at the head of the government troops. He has declared state of siege.
 George Morgan and Charles Johnson are dead at ogemaw. Ark, ss a result Of the drinking Of bay rum and Ja- maica ginger. Mike O'Connell is ex- pected to die at any time from the same cause. The men had been on a spree and were drinking anything they could get.
 Ex-Police Captain John J. Mount of New York died suddenly Sunday night. from heart disease, He was 77 years old and had been retired n years. He joined the police force in 1880 and took a prominent part in the sup precision of the Dead Rabbit" draft and Orange riots.
 President Mckinley has given 10 Mon. w. R. Plunkett. president of the Horne darket club of Boston. dennite a@sur- ,nce that he win be present al the ans iual dinner of that organization te ee ,nih early in 1898 ai MachanIrns hall