Connecticut western news., 1898-06-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World Briefly
 and Tersely Told.


 Kansas.
 The members of the woodworkers' union to the number of 1,e0o struck in Chicago.
 An English syndicate is about to buy the coal mines in the Jellico district of Kentucky.
 Yale won the third and deciding base ball game in the Yale-Princeton cham pionship series on Saturday. Alice Stitsel and Mamie and Minnie Corner were drowned in the river near Defiance, O., Friday evening. Damage to the amount of S90. 900 was done by fire in the business portion of Springfield, Mass. on Tuesday.
 Almost the entire business portion of Park City, Utah, was destroyed by fire. the loss amounting 10 nearly Sl,0oo,0o0.
 Cyclist MeDuffie lowered Michael's 30 mile worlds record more than a minute on Friday at Boston. Time, 55m. 9 i-5s.
 The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber company made an assignment on Thurs day. Liabilities, s1,200.0oo; assets, s2,- 000, 900.
 A cloudburst at Chelsea Park, near Kansas City, on Thursday. caused the breaking of a dam, drowning at least five persons.
 The trial of Convict Braun of Sing Sing on a charge of wife murder began on Monday at White Plains. Insanity is the defense.
 August Sulter a Cleveland commis- sion merchant. made an assignment Saturday The assets and liabilities are placed at $15,000.
 Three Chicago teachers are going at the invitation of the Hawaiian govern ment to conduct an institute for three weeks in Honolulu.
 The amount of the Boring sea award, s473,151. was paid by Secretary Day to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British em- bassador. on Thursday.
 The fiouring mill and elevator of Isaac Staples at Saltwater Minn.. was burn ed Tuesday night. causing a loss of sl50,O00. with 1000 insurance.
 Lemuel Morris. aged 70 years, was brutally murdered near Parkton, Balti- more county. Md, Thursday by Frank Taylor, farm hand. 23 years of age.
 Romero de Freiton Murao, son of a colonel in the Brazilian army. commit ted suicide In New York Thursday by taking carbolic acid and shooting him. self.
 David Ferris, a retired grocer, shot his mother-in-law, Mrs. Addie Weaver. and himself after a quarrel in his home in New York. He is dead, but she will live.
 Fire Sunday entirely destroyed the Paxton rolling mill. owned by the Gen. tral Iron and Steel company. at Harris burg. The loss Is sa0,0OO; partially in- sured.
 John Zimmons an Inmate of the New Jersey state prison at Trenton, hanged himself in his cell with a cord which he obtained in one of the shops on Saturday.
 A cyclone accompanied by hall swept through Orleans county, N. r.. Sunday, doing great damage to apple orchards. Trees were unrooted, and the growing crop was badly injured.
 William Fannon, S7 years old. of Westboro, Mass, went in bathing Sun day at Revere Beach shortly after eat ing a hearty meal and immediately be- came unconscious anbwas drowned.
 Colonel James F. Jacques of Quincy, Ills, died on Saturday at St. Paul. Colo mel Jacques had a notable war record. He commanded the Sevanty-third Illi- nois infantry during the war of the re- bellion.
 Charges were preferred by the navy department for the court martial of U. s. G. White, civil engineer. on ae- count of culpable inefficiency and neg lect of duty on the New York navy yard drydoek.
 The schooner Gypsum Princess was cut in two off the Nantucket shoals in a fog by the North German Lloyd steamship Ems, and six lives were lost, including Captain David Merriam and members of his family.
 Mrs. Johannah Hall. wife of Edward Hall of the firm of J. H. Hinkley & CO, shoe manufacturers of Beverly, Mass. committed suicide by drowning on Thursday. It is thought III health was the cause of the suicide.
 Chairman John NJ. Garman of the Pennsylvania Democratic state commit tee has issued a formal call for the state convention to meet at Altoona on Wednesday, June 29, at noon, 10 nomi- nate candidates for state offices.
 The Rev. Thomas c. Hanna of Meri- den, Conn, forgot all about his former life, including the woman he was to have married. His memory was re- awakened after having slept n year. The wedding took place Tuesday.
 William Eaton, IS years old, escaped from the farm gang at the Wethersfield (Conn) prison Thursday. He would have been released in July. Warden Woodbridge offers a reward of $50 for his capture and return to the prison.
 The five negroes who last week mur- dered Mir. and Mrs. Garden and an old man named Carlee, near Wetumpka, Ala, were lynched Friday by. a mob near the scene of their crime. Four con- fessed to having committed the mur- ders.
 Norfolk and Western passenger train No. { was wrecked Sunday afternoon two miles west of Shawville, Va Three were killed and several Injured. Engi- neer Al Horner, Bristol, Va: Fireman Edward Sadler, Bristol. Va, and Mail Clerk A. 8. Francis, Merion, Va. were killed.
 John H. Heisel, mayor of Brunswick. Mo, shot and instantly killed City Mar shal Richard Ashby in a saloon fight oh Saturday. Mayor Heisel was shot twice by the marshal, one shot penetrating the abdomen and the other passing through his lungs. He probably will die.
 Ex-President Cleveland delivered an address on good citizenship at the com mencement exercises of the Lawrence vile school, at Princeton, N. J. In the course of his remarks he warned against the danger of territorial expansion. strongly deprecated unnecessary war and urged the cultivation and develop ment of true patriotism.
 The reorganization plan for the Ball. timore and Ohio railroad was issued Tuesday in New York. Ii provides for the unification of the bonded debt. for the extinction of the floating indebted ness and for two funding Issues. There will be s4o,o0o,OoO preferred and tSb,oo0,-