Connecticut western news., 1898-01-06
CANAAN CONN. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1898.

Sporting: Third and deciding game of tn, Princeton Yale series of baseball won by Princeton In New York city; score, 2 to s Obituary Gen Green P. Garner, veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, in Chicago aged Sl
 21 Obituary Capt. Boycott, the first man sub jected to the boycott" t" in London; agec 65
 g Miscellaneous: Christian K. Ross. the ia ther of Charles Ross, the abducted boy, died Tn Germantown Pa. aged 7& The eighteenth national saengerfest held 1T Philadelphia
 Sporting Ben Brush won the Suburban Handicap at Coney Island B. Tornado persons killed and considerable damage done near Salina, Kan 25 Obituary Gen George Harrington, veteran of the civil war and former exalt ed ruler of the Elks, at Kalamazuo Mich. aged 30 l. Winans, member of the eel ebrated Winans firm, in London aged 75 Al1ce Dunnlng Lingard, the actress, II London. aged 50 Prof Charles Copeland Wight. a well known educator of Balti more. In that city
 Sporting Cornell won the intercollegiate boat race at Poughkeepsie, N Y., defeat ing Yale and Harvard. % Obituary Mrs Margaret Oliphant the English authoress, Tn Wimbledon. England H Accident 27 persons killed and many in jured by train falling through trestl, at Missouri City. Mo 60 Obituary Prof George Nj Lane, one O. the oldest teachers at Harvard college, h New York city. aged 73
 Shipwreck The German vessel Rembek sunb by collision in the Dardanelles Ia sailori drowned.
 Accident; killed, 20 injured, in a rear end collision on the Chicago and Northwestern at Chicago.
 JULY. l. Business troubles: The Globe Building anc Loan association of Louisville assigned liabilities, S4OO, ,0O.
 Cornell defeated Columbia in the shell racs at Poughkeepsle, 8 Fire Entire village nearly destroyed and one life lost at Lake Ann, Mich. loss, sl00, GOO
 Obituary: John Evans, ex governor of Colo rado, in Denver aged s3 Rev Dr. Angus tine F. Hewitt. superior of the community of Paulist fathers, in New York city; aged 76.
 ( Fire: In Akron, O.. the shafting depart ment of the Akron Iron and Steel Co.'S works destroyed: loss Sl00,000. 6. The strike order of the national executive board of the United Mine Workers oi America was obeyed by from 10000 to l5, oOO of the 2l.ooo miners in the Pittsbure district.
 2. Explosion. persons killed and s badly wounded near Hartsville, Tenn. Obituary: Hon William s. Groesbeck, the distinguished Ohioan, in Cincinnati; aged sl
 g. Obituary: Senator Isham G. Harris oi Tennessee, in Washington; aged 79. 9. Obituary: Dr. Samuel B. Halliday, former assistant pastor of Plymouth church. Brooklyn, at Orange, N. J.; aged s5. 10. Aeronaut Andree's expedition to the north pole; ascent made July TO- Obituary Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, law yer and writer, in New York; aged 4s. Sporting The FrIar won the Realization stakes at Sheepshead Bay. IL Fire The Berlin IN H. Mills Co. s saw and grist mills destroyed; loss. sl00.0O0 l2. Obituary: Nicholas c. Creede. a million aire mine owner, in Los Angeles; aged 54 Gen. M. Wentworth, noted Maine politi cal leader and prominent war veteran, in Kittery, Me. aged 77. IA Disaster: persons drowned by the burst ing of two reservoirs at Mat tfeawan. N. '. Obituary Frank Mclaughlin. founder oi the Philadelphia Times and it's publisher and business manager in Philadelphia, aged e9 Gen. John F. Farnsworth. Federal veteran, in Washington aged 7. Is. Obituary Gen Philip Regis de Trobriand. a veteran officer of the Federal army. al Bayport N. Y. l6. Obituary: Gen Joseph Conrad, noteo Federal veteran who saved the life of Sher idan at Mission Ridge. in Atlantic City aged 67.
 ls Lieut. R. E. Peary and party sailed or board the steamer Hope from Boston bound for northern Greenland. 20 Obituary Jean lngelow, the poet and nov elist, Tn London Edhem Pasha wounded by an internal machine. g. Mir Whitelaw Reid. special envoy of tht United States to the queens diamond jubi lee gave a notable dinner in London; tn, Prince of Wales was among those present 28 The new tariff bill went into effect after midnight.
 Exploslon On the steamer Nutmeg State al Bridgeport. Conn. {: men killed and in jured.
 Sporting Harvard defeated Brown ano Princeton beat Cornell at football. 2A Obituary: Clarence A. Seward, wei known New York lawyer, at Geneva, Y.. aged 69 Gen Lafayette McLaws, Confederate officer and Mexican war vet eran. Tn Savannah, aged 76 9 Fire. Two large factory buildings occupie, by William Reed & O.. Rowland Bros. Pass Bros. and the Yonkers Silk Co. de stroyed at Yonkers, N. Y. loss, s400,0O0. 30. Accident: Express train on the Big Foui road wrecked near Thorntown, Ind. engi neer and fireman killed.