Connecticut western news., 1898-02-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Feb. T..

lnS WlOON or biSHOp 1lcNt- land CoNe died in Geneva. N. Y.
 The French steamer Flachat was wrecked on the Canary islands. and ss lives were lost.
 Two lives were lost by the founder ing of the tug Frankie in the high winds In New York bay.
 The Right Rev. c. T. Quintard. Prot estant Episcopal bishop of Tennessee. died at Meridianyille. Ga.
 Justice Scott in the supreme court dismissed the suit of Miss Euphemia Deans against ex-Judge Henry Hilton to recover a one-sixth interest in the old A. T. Stewart property in Thirty fourth street.
 Friday, Feb. IS.
 The Nicaraguan congress has author iZed the president to collect 5O0 O0d pesos by forced loan.
 Edwin Bates obtained a verdict for sle.o|o damages against Charles II. H0yt the playwright. in Boston.
 An explosion of fire damp ln Bel sian collielN caused d heavy loss of life. Sir James Stemsfield. q former lord Of the admiralty. died in London.
 Bishop Dudley of Kentucky has de- c!lHsd to accept his election as secreta- ry of the Protestant Episcopal Home and Foreign Missionary society.
 Miss sarah Henrietta Crane was mar ried to Raymond Sanford White at Calvary lintsstant Episcopal church Dy the Rev. William Huckel of Passaie. x. J.
 Saturday. Feb. I9.
 W. II. Kent. Q Brooklyn lawyer, was sentenced to five yeaIs at hard labor Tor forgery.
 A bread riot broke out in Stroina Sicily. and the troops were compelled to flIe oil the mob.
 protest was entered in the French chamber Of deputies against the im- portation of American horses.
 4 fire in London destroyed the scenery and properties of half d dozen plays belonging to Sir Henry Irving,
 The Russian government has appoint ed Count Cassini 10 he ambassador to the United States instead of minister.
 One hundred and ten bodies have been taken from the colliery at Bose chum. Prussia, which was destroyed by m explosion nf fire damp.
 The government of Canada consented to United States troops accompanying the Elondike relief expedition, provided they do not bear arms In Canadian ter ritory.
 New York State Comptroller James A. Roberts yesterday sold s3.2sO. 900 ca nal impI oyement gold bonds bearing 3 per cent interest to Vermilye & Co. of New York at l05.O7.
 Monday, Feb. 21.
 Assemhlyman Wcekes of Kings coun- .a..al threatening letters from Troy warning him not to attack Senator Murphy.
 William J. Scanlan. the Irish charac- ter actor and singer. died at the Bloom ingdale Insane asylum, to which place he was committed several years ago.
 Violent demonstrations attended M. Henri Rochefort's entrance to St. Pe- lagie prison in Paris to serve his sem trnce of i've days for libel in cunnec- tiun with the Dreyfus case.
 The Rex. J. Thompson Coles, general secretary Of the American Church Mis-. sioEary society. has sent in his resigna- tiun. having received call tu parish in West Virginia. ... - Nat Goodwin the comedian and Max inc Elliott. his leading lady. were quiet k married al the Hollen'len House. in
 
 the presence of "a few friends and the manager of the httel. /. The body of Le, nard R. Welles. ex- police commissioner of Brooklyn. was found in the woods at North Plaina-ld. N, J.. with the throat cut. Mir. Wellea had evidently committed suicide. A knife was found by his side. He dis appeared from Dr. Cooley's sanitarium on Wednesday afternoon.
 Tuesday, Feb. e2.
 Amos R. Enc, the we'll known New York merchant. real estaSe owner and financier. died at his home in that city in his eighty eighth year.
 Summing up in the Zola trial in Paris. an address to the jury was delivered by the advocate general. and sensational addresses were made hy NM. ZoIa and Lahorie,
 William Fisher. sexton of Grace Epis- copal church. Plainfeld. N. J.. was ae- cused of robbing the collection boxes. but was not arrested. A yestryman says he caught Fisher In the act.
 Gerald Balfcur. chief secretary for Ireland. introduced in parliament tn" Irish local government bill. It pro- poses system of county and distric: councils To be chosen by parliamentary franchise.
 The United States supreme court yes terday decided suit involving title to real estate in St. Paul worth $l, GOO co . which was claimed ny Elizabeth Wetzel under an old land warrant. In favor O.. the present owners.
 President Mckinley delivered an ad- dress at the Washington birthday ex- ercises of the University of Pennsyl- vania in Philadelphia. He quoted freely from the preeepts of Washington, dwell ing especially on declarations in favor of general education. the preservation of the public credit and the observance of good faith and justice toward all nd- tions.
 Wednesday, Feb, 23.
 Snow. with drifts from 8 to 12 feet deep. fell in the west and southwest districts of England.
 Montreal is almost snowbound, only few trains getting in and out, and all those heinz to or from the south.
 Ignatius Donnelly and his stenug- rapher. Miss Martin Olive Hanson. were married in Minneapolis yesterday.
 The report of an Anglo German loan was confirmed, and China made impcr- tant trade concessions to foreign coun, tries.
 George w. Simmons. a Boston mer- chant. accidentally shot and killed him- self at his summer residence at Nahant. Mass.
 The British ship Asia. from Manila for Boston. is supposed to have been lost. with her crew of 20 men. off Nan tucket. Mass.
 Hugh McCorquodale. a Brooklyn boy, was badly injured by Il runaway horse while drilling a company he had organ ized to fight Spain.
 The Marquis of Salisbury read tele- gram from the British embassador at Paris. saying that France disclaimcd all intention of usurping British territory.