Connecticut western news., 1898-05-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, May 12.

| O. H. Payne of the Standard Oil conn., | pany was elected a director of the To- | bacco trust.
 The arctic vessel Windward, to be | used by Lieutenant Peary, reached | New York after being 52 days out from | London.
 The man who acquired fame by steal. | ing a ton of coal and then a schooner's | big anchor has added to his i2urels. He will be tried in New Brunswick, N. J., | for stealing a locomotive. A Long Island sound steamboat and a tug bringing in scows from the lower | New York bay had to be fired on by | patrol boats to secure the enforcement | of the harbor regulations. l Friday, May 13.
 An elevator and nearly $1, ,OOO, 900 worth
 of P. D. Armour's grain were bm ned in | Chicago.
 The Seventy first regiment, New York
 volunteers, left Samp Black at Hemp | stead on it's 'sly to the front. | The British saamer Menantic report | ed sighting Spasish warships off Nan | tucket shoals, and extra precautions were taken for the protection of New | York harbor.
 The navy department received a dis | patch from Admiral Dewey reporting | the destruction of another Spanish war | ship and that he was maintaining the | blockade of Manila. Chief Justice Fuller's eldest daughter, | Mrs. Mary c. Manning. has sued her | husband, Colin c. Manning, United | States consul at Fayal, for divorce, al- | leging nonsupport and alcoholism. ! Thomas l.. Feitner was elected grand | sachem of the sachems of Tammany I Hall, New York. At the installat on | ceremonies resolutions were adopted | commenting Admiral Dewey and his | squadron.
 Saturday, May fl. 1 Bishop William Stevens Perry, D. D., | IL. D., died at Des Moines. | Mir Gladstone's weakness is increas- | ing, and his death may come at any | moment.
 | It was officially announced in Lon
 don that the resignation of Lord Aber- | deen as governor general of Canada l had been accepted.
 i The collapse of a building in course of ] construction at 20 and 22 East One Hun
 dred and Sixteenth street, New York. | killed five workmen and wounded sev- | eral others.
 | Mrs. Margaret Cody was arrested in | New York on a warrant issued in AL | bany charging her with attempting to | blackmail George J. Gould and Miss | Helen Gould.
 | At the second annual meeting of the | Order of Founders and Patriots of | America General Stewart L. Woodford | was elected president in succession to | Colonel F. D. Grant. Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech at | Birmingham, England, said that war
 would be cheaply purchased if in a | great cause the stars and stripes and the union jack should wave together ! over an Anglo-Saxon alliance. | Monday, May Is. | Three men were shot dead in Bir-
 mingham, Ala, by a braggart who had
 been charged with cowardice. The body of a man which from letters
 in his pockets is apparently that of J. W. Leighton. M. D., was found in I Staten Island sound. | Four "quitters" from Buffalo were
 drummed out of Camp Black, and two
 men from Whitehall had their buttons | cut off at Hampstead plains. Three men whose strange actions near | the mine fields off Sandy Hook, in New | York bay, excited suspicion were ar | rested. They are believed to be Spanish | spies.
 | Representatives of the light artillery of New York state appointed commit
 tee to see Governor Black and with him devise means for calling that arm into | active service.
 Two men of party of eight who were | laying mines at the southern entrance | to New York harbor were drowned, their boat being run down by the
 French line steamer La Touraine. Tuesday, May IT. | Russia is buying gold in London. Prince Henry of Prussia was received by the emperor of China in Picking. St. Johns, N. F., is to be fortified, as | Great Britain is preparing for the con- | tingency of a war with France. The Norwegian steamer Klondike | sank the British steamer Benholm and ! rescued nine of the crew. Twelve were | drowned.
 | Mir. Gladstone has received a mes sage from the queen and another from | the Princess of Wales, who said, T am praying for you"
 Sir William Harcourt, Liberal leader | in the British house of commons, gave | notice of an intention to discuss the | policy outlined in MT. Chamberlain's | Birmingham speech. The queen regent of Spain formally | intrusted to Senor Sagasta the duty of | organizing new ministry. Both houses | of the Spanish parliament adjourned on | receiving the announcement that the | cabinet had resigned. Major w. E. c. Mayer of General Me l Leer's staff formally disbanded the Thirteenth regiment, national guard of | the state of New York at its Brooklyn | armory. Colonel Watson made a speech | defending himself for the stand he took. Wednesday, May IS. The Tobacco trust announced to the | New York Stock Exchange an issue of | $3, .000 new stock The report that the president intend cd to issue another call for volunteers was denied by General Miles. A large section of the businees portiC n of Attleboro, Mass, was destroyed by
 fire. The loss is estimated at $1 GOO 900. cyclone swept over the southern | central portion of Nebraska. doing great
 damage. Several lives are repoI ted .ost
 Miss Helen N. Gould laid the corner stone of Overton hall, the dormitory at
 Mount Hermon seminary at NorthfieId, Mass.
 Mrs. A. B. Hoffman was attacked in her home in Newark, N. J., by two robbers, who threatened her with a re-
 volver, bound her with a cIothesline and
 ransacked the house.
 Miss Katherine Duer and Clarence
 Hungerford Mackay were married by
 Archbishop Corrigan, and Miss Marie
 Condo and Lebben H. Rogers, Jr., by
 Dr. John Hall in New York
 Josiah J. White, an eccentric million
 aire, imprisoned for contempt, escaped
 from the Raymond Street jail. Brook
 lyn. He was arrested later in Star1-
 ford, Conn.,, but will resist extradition