Connecticut western news., 1898-10-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wide World
 Briefly and TerscIy Told.


 Briefly and TerscIy Told. A storm in Texas Friday caused the loss of two lives, injury to many and great damage to the cotton crop. Four barges, with two men. and schooner and her crew were lost In storm of New London, Conn, on sun- day.
 The reelection of Senator Proctor of Vermont was ratified at n joint meet Ing of the legislature of that state last week.
 Wealthy New York men have agreed 10 meet any deficiency in the payment of the interest on the debt of Columbia university.
 Charles c, HenninR. bookkeeper of the Bank of Louisville. has absconded. The banks books show a shortage or several thousand dollars Japans new cruiser the Kasagi. built hy the Cramps at Philadelphia, went Into commission Monday. She will visit | New York before leaving for England | to take on her armament The Chicago platform Democrats of | New York state secured from Justice | Chester. in Albany. an order for the sec retary of state to show cause why he should not put that partys ticket on the official ballot
 Ex-Governor Charles N Sheldon died | at Deadwood, s. D.. Thursday of pneu. monia. He was a native of Johnstown, | Vt. served through the war, went to | Dakota in 1881 and was elected govern. or in 1892 and again In 1894 The Rev. W. R. Campbell, a Presby- | terian pastor of Salt Lake City. in | sermon Sunday said that polygamy in | Utah was fiourishing and that in 2t years the Mormon church would hold | the balance of power in America. An engine and five cars of the Phiia- | delphia and Reading railroad ran Into | an open draw on the Newark bay draw bridge Tuesday morning and toppled | into the bay. No lives were lost, but
 the engine driver had a narrow escape A majority of the Fall River lMaHs.l | cotton manufacturers Thursday after | noon ratified the pooling movement and \ a policy of curtaiiing production inau- | Rurated few days ago. Some attempt was made early in the year. but u II failed.
 | Edwin F. Knowlton. head of the straw goods manufacturing firm of l William Knowlton & Sons of New | York. committed suicide Tuesday at his sisters home in West Upton, Mass. I temporary alteration of mind led to
 the suicide.
 \ A fire destroyed the piers and seri-
 ously damaged several warehouses bee
 tween Dykman and Coffey streets. on
 the water front. Brooklyn, Monday, burning a ship and two lighters. dam
 aging another and causing total loss | of about s6b0,000.
 The torpedo boat Davis. which start | lxf .ax.a 4tx. l lumbia river, near Astoria. Ore. Thurs.
 day, was disabled by the bursting of a
 number of boiler tubes. Eight of the
 crew were badly scalded. and seven Of
 them died soon after.
 pr. M. c. Franghioi. a smallpox ex- 1 pert, has been engaged by the New
 York state board of health to care for
 the smallpox cases in the central part | of the state. He will make his head
 quarters at Elmira and will remain
 there for a month at least.
 Nine de Giraud d'Agaya, an elderly
 Frenchwoman. who may be n cousin of
 ex-Consul General Agaya. was pre-
 vented by Commissioner Northrup from
 landing in San Francisco Tuesday. The
 officials of the immigration bureau. it
 is said. believe she is an anarchist, Reuben N. Dodd, IT,, a private in the
 Seventy-n first regiment, New York vol-
 unteers, was found dead at his fathers
 home in Bloomfield N l.. Thursday.
 shot through the heart. It Is not known
 whether he took his own life or whether
 his death was the result of an accident.
 News has leaked out of a daring rob
 bery at the Arlington hotel in Wash
 ington several days ago. by which ex'
 Governor Bullock of Georgia and hif
 wife lost diamonds and jewelry valued
 at several thousand dollars. The police
 have been quietly at work on the case. | but thus far without result. Two jealous husbands killed their
 wives and themselves in Jersey City
 Sunday. Henry Jones. a colored Pull | man car porter, shot his wife to death
 and then sent bullet into his brain.
 Garrett French. Pennryivania rnil-
 road locomotive engineer, shot and
 mortally wounded his wife and killed
 himself.
 In his annual report to the secretary
 of war. made public Tuesday General Wilson. chief of engineers describes the
 coast defense work done and projected I Present plans contemplate the emplace. ment of 500 heavy guns. TOO rapid firt | guns and 1000 mortars, The report also | gives detailed estimates for the i'm. provement of rivers and harbors next II year.
 Two wealthy young Englishmen, who
 came to this country to buy a 70 pound | gold brick. were all ready to part with | 10000. when Captain McClusky of the New York detective bureau heard of | the transaction and interrupted it. The | man who was conducting the swindie ia
 former Sing Sing convict, known as | Robert Martin, alias Roe, alias Norton. l He is now in the Centre street police
 station, New York.