Connecticut western news., 1898-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April :.

Frederick Milne, one of the indicted members of the Brooklyn city works ring, was sentenced by Judge Hurd to six months imprisonment and to pay a fine of $500.
 An attachment for s1.590 was issued against Mark Hartley, responsible merchant of New Brighton. \. Y., and it was learned that he had leen. miss ing from his home since March 31.
 Milton Clark of Brooklyn got into a quarrel with the brother of Miss Perch land. the girl to whom he was engaged He shot at the brother and in escaping; man boarded a street car and late. were married in Hoboken, N. J., de- spite parental opposition
 Friday, April 8.
 Great excitement prevails among Ha- waiian natives from fear of an eruption of Mauna Loa.
 It is reported at Shanghai that the American consul has demanded indem- nifty for an attack on a mission in Chung g-king- -kindu province.
 Fire did $10,000 estimated damage in the stable of the Lion Brewing com pany building. One Hundred and Eighth street and Columbus avenue. New York. David B. Landis, president of the Conestoga National bank at Lancaster, Pa, was shot and killed by Ralph w. Wireback, a patent medicine manufac- turer.
 Advices from Hongkong say that the revolt in the Philippines is assuming large proportions, the insurgents re- gently having won several important engagements.
 Charles F. Thompson was arrested charged with stealing a watch owned by Miss Anna M. D. Mitchell which was presented to George Washington by Lafayette. Miss Mitchell says shs is a great-grandniece of Washington.
 Saturday, April 0. The ram Katahdin joined the flying squadron in Hampton roads.
 Queen Victoria presented to President Faure of France an oil portrait of her. self.
 The gunboat Princeton has been fin ished at the Dialogue yard. in Camden, N. J.
 Privy Councillor Bansch, engineer of the Emperor William canal, died in Berlin.
 Chief Gunner's Mate Johnson of the gunboat Newport, at Key West. was drowned while examining the ships bottom.
 An explosion of dynamite with which a car was loaded caused the wreck of a train in Montana, and three persons were killed.
 It was announced in Paris that mem- bers of the Esterhazy court martial will sue M. Zola and ask for his expulsion from the Legion of Honor.
 Margaret Mather, the actress, died suddenly of an acute attack of Bright's disease at Charleston, W. Va. She was stricken while playing in the cave scene in "Cymbeline" and died soon after.
 Monday, April II.
 The body of the late Frances E. Will lard was cremated at Chicago.
 D. M. Mclaughlin. captain of Cor nells football team. has resigned.
 Lizzie Kelly. driven insane by the usl of hair dye, committed suicide in New York.
 The Marquis of Exeter died in Lon- don. His death was caused by bicycle accident.
 Mrs. Jacob Hills of Elkton. Mich. died at the age of 107. Her husband. aged 109. is dying.
 A consignment of s1, 900 in gold started from Sydney by the steamer Mariposa for San Francisco.
 Forty thousand children are estimat. ed to have been made orphans by the recent massacres in Anatolia.
 Clarence E. Quintin of Trenton. fi. vorced at noon Saturday, remarried and was on his bridal trip in AS minutes.
 New York State Superintendent of Insurance Payn has written to District Attorney Gardiner of New York city asking his cooperation in procuring an indictment against those officials of the Lincoln Fire Insurance company wh6 he says secured a charter by fraud.
 Tuesday, April 12.
 The Spanish cruisers Cristobal Color and b.aria Teresa passed Tenerife. go. ing south.
 The Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs. wlc recently entered the Episcopal church resigned from the New York presby. tery.
 A dispatch from Kingston Jamaica says that a Spanish mob in Santiago de Cuba insulted the flag over ths United States consulate.
 Presents iE recognition of their hero. lsrn were LSyen to Lieutenant Uns. worth and his boats crew. who went out to seek aid for La Champagne wher she was disabled in midocean recently. Nearly all the faculty of the Univer. sity Medical school in New York will withdraw at the end of the term as the result of dissension with the council oi the New York university and say they will found a new medical school.
 Thomas Edwards, foreman of the grand jury of Kings county, N. T., that found indictments against former Brooklyn officials, says he was offered s5.000 not to vote for indictments against Theodore B. Willis and William E Philips.
 Wednesday, April 13.
 Switzerland has prohibited the i'm. portation of American fresh fruits.
 Major General Merritt, U. S. A, in. spected the forts at the mouth of Long Island sound.
 Captain Campbell of the steamer Lake Ontario. from St. John for Liver pool, died at sea.
 Mrs. Antonio Terry formerly Sybil Sanderson, was stricken with paralysis at her home in Paris.
 Local elections were held in many New Jersey towns yesterday, and in  ported.
 Margaret Key Wilson. a beautiful ad- venturess from San Francisco and claimant of the Croclker millions, died in New York.
 A detail of 95 men of the First bat talion of the Naval reserve went to Philadelphia to man the monitor Ma hant and bring her to this city.
 Frederick G. Isles, who was secreta- ry of the Kings county grand jury, con. fessed that he had tried to bribe the grand jurymen to protect Theodore B. Willis and Police Commissioner w. E. Phillips and implicated Charles NJ. Winant, MT. Phillips secretary, who was arrested and held in s5.0OO bail.