Connecticut western news., 1898-08-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World prteny
 and Terweiy Told.

Rufus w. Lano or Ohio has been np-
 pointed consul to Smyrna. Turkey.
 In taliyho accident in Chicago sun-
 day ten persons were injured. none fa-
 tally.
 In a hotel fire in Chicago three lives
 were lost and a number of persons in-
 jured.
 A collapso in tho Ohio Coal trust h
 threatened owing to the detection of
 three railroads.
 The will of Joseph BaniRan. the wealthy rubber manufactures. left titb.-
 900 to chartties
 Chauncey Nj. Depcw Is to delivor the
 address on New York day. Oct. c. nt the Omaha exposition.
 Several New Englond mills closed on Saturday on account of the low prices prevailing in the cloth market. The National Wallpaper company has absorbed all rivals. and is expected to advance prices from Rb to 50 DOT cent. Major whittle and the Rev. O. Camp bell Morgan made addresses before the Bible conference at Northfield on 6un- day.
 William Pepper, the well known phy- sician and former provost of the uni- versity of Pennsylvania. died In Oak land, Cal.
 Colonel John Jacob Aator reached Washington Monday with General shafter's official report of tho surrender of Santiago.
 Lewis Warner. the defaulting banker. returned on Saturday to Northampton. Mass, in custody. 10 answer for embez- xling s64o.oo0.
 Ex-senator Warner Miller and sena- tor Morgan called on President MoKin- ley Monday in the interest of tho Mo- aragua canal.
 The convention of the League of American Municipalities was opened | in Detroit Monday, and Governor Pin- gree addressed 1t.
 The conference of green glass bottle manufacturers and blowers ended at Atlantic City Tuesday. The old wage | scale was retained.
 Speaker Thomas B. Reed was re- | nominated by exclamation at the Re- publican convention of tho First Maine district yesterday. The battieship Texas arrived in New York and was warmly welcomed in the harbor. Her injuries arc not serious and can be repaired in few days. Edouard Tayiore. the oyoiist, rode q | mile In practice at the Charles River track. in Boston. Sunday, in world's record time of Inn. sbc.. paced by two | quints.
 Lightning struck the st. James Epia- | copal church of Providence Sunday aft- | ernoon and set 1t on fro. The damage
 Is ss,ooo or sio.ooO. covered by in- | suranoe.
 William II. Marston, well known in | 4sR | Charles E. Marston. who recently dis appeared, committed suicide in New | York Monday.
 l IL was announced in New York that Maurice Grau had selected Herr schalk | Of Prague to succeed Anton Seidl and | conduct In grand opera in this country during the coming season. | A. c. Fitch. a travelling man, whose home was in Jamestown. N. Y, fell from fourth story window of the iroquola
 hotel. in Buffalo. Friday, receiving in- juries from which he died. Vice President Hobart and family and
 Mrs. Griggs, wife of the attorney gem | eral, arrived at Hotel Champlain, on
 Lake Champlain, Saturday night and received an enthusiastic welcome.
 The borough of Miiihail Pa, which
 four years ago had a buildings destroy
 ed by fire, was again visited by fire on
 Friday night. Eight buildings were
 burned. and nine families were left | homeless.
 Martin Thorn, the accompiice of Mira. | Augusta Mack In the murder of Will
 Ham Guldensuppo. wan put to death nt Sing Sinx, N. Y.. Monday. Life was l pronounced extinct in co seconds after the electric current was turned on.
 At the Baptist temple. Brooklyn. Sun day, Fidel e. Pierra. president of tho Cuban general bureau of information.
 delivered an address on 'The War With | Spain as IL Appears From the Stand | point of International Law. of Justice and of Humanity"
 Sunday was the closing day of tho | meetings of the National Temperance
 society at ocean Grove. Bishop Fitrgor- ald announced that the Ocean Grove | Methodists on Saturday next would
 raise on the camp ground the lurg, ~ American flag on tho seaboard.
 Rev. John Walsh. Roman Catholic
 archbishop of Toronto. died Sunday night suddenly of heart failure. Ho vas
 6s years of age and was nativo of
 Ireland. He was ordained in 1854 and
 was appointed rector of St. Miehael'a in
 1859 He became vicar general of To-
 ronto diocese in 1882 and bishop fin 1861.
 On the death of the late Archbishop l Lynch he was made archbishop.
 Fire on Saturday destroyed house
 near Seneca Falls, N. Y., occupied by
 Warren Pofrenberger. and caused tho
 death of three inmatoa-Mrp. Poffen-
 berger wife of the tenant: Mrs. George H. Hartman, mother of Mrs. Pofranber-
 ger, and Chris Seward. a hired man.
 Andrew schartx. a Bohemian. was in-
 staniy killed by electricity Sunday
 night on the experimental third rail
 electric railway at Schenectady. N. Y.
 Schartz was bathng in the canal, and
 on climbing out on the bern bank. on
 which the road is built, ripped and foli
 across the rails. A full ourront of olec-
 tricity charged the rails at the timo
 and Schartz's death was instantaneous.
 He Is the first victim of the third rail