Connecticut western news., 1898-03-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, March IT.

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 Aubrey Beardsley. artist and drafts man. who attained much fame by req | son of the original and unique charac- ter of his work. died in London. Captain William Lee. an army vet eran, mortified because he failed to get the appointment of postmaster in Mer- | chantville, N. J., committed suicide. John Shanaphy ran away with a loco- motive near Sewaren. N. J. He was pursued by train hands on another en- zine and fled to the woods. but was cap- | tured.
 pr. Trumbull w. Cleaveland, a New | York physician, was indicted for man. | slaughter in the second degree, charged with causing the death of the infant | daughter of John L. Carhart by giving her harmful medicines. Friday, March IS. City Auditor John s. Fear of Burling- | ton. Ia., has fled, leaving a shortage of | s2.900. representing money he lost in speculation.
 Walter Sanger Pullman, a twin son of the late George M. Pullman. was married in San Francisco to Miss Lou | ise Lander West. Blanche K. Bruce, register of the treasury. ex-United States senator and one of the most prominent colored poll sicians. died in Washington. The New York court of appeals gave Newbold T. Lawrence title to ], 500 acres of land which have been in possession of the town of Hampstead 100 years. Two expeditions forethnological study in North America and Asia have been equipped at the American Museum of Natural History in New York Morris iS fra lv fad xtyff1, the enterprise and is giving it financial aid.
 Saturday, March 19. It is asserted that a Russian spy has been discovered in Lord Salisbury's em- ploy as footman at Hatfield. The international chess contest for the Newnes trophy began in this coun- try at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
 Five persons were burned and three buildings were damaged as a result of gasoline explosion in Morristown, N. J.
 The Spanish and Cuban commission CTS to negotiate a commercial treaty with the United States assembled in Washington.
 Dr. Tanner, anti-Parnellite member for Mid Cork. Ireland, was ordered out of the British house of commons for vio- lent language.
 Abram Van Wyck, who left his home in Duchess county, N. Y., IS years ago because of a family quarrel. is heir to $40. 900 by his mothers will. It was announced in Paris that the fresh French demands on China must be complied with in eight days under threat of the occupation of Hainan.
 An explosion in a mine at Belmaz. Spain. killed more than 70 persons. An explosion of dynamite at Montego bay. Jamaica, resulted in the loss of eight lives.
 Monday, March 21.
 pr. J. c. Zachos. for many years cu- rator of Cooper Union, New York. died in that city.
 The freight steamer Osborne was tow ed into Halifax disabled by the oil tank steamer Duffield.
 Charles Bell Of New York shot and killed himself in a cemetery in Long Island City on the grave of his daugh- ter, who died T. years ago.
 George Bryan, F years old, of Arling- ton, N. J., was blinded for life by being burned by molten lead which he in- tended to make into cannon balls to use against Spain.
 The rebellion on the northwest from tier of India is thought to be ended. the rebels having given the required 70 hos tages. The Indian budget Is regarded as very favorable.
 A convict nansed Howard, who IS serving nine years sentence in Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison, has built two or gans for the prison chapels. He will now petition for a pardon on the ground that he has saved the state several thousand dollars.
 Tuesday, March s2.
 Carolus Duran, the French portrait painter arrived in New York.
 Four men were injured by the col lapse of shed at the Fleetwood race track, New York.
 Secretary Long named the two Bra gillian cruisers recently purchased the New Orleans and the Albany.
 Mrs. E. Haughton Jackson, the prin- cipal in the famous Clitheroe case. died as result of blood poisoning in Eng land.
 Twenty-three men are estimated to have perished and many more were in- jured in a fire which destroyed a lodg- ing house at Butte, Mon.
 Ex-Coroner E.. B. Coombs of Kings county, N. Y., was sentenced to serve year and seven months in the peniten- tiary and pay fine of S1,000.
 An angry mob chased the Rev. A. Gurschke of Hoboken, N. J.. and a man knocked him down because a girl said he had insulted her. He denied that he had insulted her and declared that he was the victim of an outrage.
 Ten seamen of the British bark An cyra visited the British consulate in New York and preferred charges of brutal treatment and starvation against Captain Morris and his officers during the voyage from HongRong and Manila.
 Wednesday, March 23.
 William E. Gladstone arrived at Ha- warden, having borne the journey we'll
 Six officers and one hundred men of a French expedition in Madagascar are said to have been killed by natives.
 The canal investigating commission organized in Albany and asked the New York state legislature to extend its time for one month.
 John Donaldson. Jr.. accused of hav- ing swindled jewellers in Maiden lane, New York, was caught in Boston after a chase of three years.
 Henry Braun, a pugilist. died in St. Francis hospital, Trenton, the result of a blow inflicted by Jack Smith at the Palace Sporting club, in that city.
 A tornado and blizzard ragged in the south and west. A man was fatally hurt in Missouri. The mercury dropped 40 degrees in Kansas and Nebraska. Cattle and winter wheat will suffer se- verely.
 The Paulist Fathers of New York ac- cused the officials of Roosevelt hospital ot discriminating against them, insult ing them when they go to the institu- tion and of compelling one priest to