Connecticut western news., 1898-11-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wtd~ World
 Briefly and Terrely Told.

Happenings of the wia~ World
 Briefly and Tersely Told.
 Colonel Roosevelt spoke at six meet ings in Brooklyn and two meetings in Manhattan Monday night.
 Two Alabama planters. who had been friends. auarreled over crop. and one shot the other and then killed himself.
 Three men walking on the New Ha- ven railroad track were cut Co pieces by . train near New Rochelle. N. Y., Fri- day.
 Governor Black and others spoke at big mass meeting of Republicans in LenoS Lyeenm in New York Monday night.
 The schooner st. Peters foundered on sodus Point, N. Y., on Lake ontario, Thursday. It is believed that eight or ten persons were drowned.
 F. D. Armour. it Is said. lost a large sum Monday as the result of squeeze in October short ribs engineered by a syndicate of English" packers.
 The fourth annual convention of the New York State Federation of women'r Clubs was opened in Mendelssohn hall, New York city. Tuesday morning.
 R. R. Evans, a business man of Thomasville, Ga. was shot and killed Tuesday by Dr. J. e. Hopkins during quarrel over business transaction.
 The United States supreme court has sustained the constitutionality of the tax laws of New York levyinE tax on foreign corporations doing business in that state
 An Insane farmer killed a passenger on a rapidly moving street car In Att lanta Friday and wounded a police cap tain and an ex-policeman who arrested him.
 Owing to the outbreak of the bubonic plague, Washington authorities have ordered that all steerage passengers from Vienna be quarantined for two weeks.
 Chairman Babcock of the Republican congressional committee estimates that the Republicans win elect is2 members of the next house and the combined ops position 1sb.
 smith Nj. Weed said Tuesday that the claims of Santo Domingo against the United States on account of the Her nandez expedition had been satisfacto. rlly adjusted.
 Governor Tanner of Illinois is quoted as saying that he wIll shoot to pieces with Gatling guns any train that att tempts to enter the state with "a mob of imported laborers.
 Nearly all the students at Central Medical college. St. Joseph, Mo. resent a professors criticism of football and declare that they will leave the college at the end of the term.
 A band of young Sioux on the Pine Ridge agency, North Dakota, are rec ported to have started a movement for the forcible removal of Indian Agent Clapp from the reservation.
 Philip R. Nj. Hildreth. wealthy young trooper of Squadron A. shot him. self in his home. ss Irving place, New York It is declared by his family that the shooting was accidental.
 A burglar at st. Louis replaced ar. ticles he had taken from a soldiers pockets on Thursday night with a note explaining that he 'could not rob any one who defended his country"
 Joseph Letter of Chicago, whose speculations in wheat resulted dinan. trously few months ago. ir reported to have purchased the Rhode Island Locomotive works at Providence.
 Dr. Curtis of the New York state health board complained Tuesday of the action Of physicians in the west. ern part of the state for their failure to correctly diagnose cases of smallpox
 A statement issued by the treasury bureau of statistics shows that the ex- portetion of wire nails from the United States has grown from I.b47.07s pounds in 1888 to 22,ss4oss in the present year.
 General Bacon. who commanded the soldiers in the recent light with Piliaset Indians at Leech lake. in Minnesota made report to the war department He warmly praises the conduct of the officers and men engaged in the battle.
 George W. Mayors, a private detect i've. was arrested Wednesday at Poush. keepsle. N. r.. by secret service men. who charge him with following a gov. ernment witness in a diamond snug gling case.
 It was announced in New York that General Stewart l.. Woodford would be the Republican organization candidate for the United States senate If the Re- publicans have a majority in the next state legislature.
 Judge Van wyck. Democratic canal. date for governor, addressed a large audience in the opera House at Utica night He dwelt at length on he canal question. Ex-senator Hill also a speech.
 A great outpourtnE or German-Amer- cans at Cooper Union, New York. was by Colonel Roosevelt and others. Colonel Roosevelt spoke at two in the northern part of the sity, one at Cosmopolitan hall and one ,t Morrisania hall. Tuesday night.
 Jackson. the colored man who was of mansiaughter in connection with the death of his son, whose man yled body was found on the railroad racks at Tea Neck, N. J. has con 'essed to Sherin Herring and Deputy Sheriff Jackson, the latter say that he the boy with an Iron bolt, Superintendent Of Public Works George w. Aldridge issued a reply Co he report of the canal Investigating In which he denies all the harges against his administration and accuses the commissioners. in connec- ion with others, with responsibility for he insufficieney of the appropriation of g. 900, GOO.
 
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