Connecticut western news., 1898-01-27

| divorce in New York.
 Henry W. Nudge of Glen Cove, N. r., who had domestic and financial trou- bles, committed suicide in the Conti- mental hotel, New York. The Denver department stores have lost their fight against the newspapers for a cut of 30 per cent in advertising rates and have accepted an advance over the rates previously established.
 Henry B. Straight. who Is said to bs an all around crook succeeded In mak- ing his escape from the Gregory street police station, Jersey City. His wife is under arrest charged with having aided him to obtain his freedom Friday, Jan. 21. David Platt Osborne has begun a suit against his father-in-law, John D. Kim mey, a millionaire, of Newark, N. J., for alienation of his wife's affections. Supreme Court Justice Garrison. in charging the grand jury in Camden, N. J., declared that embracery stopped the Shaw trial and that Prosecutor Jenkins would step aside and Attorney General Grey take charge of the invest; gation.
 The Japanese warship Kasagi was launched at Cramps shipy ard, Phila- delphia. Miss Helen Long. laughter of the secretary of the navy, christened the ship m accordance with a Japanese custom by releasing numt CT of doves from the bow and scattered flowers over the deck.
 Erich A Prisman. a disgraced lieuten- ant in the Volunteers of America, was arrested in New York charged with fe- lonious assault upon Miss Anna Hughes. private secretary to Commander Bal lington Booth, at Orange. N. J. It Is charged that he struck her with a sandbag, mistaking her for her sister. with whom he Is in love. Saturday, Jan. as. Mrs. Mary Wolf, helpless and 58 years old, was burned In her apartments at 412 East Fifteenth street, New York, and died in Bellevue hospital.
 Five hundred mechanics employed in the Globe Iron Works company's ship yard, in Cleveland. of which Senator Hanna Is a principal owner. struck be- cause nonunion men were employed In another yard recently purchased by the company.
 The New York Life Insurance compa- ny has settled the Hillmon claim. which had been in litigation in Kansas for nearly 20 years, and which was a prom lDenl ldCtOT III tue lTOuDie utlWccn tiio state insurance depal tment and east ern insurance companies.
 Anthony Comstock, with a New York postotfice inspector and deputy mar shal, sprang a trap on a gang of green goods" operators at Portchester, N. Y., and arrested George Morris, who Is ap- parently the leader. John Reedy, sta- ton agent of the New York and Put nam railroad and telegraph operator, tax collector and postmaster at Pocan- tico Hills, N. r., was arrested as an ac. complice.
 Monday, Jan. e4.
 Rev. T. De Witt Talmage has been married to Mrs. Eleanor Collier of Ale ghany City, Pa. The wedding was very quiet.
 It Is said. that Miss Adelaide Mason. daughter of Marion Manola, is engageI to c. D. Burrows. a nephew of Speaker Thomas B. Reed.
 The solar eclipse in India caused na- tive astrologers to predict terrible ca- lamitIes. There was a rapid fall of temperature noted.
 Mrs. Witthaus, who secured limited divorce from Professor Witthaus, the we'll known toxicologist of New York. accused him of having tried to poison her.
 M. J. Cramer, ex-minister to Denmark and Switzerland, and brother-in-law to General U. s. Grant, professor at Dickinson college, Carlisle. Pa, died at that place.
 Explorer Nansen, who has been lec- turing through the country. intends to start for Norway at once, and his man. agers are suing him for $2o,0oo for breach of contract.
 Tuesday. Jan. a5.
 The celebration of the golden jubilee of California was begun.
 Charles E. Willard, a retired insur- ance man, was killed by a fall down an elevated railroad stairway In New York.
 In the session of the French chamber of deputies the members. by vote cf 376 to 133. expressed confidence In tho government.
 Lord William Nevill. fourth son of the Marquis of Abergavenny. was ar- raigned In a London police court on a charge of fraud.
 The Italian armored cruiser Marco Polo has been ordered to China. King Humbert told the captain that Italy's interests are akin to those of England.
 Martial law was proclaimed at Fort | warehouse of an Alaska trading com pany from an attacking party of 150 miners.
 Baron von Buelow, the German for eign minister, declared before the bud get committee of the reichstag that there never had been relations of any kind between German representatives or agents and Dreyfus. General Billet. the French minister of war, will pro- hibit all officers from testifying at the trial of Emile Zola.
 Wednesday, Jan. %.
 President Dole of Hawaii left Chicago for Washington by a special train.
 The annual meeting of the National Association ofManufacturers was open ed in Masonic temIIe in New York
 Mrs. Burt Griffith. the wife of Long Island fireman, testified that her former lover. George Jones, tried to wreck her husbands train because she tilted him. Jacob Hing. the ex-cowboy who killed Otto Diehl for cruelty treating his wife, Hinz's sister, was exonerated by a cor- oner's jury in Brooklyn. MT. and Mrs. Henry Loomis Nelson and Bernard Campbell. their coachman. were badly injured at New Rochelle, N. Y.. through their coach falling int ? an excavation in Residence park. Ths coachmAh Is not expected to live. The International Drydock and Con- struction company has made a propo- sition to build large floating drydock in New York for the use of the govern ment at yearly rental of s90.000 for 100 days use each year for 20 years. The structure Is to cost about s1. .60o, ,0o0 Father Dent has begun suit in New York against Archbishop Corrigan. Bishop Keane, Father De Angelis and William T. Schley for s1000 damages for alleged false imprisonment and ma- licious prosecution, the trouble begin ming with his expulsion from the So- ciety of Friars Minor Of the Order of St. Francis.