Connecticut western news., 1898-07-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of tho wido World Brisn,
 and Tersciy Told.

Hon. Philip Becker, twice Republican mayor of Buffalo, died in that city Tues day.
 Women were elected without opposl- ton to govern the town of Lincoln N.J.
 Ex-Senator pefrer accepted the Pro- hibition nomination for governor of Kansas.
 A syndicate has secured possession of the trolley lines between Basimore and Washington.
 An express car was.blown up with dy- namite and robbed near stanton. Tex, Sunday night.
 John Kane, a farmer of Chester. N Y was struck by lightning and instant ly killed on Tuesday.
 The thermometer registered l07 in New York Sunday. Many persons were prostrated by the heat An unknown bark was sunk in colli- sion with the British steamer Endsleigh off Cape Sable on Sunday. The Republicans of the sixth Iowa congressional district renominated John F. Lacey by acclamation Thursday. An order has been Issued for the rec tirement on account of age of Rear Ad- miral Kirkland, senior officer of the navy.
 Ex-senator Edmunds, in a Fourth of July address at Philadelphia, spoke strongly against what he termed impe- rialism.
 Mrs. Martha Place, who. it is charged. killed her stepdaughter, Ida Place, in Brooklyn several months ago, was piac.' ed on trial.
 Pennsylvania won the varsity boat race on Saturday at Saratoga, with Cor nell second, Wisconsin third and Co- lumbia fourth. A tornado struck Hampton Beach. N. H., and nine lives were lost by the de- struction of n pavilion and tho capsiz- ing of a boat.
 The Prohibition state oonvenikn at Syracuse Thursday nominated Professor John Kline of Penn Yan for governor of New York state. Joseph Knrney of Tarrytown, N. Y., was struck by train on-tho New York Central road near Kingsbridge Sunday and instantly killed.
 Governor Black has issued a procla- nation converting the New York state legislature at Albany in extra session on Monday next at D. m.
 The first bale of this years crop of cotton was ginned in Texas Friday. IL was sent to the president and is to bo made Into gun cotton for the battleship Texas.
 Congressman ]. r. Deliver was roc nominated at Fort Dodge, Ia.. Thure- day night by exclamation by the Re. publicans of the Tenth congressional district.
 Twenty persons were reported to have | perished by the capsizing of the excur- sion steamer Surf City fin Salem bay, while on it's way to Beverly Mass., on Monday.
 The degree of master of arts wac con- ferred upon the Hon. William R. Day, secretary of state by the University of Michigan at Thursday's commencement exercises.
 For the first time since the civil war | the Fourth of July wns celebrated with | great enthusiasm in Montgomery, Ala, fireworks being sent up from the former | Confederate capitol.
 oscar Badgeley. 22-year-old son of ex-Freeholder Eugene Badgeley of Sum init, N. J., was killed by the bursting of cannon which he was shooting off in honor of the Fourth.
 Canadian soldiers participated in a Fourth of July celebration at Burling- ton, Vt The Canadians cheered Prcsi- dent Mckinley and the Americans shouted for Queen Victoria. | Tn New York city on Friday w. w. Durant, reputed to be worth over xi,oo0,- | 900. was arrested. charged by his sister with withholding her share of n S1.b00.- 900 estate. Ills gave ball in si0,000.
 Two brothers. George and Alden. agod and II respectively, sons of Thomas T EFaf R. l., were drowned Tuesday while swimming in the Pawtucket river.
 An Erie locomotive exploded at Es- sex Falls. N. J.. Monday. The engineer had a miraculous escape from death and waH only slightly hurt. The nro- man and baggagemaster were bruised and cut.
 The suit of Mrs. Anna corbin Bor- rowe against the executors of the estate | of the late Austin Corbin, her father, has been dacidod against her by the ap- pellate division of the supreme court of New York.
 News from Dawson City, in the Klon- dike up to June 1 tells of the absence of good mining claims, the heavy death rate from sickness and the washing ashore of most of the river boats by | high water.
 At the risk of her own life Miss Alice | Goodwin. IT years of age, rescued Ed- ward Burke. an actor. from drowning at Sea Cllff, N. Y. He had sustained a concussion of the brain and was sink Ing for the third time.
 The Hazleton tpa.) flax mills, situat- | ed in the southern outskirts of the city, were destroyed by fire Sunday. The fro is supposed to have been caused by in- | cendlaries and was the second time tho mills hnd been on fire. The Yale baseball team defeated the | Harvard team in 1n exciting game at the Polo grounds. New York, on satur- day, by a score of to 1. This was the third and last game of the series, each team having previously won game. Vineenza Rosano, n young Italian bride of Newark, N. l., was shot and Killed Friday by n rejected Italian suitor named Marighetti, who. after tho murder. committed suicide by throw ing himself from a fourth story win- dow.
 By the collapse of building In Lam | caster, Tex, Birdy Nattles, daughter of Henry Natties, has been killed and Two others injured, two of them fatally. The injured are John Long. John Nance, Edgar Sanders, Richard whitworth and Mrs. ]. C. Johnson. The last two arc fatally hurt. Faulty construction ia