Connecticut western news., 1898-10-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide wsria
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

Fire ai 1olofAuo Spflnkb SatuFuhy ID
 estimated to have caused loss of u.-
 po0, ,000
 The president on Monday appointed c. w. Scott postmaster at Williams. port. Pa.
 The mining town of Pana, Ills, where strike troubles exist, has been placed
 under martial law.
 The Ancient and Honorable artillery of Boston were received with great
 eordiality in Quebec Monday.
 A fire in the Midvaie mine of the Lee
 high Valley Coal company Saturday
 caused the loss of five lives, the miners being suffocated.
 The American board of missions of
 the Congregational church began its an. nual convention Tuesday in the Park | church at Grand Rapids.
 The battleship Illinois was success | fully launched and christened with
 champagne by Miss Nancy Letter Tues
 day at Newport News, Va.
 Patrick Sabin, a livery stable keeper | sf Tuppsr Lake. N. r., was murdered
 and robbed by two unknown men near
 that place on Tuesday night.
 The four masted schooner Sarah E. | Palmer was lost near Charleston Sum | day morning. The captain, the first
 and second mates. the steward and four | seamen were drowned.
 The court of appeals at Albany dee
 sided on Tuesday that George J. Gould must pay inheritance tax to the state | of New York on the bequest of s5. 900 .OO0 | from his father and that the estate of | Jap Gould was not overtaxed. The formal ceremony of informing | Colonel Roosevelt of his nomination at Cxa.~ ezxsra fa. tF .sIa | the colonel's home, at oyster Bay, | Tuesday. addresses being made by Chauncey M. Depew and the candidate. James A. Clemmer. who was convict | ed of complicity with Charles O. Kaiser | in the murder of the latter's wife, Mrs. | Emma Kaiser, was on Monday sentenc- | cd by Judge weand to be hanged. The | governor will fix the date of the hang | ing. The miners strike at Dillonvale and | Long Run. fin the Ohio district, has been settled. part of the men returning to work Monday and others going in | Tuesday. Over 1000 men were out, The | settlement is victory for the miners.
 as all points but one were gained. Dr. Nancy Guilford, or the woman suspected of being Dr. Guilford and who | is wanted in connection with the mur- | der of Miss Emma Glll. at Bridgeport, | Conn. has been remanded In London | police court. The prisoner was shad- owed and arrested by Scotland Yard de- | tectives.
 The Democrats of Brooklyn made | their congressional nominations Mon- | day night except in the Fifth district. where an adjournment was taken. The | candidates are: Second district. John !. I Fitzgerald; Third district. Edmund II. | Driggs: Fourth district, Bertram T. | Clayton; Sixth district, Mitchell May. The Broad Street church at Wells vile. N. Y.. was on Tuesday badly | damaged by fire. During the progress of the fire Rev. A. R. Miller, pastor of the church. was hit by a falling trap | door. which fell n distance of 20 feet. | He was badly injured losing several | teeth and receiving bad cuts and | bruises about the face and head. The Republicans of Kings county, N. T., nominated the following candi- | dates for the state senate Monday | night. Third district, George ]. Hardy: Fourth district, D. F. Davis. Fifth dia- trict Robert l.. Brackett sixth dis | trict, w. H. Ziegler; Seventh district,
 Edward sehleuter; Eighth district. Henry Marshsll Ninth district. J. l.. | Wieman.
 The Tradesmen's National bank of | New York has closed its doors, and national bank examiner is in charge. A clearing house committed, after an examination of the banks affairs on Monday night, reported that the inatl- | tution's capital had been impaired The suspension had been expected. as the bank was believed 10 be involved by the depression in the wool trade. Ex-Treasurer Haywood of Pennsyi- vania was arrested in Omaha Tuesday upon the charge of being implicated
 with Senator Quay and others in an al- legged conspiracy to misuse the com monweaith's funds, but was afterward
 released upon the request of District Attorney Graham of Philadelpha. Charles H. Mckee, who is also one of the defendants, has given bail for his
 appearance to answer the charge
 Senator James K. Jones, chairman
 of the national Democratic committee,
 on Monday appointed ex-Govornor Wii-
 liam J. stone of Missouri, ex-Governor
 John F. Altgeid of Illinois, Senator Wil-
 liam V. Allen of Nebraska and Senator
 Henry Nj. Teller of Colorado 10 act in
 conjunction with himself as commit
 tee on ways and means to further the CAukc or plIn0thltlttns W tAt~
 vey, author of Coins Financial
 school" was offered the position of
 general manager of the committees
 work.
 Leonard waltrous, a farmer who re-
 sided two miles south of the village of
 Warsaw, N. Y., shot himself In the
 breast Monday. dying almost instantly.
 waltrous first attempted to kill his wife
 and had pursued her to the house of a
 neiRhbor, but the neighbors shielded
 her from harm until waltrous returned
 home. The report of rife was heard
 soon afterward. and waltroun was found dead on the veranda of his resi-
 dence. The tragedy was the culmiua-
 ton of domestic troubles due to intcm-
 perance.
 A. W. Bash, general agent of the
 American- Chinese Development conn
 pany, sails on Oct. 10 from Seattle.
 Wash, with W. Barclay Parsons chief
 engineer of the company. for China 10
 start work on one of the greatest rail-
 roads to be built in China. The compa-
 ny, headed by ex-senator Calvin s,
 Brice, has obtained a concession Co
 build a railroad from Hankow to Cam ton and the sea opposite Hongkong,
 traversing one of the richest districts
 of the empire. The company is oapi-
 talized at s40, ,o0o,000.
 News reached Victoria. n. C., on
 Tuesday from the Klondike of a rich
 find of gold bearing quartz near Dos
 minion creek by w. J. Portridge of that city. The new find ia situated in the lo-
 cality of Dome, from which most of the
 creeks derive their source. It is at
 the head of Lombard creek. the first
 tributary of Dominion going toward
 McQueston, and almost directly on the
 trail leading to the latter place. The
 ledge is 16 feet in width and of honey
 comb nature, carrying quantity oi
 galena and chlorldes.
 Combine of German Iron Trade.
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