Connecticut western news., 1898-06-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World Briefly
 and Tersely Told.


 The gunboat Wheeling left Seattle on Friday for Alaska with a government surveying party.
 Kansas Republicans on Thursday nominated w. k. Stanley, a lawyer of Wichita, for governor.
 Adrian Anson has been signed as manager Of the New York baseball team in place of Captain Joyce.
 Several prostrations were caused by the heat In New York Sunday and one death from a fall resulted from lt.
 Samuel R. shapleigh of Boston was named for governor by the Massachu- setts Prohibition convention on Friday.
 D. b. curren, railroad superintend- ent in New Orleans, was shot in tho arm by a discharged employee on Tucs- day.
 The Illinois board of arbitration has upheld coal miners near Springfield in their demand for a 70 cents a ton wage scale.
 The litigation over the estate of tho late Enoch Pratt of Baltimore is to bo court. ..
 Blanche Walsh, widely known nc- tress, and her maid were fined ts each
  New York.
 A suit for s5Oo.ooo damages for libel has been brought by W. R. Hearst of the New York Journal against the New York World
 The 20 year penltentiary sentence of ex-State Treasurer Bartley of Nebraska was confirmed by the United States Hu- preme court.
 It was estimated in Seattle that east ern washington's wheat crop this year would be 25. .00o. 900 bushels. 3. .000. 900 moro than last year.
 It is announced that the governor of California will commute the death sen- tence of worden. the train wrecker. to life Imprisonment.
 Peter Harrison. m aged and well known resident of Hudson. N. Y., drop ped dead from the effects of the heat Monday afternoon.
 Andreas Malinak. a Pole. was exe- cuted in the Essex county jail, Newark. N. J., on Thursday for the murder of Mrs. Annie Kmetz.
 "A Santa Fe railroad fireman and a train robber were killed on Thursday night during an attack of four bandits on train in Texas.
 Yousouf, the Terrible Turk, easily de- feated Heraklides. the Greek wrestler. at the Metropolitan Opera House. in New York. Saturday night.
 Walter E. Goodwin. who on Sept. s 1se7, murdered his young wife at Mans field, Tioga county, Pa, was hanged in the county jailyard at wellsboro Thura- day.
 Miss Florence Lauterbach. daughter of Edward Lauterbach, a well known .4.fF Fs8s. women to seek admission to the bar on Saturday.
 The currying shop and shoe stock fac- tory of E. II. Murray & Co.,. at wohurn. Mass, was burned Sunday, together with the machinery and n considerable amount of stock.
 Secretary of State Day has asked con gress for s20.0O0 10 create a commission to investigate the commercial condi- tons in China affecting our export trade with that country.
 The Missouri supreme court granted a writ of custer fin the eases of the trust companies recently proceeded against by the attorney general for violating the state banking law.
 Edward II. Bergen, an insurance bro. ker of New York, was killed while bicy- cle riding Saturday evening In Eliza beth, N. J. He was thrown on his head, the fall breaking his neck.
 The value of the agricultural prod ucts exported for the year ending with this month is larger than for any pre- vious year in the history of the country. IL amounts to over ss0Qoooooo.
 Emmet Foody and Albert welch. aged i5 and IS respectively, were drowned late Monday afternoon while bathing in the Mohawk river at FultonvIlle. N. Y. The bodies were recovered.
 Mrs. Catherine Fay, 36. wife of wil- liam Fay, residing at New Britain. Conn. was fatally burned by the expio- sion of a gasoline stove with which she was preparing dinner on Sunday.
 Walter Dawiey. a painter, was almost instantly killed by falling 5o feet from the roof of Foster & Bailey'r jewelry factory, at Providence. Monday. Daw- ley was q we'll known local bicyelist
 Constable Leo Wall was killed at Wei mar Tex, Friday evening by George Washington. a negro. who tried to make his escape. but was captured and hanged to an electric light pole by 500 people.
 Alice Geegan. while riding a bicycle on Flatbush avenue. Brooklyn. Sunday, was knocked down and injured by n carriage. The driver endeavored Co eA- cape. but was chased by a number of wheelmen and arrested.
 William R. Foster, formerly counsel for the gratuity fund of the New York Produce Exchange, who is accused Of misappropriating s19s,oo0 of that fund and who was out on i20 900 ball await ing trial. is said to have lied.
 al. Princeton Tuesday the sum of $50, 600 was subscribed for the founding of the new chair which will be known as the Mccosh chair of philosophy. Professor ormonde win be the first incumbent
 Max Baker, a prominent farmer of Clyde, Wayne county, N. r.. 76 years old. took dose of laudanum at his home Monday and died from the effects of the poison Tuesday. The cause of his suicide is ascribed to grief over the rec cent death of his son.
 Charles sharpe, who. with II other miners, was burned by the explosion of gas in the south wilkesharre shaft of the Lehigh and wilkesbarrc Coal com. pany Saturday. died Sunday after terri ble suffering. Three other victims are In a preearious condition.
 As result of a quarrel in the Italian quarter in Springfield, Mass. on Sunday Natau Giulinao deliberately murdered his friend, pietro Fazzio, by shooting him with revolver the bullet reaching the heart. Giulinao fled. but was cap. tured later in hiding by q bis mob and police officers,
 John Becker. who on April s killed Myrtle Huffmelster the i6-yenr.old daughter of William Huffmelster, a farmer living midway between Great Bend and Ellinwood, Kan. was lynehed by a mob of 500 In the public square ol the former place on Monday night Becker was employed by the farmer nnt professed to be passionately in loNs with the daughter. The tragedy fol' lowed the girls refusal to return hh love.