Connecticut western news., 1898-04-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April Id.

sunk on April in the gulf of Mexico. Benjamin De Long, a butcher. of Ny ack. N. r., while driving home from Jersey City was struck by a train Of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey and mortally injured.
 President Patton and two Princeton professors. delegates to the Presbyterl- an General assembly, have. it is said, refused tu attend. fearing censure be- cause of the Princeton inn trouble.
 Katy Collins, 9 years old, told Mag istrate Brann in the Yorkville police court in New York. that she had seen her father. Timothy Collins. kill her mother last Saturday. She described the circumstances, and Collins was held.
 Friday, April I5.
 Mrs F. F. Chase of walworth, Wayne county, N. Y.. was thrown from a Broadway cable car at the curve at Seventeenth street, New York, and was killed.
 The Spanish minister Senor Polo. has made preparations to leave Wash ington and to turn the Spanish lega- tion archives over to the French em- bassador.
 The woman cashier of the firm of Higgins & Setter. china dealers. in New York. was held up in the firms store by a masked robber who secured from her about $1.0o0 in cash and checks The robber escaped.
 Samuel Baxter of Plainfield, N. J., died victim of fright, believing he had hydrophobia. He had been bitten by dog, and. although no symptoms of the disease resulted. the joking of his friends so worked on his imagination hot hsa s.. faI aK,,ar violent just before his death.
 Saturday, April 16.
 The Twenty-fifth infantry. U s. A, went into camp at Chickamauga Park.
 The Henley regatta committee has refused the entry of Ten Eyck, the American oarsman.
 Herr Mottl has been selected to con- duct the Wagner festival at Covent Garden. London. in place of the late Anton Seidl.
 Mrs. John Bross of Homestead, N. J., whipped a trolley car conductor be- cause. she declares, he ridiculed her bi- cycle riding.
 Ardsley club near Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. The score was 17 holes for Princeton and Il for Ardsley.
 A bill appropriating S500OO0 to in- crease the efficiency of the national guard of Massachusetts was passed and signed by the governor
 Joseph Letter sold from 5000. 900 to s. 900 900 bushels of July wheat. It is thought he has reduced the amount he held by 10000 900 bushels.
 Monday, April IS.
 J. L. Hance, the United States com- mercial agent at Cardenas, Cuba, ar- rived in New York. He and his star were obliged to flee for their lives.
 A popular loan Is proposed to raise funds needed to meet war expenses, and facilities will be furnished so that every one who desires can buy bonds.
 The monitor Nahant, manned by New York naval reserves, reached Tomp- kinsville in New York harbur from Philadelphia. after stormy voyage up the coast.
 Captain Sigsbee took command of the steamer St. Paul in New York harbor. and in a few minutes after his arrival she started for Philadelphia to be con- verted into q cruiser.
 A suit for 750O0 has been filed against Professor Charles R. Eastman of Harvard. who is charged with ab- ducting his sister-in-law, ore of the
 
 Tuesday, April 10.
 Two men were killed and six were injured, some of them probably fatally. by the fall of an iron girder at the state armory in Newburg. N. Y.
 John C. Knowles. a we'll known wheel man. died in Bellevue hospital New York, from consumption, attributed to excessive bicycle riding. In 1891 he rode G 900 miles in 60 days.
 Tncmas C. Felton. son of Cornelius c. Felton. a former professor and pres ident of Harvard university. committed suicide by shooting himself in Massa- chusetts General hospital Boston.
 The Eagle. Hornet and Hawk of the mosquito fleet. all formerly yachts, sail ed from New York to join the squadron at Key West. They are all in fighting trim. Other warships at the navy yard are ready for orders to put to sea. The gunboat Annapolis is thought to have passed out quietly.
 Wednesday, April 20.
 The United States military attaches at Vienna and St. Petersburg have been recalled.
 The cruisers Vizcaya and Almirante Oquendo joined the Spanish fleet at the Cape Verde islands.
 The United States cruiser Topeka sail ed from Falmouth, England, for Amer ica under urgent orders.
 Edwin K. Willard. the venerable member of the New York Stock Ex- change. was expelled on a charge of fraud.
 The court of appeals of the state of New York decided that the states ap- peal from the supreme courts decision in the case of the so called "coal" rail- roads did not come under it's jurisdic- ton.
 William Hepburn. the alleged "Colonel Webster in the Brooklyn bribery case, was arrested. He refused to plead. by the advice of his counsel. on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction. Hep burn was released on S5.O00 bail.
 George Parsons Lathrop. the novelist and essayist. died at Roosevelt hospital, New York, having been admitted to the institution Saturday. His wife. from whom he had separated some years ago, was with him wtrn he died.
 Ex- Mayor Strong appeared before the grand jury of New York county and se- cured the indictment of George B. White, who is under arrest in Philadel- phia on a charge of defrauding 20 banks in New York and other cities five years ago. Whites peculations are said to amount to nearly $400.000.
 Miss Elizabeth Cussitt Stokes and Jules J. Natable were married in New York at the home of the brides father. Colonel Thomas Stokes. West Fifty third street. the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurs@ officiating. Miss Blanche Hortense Aucaigne. daughter of Consul General Felix Aucaigne of Paraguay, was married to Emil Ams at the West End Collegiate church.