Connecticut western news., 1898-02-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Feb, 10,

killed by an assassin and was succeed
 ed by Vice President Cabrera. | Captain General Blanco arrived in Ha-
 vana after his fruitless journey through : the eastern provinces of Cuba. ! Major Roe of Squadron A was placed in command of the nAtional guard of | New York, with the title of major gen. 1 eral.
 Two residents of Perth Amboy, N. J.. I, lost for 36 hours in the fog and ice in Staten Island sound, reached home to
 find their friends dragging for their
 bodies.
 President Mckinley announced that
 he will attend the annual celebration i at Pennsylvania university on Wash
 ington's birthday and address the fac ulty and students.
 Friday, Feb. II. Two men were killed in the Baltimore , mine. near Wilkesbarre. Pa.
 David Henesy of New York was found
 dead in a hotel in Roseville, a suburb of ! Newark. N. J.
 ' United States Consul Walter Barker
 at Sagua la Grande. Cuba. reports that
 coco reconcentrados are starving in | that city.
 The British house of commons reject | ed amendments to the address in reply to the queens speech relating to Irish distress and countervailing duties on
 imports.
 The session of the Fifth Avenue Pres ! byterian church. New York. of which ! Dr. John Hall is the pastor. has re- oeived the resignation CT eight of it's : members. as follows: Malcolm Graham. [ Alexander Maitland. James k. JesGp, 1 John Sloane, r.. Francis Hyde Henry
 L. Smith. J. J. McCook and Henry B. ! Barnes. The resisnations were placed ! on the minutes and will be acted upon l s. d future meeting. Saturday. Feb. I2. | Princess Kaiulani and Prince David ! Kaw wananakoa Of Hawaii announced l their engagement.
 Eight short term prisoners escaped from tine onondaga County peniten- | tiary, in Syracuse. An examination of the body of Baron Harden Hickey. who was found dead in
 a hotel at Fl Paso, Tex. showed that
 he died from morphine poisoning. A man who registered as James Hart | of New York. but who Is supposed to | have been Dr. Joseph C. Coadict of New Brunswick. N. J.. committed suI- | eide at the Merchants hotel in Albany. | Seventeen hundred dogs, forming the | largest list of entries received in the | history of the Westminster Kennel | club. will be exhibited at the annual
 bench show which opens at Madison
 Square Garden in New York on Feb. 21. | Mon"ay. Feb. II. The Rev. Dr. John Hall says the dis | sension in the Fifth Avenue Presbyte-
 rian church. New York, is healed. A demonstration of 30 0G0 people | against the torturing of anarchists in ! MontJuich prison was held in Barce-
 Iona.
 An expedition. supposed tos be under | the leadership of General Sanguily, is
 said to have sailed for Cuba with arms.
 ammunition and supplies from a point
 near Tampa, Fla. At the forty-ninth annual meeting of Grand Lodge No. l. Independent Order
 Of Free Sons Uf israel. resolution was adopted praising Emile Zola for his ac- tion in the Dreyfus case. Mrs. Arthur Levy was killed in an
 elevator at the Holland House. New | York. by falling in 8 faint, so that part | of her head Was struck by a girder be- | tween the ground and first floors as the elevator was ascending. Tuesday, Feb. I5.
 The steamship Moana sailed from Sydney for San Francisco. carrying s1.- | 500. 900 In gold.
 Three men were killed and two were | injured. one man fatally, by three ele- vator accidents in New York. A man who registered as E. finders, New York, committed suicide by taking poison in the Nelson House, Pough- keepsie.
 Two marines from the United States cruiser Raleigh, who attempted to swim ashore at Colombo, Ceylon, were drowned.
 The second trial of William J. Koern- CT. charged with killing Rose Alice Red gate, his sweetheart. was begun in gem eral sessions in New York. The Republican congressional cam | paign committee perfected its organi- zation at Washington, Representative Babcock being reelected chairman. Western tin plate manufacturers are reported as trying to effect d combina- tion, and have approached the eastern manufacturers. A capital of SEQ 000. 900 Is suggested.
 William Riley Foster. charged with defrauding the gratuity fund of the Produce Exchange to the extent of slsS.OO0 in 1888. was brought to New York from Paris. In Cincinnati the United States cir cult court of appeals for the Sixth cir cult decided that the contract of asso- citation of the Cast Iron Pipe trust is void and in violation of the federal an- thrust law. This is the first case in which a manufacturing combination has been convicted of infringing that stat ute.
 Wednesday. Feb. IG. Edhem Pasha has been sent by Tur- key to inquire into the outrages com plained of by Bulgaria.
 The chassis Sf Kingston, N. T.. re- moved the Rev. Chandler A. Oakes as pastor of the Fair Street Reformed church.
 A dispatch from Madrid to London