Connecticut western news., 1898-06-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Happenings of the Whole World Briefly
 and Tcrseiy Told.
 The Republican state ticket was elect. ed in oregon on Tuesday.
 A distinct earthquake shock was feit st Malone, N. Y., Thursday.
 stephen F. Nash, the well known law. yer, died at Bcrnardsvillc, N. J.
 c. M charnley. IT,, aged %, of Chi- cago, committed suicide by shooting at Los Angeles, Cal
 President Mckinley on Tuesday sign. cd the bin for the removal of all poe litical disabilities arising from the civil war.
 Ex-Congressman Elijah A. Morse died at his home in Canton, Mass, at s o'clock Sunday afternoon, aged b7 years.
 The president on Monday appointed Robert Smalls, colored. a hero of ths civil war collector of customs at Beau fort. s. c.
 William F. Harrity has been dropped by the national Democratic committee as a member from Pennsylvania and James NJ. Guffey substituted.
 The twenty-thlrd annual commence ment of the New York City Training School For Nurses was held Friday aft ernoon at the Charity hospital, Black wells island.
 The celebration of the one hundred and flftieth anniversary of the Evan gelieal Lutheran ministerlum of Penn sylvania and adjacent states was bee gun Thursday in Philadelphia.
 A battle for the possession of the Columbia theater in Newark, N. l., took place Friday afternoon, a deputy sheriff and a detective leading the opposing forces. The matter will be settled in court.
 Paul Grottkau, the noted socialist agitator, who had been suffering from pneumonia, died in Milwaukee on Sat urday. His home was in San Francisco He was we'll known in socialistio elrclel throughout the country Senhor Jauquin Francisco de cessiz the new Brazilian minister, presented his credentials to President Mckinley on Monday and made n speech of un- usual warmth, expressing the friendly feeling of Brazil for this nation. Ephraim Connolly, boy living at Somers Point, N, J., was found dead in the woods there Tuesday, having been strangled 10 death. Philip o'Mara, wandering musician. who was charg-
 
 lynching.
 The rolling mill and steel plant of the Burgess Steel and Iron company at Portsmouth, O.. was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday. The boss will agRre- gate S350. 900, and the insurance is about s200 900. Eight hundred employees arc thrown out of work.
 The steamships Alki and Humboldt bring news to Tacoma that the con- struction work on n railroad across White pass from Skaguay has been commenced The railway officials have hired all available men and bought up every horse in sight.
 Freemasons from all parts of New York state, representing As lodges in the Jurisdiction, crowded the Masonic Temple Tuesday In attendance on tho one hundred and seventeenth annual communication of the grand lodge of the state of New York.
 Rev. John peate of Greenville, Pa, has. after many months of labor, oom- pleted the wonderful lens which he has been shaping and polishing for tho American university at Washington. The big glass, the largest of its kind in the country, is boxed up ready for shipment
 The Kings county grand jury Friday handed in a presentment declaring that the ironwork Used for the purpose of hanging the ceiling to the main roof of the borough hall is put up in m un- worlsmanlike manner and that the in- spection of the ironwork was careless and inefficient.
 Between ST LOGO and S2.oOo was stolen from a money box at the Halsey street depot of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad company on Thursday The police arc anxious to interview Frank Smith. the night starter, who left the station early on Thursday morning and has not re- ported for duty since.
 Richard Thomas Russell, well known business man of Washington, and n son of Jacob Russell of New York. was found dead in bed in the Aloxan- dria (Va.) hotel Sunday. He had ap- parently committed suicide by asphyx- iation, Insomnia is credited with hav- ing prompted the act.
 A terrific explosion occurred on Sat- urday at Colebrook furnyco No. 1, West Lebanon, Pa, operated by the Lacka- wanna Iron and Steel company of Scranton. The explosion resulted from molten iron eating its way through the furnace bottom into the canal of water encirclinR it. Several men were injured. but no lives were lost. ...s.
 John J. shipperd, the banker md hro- ker of Cleveland. died Thursday, aged 5S years. Shipperd was recently the de- fendant in sensational suits begun by Frank De Haas Robison, in which it was charged that street railway bonds and other securities worth several hum dred thousand dollars had been hypoth- = Hl began to fall soon after his arrest on criminal charge. but he had been able Co visit his office daily until within a week.