The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1888-03-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Russia officially declares Prince FerGi-
nand a uSurper.
Natural gas has been discovered at Port
Arthur Point on Lake Superior.
Evictions on the Ponsonby estates in
Youghal. Ireland. have been resumed. !
Striking weavers at Flors, France rioted
In the streets ana the military was called
out.
At the Queens drawing room reception
Miss Bonyngs was the only American LADY
present
The Bulgarian Government resolves to
reject any proposition to dethrone Princei
Ferdinand. /
Sixty-nine of the II. savings banks of
Massachusetts have unclaimed deposits ag1
gregating. 1913. 965. :
Mr.. Lloyd, the English Homs Rule dele.
gate, has been sent to prison for SIX months,
under the Crimes act.
DIR. A. N. Roussell, young dentist of
No. 143 Stuyvesant avenue, Brooklyn, has
Q dog with gold-flled teeth.
Letter stampers in the Chicago POST
office struck because they were made to
work on Washington's S Birthday.
Premier Tirard brings matters to crisis
in the Chamber of Deputies, in Paris, and
wins by majority Of eighteen.
The New York police are looking for a
swindler who represented himself as Harry
Beecher, the captain of the Yale football
team.
One of the striking girls of the Newmark
Cigar Factory in New York city was fined
EIJ in court Saturday for calling those who
were at work "scabs. "
Still No. II at the Atlas Oil Refinery at
Buffalo, containing & 800 barrels OF oil, ex-
Dloded Friday, doing s, 80 damages and in
sJantly killing an employe.
Israel Lucas, the defaulting treasurer Of
Auglaize county, Ohio, who was arrested
county for S12,001. He stole $31, ,03O.
FrS nr Smith of NeaJparlr T
: known for her many charitable acts, has
contributed $I2, ID for the erection of a
sspiay housee for the poor children of that
city.
Julius Hildebrand, who fo- sixteen years
was the body servant of Bismarck, is liv-
ing in Chicago. Mr.. Hildebrand says that
the great dictator has the temper of an
angel
Bayshore, l.. l., has a curiosity in the
shape OF two-legged calf. It was born on
the farm of Jonah Robbins. 1t is black
and white in color and weighs about sixty
pounds.
William Gray, of Chicago, Saturday, paid
the first instailment OF the price asked Tor
the old Libby Prison at Richmond, Va.
This iusures the removal of the structure
to Chicago.
The new Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church, q handsome edifice at the corner
of Sumner avenue and Kearney street,
Newark, was dedicated Sunday with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
President Diaz, of Mexico, h as confirmed
the title of Mrs. Burton, of Boston, to
tract of land in Mexico, known as Grisenda
de Todas Santos, the value of which is est
imated ct $1O,0g0,0OO.
The United States Senate has appropriar
ted $50, 90 for the com pletion of the monu-
ment to the memory of George Washing
toms mother, begun years ago in North
nm berIand county, Va.
Report has it that Prince Albert Victor
has been betrothed to his cousin, Princess
Alexander of Greece, and the Princess
Victoria of England to the Duke of Sparta,
Crown Prince of Greece.
Gustav Winkler, of Milwaukee, Wis,
murdered his wife and committed suicide
late on Saturday night. Three children,
the eldest of whom is three years old,
witnessed the double tragedy.
The six-act knitting mill owned by
William Scott S8 Co was destroyed by fire
Sunday. The mill was four-story stluc-
ture, and the company had just added two
new sets of machinery. Loss will exceed
so, 900.
Al general emeute is expected in the Rus
sian universities on March 13, the anniver-
sarY of the assassination of Emperor Alex
ander a, and the police are making ex-
tensive preparations to quell any disorders
that may arise.
Mayor Filter, of Philadelphia, would not
permit The national salute to be fired in
honor of Washington's birthday in that
city. The salute has been fired on every
(
Philadelphia since Feb %, $780,
The politicians of st. Louis assert that
Mrs. Cleveland is mascot She was es-
cofted to the opera ON Monday evening by
ex- Mayor Francis of that city, and to that
fact is ascribed the action of the National
Democratic Committee in selecting st.
Louis as the place to hold the Convention.
The Grand Army of the Republic, Depart
ment of Indiana, at its annual meeting
Thursday night, passed resolution in-
structing the delegates to the National En-
canpment TO vote as unit in favor of giV-
ing every discharged soldier a pension for
life at not less than $S per month and more
for disabilities.
A man near Rushville Neb., while dig1
ging in well twenty feet below the sur
face, unearthed the jawbone of an antidi-
luvian animal OF prodigious size. From
the tip of the chin to the larger or upper
end it measured three feet and seven
inches, and the teeth were oyer two inches
long
The maddest man in Omaha is party the
name of s. r. Johnson. A few years ago he
could have bought the Coronado Islands in
San Diego Bay, but didn't. A syndicate
jumped in, paid $110,GO0 for the land, and
within the last year has sold nearly three
million dollars worth. What is leftis held
at SIC, coo, 000
The row between Lord Salisbury and Mr..
Bradlaugh over the latters assertion that
Ior Salisbury gave his personal check to
aid IN the promotion OF meetings Of unemi
ployed workingnaen in Trafalgar Square in
February, 1886, with the Interior object OF
reaping political beneffs through the disor!
derly character of the meetings is to be
settled in Court
Commissioner Donovan, of the State
Board of Arbitration and Mediation, has
been notified to appear before the COM
mittee on Labor of the House of Represent
atives at Washington next Monday
and give his views on the bill now pending
making eight Ecurs a days work for the
p0stmen OF the United States.
Col john W. Hewitt, ex-Speakers of tho
Arkansas Legislature. IS slowly dying at
Marianne. of a carcerous growth on tho
tongue. His disease is very much Like that
from which Gen. Grant died. He has no
hope of recovery and, having put all his
business affairs in ortssr, is calmly. await
ing the approach of death.
Some interesting autographs of men Of
letters were sold recently in Lon on. In
one from Swift The writer declares that SO
dire is his poverty tsthat if come to Mare
Park it must BE- on foot.n Stern begs for
the loan of 80 pounds. n letter from Cola
smith gives "doleful accounts of his fs.--5
ian travels, and one from Fielding com.
plains OF his disappointment in money af
fairs.
A Mrs. Woodworth has been performing
some wonderful faith cures at Charab bers4
burg, Pa. Abner Kyle, who had been deaf
for ten years, recovered his hearing the
moment she prayed for him. Mrs. Loch.
baum, whose arms had been helpless be-.
cause of rheumatism, and Mrs Alton, who
had suffered terribly froLI neur uralg.a foi
Irrrf 1r4flt n tnxy hn fla