Connecticut western news., 1892-08-18
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE
 WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.

The Developments Of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Easy Wires and Carefully Edited and Con- depsed for Our Readers.
 Wednesday, Aug. 10.
 While a whole family, consisting of a man and wife and four children, names un- known, were returning to their claim on the old Cheyenne reservation their team ran away and dragged them over preci- pice. They were all killed
 At a meeting of the shareholders of All sopps brewery resolutions were passed ac- cusing the directors of conspiracy. The profits were eco, 600 less than last year,
 An earthquake was felt in southwest Germany, in the neighborhood of tho Rhine. The direction of the earthquake was from the northwest to the southeast, and was felt most severely in Coblenz and Ems.
 The revolt of the Hazara tribes in Afghan istan becomes more serious daily, and many of the great tribes have now combined their forces against the ameer, who Is collecting all his resources to put down the rebellion. The salmon pack from tho Columbia river is AS, 900 cases.
 The granite cutters strike at Branford quarries, Conn, is practically ended, the Hseh eNsHt eS@sSas
 Thursday. Aug. II,
 An earthquake shock which lasted ten seconds was felt at Ems CoblenH, Valen- der, Nassau and Neider Lahnstein.
 Almy's lawyers despair of saving his life, as they can find nothing on which to ap- peal to the United States courts
 Eighteen Chinese laborers were passed through the custom house at Richford, Vt, in bond for export at Now York to Cuba Governor Bulkeley has honorcd the requi- sition of Governor Russell, of Massachu- setts, for Wilbert F. Denslow, who ia want cd for grand larceny.
 Four employees of the Washburn wire mill at Quinesigamond Village, Mass., were horribly burned by sulphuric acid, tank of which burst.
 The American schooner Belle Bartlett, which was seized at Hawkesbury for alleged smuggling two years ago, has been released upon deposit of s4oo, pending an inveutiga tion.
 Robert Alden Tales, under sentence of death in Newark, signed the petition to the court of pardons last night for the oommu- tation of his own sentence. Friday, Aug. 1a. Texas has the largest corn crop on rcoord | this year.
 Judge Beatty imposed sentences varying | from four to eight months' imprisonment in | the county jail upon nine of the Montana | rioters.
 Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Beaven, pastor of the | Church of the Holy Rosary at Holyoke, has been appointed bishop of the Springfield diocese to succeed the late Bishop 0Reilly.
 The Innai copper mine in Ahtaken, Japan. | was inundated by a sudden overflow of the | t..a 0atn. araa aain ta haNa been drowned.
 | In a stampede at Bannook butte, Idaho, | which was caused by hungry prospectors attempting to capture acalf, two cowboys | and Sal cattle were swept over cltn and dashed to pieces
 A severe thunder storm prevailed on | Buzzardis bay Mrs. George Alden, of Brockton, Mass, aud Ellen Eagan, cook, of Greenpoint, L. l., were struck by light ming and instantly killed. Saturday, Aug. IS.
 The body of John Robinson was found | lying in a cramped position at the foot of stairway in Philadelphia. Blood was oozing | from ugly gashes in the throat. Two com panions of the dead man, John Bradley and John Ford, were arrested on suspicion. | A lively and ludicrous soene took place between Chancellor von Capriw aud the kaiser before the latter's departure for the Cowes regatta. The chancellor oontended 1t would be undignifed for the kaiser Co bo seen at the helm of his yacht or tugging at the sails, and the latter ordered Oaprivi to keep his advice until it was asked
 Thomas Morgan, of Carmichael, Pa, at tempted to shoot his father rather than have him bring home a stepmother, but the bullet struck his sister, Callie, and inflicted | a probably fatal wound. Thereupon young Morgan emptied six shots from his revolver into his fathers body. The elder Morgan died almost immediately The young man then shut himself up in his fathers house and it is believed has killed himself
 Monday, Aug. lB.
 J.R Tingle, agent for the Fidelity and Casualty company, of New York, with an office in Columbus, O., is under arrest there on the charge of forgery.
 During last week SIS carloads containing 3,sls tons of green fruit wore shipped east from California over the Central Pacific. So far this season (, GOO, 900 pounds more fruit has been shipped than last year.
 Examination shows the injuries to the British flagship warsprite at Victoria, R. O.. were more serious than at first reported. It will probably require $30, 900 to repair her.
 The schooner Antarctic, Captain Fisher, arrived yesterday at New Bedford, Mass, from an Atlantic ocean whaling voyage. She had 900 barrels of oil all told
 Margaret Gillen was burned to death at her home in New York.
 The body of Richard Metlochs, seventy years old, a veteran of the civil war, was found in the Hudson river, opposite the watervliet arsenal, West Troy. He recently came from the Soldiers home, but had been missing from his stopping place in West Troy for several days. He had no family. It is thought the drowning was accidental
 Dr. A. Newton, Meriden Conn.l dentist, has disappeared, and it is feared that he has committed suicide,
 Tuesday, Aug. 10.
 Ernest Schaub, plumber, hanged him. self to a cherry tree at Rochester.
 Dr. Newton, dentist, of Meriden, Conn, has been missing since Friday. It is sup posed that he has committed suicide.
 The Canadian department of justice will surrender Carl Godsohmidt New York forger, now under arrest in Montreal
 Two thousand five hundred operators on the Baltimore and Ohio road are demand ing 10 per cent increase in wages.
 A family named Morgan wore poisoned at Hampden, Me, by eating potatoes on which paris green had been put to kill bugs
 The property of 0. H. Abbott & O., own CTS of shoe factories in Chelsea and South Royalton, Vt, has been attached.
 A conference was held at the treasury de- partment with view to shntting out all woolen goods from Europe likely to be in- footed with cholera.
 The body of boy named Raymond, of Hull, Que, was found in the mountains near Lake Tappen, N. Y., half eaten by a bear, with evidences of ter,ib.e encounter all around. ..
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