Connecticut western news., 1892-10-06
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE
 WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Developments of Each Day Daring the Week Caught Fresh from the Buay Wires and Carefully Edited and Con densed for Our Readers.

the Week Caught Fresh from the Buay Wires and Carefully Edited and Con- densed for Our Readers.
 Wednesday, Sept. as.
 Archbishop Corrigan dedicated the Church of Our Lady of Mercy at Raritan, NY.
 Detroit street contractors are accused of robbing the city of s20,000 year on paving blocks alone.
 George Bruce Mitchell, St. Louis hard ware merchant, is believed to have been murdered at Perth, Ont Luigi Cerro, an insane Italian convict in the penitentiary in Syracuse, stabbed and dangerously wounded Eugene West, a fel- low convict.
 Several clerks in the court house at York, Pa, were poisoned by drinking cider that had come in contact with the zinc lining of awater cooler.
 Indictments against thirteen railroad ticket brokers were quashed in Chicago on the ground that the law is unconsttu- tional
 Ex-President Cleveland has withdrawn his acceptance of the invitation to visit Woburn, Mass, Oct. z, on the occasion of the celebration of its 250th anniversary. Prince Bismarck has postponed until January his return to Friedrichsruh.
 Thursday, Sept. go.
 Mrs. Lydia A. Jones, of Isoxbury, carried N 900 in gold and 5000 in bills in small satchel suspended from her shoulder. On her way from the railroad station to her home the money disappeared,
 W. A. Freeman, & Tennessee farmer, is alleged to have fallen heir to 5000, GOO as his share of the land on which Bucking- ham palace is located.
 The supply steamer St. Paul reports at Ounalaska that she passed through dense cloud of volcanic dust on Aug. 2S. It is supposed a new island has been born. Charles G. Thoms, aged forty years, of Germantown, dropped dead while about to shake hands with F. P. Getz at 1,5l2 Wal nut street, Philadelphia. Heart disease was the cause. .-.. .. Henry l.. Pfeffer secured verdict in Buffalo for S20,000 against the Buffalo Street Railway company. He had been run over by trolley car and lost both feet
 entered his shop, George Hertline, barber, of Philadelphia, took s hemorrhage on the street and died in a short time.
 Friday, Sept 30.
 J.R. O'Neal, w. F. Bailie and H. Jung, Milwaukee travelling men, were blown out into Lake Michigan at Cheyboygan, and for twenty-eight hours battled with the waves. The storm going down saved them. The Prussian municipal re-elections re- suited in victory for the Social Democrats. Twenty three new magistrates, all of them McCarthyites, have been appointed for Ireland. The London Times correspondent in Simla telegraphs that two of the ameer's generals have reported victories over the rebellious Hazaras. Home Secretary Asquith has decided to permit the holdings of meetings in Trafal- gar square, a thing which the late govern ment would not allow.
 Two men were killed and five injured at Bonneville, Pa, by the premature dis charge of a blast.
 Minister Romero may return to Wash ington, as he was only wanted in Mexico to help avert the financial crisis.
 Saturday, Oct. 1.
 Canada has graciously consented to let the crew of the Yankee schooner save their lives by buying provisions at Canso, N. s. At Lexington, Mo, Henry Plattenburg killed James Mcdowell, with whom he hadA feud, and then fatally wounded Pc 1iceman David Gray.
 Freda Koenig eleven months old, whose mother and two brothers perished from cholera on the Rugia, has been lost on her way to join her family in Chicago.
 The entire section of country about Hampstead, Tex, is suffering from drought
 The funeral of ex-Justice George K. Com stock, of the court of appeals, occurred at Syracuse.
 A locomotive boiler exploded near Grove Summit, Pa., and two men were blown into fragments. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad company and the Philadelphia and Read ing Coal and Iron company have been granted certin rates of authority to transact business in tne state of New York by the state department.
 Monday, Oct. 8.
 Juana Walker, aged twenty-one, a Pima Indian girl, hcs appeared at Phoenix, A. T., to claim the $1 ,500, 900 estate of John D. Walker, whon, she declares was her father. Walker was once chief Of the Pimas.
 Philip Cox cnt to his homo at 451 Third street, Jersey Nity, yesterday, drunk His wife upbraidel him, when he knocked her down and kicked her until she became un conscious.
 John Brennan, of Jefferson avenue, Jer~ sey City heights, was arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the death of Jacob Miller, who was beaten to death by the Willow avenue and Twelfth street gang of Hoboken last week.
 Charles H. Wheeler, of Norwich, Conn, shot his wife four times with a revolver. A IV.N not succeed in hitting the target this time. Mrs. Wheeler will probably die. Wheeler has not yet been arrested.
 Secretary of the Navy Tracy has decided that hereafter regular pilots shall be em- ployed by vessels of war to enter harbors.
 Tuesday, Oct. 4.
 An insurrection of negroes is reported at Charlesdale, Miss.
 It is denied that Jay Gould has bought stock in the Chicago elevated roads.
 Several boats were wrecked by a hurri- cane at Lavaca Bay, Tex. No lives were lost.
 Rev. K. s. Crocker, a Methodist minis ter, was killed at Jamestown, N. O., by train.
 There is hot county seat war on be- tween Trenton and Culbertson counties, Neb
 James Comes and J. A. Loomis two aero nauts, were fatally injured by falling from a balloon at Peoria, Ills.
 Three herdsmen were badly burned and 1000 head of cattle killed in the prairie fire in Bear River valley.
 The Rhode Island state militia, having determined not to participate in the New York celebration of Columbus day, the en- tire soldiery at Fort Adams have been or