Connecticut western news., 1892-12-15
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 Busy ! Wires and Carefully Edited and Com
 densed for Our Readers. Thursday, Dec. 8. The Masonic home trustees have elected Past Grand Master Jesse B. Anthony, of Troy, N. Y., superintendent of the home and school at Utica, N. Y. Wilson G. Hunt, the wealthy capitalist, died at New York.
 Fred Leslie, the English comedian, is dead.
 When the steamship City of New York returns from her trip to England, she will | fly the stars and stripes. Gail Hamilton has received telegram from Mrs. Maybrick's mother saying that her daughter is dangerously ill in Wok ing prison, England. Charles Rogers Moulton, of Seattle, Wash. killed Mrs. M s. Story because she refused to marry him and then committed | suicide.
 Mrs. Adam Spies, prominent society woman of Wellsburg, O., is accused of murdering her nine-year-old adopted daughter, Lena.
 | Ncs Red Bank, N. J., died there from the effects of an overdose of laudsnum. | Friday, Dee. a.
 "Dr" Hale, a quack doctor from Phila- delphia, was sentenced to eighteen months | imprisonment in London for obtaining money from patients under false pretenses, | It is said Archbishop Walsh will be made a cardinal.
 workmen are drilling for gas at Penn Yam, N. Y.
 | Henry B. White, of Kansas City, Kan, has bought 1000 acres near that town, on which he proposes to colonize the negroes | of the city. T. F. Lyons, the recanting Romish priest, who was on trial at Cheyenne, Wy, for numbering a policeman in riot, was ac- | quilted. ...
 Robert Warield and Lige Allen, both colored, fought duel with bowie knives on horseback near Nsvasota. Tex, and both will probably die. Volney B. Cushing. of Bangor, Me, Pro l hibitionist candidate for governor in 1888
 has been missing since Tuesday. He was
 last seen at Clark's tavern. Boston.
 The lawyers who secured Mrs. Florence | Blythe -Hinckley an inheritance of t4 900, :. 900 will divide $l, 100000. Saturday, Dec. 10. Count Paul von Langen, who is impli- | cated in the Ahlwardt case, attempted to
 commit suicide by throwing himself into
 the Spree canal. He was rescued.
 Dennis McCarty, Stephen Hite, Grant Thomas and Nelson Lewis, murderers
 were hanged in Louisville, Ky. | It is claimed that diamond field has
 been discovered on the south bank of Snake
 river, east of Walters Ferry, Ida. MT. and Mrs Philander Trow bridge, who | were married by Grover Cleveland's father, | celebrated their golden wedding in Decatur | Mich
 A brave girl with lantern saved South ern Pacific train from plunging forty-hvs
 feet to the bottom of rocky canyon al
 Grants Pass Or.
 Major General Drosgowsky, chief judge | of military court at Tashkend inquirine
 into irregularities committed by Russian
 officials in Asiatic Russia, has been mys-
 teriously murdered.
 tensely from drought. Monday, Dec. 12. | Rev. William Putnam Corbit, aged sev.
 enty-four, died in Brooklyn. He had been
 in the ministry over fifty-three years. | | New Haven and Hartford railroad decided
 to- increase the capital stock SIS, 900, 900
 which will be used for the completion of | four tracks between New York and New
 Haven on the New York division. | Jack McAuliffe and Billy Myer boxed
 six rounds at the Second regiment armory | Chicago. McAuliffe showed his superi | ority in every round and had his antago | mist at his mercy.
 Josephine Madison, the murderess of | John Hobbs, was sentenced at Philadelphia
 to twelve years in the Eastern penitentiary.
 Mrs. Frank White and Mir Foxhall Keene were married in Grace church, New | York.
 Brakeman Frank Goreman, who caused | the wreck on the New York and New Eng
 land road near Providence, has been let
 off with a dismissal. Germans excuse was
 that he was sleepy from overwork. Tuesday, Dec IS. The store of John D. Boyle & Sons at | Dunmore, Pa, was destroyed by fire, and l John Maxwell was burned to death. James Geromo and Angelo Dominicallo,
 Italians, of Northampton, Conn.,, were
 horribly slashed by knives in a free fight | yesterday.
 | Pueblo, Colo, is in arms expecting an at | tack On the town Dy buck mcUoneSdi ahu | his gang of outlaws.
 Mrs. Maybrick is gaining strength. ! Count Julius Andrassy has been ap-
 pointed minister of the interior in Hun | gary. The body of a woman, mutilated like the Whitechapel victims, has been found at | Goerlitz.
 The story that Martin Burke, the Gro
 min suspect, is not dead, but alive and out
 of prison, is denied in Chicago. | The Pittsburg wholesale liquor dealers
 have combined against the Whisky trust
 and will probably start new distillery. Pat McGarry, secretary of the Cronin as-
 sociation, says the instigator of Dr. Cronin's
 murder and one who helped take the body
 to the lake shore are walking the streets of Chicago.