Connecticut western news., 1892-08-04
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Wednesday, July aT.


 The Idaho mine owners arc stin appre- hensive of attempts to destroy property by the use of dynamite, and strict watch is kept on the mines day and night Eighty persons were injured by giving way of seats in a theater at Rueil, Seine-et- Disc, France. Some miscreant had purpose ly looeened the fastenings Thomas Mungan murdered Thomas Mo Cam at Lowell, Mass, by cutting his throat with a razor. A quarrel between the two mems wives led to the crime. An unknown womans body was disoov- cred floating in creok near Woodbridge, N. J. There is a suspicion of foul play. A candle ignited the drapery about the casket containing the corpse of a child of Philip Dorfer in West Hoboken, N. ]. The corpse was partially burned, and the condi- ton of Dorfer, who had boon ll, Is critical, as the shock caused a relapse
 One hundred and fifty Japanese railroad laboren have been driven out of Nampe and Caldwell, Ida, on suspicion of having imported smallpox.
 John Hyer, the forging clerk of William Harney Son, Jersey City, was sentenced to Ave years in state prison. Thursdsy, July as. Maud E. Kittridgc, aged nine, and Lixxie Kittridge, aged five, were arrested in Bos- ton for shoplifting. z.
 The house of O W. Whitman on Wash ington avenue, Somerville, Mass., was ran sacked by burglar and then set afro. Mexican rangers captured and put to death six of the robbers who rvoently robbed a car on the Mexican International | railroad.
 The Hon. wnfrcd LAurier has given an Il Abat al N.sN ha aN, Iaf to retire from the leadership of the Liberal | party.
 stephen P. Ogden, an eighteen-year-old | youth, shot and killed himself at Albany because a fourteen-ycar-old girl of whom he was enamored received letter from am | other boy.
 w. R. sperry, appointed United States minister to Persia, is tho leading Repuhli- can newspaper editor of Delaware, man of much culture and has for years been an active worker in his party. Friday, July as. John e. Stetson, clerk of the United | States circuit court In Boston since 1887, has resigned that position. The Standard and Laffey wire works and many other factories in Newark have been compelled to shut down because of the heat
 Seven tramps attacked Annie Riggsby, A II house girl, living in West End, Ind. They were caught and barely escaped lynohing. | The various societies of tho Congrega- tional church are in session at Marthas Vineyard. This meeting is the first in the history of that denomination. The fear of a water famine hangs over Philadelphia Thero is in all the reservoirs but one-fourth of full supply and little more than enough to supply the city for one day.
 Michael Hughes, James Scanlan and Michael Cassidy, thrcc of tho Hudson ooun- | ty (N Jl ballot box stuffers, pleaded guilty and were remanded in the custody of their bondsmen for sentence by Judge Lippin- cott on Aug. II.
 | Saturday, July so. | At Retto, Neb., Robert Frazier attacked | Charles Stout and stamped him to death. about Fraxier. ....
 The number of deaths throughout the country caused by the terrific and prolonged heat is unprecedented.
 Texas fever is raging all through the In- dian Territory, and great numbor of cat | tie arc dying from the disease. There is likely to be a big row at the | Stanford university when the students re- turn next month, as the prioo of living in | the college dormitories has been advanced ten dollars per month. At Somerset, Ky, Deputy Sheriff Grant | Somers, while attempting to arrest John | Coffee, a notorious character, was shot down | by the desperado Somen drew his re- volver as he fell and wounded Coffee. Both will die.
 Deputy Sheriff Wright, of Romulun, Mich. believes he has discovered an organized band who are smuggling Chinese Into the United States.
 Monday, Aug. q. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company has begun suit to shut up the saloon of James McGlen in the town of Cumberland, R. l. | Fire which broke out in the blacksmith shops of the Great Northern railroad at St Paul destroyed property to the yAlue | of 1000. About 100 men are temporarily thrown out of employment A fire which started in the apartments of Princess Henry of Battenberg in the Her lingenberg castle, owned by the Duke of | Hesse, destroyed one wing of the castle. | All the occupants were rescued amid much excitement. Two hremen were injured.
 A long, heavily loaded gravel car got loose in East Manchester, N. H., and dashed down a steep grade into tho crowded rail way yard, going at a speed of fifty miles hour. Fortunately the track was clear and a quick witted switchman ditched the car before it reached the passenger station. | The car just missed crashing into paasen. ger train by two seconds. Tuesday, Aug, a. Arthur Strobel, an insane German from New York, was shot and killed at Los An- | geles, Cal.
 The importation of rags from France has been prohibited by the treasury department because of the cholera Several Paris papers report an attempt to | blow up with dynamite buildings in Yer Fo' but searching inquiries fail to com rm d rumor.
 aiver Wilkinson, of the defunct New arl, (N. u Savings institution, began to pay | depositors Of the new account their final | dividend of about II per cent Almost | S7o0, 900 will be paid out The case against ]. H. Cross and A. c. McDaniels, who were arrested in Denver on the charge of having robbed President Moffat, of the First National bank, of t2i,- 900, was dismissed for want of proof. Governor Flower has appointed John | Berry, of Mount Vernon, one of the man agers of the Reformatory for Women to he established in Westchester county, in place of ex-Senator Stevens, who declined the | office.
 Dr. Talmage preached four times in olas- gow Sunday.
 Boatswain Rspen's body is expected to