Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
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 Con- densed for Our Readers.


 the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Con- densed for Our Readers.
 Wednesday, July 6.
 The Highland hotel at Staunton, Va, was totally destroyed by fire Loss about S6,000
 John Lyons and Henry Cabell, society men of Richmond, Va, have been arrested, charged with being about to fight a duel.
 policeman in attempting to shoot a wild steer in St. Louis shot fifteen-year-old Albert Tolch, mortally wounding him.
 William Helms, of Fulton, Mich, an in- sane man, murdered his wife with a knife and hammer, and then cut his own throat
 William Sutton fell into vat of boiling oil at the Niedringhaus rolling mills at St. Louis, and was horribly burned. He will die.
 John Jones, workingman at the piano factory in Springfield, O., fell into tenn. pering vat filled with boiling water and was fatally scalded.
 A rancher named Byrn was shot and killed by his nephew, Charles Krus, near Windsor, Cal, because he knew too much about Krus' past life.
 Thursday, July !.
 Mrs. Ed McGabe, aged fifty, of Eagle Pass, Tex, was brutally murdered by halfwitted hired man, who said the woman cursed and threatened to kill him.
 Grenier, the clerk in the French navy de- partment who was arrested for selling. off cial documents to Captain Borup, had a salary of only s36O year, and had not been promoted in six years. This fact has changed public feeling with regard to him.
 The French commissioners to the Chicago Worlds fair propose to ask the French min istry for larger grant toward French ex- hibits at the fair.
 Miss Annie, the eighteen-year-oldd daugh- ter of Governor John N. Stone, of Missouri, has eloped with E. l.. McKie, very poor young man, of Water Valley, Miss.
 Senators Warren and Carey, of Wyoming, were hung in effigy at Ogden, U. T., by in- dignant citizens for voting against the free coinage of silver in the United States sen ate.
 Friday, July 8.
 Arthur Stocker, who shot and killed his wife and wounded her sister, Mamie Tier ney, was taken from the Hudson county jail to the state prison at Trenton to serve a term of ten years.
 A French soldier, Dick Fleury, of the Seventeenth infantry, shot Jennie Poi guette, at Cheyenne, Wy, and then shot himself. The girl was badly wounded, the bullet having passed entirely through her body. Fleury was killed instantly.
 While running thirty miles an hour through the West Haverstraw yards, the Catskill Mountain and Saratoga express of the West Shore road struck and killed Mrs. Cook, resident of Haverstraw, N. Y.
 Secretary Foster, of the treasury, has gone off on a fishing trip.
 Ten cars of Cooke & Whitby's circus train were derailed seven miles south of Mo Gregor, Wis. Two men were killed.
 Packer colliery, of Shenandoah, Pa, will start up in few days, after an idleness of four months
 Saturday, July 9.
 Coroner Thomas Burke, of Perth Amboy, yesterday found the body of child in box in the woods opposite Florida grove.
 Five hundred residents of Newark are said to be victims of the Brookly Co-opera- tive association, which failed on Friday. H. M. Marchbank, the defaulting manager of the Commercial Enterprise company, was also the agent of the Brooklyn Cooperative association.
 John Downward, who made such des- perate attempt to murder his wife, Fannie, at her home, No. 32 Cooper street, Williams burg, and then shot himself, died in St. Catherines hospital. Mrs Downward is recovering from her wounds. The French government has concluded to ask the chambers for S00,0O0 francs more for the Chicago Worlds fair. Maria Fraser, of Somerville, Mass, strangled her three-weeks-old babe at the Tewksbury almhouse. Monday, July II. The Princess of Wales left Copenhagen on her way home.
 The Portuguese bark Maria Leila, Cap tain Morse, arrived at New Bedford, Mass, from Brava, Cape Verd islands. Charles F. Morse, trader who came on the bark, says that when he left Brava there was fear of famine there.
 John Booth, one of the men who escaped | from the Charlestown (Mass.) state prison on Friday, was captured in the woods near Belmont, Mass. He was returned to the prison.
 Captain Bradford, of the schooner Hattie | Evelyn, at New Bedford, Mass, reports | that on July he passed the derelict ship | Fred B. Taylor. She had been recently set | on fire, but did not appear burned. Her | afterpart was about fifteen feet out of | water and is very dangerous obstruction | St. Mary's new cemetery at Amsterdam | N. Y was consecrated by Vicar General Burke of Albany, assisted by several clergy men and altar boys of St. Mary's church. A Chicago policeman was set upon by a crowd in a saloon, Sunday, and killed his | prisoner who was kicking him, after he had been knocked down. Tuesday, July 12. There is smallpox epidemic in Victoria, B. O.
 Lynn, Hill 6 Heath, bookmakers, of | Washington, say their general manager, Frank Barnard, has robbed them of S33, ,000 The first murder of the campaign in Ala bama occurred at Birmingham, when White Dellard was stabbed to the heart by | William Green.
 | Frank Dwyer was instantly killed while switching in the New York, Lake Erie and Western railroad yards at West Susque- hanna, Pa.
 A. W. Trotter, a fiagman of the Delaware | and Hudson railroad at Mechanicsville, N. | r., was struck and killed by train.
 The big plant of the Edison General Elec- trical company at Schenectady, N. Y is to be enlarged by the erection of three build ings.
 Alexander G. Mclean, business manager of the Presbyterian News company at Toronto, Ont, is missing. He is defaulter.
 Near Morgantown, Ky, Bud Lawson killed his brother, Lop Lawson, with club. They were both drunk.
 W. Thomas Jackson, who received six dollars week and his board as deputy post master at Towson, Md, was released on bail. The charge is that he embedded Sl,- B45. Il of the postoffice funds.
 At San Diego, Cal, the British schooner Eliza Edwards was fined Sl, 400 for taking a cargo at Santa Barbara without complying with the customs regulations.