Connecticut western news., 1892-12-29
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.

WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.
 The Developments of Each Day During
 the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Con- dsnsed for Our Readers. Thursday, Dec. aa. Isaac M. Schermerhorn, aged seventy. two, postmaster at Buffalo during General
 Grants administration, is dead. No decision was rendered in the Carlyle
 W. Harris case by the court of appeals
 Hon. Smith M Weed will give to the
 poor of Plattsburg an elaborate Christmas dinner. Preparations are being made to feed 5000.
 Levant Price, the sixteen-year-old son oi John Price, of Tonawanda, was killed by the accidental discharge of rifle in the ] hands of his cousin, Emanuel Price, while hunting.
 Great destitution exists among the In dians in the Cherokee strip.
 Advices received from Rajkote, province of Guzerat, report an encounter between
 Dacoits and a force of native policemen under British military officers. Lieutenant Gordon, of the Bombay lancers, and four policemen were killed.
 The German press, with the exception oi the semiofficial North German Gazette does not favor the proposed monument te Kaiser William because it is too costly.
 Friday, Dec a3.
 Smallpox has broken out in the Mercer county jail at Trenton. Freeborn Scruby
 (colored) is down with the disease.
 An attempt to rob the Matawan (N. J.. Farmers and Merchants bank was discov
 cred by Alfred Lambertson. The robbsr: escaped.
 William w. Lever, bookkeeper and
 collector for Paul T. Norton, a coal dealer
 of Elizabeth, N. J., has been missing since Monday noon. Suicide is feared. .
 Richard Maas, of Paterson, N. J., whs
 was imprisoned last September for assault ing little girl, has been pardoned through
 the efforts of his sweetheart, Miss Jennie Barker.
 Amsterdam, was so overcome by grief al
 the loss of her three children within yeal
 that she committed suicide. Ina fight at West Susquehanna, Pa, be
 tween four policemen and a railroad de
 tective and twenty-five tramps, Policeman
 John Fraleigh was wounded. One tramp
 was captured.
 Yale freshmen have decided to grin ana
 bear the punishment meted out to the olas. for the rowdyism of some of the members Saturday, Dec. 24. William Duryea and Patrick Wallace
 carpenters, fell twenty-five feet with {
 scaffold in Montclair N. J., and were prob ably fatally injured.
 ClintoH F. Williams, of Baltimore, wa. Ill I,ad of irfu
 dollars by toughs in New Brunswick, N. J | John Welsh was arrested. James Cornell, of Worcester, Mass, wa. | accidentally shot by John A. Krussell witf ! a revolver he didn't know was loaded. Emma Goldman, the autonomist of New | York, is at the head of a movement to Sc
 cure communication of sentence for Berk I mann, the anarchist who shot MT. Prick | The valuation of New Hampshire for tn, | current year aggregates s191, ,s04 .024, agains $l8S 031 1856 for 1891. The secretary of war has issued genera | order announcing renewal of the agree ment between the federal government anG Mexico, whereby the troops of the twt countries may cross over the territory O
 the other in pursuit of savage, hostile In dians. Monday, Dec. 2e. 1 Vice Prssidentrelect Stevenson and part, returned home from their southern tour John Remsen, who was shot by Martin ! Whaples at East Berlin, Conn, is dead | Whaples is in jail at Hartford. At Pittsburg the Mercantile Trust com pany was appointed receiver for the Orde
 of Solon. ..e..-. ... Incendiaries have twice burned the hous'
 of w. S. Parkerson, who led the anti-Mafi, mob of lynchers at New Orleans. Banker Halls daughter, Julia Hall, O | New Canaan, Conn.,, who disappeared iron her home twice, is recovering her health. The sudden cold snap has closed the Con | necticut river to navigation.
 F. P. Smith, has been appointed addition al law judge of Lackawanna county, Pa. to succeed the late Judge Connolly.
 John w. Hand, an eighteen-year old stu
 dent at the Philadelphia Dental college
 blew out his brains.
 The call for congress of Catholics of tn, United States to be held in Chicago during the Worlds fair has been issued. Tuesday, Dec. s7. | Captain J. H. Putnam, who was consu general to Honolulu under Cleveland. |
 dead in Chillicothe, O. LIT. McGonegaIs condlt1on naS not I'm
 proved. Dr, Irving, the physician of Sint Sing prison, does not hold out any hope Neither City Clerk Burke nor his missing
 election returns have yet been found b,
 the anti-Gleasonites over in Long Island
 City. The big mayor still holds the reins O government.
 The rumors that M. de Freycinet wa about to resign caused the bourss to weaker | at Paris.
 A yacht carrying a pleasure party O twenty three was capsized by squall 8
 the mouth of Sydney harbor. N. s. w, anc | ten were drowned. The British ship Minister of Marine, fo
 Rio Janeiro from Liverpool, was lowed int, Belfast Lough with her cargo of coal oI | fire and must be scuttled. Prince Bismarck celebrated Christina
 eve with his family at Friedrichsruhe. H.
 was in exceptionally good spirits and mad | II