Connecticut western news., 1892-08-25
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.

WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR. The DevsIopments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
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 dsnssd for Our Readers. Wednesday, Aug. IF. Major J. Houk, of Baldwin, Mich, found his wife walking with Frank Gray and shot them both. The wife is fatally injured. Houk was arrested. While standing at the Delaware and Hud- son railroad station in Saratoga, Alvah l.. Holland, 8 Boston merchant, saw alight from the cars Eugene McAdams, clerk who stole $2, 800 from him July 25, and Thomas 8. Ford, a confederate. They were arrested and $1 ,96s was recovered. A bookkeeper in the First National bank st Joplin, Mo, was found to be short $6OO0. He was arrested and has partly reimbursed the bank.
 The wife of Alvah Best died in Clermont. N. Y, under circumstances which indicate murder.
 The new twin screw steamer Columbian, of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation company, met with serious accident Mon- day by the breaking of the tiller rope while making it's second trip down the rapids. No lives were lost, but there was panic among the 300 passengers. Thursday, Aug. IS. Daniel D. Sullivan was held for trial with out bail at Providence for the murder of A. 8. Haswell, of East Providence. Sullivan was arrested in New York. A warrant is out for Lawyer Clement Hall, of Stockton, Mo-, charging him with appropriating s14, 900 belonging to the Mis- souri Trust company. Miss Fannie Logan, postmistress at Lee, Mo, whose husband is worth $50 900, has been arrested, charged with robbing the mails.
 The Black river, in New York, has over flowed it's banks for the third time this sum- mer and destroyed a large acreage of hay. The annual reunion of the Saratoga Coun- | ty N. Y.) Veterans association will be held Aug. 25 at Schuylerville. Nick Roberts, a theatrical manager, was badly hurt at Cincinnati by fall. Two sons of the Rev. J. E. Howell, of Goderich, Ont, were drowned. It now seems certain that the rebellious chiefs will submit to the sultan of Morocco Three highwaymen, who beheaded man near Ellensburg, Wash, were pursued by vig1lantes and hanged to tree. | Friday, Aug. 19. The common council of Battle Creeks Mich, has put boycott on Carnegie bridge steel and iron.
 The steamer Fl. F. Dimock, which sank the Alva, will resume her trips between New York and Boston.
 France in the past year has realized a rev enue of $74, 600, 900 out of it's salesof tobacco, which is a government monopoly. | The grand stand at the horse show in Buxton, Derbyshire, fell yesterday, carry ing down TOO people. Many were injured The Bishop of Guilfords leg was broken. Because the food served did not suit him . German employed on the farm of Walter Deacon, near Burlington, N. J., endeavored to exterminate the whole family with pis- | tol He was driven from the place by Dea con, armed with a shotgun. The porte, it is said, is about to acknowl- edge Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
 There is row among the spiritualists at Omet Bay over fraudulent naturalization. Saturday, Aug. 20. The British government has refused to appoint a commission to inquire into the advisability of establishing gold standard | in India
 The French Transatlantic company has revived the project for chain of lightships connected by telegraph at intervals of 200 miles across the Atlantic. Mcdonnell and Hill accomplices of Bid well in the bank forgeries of 1873, have been released on condition that they leave Eng land, and have started for this country.
 The value of the silverware and jewelry stolen from George W. Vanderbilt's Bar Harbor home is $20,0O0. | Arthur Thompson, aged eight, of East Hilton, N. H., attempted to poison neigh bor's family by putting a can of paris green in their well.
 William Callahan, of Port Jervis, N r., a sey railroad, was crushed between two cars and instantly killed at Rutherford, N. J. | Paris and London have been suffering from a hot wave.
 Monday, Aug. 22. | AW. Bailey, better known as "Real Els tate" Bailey, wanted in Newark under charges of obtaining money under false pre- lenses, was arrested in Jersey City.
 Ed Price, policeman, who about a year ago shot and killed Henry Morton on the street at Pine Bluff, Ark, was convicted of murder in the first degree.
 An iceman employed by William Deuter- mann at Silver Lake, N. Y., was drowned while driving horse into the lake. He was Swiss, twenty-two years old and unmar- ried.
 Mrs William Lawrence and her daughter Ada Lawrence, while crossing the Santa Fe tracks at Pomona, Kan, in closed carriage were struck by a passenger train. Mrs. Lawrence was killed outright and her dauuhter was fatally iniured
 Edward Conroy, the Newark N. J.) DO liceman suspended from the force and ar rested for assault and battery on his wife, was committed to the county jail to await trial.
 Lumber and material men of Newark, N. J., have organized for their own pro tection, and have affiliated with the Retail Merchants Commercial Agency of Chicago.
 Tuesday, Aug. as.
 The Pennsylvania State Base Ball league has disbanded.
 Texas fever has been discovered among the cattle at Indianapolis.
 Reynaud Cooper, an English actor, died trom the effects of poison taken by mistake
 Internal machines have been sent to Ko- 4 nav and minister of home affairs of Japan, Count Okuma
 Two men have been killed by foul air in the shaft sunk at Carl Junction, Mo, to se- cure the remains of 8 mastodon.
 Brutal attacks on Hebrews have been re newed at Limerick, Ireland.
 The town of Sontra, Germany, was al. most totally destroyed by fire.
 Fifty-five thousand tailors were locked put by their employers in London.
 Owing to the intense heat Emperor Fran. | cis Joseph has countermanded the order fo, the Austrian military maneuvers which were to begin on the 29th inst.
 In an interview General Stambuloff, the Bulgarian premier, says that Beltcheff, the murderer, will not be hanged for that crime l huat for as1airacu acrairast tho sta ta