Connecticut western news., 1892-10-20
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 Rusy Wires and Carefully Edited and Con- | densed for Our Readers. rhursdsy. oct i5. C. w. webber, a travelling salesman for a Philadelphia firm, was found dead in his room at Hunts hotel, Cincinnati. He had committed suicide A nonwinning pool ticket procured al the Latonia races wAa the only clew to indicate a cause for the | act.
 Mrs. George R. Long, a young married woman, of Huntingdon, Pa.. was wAyiaid | on an obscure street by Charles Hawkins, a paroled inmate of the Huntingdon reform atory, and assaulted. Hawkins was ar | rested.
 Joe Dunn attempted to shoot his wife at | Galloway mines, Ala when his mother-in- | law stepped in between them and received a load of buck shot in her face. She will die Conductors and baggagemen Oh the l Connecticut branch of the Philadelphia and Reading have been ordered to give ss- curity in $500 bonds on penalty of dismisaal Abner Grover, superintendent of the Shelton Tack company at Shelton, Conn, was run over by the railroad cars at shel- ton and killed
 | | It Is rumored that Colonel Dodds, com mander of the French forces in DahUmcy, | has been killed.
 The colored walters on the Yale commons have struck because the head walter was discharged.
 Petrillo, the convicted murderer, again tried to commit suicide at the New Haven | jail by hanging himself. Robert Reynolds, a Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western section hand, was struck by the LsekAwanna express at Che mango Forks, Broome county. He vas thrown some distance and was instantly killed
 The safe of Taylor Bros.' general store. at Maine Village, Broome county, N. Y., was blown open by burglars, and money, jewelry and silk handkerchiefs, valued at about slo0 were stolen.
 The body of John Crinac, of Troy, N. Y., who had been missing from home for moro than a week, was found floating in the river at Troy,
 Troops have been sent to quell Che demon strations of striking miners at Carmaux.
 Saturday, Oct. Ia.
 Special Columbus services were held yes terday in St. John Lateran cathedral In Rome. Cardinal Rampolla celebrated high mass and Mgr Stonor ofticiatsd at vespera. Delegates from Radical clubs and tradss unions in London yesterday resolved to ia- sue a manifesto calling a public meeting for Nov. 1S, at which the condition of the poor will be discussed.
 John B. Clark, a Bridgeport (oonn.) con tractor, is missing.
 Five fires have occurred about Norwaik, Conn, in six days, and the police are search ing for the firebugs.
 Detectives are still searching the woods about Waterbury, Conn, for Millionaire Beckwith, of New York, who has been seen at farmhouses recently.
 Paterson, N. J., fears water famine.
 John B. Perry, prominent Newark law yer, has been placed in Morris Plains In- sane asylum.
 The Essex county grand jury h investi- gating the alleged bribery in connection with the Newark water supply.
 Monday, Oct. IT.
 Mary l.. Larsen, aged four, of Brooklyn. fell and broke her neck, dying instantly
 Lady Revelstoke died in Paris laat night. The Aaron Meyer bank, in Buckeburg. Lippe, founded lo7 years ago, has failed, with liabilities of 800 GOO marks.
 The young king of Spain is seriously hl with indigestion and fever, as result of the Columbian festivities in Madrid. T The F. and O. Steamer Bokhara is still overdue in Hong Kong. and it is considered probable that she has gone to the bottom.
 Gold has been found near FrankenherK. in Hesse, Prussia, near the old gold mines which were in operation a thousand years ago
 The floods in the neighborhood of Lake Como are still causing great damage, and have necesstated the stoppage of several large factories
 Archbishop Corrigan confirmed l9s ohii- dren at Highland Falls, N. Y., yesterday.
 Tuesday, Oct. IS.
 The contract for building an electric rail road between Horneilsville, N. ", and the village of Canisteo, Ave miles south, was awarded to R. c. Beardsley. of Elmira
 A gang of roughs attacked the Salvation Army detachment at wyandotte, Mich, with bricks stones, clubs and knives. Iicu- tenant Lowe was feiled with a brick and she will die.
 Eighteen young women of KinHale, Dub lin and Kilkenny are on their way to Gin cinnatisto become postulants in the Sfsterv | of Mercy.
 Archduke Albert of Austria is trying to arrange long distance ride from Vienna to Rome and Rome to Vienna, the partici' pants to be Italian and Austro-H o-HungsssRn officers.
 The Chinese cook who killed Captain Buckley, master of the American bark VII liam Hales, and his wife, did 70 beoause the captain complained about the dirty oondt tion of the caboose.
 l.. Bauman, living near Sunbridge, Ont, stabbed his wife slightly and then blew the top of his head of.
 An epidemic of madness has seized large herds of cattle in Gaines township, Iowa. and many have died
 WILL STAND BY DR. BRIGGS. The Union Theological Seminary Cuts
 Loose from the General Assembly.
 NEW YORK, Oct 17--At the meeting of the directors of the Union Theological Sem mary it was decided by vote oi 10 to to dissolve the relationship between the ool- lege and the general assembly of the Pres byterian church. By tho decision the sem