Connecticut western news., 1892-09-01
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 WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR. rhe peveIopments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Con densed for Our Readers.
 Thursday, Aug. a5.
 The treasury department has made an order prohibiting Indians from coming from British Columbia under contract to pick hops in Washington.
 J. s. Hamilton, deputy United States marshal, was ambushed and fatally shot on Long creek, near Crockettsville, Ky, by moonshiners.
 Henry G. Bissell of New York treasurer playing st the Globe theater, Berlin, has been missing for two days and fears of foul play are entertained.
 The czar has issued a ukase forbidding the missing of foreign artists or actors on the operatic or theatrical stage in St. Peters burg.
 Lord Salisbury has received from the kaiser full length portrait of himself in naval uniform. It is to hang in the library of Hatfield House.
 The British steamer Clan MacGregor was tossed about in the Mediterranean north northeast of Tripoh on Aug. by a sub marine volcano. The French government has received an official invitation from Washington to send a squadron to the great naval review in April h New York harbor and vicinity in connection with the Columbus celebration. Friday, Aug. ae- Sheriff Hill, of Nashville, shot and killed John H. Taylor an alleged horse thief, who tried to escape after arrest.
 Five prisoners broke from the Lima (O) jail. Four escaped and one broke his leg and was captured. Wisconsin lumber workers are leaving for the harvest fields of Minnesota and further west, owing to inability to come to terms with their employers as to hours of work.
 Miss Edith Philbrick, who with Miss Hilda Wood was murderously assaulted near Chisclhurst on Aug. by Leonard Maaktelow, half witted man, is not yet out of danger.
 Countess Pepoli Tattini, granddaughter of the great Murat, died at Bologna The countess was intimately connected with Cavour, Mingatta and other Italian patriots in emancipating Italy. Heavy rain storms flooded part of Paris,
 
 The water poured in torrents through the streets in the neighborhood and many per sons were driven out of their homes- Saturday, Aug. a7.
 James Owen O'Connor, the founder of the new Shakespearean school, was taken to the i New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane at Morris Plains. The Italian societies of Newark have de- | <~id da1 toh hav a do s, hot cft Gant z, and then go to New York to participate in the unveiling of the Columbus monu- ment Governor Abbett has issued a proclama~ ton setting apart Oct 21 next, the tooth anniversary of the discovery of America, as @ general holiday in New Jersey.
 Three powder magazines blew up at Gainesville, Tex, Thursday. Loss, S150, ,Oo0 It is announced that a large distillery will soon be established in Chicago as a rival of the. Whisky trust.
 Acquisition papers have been issued by Mississippi for the extradition to Louisiana of Hopgood, the pal of Bunch, the train rob Der.
 The assistant secretary of the navy has announced the selection of the United States steamer Enterprise as the nautical training ship for Massachusetts. A syndicate of New York and Philadel- phia capitalists are trying to secure the passage of bill which will give them the right to build an elevated railroad in Boston.
 Monday, Aug. as. Chairman Caldwell of the Western Pas senger association, has received & commu- nication from Traffic Manager Jay Cox, of the Worlds fair, urging him to have his roads consider at once what rates they want to make for the dedicatory exercises of the exposition.
 John Daily, of New Brunswick, N.J., was arrested charged with stealing twenty-eight dollars from John Sheridan.
 The epidemic of dysentery which pre- vailed in the village of Helmetta, N. J., about three weeks ago, and started the rumor that Russian cholera was prevalent, has made its reappearance. | Miss Woodruff, the daughter of Mrs. Martin, nee Victoria Woodruff, arrived in New York from Europe yesterday and went to the home of friends on West Seventy first street.
 It is rumored in Vera Cruz that there is | cholera in Havana.
 Tuesday, Aug. so.
 Judge Isaac H. Maynard, in answer to a letter from Chairman Murphy, of the New York state Democratic committee, declines to allow the use of his name in connection with the nomination for chief judge of the court of appeals.
 The British brig Khiva, from Jamaica for Camden, N. J., grounded on the Colorados.
 Garret Fitzsimmons, of Newark, N. J., while smoking at an open window, fell to the ground and was killed.
 Secretary Charles Foster has returned to Washington
 The British schooner speedwen, of St Johns, N. B., has been lowed into Boston harbor waterlogged and abandoned. The tate of Captain Ellis and his crew of four men is unknown.
 Thomas Donnell, of the Locustvillc Base ball club, was struck in the ear by pitched ball in g game at Lansford, Pa, and died | within few minutes.
 A company with 10000, 900 capital has been incorporated in New Mexico for the purpose of building a big dam across the Rio Grande for irrigating purposes.