Connecticut western news., 1893-11-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK. sl
ThursdAy. Nov. O.

The Prince of Wales celebrated his fifty 1econd birthday. Three more Princeton students were sus- pended for hazing. Johnson lowered the one mile bicycle rec ord to 1:55 3-s at Independence, Ia. For the first time in IA years the Elwood silk mill at Fort Plain, N. r., has shut down. A 14-year-old boy in Paris, Mo, killed himself because he was displeased with his supper. The profits of the Ferris wheel at the Worlds fair were over $i50,o00 for Ave months The trial of Dr. Henry F. Meyer will be- gin in New York on the first Monday in December. Mir James R. Eustis, the United States ambassador, will give his first reception in Paris on Nov. %. Francis H. Weeks was taken to Sing Sing to serve out his sentence of l0years for embezxlement. Because of the hostility of minister in Eau Claire, Wis, to the Ancient Order of United Workmen 4g persons have with drawn from his church. Friday. Nov. 10 Fully 1000 Matabeles were killed In the latest battle with the forces of the British Chartered company. News from Dr. Nausen, the arctic ex- plorer, is to the effect that he will probably reach the pole this trip. Secretary Carlisle has appointed Calvin Page collector of internal revenue for the district of Maine and New Hampshire The total number of persons who died as the result of Wednesday nights railroad wreck in Chicago now amounts to eight Brownsover hall, near Rugby, which the dowager Duchess of Sutherland has taken for the winter, was entered by burglars and valuable jewelry stolen. A wreck on the Wabash at Moberly, Mo, demolished most of the Chicago Kansas City cannon ball train, killing Fire man Will Malone and injuring several others. Three sailors who were the survivors of a crew of n shipwrecked Spanish bark ar rived at Philadelphia, having been rescued in an almost starving condition by ths schooner Henry Lippitt Saturday, Nov. II. Coal retails in England at t1B ton. The opening of the Kickapoo lands has been postponed. Highwaymen fatally shot Abraham Bart lett, a tinker, near Trappe, Pa Four swindlers claiming to be American importers were arrested in London. Admiral Mello's request for recognition as belligerent has again been refused. A government agent reports that there is plenty of gold In the Rainy river fields. Anthony J. Drexel. the Philadelphia mill lionaire, has purchased the steam yacht Avenel Edward Carman, employed by a cracker ,fac cttvx In III Ia mi all nfr with funds Claims aggrcgating over q 900 900 have been made by British sealers against the United States. The liabilities of LouisF Menage, prcsi- dent of the insolvent Guarantee Loan com pany of Minneapolis, are said to be sl,70o,- 600.
 Mrs Abbie Nj. Leland, widow of Major William w. Leland of General Grants staff and mother-in-law of Joaquin Miller. | died at Nyack, N. Y. Monday. Nov. Is. Tufts was defeated by Williams at foot
 | ball by a score of 22 to 4 An agent of President peixoto Is in Bal | timore getting recruits for the new Brazil
 ian navy.
 Engineer Kille was killed by the explo- | sion of an engine In H. Goelep's factory at Kellam, Pa Christian Koltgaard, president of an in- solvent Minneapolis bank, has been arrest | ed in Chicago.
 The football battle between Yale and | Pennsylvania in New York was won by
 | Yale by score of 14 to 6.
 The city officials of Jacksonville. Fla,
 are determined that the Mitchell-C Corbett
 | fight shall not occur in that city. Richard Park, the we'll known Chicago
 sculptor who modelled the famous Ada
 | Rehan statue, is being sued for divorce by
 | his wife.
 By the breaking of scaffoid plank at
 | the Shoemakerville (Pa) viaduct eight men were dropped into Ridley creek and seri- | ously injured.
 Ernest W. Tomlinson, a drug clerk,
 | killed himself In Stamford, Conn, because his mother opposed his marriage with the
 | girl of his choice. Tuesdsy. Nov. IA Influenza Is raging in Cleveland There was destructive Are fin Monson,
 | Mass.
 Three Indian schoolgirls were drowned | while crossing creek near Winnipeg. Charles K. Harris, the author of the song After the Ball" was married in | Chicago.
 The reported robbinR of an Italian bank
 CT In Newark, N. J.. is doubted by the To- | cal police.
 An organized gang has robbed many | English bookmakers by druggIng them | with ether. The annual convention of the National
 Brotherhood of Electrical Workers opened | in Cleveland Henry Labouchere denounces the war tn | South Africa as an unwarranted slaughter | of the Matabeles. An attempt to wreck train near Worth ington, Minn., was discovered In time to prevent an accident. Martin Weller, a contractor in St. Louis,
 has left for Australia with large sums of money belonging to the government