Connecticut western news., 1893-12-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tn ursday, Dec. IA.

A truce has been declared at Melilla The deaths from influenza in London last week numbered 127.
 Philip M ScheiQ, the absconding teller of the Bank of Minneapolis, pleaded guilty. There are stored in the elevators of Chi cago more than 21, ,0O0, 900 bushels of wheat. The tin plate works at Gas City, Ind, were shattered by an explosion of natural gas.
 Extra precautions were taken in Dublin and vicinity to guard against another dy- namita outrage.
 Nancy Hanks, the famous trotting mare, has been withdrawn from the track for breeding purposes.
 A cage containing sig men fell down mine shaft at McAlisterville, Pa, and the legs of each man were broken.
 In the Meyer trial at New York the ses- sion was devoted to the examination of ex- perts in poisons for the prosecution.
 The senate of the state of Georgia has passed the house resolutions demanding coinage of both gold and silver as standard money metals.
 A receiving order was issued by the bank ruptcy court against Captain O'Shea, for merly the husband of the now widow of Charles Stewart Parnen.
 Friday, Dec 15.
 The Kaw Indians are said to be starving. Vicar General McCabe was found dead in his bed at Woonsocket, R. I.
 The strike on the Henderson division of the Louisville and Nashville railroad was declared off.
 Two of the three men who robbed an Illinois Central express car near Cairo, Ills, have been caught.
 Ralph Crossmire, who murdered his mother at Karner's Valley on Nov. 19, 1892, was hanged at Smethport, Pa
 Judge Henry w. Bookstaver of the court of common pleas in New York city was assaulted and robbed by footpads, it is said.
 Charles Luckey was hanged at Brock vile, Ont, for numbering his father, step mother and sister at New Bliss on Oct. 8, 1892.
 Mrs. Amy Boucicault, better known to the public by her stage name, Amy Busby, was granted a decree of absolute divorce from her husband, Aubrey Boucicault
 Saturday, Dec. 16.
 The defense in the case of Dr. Meyer was opened.
 Vandals footed the Central Presbyterian church in Rochester.
 A woman in Providence attended prize fight disguised as man. In railroad collision in Russia IA peo- pie were killed and 30 injured
 John r. McKane, adjudged guilty of contempt of court, has secured astay.
 The chief owners of closed bank at Nashville, Neb., were mobbed by angry creditors.
 The American Federation of Labor re- fused to allow Mayor Swift of Chicago to address their convention.
 The first cargo of cotton from any United States port direct to Manchester, through the new canal, has left Houston.
 While number of young men were playing football on the ice on the Susque- hanna at Selin's Grove, Pa, the ice broke, and two of the party were drowned
 The 5000 coal miners employed in the Monongahela river pits will be locked out if they enforce the uniform mining rate of 2111 cents adopted at their convention
 Monday. Dec. 1s.
 There are 12,000 unemployed persons in Providence Hon. A. Smith has resigned as collector of customs at Cincinnati.
 Floods in south Buffalo have driven 2,50o people from their homes.
 Mrs. Sarah F. Van Nostrand, aged 105 years, died at New Brunswick, N. J.
 Marie Jansen was robbed in Providence of $5.0O0 worth of jewelry, silks and furs Postmaster General Bissell has ordered that C. C. Wolworth of Castleton, N. r., be allowed to continue the manufacture of postal cards.
 Governor Flower has decided to restore to their old positions the five companies of the Sixty-ninth regiment which were re- gently mustered out.
 Richard Croker, the Tammany leader, issued a challenge to his political oppo- nents who hinted that he had not made his money honestly inviting a legislative in- vestigation.
 Colonel John B. Seizheimer, who was captain of the Logan guards, the first com pany that reached Washington in response to President Lincoln's call for troops, died at Lewiston, Pa.
 Tuesday, Dec. 19.
 Baron Kodolitsch, we'll known in Aus trian sporting circles, is dead.
 The Swiss government has passed strip. gent laws aimed at anarchists.
 Pennsylvania stock dropped to 46%, the lowest since the summer of 1885.
 The Parisian police arrested another ia ulOuS dudTCnlSU dlCtE QeSp6rdC6 struggle Adolph Langfeld of Newark, N. J., was accidentally shot and killed while hunting Albert F. Pullman, a brother of George M. Pullman, the palace car manufacturer, died in Chicago.
 A rupture of the commercial relations between Spain and France is imminent because of tariff dispute.
 Freeman H. Smith of Greenwich, Conn.,, a member of the sophomore class of Wes leyan university, died of typhoid fever.
 One of the jurors in the trial of Dr. c. F. Meyer at New York went crazy, and the trial was brought to 8 sudden stop. Prince Bismarck has written letter to Signor Crispi, the new Italian prime min. ister, congratulating him upon his return to power.