Connecticut western news., 1893-05-11
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 Thursday, May 4-
 The gold reserve has already dropped be- low S100, 900 900 in the national treasury. Martial law has been declared in the Oriental province of Cuba.
 Carlyle Harris was still in suspense as to whether Governor Flower intended to com mute his sentence or not.
 Fifteen men were crushed under tons of coal in Milwaukee by the collapsing of sheds, and six may die.
 The failure of A. H. King & Co.,, the big New York clothing firm, was assigned to backward spring season.
 It has been discovered that the jewels and other valuable personal effects of Mrs. Barnaby, who was poisoned in Denver, have been stolen. Vice President Stevenson has been forced to return to Bloomington, Ills, on account of his wife's illness in Chicago Governor Mckinley addressed the Bos- ton Home Market club at its banquet last evening.
 Friday, May 5.
 The funeral of Rebecca Berghold was held in New York.
 A brick wall 30 feet long was blown down in Brooklyn during a storm.
 The official maps of Long Island City are missing, and an investigation is to be made.
 President Peixoto of Brazil, in his annu- al message, says that country wants immi- grants.
 Jim Collins, horse thief, was lynched in Sherman, Ky, by mob.
 The sheriff of Warren county, N. J., has a warrant for the arrest of Baron Forstner, but cannot find the baron.
 New York detectives have gone to Rich mond after the cashier of the Madison Square bank, who is charged with forging check for S, 1900 and other irregularities. The suspension of three large firms was announced on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
 A 2-story house in Bordentown, N. J., was crushed by landslide.
 The veteran Marshal McMahon, ex-presi- dent of France, is dangerously i'll.
 The 169 Chinamen landed at Portland with fraudulent passports are to be sent back
 Saturday, May 6.
 Two hundred switchmen in the Panhan- dle yards at Columbus, O.. struck.
 A revolution has broken out in Nicara- qua.
 It has been discovered that the South Dar kota divorce laws were never enacted and that such divorces are nullified.
 Rector Ahlwardt, the anti-Jewish agitat- or, has been asked 10 resign from the reich stag.
 In Michigan an arrested drunkard is giv- en choice of going to jail or taking the gold cure. Jacob Friedman, the Russian Jew ar rested on the complaint of fellow coun- tryman, who charged him with murder, confessed the crime and will be extradited. George Gould, representing the Manhat- tan Elevated Railroad company, submitted a compromise proposition to the New York rapid transit commission.
 In the city of Kowal, Poland, 80 people were burned to death in a fire that de- stroyed 1l6 houses.
 Iu the Hudson county court old Zeke Abrams of Roslyn, l.. l., who pleaded guil- ty of bigamy, was sentenced to three years and six months in the Trenton state prison.
 Monday, May 8.
 The directors of the Worlds Columbian exposition have refused to give any prizes to winners of bicycle races.
 The expected duel between Colonel Col lyer and E,litor Carmack Of Memphis did not come eff.
 The New York Sunday World consisted of 100 pages.
 Sam Jones' tabernacle at Memphis was blown down.
 A dynamite boom was exploded in Dub- lin, but no one was hur:.
 The Chicago police have just begun to investigate tne death of Rebecca Berghold of New York city.
 The Worlds fair gates were closed Sun. day.
 A gigantic conspiracy to smuggle in Chi. nalnen b. ,he wholesale was discovered at Tacoma.
 Generai w. S. Rosecrans resigned as reg ister of the treasury.
 Alderman Rohe of Pittsbury was arrest ed for violation of one of Pennsylvania's blue laws
 Michael Davitt, the eminent anti-Par- nellite, has been adjudicated a bankrupt.
 Tuesday. May 8.
 John Ruskin has been offered the D osi tion of poet laureate of England.
 Another cyclone did much damage in ArkansaA
 New York city police justices have made . protest concerning the Gerry society's methods.
 jeweler from Switzerland claims the gems found on the French couple who were arrested in Brooklyn.
 A stay of execution has been granted Murderer Fitzhum, who is awaiting death at Auburn.
 William Purcell, convicted of the mur- der of John T. Farrell, was sentenced in New York city to il years and month in pstAoa.