Connecticut western news., 1893-05-25
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 Thursday, May 1S.
 A 6-day bicycle race for women was be- gun at Chicago. The wife of Colonel William B. Hayes has sued Loie Fuller, the actress, to recover $500, money loaned.
 Rear Admiral Gherardi is to be assigned to the command of the Brooklyn navy yard.
 Mrs. Annie Weed won her suit against the heirs of Mortimer T. Weed, the Wall street broker, who left all his money to his brother and she will be paid her dover right.
 Gerard Enstine, 60, wealthy Philadel- phia manufacturer, went to New York and was drugged and robbed in saloon.
 The French dynamite garrison in the Me Kong valley, India, had a serious conflict with the Siamese.
 A fire in Utica, N. r., burned part of a block on Genesee street.
 Max Judd, consul to Vienna, sails from New York to his post on Friday.
 Friday, May 1e.
 George J. Gould declined reelection as president of the Pacific Mail Steamship company.
 G. Weaver Soper, president of the Cord age trust, mortgaged his house in Cincin- nati.
 Fire at Yonkers, N. Y., destroyed Bel knap & Co.'s hat factory. A box containing s1O,OO0 was found un- der the house once occupied by miser at Des Arc, Ark. The business of the Commercial bank of Australia, which suspended April 4, is to be wound up by order of the court. A good deal of excitement was caused in Montreal over drop in Canadian Pacific stock in the London market.
 It was rumored that Rev. T. Dewitt Tal- mage would resign as pastor of the Brook lyn tabernacle. Governor Flower appointed commission to investigate the sanity of Murderer Mar telli.
 Notices written in Chinese were found posted in San Francisco offering $500 for the murder of 8 rich Chinese merchant. A story comes from Quebec of an Indian daughter.
 Saturday, May 90.
 The boiler of an electric light plant at Eldora, Ia., blew up, destroying the build ing and others adjacent. The Presbyterian general assembly, in | session at Washington, characterized the Worlds fair as "a national grog shop"
 The bureau of statistics reports that dur ing the year ending April 30 immigrants to the number of 82 ,368 have arrived. The battle monument at Bennington, Vt., suffered considerable damage from storms during the past winter. The Hamburg American liner Norman mia made the fastest trip of the season from Southampton to New York, making the run in days and 16 hours. The grand jury of Brooklyn indicted the corporation owning the glue works on Newton creek. l.. l., for maintaining nui- sance.
 Adelaide Meserole of New York, a for mer trapeze performer, is insane from 8 brain trouble caused by her acting. A windstorm in Colorado did much dam | age.
 A receiver was appointed for the Toledo, | St. Louis and Kansas City railroad. | Congressman Geary, author of the ex- clusion act, thinks the Chinese can be de- ported at $15 head. Monday, May 22. aS A 13-year-old boy was attacked by Gold | an eagles near Belmont, N. Y., and cap tured one of them. Two electric street cars were in collision | on De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn, and four per sons were injured. | Young Mrs. James G. Blaine is to be married to Dr. William F. Bull, her phy- sician.
 l The Archer & Pancoast company, manu- lecturers of gas fixtures, New York, is in the hands of receivers; liabilities $1 ,000, 900. | James S. Dwight, a Yale student, was arrested on 8 charge of larceny and con l fessed
 Samuel Worth of Chester, Pa, Quaker, became insane, and cut his wife's throat with broken mirror. | Hon. E. J. Ormsbee of Brandon, Vt., has been appointed receiver of the Vermont Investment and Guarantee company.
 Smallpox has broken out among Chinese at Portland, Or, brought from Victoria, B. c. by the British steamer Danube.
 Miss Charlotte Wilcox, aged 85, of New Haven, Conn.,, drank aqua ammonia in mistake for nerve tonic and died
 Tuesday, May 23.
 Twelve young men and boys were held for trial in a New York police court for picking flowers in Central park. The Swiss exhibit at the Worlds fair is temporarily closed, James Perrenoud, the Swiss commissioner, claiming that his gov srnment has been treated with indignity by the United States customs officers.
 An incendiary fire in St. Louis burned to death 7-year-old boy, 150 horses and de stroyed 8 3-story block valued at $20O, 900.
 Boston cigar makers have promised to aid the New York cigar makers in case the latter strike.
 A Brazilian warship was wrecked in the Gulf of Suez on the coast of Egypt.
 The largest spoolmill in the world, at Gilead, Me, was burned
 Lieutenant Peary will sail for the Arctic regions in the steamship Falcon June 15.
 Four Italians in Chicago fought over . Tame of cards and one shot the other three.