Connecticut western news., 1893-06-15

umns to Lines. Thursday, June 8.
 An ro-Russian alliance Is predicted by German papers.
 Two girl pickpockets were held for trial In Newark, N. J., and confessed.
 King Behanzin routed the French forces in Dahomey.
 Stansbury J. Wiley of Wilmington, Del, supreme master of the exchequer of the Knights of Pythias, has been expelled. It is alleged that Tiffany & Co, the New York jewellers. owe 800. .0U0 back taxes to the state.
 H. M. Paradise, travelling salesman and one of the jurors in the Dr. Buchanan case, threatens to sue the city of New York for damages because of the frequent post ponements of passing sentence.
 The German Turner's do not want to pa- rade at Chicago June i5, because that is the anniversary of Emperor Williams ac- cession to the throne.
 The Starr gang, which robbed the Ben tonville tArk.) bank, have been captured.
 Friday, June 9.
 The private bank of C. l.. Wickoff a Co.,, Chicago, is in the hands of the sheriff.
 D. B. Loveman of Chattanooga, Tenn, 
 the south, has assigned.
 State Senator Charles K. Walker died at his home in Corning, N. Y.
 Train robbers held up a train near Corn ing, Colo, but left when they found it was not the Denver express.
 Daniel F. Beatty, organ and piano man. ufacturer, i've times mayor of Washing ton, N. J., was arraigned in New York for all VI nf ha al law wa nd held in q 900 bail to answer.
 J. K. Risley, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Denmark, sailed for his post of duty.
 Trial was begun in the suit of Father Dent against the Franciscans for reinstate- ment and s5, 900 damages.
 The Duke of Veragua was spectator at the state convention of Ohio Republicans at Columbus.
 It is stated that the betrothal of the Rus sian czarowitz to granddaughter of Queen Victoria will soon be officially an- nounced.
 Saturday, Juno 10.
 Witnesses in the Dr. Graves case who live in Providence have been offered s900 to go to Denver by the prosecution.
 The steamship Campania arrived at Queenstown ahead of the Paris.
 The private bank of Joseph Higgins in Chicago and three corresponding insti- tutions in Illinois towns have failed.
 A young colored man was lynched near Dresden, Tenn. A thieves fence in Buffalo was raided, and sl6,0 900 worth of stolen goods seized.
 Locomotives of the Lehigh Valley rail- road were attached at Buffalo to secure state taxes
 Sixty deaths from cholera are reported in the city of Mecca.
 Father Dent summoned Archbishop Cor rigan as witness in his suit against the Franciscan order.
 A wind storm in Rice county, Minn., caused $50 900 damage.
 President Rasines of the New York Canal Street bank has been appointed its receiver.
 The United States battleship Massachu- setts was lauched from Cramps shipyard, Philadelphia.
 Manville w. Cooper has sent his resigns- tion as appraiser of the port of New York to President Cleveland to take effect ina mediately.
 Monday, June I2.
 J. s. Clarlson, ex-chairman of the Re publican national committee, aspires to be- come a candidate for the senate.
 A severe rainstorm in Dubuque, la, car ried off everything movable.
 Chief of Police Rylands of Bridgeport, Conn, has been removed and his office abol- ished.
 Rube Porter, one of the oldest and most unique characters of Niagara Falls, is dead. One of the biggest and best known grain firms in northern Ohio, the A. l.. Backus & Sons company of Toledo, made volun- tary assignment,
 Butch Bradley, the notorious burglar, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Tennessee penitentiary for the murder of his pal.
 A petition has been filed asking that the estate of Moody Merrill of Boston be seized and distributed according to law for the benefit of the creditors.
 The new gunboat Maohias, on her trial trip, made 15 knots an hour, two knots more than required by the contract.
 The strike which originated in the Pep perill mill at Biddeford, Me, has extende d Tuesday, June IS. The trial of Mrs. Sham of Princeton, N. J., on charge Of murder, hah been post poned until July 10. Kenyon X Baldwin's large sawmill at Sandy Hill N. r., was burned. A tugboat and tow of canal boats fouled the Russian flagship at anchor in the North river, causing s4 800 damage. An attempt was made in Antwerp to ] blow up the house of the public prose cutor.
 Revivalists at Northfield, Minn., at- tempted to lynch newspaper correspond ent who criticised the meetings. A receiver was appointed for the Harvey Worlds Fair Hotel and Home Improve ment company, Chicago. About GO feet of the state dam across the Hudson river at Troy gave way.
 There was another fight at Visalia, Cal, between the police and the train robbers.
 The Italian government proposes to es- tablish monopoly of life and fire insur-