Connecticut western news., 1893-01-12
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE
 WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.

The Developments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Con- l dsn.ed for Our Readers Thursday, Jan. Q. The rush into the San Juan gold fields | continues. There are now 1000 there. Clara King, who accidentally stabbed
 and killed Sidney Mccoy while particpat- | ing in private theatricals at San Francisco,
 has been exonerated by the coroner's jury. Efforts will be made to secure the repeal | by congress of the Sherman silver purchase | act.
 Henry Helms, of Southfield, found the body of John Clark, of Passaic, N. J., | frozen stiff on Buchanan mountain. Isaac Putnam, the inventor of phonog- | raphy, celebrated his eightieth birthday in London.
 The president sent to the senate the nom- as minister to Portugal. At meeting in Dublin of the evicted tenants commission Mir. Dillon stated that | the total amount received for the support | of evicted tenants was Sl 10000. In New York city Bertha Laws, who
 is awaiting trial for swindling Consul Gen. | eral Ruiz, of Ecuador, was arrested on two new charges.
 Friday, Jan. 0. Mrs. A. F. Bandelier, aged fifty-seven, is | dead at Lima Peru. With her husband, Professor Bandelier, she was making ar cheological researches in South America. At the Bridgeport (Conn.) custom house | $11T, GA 69 was collected in duties last year on 305 importations.
 Mrs. Henry Cummings attempted sui l,,A {,, lia, 1,,t taIxf | laudanum. By making her walk nearly twelve hours her life was saved. The board of water commissioners voted | to reject the bid of the company which of | fered to supply Jersey City with water. | The price was considered too high. Hundreds of Austrian villages are snow | bound.
 The disease of the brain which has af- | flicted John Ruskin is said to be increasing. MT. Gladstone hopes that the business of | the house of commons will enable him to | explain the provisions of the Irish home
 rule bill on Monday. Feb. 6. Henry Haines, aged twenty-three, farm. | CTS son, put on mask and with revolver | tried to rob the Exchange bank at Gillian, Mo. The cashier took the pistol from him,
 and he is now in jail {, l Saturday, Jan. '. The senate confirmed the nomination of | Gilbert A Pierce minister to Portugal. Rrownlee Robinson Ward, M. D., of New Haven, has been appointed by Presi- | dent Harrison assistant surgeon in the | navy He is a graduate of Yale, 'SS. Mrs. William A. Abbe has given St. Luke's hospital, of New Bedford, Mass, | the sum of S25, 900 to establish ward in memory of her husband. The Kentucky hotel, of Hot Springs. Ark, was destroyed by fire. Senator Kenna was reported much bet | ter.
 Senator Kenna was considered more ! comfortable by his physicians and family. A riotous demonstration was made by the unemployed at Venice. Buck Kilgore, of Texas, took nap on a sofa in the cloakroom of the house and was hopping mad when he awoke and found that a number of private pension bills he had intended to oppose had been passed. Cunliffe's great cotton mill at Accring- ton, Lancashire, was destroyed by fire. Monday, Jan. @. ..# James Phillips, aged eighteen, and his brother George, aged twenty, died in Balti- more within two hours of each other of | typhoid fever. Unless Governor Brown interposes the eight men and boys convicted of the mur- der of Dr. J. H. Hill will be hanged at Chestertown, Md, next Friday afternoon. At the fourth annual meeting and ban quet of the Association of Black Hills Pioneers, held in Deadwood, the attend ance numbered upward of POO. A rich strike of gold has been made in l the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, about
 seventy-five miles north of Flagstaff, A. T. The six members of the Wyoming legis- lature and two senators Gall Republicans) from Laramie county have had notices of contest served on them. The electors of Wyoming met on Satur-
 day and cast the three votes of that state for Mir. Harrison.
 James G. Blaine is nearer the gates of
 death than he has been since his alarming relapse three weeks ago. Tuesday, Jan. 10. Large ice foes blocked up the rivers and bays around New York, making navigation troublesome for the ferryboats and all other craft. Fire in Elizabeth street gave the firemen hard tussle to save the block bounded by Canal, Mott. Elizabeth and Hester streetss New York.
 John w. Cree, an congressman of Eliza beth, N J.. has been arrested, charged
 with putting 500 of the funds of Court Columbus Independent Order of Forrest
 CTS, to his own use #.. Herbert Warren, proprietor of the Bos-
 ton butter store at Bridgeport, Conn.,, is
 missing. and creditors who have claims
 which are said to amount to q, 800 are look ing for him.
 The senate confirmed the nomination of
 Henry Clay Evans, of Tennessee, to be first
 assistant postmaster general. dynamite bomb was exploded at Gel
 senkirchen in the district where the Ger man miners are on strike
 Benjamin Illicit, an English agitator,
 has been put on trial for melting Bristol
 strikers to riot last month. Warner Must Swing. MOUNT HOLLY, N. J., Jan. 6.-Wesley Warner, on trial for the murder of Lizzie
 Peak was convicted here. Millionaire Burget Dead.