Connecticut western news., 1893-01-19
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.

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-
 densed for Our Headers. Thursday, Jan. 12. Edward l.. Mortimer, of New York, filed
 suit in Columbus, O., asking for receiver for the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus railway.
 Thomas c. Stearnes has been appointed
 instructor of Greek in the Yale academic
 department. Founders day was celebrated at Cornell
 university.
 Governor Flower has granted a pardon to James Burns, of Rochester, N. Y., sen fenced for robbery. Chairman Carter has been confined to
 his room for several days with dyspepsia MT. Robinson, of Pennsylvania, intro duced in the house bill increasing from one to two dollars per barrel the internal revenue tax on fermented liquors. | Secretary Foster recommends the appro- priation of s50OOO for the redemption of l worn and mutilated paper currency. Rev. Mgr. Straine, of St. Mary's church, Lynn Mass, is confined to his home. Fifty more convicts were sent to the Coal | Creek mines in Tennessee, and the free miners threaten to rise in arms again. Friday, Jan. IS. l The swiuchmen in the Lake Erie and
 Western yards at Muncie, Ind, are on strike for higher wages. General Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, has reiterated bis att titude in favor of government ownership of telegraphs and railroads. Frederick Ebensberger, aged eighty-two, | station agent at Canasaraga, N. Y., was killed by freight train on the New York | Central.
 A big lumber combine has been estab- | lished by Maine and Massachusetts parties | which will practically control the entire lumber business of the United States. Eckstein Norton, the noted railroad man I and fnancier, died at his home at New I Brighton, $. l., of heart trouble. Miss Sallie Holly, one of the foremost l workers against slavery, died at Miller's | hotel, New York. John l.. Robinson, president of the Ma | tional bank, of Wellsboro, N. Y., died, aged
 eighty years. Cornelius A J. Hardenburgh, promi- nent Democrat, aged sixty-five, died sud-
 denly at his home in Ulsterville, N. Y. Saturday, Jan. 14. Miss Emily Bourne, of New Bedford,
 Mass, has offered s25, 900 toward the new
 buildings of St. Luke's hospital. Joseph Springstein, a deaf mute, sixty | five years old. was found frozen to death near his home in Kinderhook, N. Y. William Gundlach, a we'll to do man of l Columbia, Ills, blew out his brains in the
 Eagle hotel Buffalo. A lump of magnetic ore, weighing about | 1000 pounds, has been taken from the | George River iron mine in Nova Scotia. ! to the Worlds fair. | effect that the worst blizzard of the stormy | winter is now raging. Mrs. McIain, of Elmira, saturated her | clothes with kerosene oil and set them on | fire.
 l Orrin Davis, a jeweler of Lyons, became insane in a westbound sleeper. Koch, the German bacteriologist, is to | have a laboratory dedicated in his name in | the United States army hospitals ct the | Worlds fair. | Monday, Jan. 16- | Joe Kincaid, of Sardinia, O.. for wager | of one dollar walked two miles in the snow | in his bare feet. Amanda Herbert Evens, of Cameron, N. Y., is under arrest on charge of bigamy l preferred by her husband, from whom she separated eleven years ago. Thermometers at St. Paul registered 40 | degs. below zero. | The Canadian government will hear | American capitalists in relation to letting | franchise for building deep water canal
 from Lake Erie to Montreal and New | York.
 i Fire at Meriden, Conn.,, destroyed the I Meriden Provision company's slaughter
 houses. Loss, S20,OO0. l A charge of attempted bribery of Repub- | lican members of Minnesota's legislature | will probably be investigated.
 Several schooners caught in an ice foe in | Jericho bay and Hat island passage, off the
 coast of Maine.
 General James B. Weaver will open the
 Populist campaign in Arizona on Jan. IS. | Tuesday, Jan. IT.
 Ignacio Herrera was recently Kidnapped | by brigands in Cuba who demand $10, 900 l for his release. | George Wells, while drunk, quarreled | WIUQ us IdIneF dIlu Ju6n kllltu ulIu dU L6Dd-
 non, Ky.
 John Van Alst, a broker, dropped dead
 on the pavement at Broadway and Park place. New York.
 Joseph Josephs, of Buffalo, formerly an
 active Republican, is dead.
 The postmaster at Williamstown, Mass.
 found that the safe had been blown open
 and the entire stock of stamps, some :, ,000
 in number, stolen.
 John Luscomb, sixty-three years old, a
 prominent citizen of Montgomery county,
 N. r., was found dead in bed.
 Senator Squire introduced in the senate
 the house bill authorizing the secretary of
 the navy to contract for one Berdan iron clad destroyer.
 Miss Alice Fowler, well known philan-
 thropist and member of the Society of
 Friends, died at the age of eighty-four at
 Plainfield, N. J.