Connecticut western news., 1893-08-10
TOLDIN A FEW WORDS
A AWEEK's NEWS FROM ALL SECTIONS
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penings of Seven Days Reduced From Columns to Lines. Thursday, Aug. 8. Serious trouble is feared among the Mis- souri coal miners when negro workmen | take the places Of the strikers. | The officials who were responsible for I closing the Worlds fair on Sunday were fined q ,0C0 for contempt of court in diso- | beying the injunction. | A decision in the Behring sea arbitra- tion matter is expected in about two weeks. | Two-year- Madeline Smith of 296 | Smith street. Brooklyn, was run over and | killed by a trolley car in front of her home.
 Arthur Johnson, 10 years old, of Arling- | ton, Neb., deliberately shot and killed his | Syear-old sister. The collector at the port of New York has been instructed to be cautious about | Chinese immigrants. Rev H. D. Thomas, colored paster of | Newark, N. J., has been asked to resign,
 because he introduced bogus Zulu prince | to his audience.
 | The Behring sea arbitration commission f will probably conclude its deliberations
 and agree on its decisions before the end of | this week.
 \ Friday, Aug. A. | At Somerset, Pa, three masked men | brutally beat and robbed Abraham Beam, a retired farmer, 97 years of age, and his wife. New York's attorney general says there I is no statute providing that property pur- chased with pension money is exempt by | law from taxation. The motion for a quo warranto to relieve the Gettysburg trolley road of its charter
 was argued.
 A meeting was held at the official resi- dence of the lord mayor of London for the | purpose of considering the financial and | business situation. A. Frolich, a produce dealer of New | Springville, N. Y.. was shot and killed by | Policeman Edward Wells at Port Rich
 mond, N. r., for stealing cabbage. | The sanitary inspectors detailed by the
 board of health to inspect the New York | postoffi building say it is a pesthole. | The yacht Navahoe was badly beaten in
 the regatta of the Royal Yacht squadron. Saturday, Aug. 8. | Patrick Egan, formerly minister - the | United States to Chilli, is on his way back | to New York.
 | May Thorne, an actress, killed herself in New York by taking big dose of mor- | phine with suicidal intent. | T. c. Burlngame, president, and P. C. | Newman, cashier of the Springfield Ma tional Bank of Commerce. have been in- dicted, charged with fraud. | A former inmate of the Elmira (N. Y.) reformatory has begun a suit to recover s25, 900 damages from the superintendent,
 Broadway. for alleged cruelty. The two grain clerks, John H. Morgan and Henry Ware Pelletier, are still miss | ing from the office of Woerishoffer & Co.,, | the New York bankers and brokers. Governor Boies has written letter to | Chairman Fullen of the Iowa Democratic
 state central committee positively refusing
 to be a candidate for renomination for | governor
 | The New York state railroad commits
 sion finds that the West Shore wreck of | July 13 was caused by the neglect of Mi | chael Donahue, the switchman, to close | the switch.
 l Monday, Aug. !. | James l.. Wright, one of the seven founders of the Knights of Labor, died at | Germantown, Pa. The Hon. E. J. Phelps, one of the Ameri- can counsel before the Behring sea tri- | bunal of arbitration, sailed for New York on the Paris.
 John B. Woetting, cashier of the South
 Side Savings bank, Milwaukee, who ran away before the bank suspended, has been | arrested in Denver, | Mrs. Meyer, the wife of the alleged | poisoner, Dr. Charles Meyer, now in the | Tombs prison, has been placed with her
 baby in Ludlow street jail, New York. | A Queensland 'labor' vessel, while re. cruiting off the coast of fMalayta, Solomon | islands, was attacked by natives. the | white crew killed, the vessel first footed Il and then burned. | Another case of what is thought to be | typhoid fever has occurred at the New York state building at the Worlds fair the victim being George s. Stevens, audi.
 tor of the New York state exhibit Tuesday, Aug. g. Chief of Police J. A, Chapman of Mid | dletown, Conn.,, died in New York. A poster of United States army re | cruting office caused much indignation ip | Ottawa.
 George w. Gale, an actor, 5s years old, | of 33S East Ninetieth street, New York, died suddenly at his home. The footing of the Pacific bank of San | Francisco by the sons of old Dr. R. H. Mo l Donald caused a sensation there. Benjamin Spangberg, an employee of the Sixth avenue elevated railroad. New York, was mangled by two trains and instantly | killed.
 Frank Smith. driver of an ice wagon, | was knocked from his wagon by Brook | lyn trolley car, run over by his own wagon | and killed.
 The jury in the case of Ducret and Nor
 ton, the Parisians charged with forging | documents, returned verdict of guilty 1 against both of the defendants. Two sensational seizures were made by | the New York custom house authorities of baggage brought over by couple of cabin | passengers on the American line steamship | New York.