Connecticut western news., 1893-02-23
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-
 densed for Our Readers. Thursday, Feb. 16.
 Henry c. Bloss, editor and proprietor of
 the Titusville Pa) Herald, died at his
 home of nervous prostration. The deceased
 was member of the bar and prominent in
 local business and political circles. Miss Susan B. Anthony celebrated her
 73d birthday. She received number of
 congratulatory letters from prominent peo- pie all over the country Rev. c. l.. Paddock, the recent pastor of the Universalist church at Camden, Me, has accepted a call to Macedon, N. Y. Wallace Bruce of Poughkeepsie, N. r., United States consul at Edinburgh, has been elected to succeed the late John Green leaf Whittier as life corresponding member of the Scottish Society of Literature and Art, Glasgow.
 Fire at midnight at Albany destroyed the
 hide and leather store of F. Sternfeld & Co, the silver plating establishment of George B. Withers, the paper box factory
 of Paschals Dubuque and the sild works of Jesse B. Ferris
 William Bolton, the millionaire brewer of Lansingburg, N. r., died of typhoid
 fever.
 Friday, Feb.I IT. Congress-Both branches in session. Senate: The Hawaiian annexation treaty
 and correspondence were made public; the
 river and harbor items cut from the sundry civil bill by the committee were restored.
 House: The committee amendments to the
 pension bill were defeated.
 Many negroes are arriving in Oklahoma territory with bogus orders for land in the Cherokee strip, which they say they pur- chased from a man who, travelled through Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi selling them at S10 each
 The Michigan senate passed a joint reso- lution urging congress to submit to the people a constitutional amendment provid- ing for the election of United States sen ators by direct vote of the people. There is no settlement in prospect in the Monongahela valley miners strike. Since the strike began the cost to the operators has been $500, 900. and the miners have lost in wages more than s1,0o00o0. The South Dakota house passed bill re- quiring that all fire insurance companies with headquarters outside the state shall deposit Sl00,00 with the secretary of state before being allowed to do business in the state
 Saturday, Feb. IS. Congress-Both branches in session. Senate: Senator Sherman's amendment to the sundry civil bill authorizing the issue of 3 per cent bonds was discussed, but no action was taken. House: The pension ap- propriation bill was passed; the postoffice appropriation bill was taken up; consid. eration of the railroad coupler bill was postponed till Tuesday The California state legislature is great ly concerned over Senator Stanford s health. There will be no adjournment if there is any chance of an election of another Uniled States senator. In the common council of Philadelphia an ordinance was passed prohibiting the employment by contractors on municipal works of other than American citizens. The ordinance will probably pass the select council and become a law The home rule bill was read in the Brit ish house of parliament for the first time. Robert Louis Stevenson is very i'll with grip.
 Monday. Feb. 20. The Rochester Paper company, one oi the largest concerns in the world, is em barrassed.
 S. c. Hastings, first chief justice of the
 
 of the Hastings law college branch of the State university, died at the age of 7Syears He was born in Jefferson county, N. Y. Fire broke out in Paul's furniture store at West Newton, Pa, and destroyed eight buildings.
 George k. Spencer, eX-United States sen ator from Alabama, died at Washington. Several cows suffering from tuberculosis have been seized and slaughtered by the health department at Toronto. While in New York Mrs. Cleveland pur chased a span of fine horses which she will keep for her own use while in Washington The horses are a perfect match and eclipse the team owned by the president-elect. E. K Hart, millionaire banker, died at Albion, N. Y. Mir. Hart was an ex-mem. Der of the New York assembly and of con. gress.
 Tuesday, Feb. 21. Congress-House: The New York and New Jersey bridge bill and the naval and agricultural appropriation bills passed certain members of the house agreed on a silver compromise. Senate: The sundry civil appropriation bill was discussed, and the public building items were approved The priests of the Scranton (Pa. diocese have begun crusade against dancing schools.
 The General Managers association at Chicago resolved not to increase wages un- der any circumstances, and a strike of switchmen is imminent, The second trial of Dr. T. Thatcher Graves for the alleged murder of Mrs. Barnaby has been set for May 22. It is reported that MT. Neuman has sat isfied himself by his inquiries at the capi- tal sinca his arrival in Washinpto last week that the restoration of the lately de posed queen is out of the question, but it is
 said that he desires to be advised of this of fcially in order to satisfy his principal upon his return to Hawaii