Connecticut western news., 1893-04-06
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Thursday. March 80.


 penings of Seven Days Reduced From Columns to Lines.
 Thursday, March 80.
 Wing Lee, otherwise known as Coon Hoy Ton, who described himself as a mer- chant, filed petition in the Suffolk coun- ty insolvency court, Boston.
 Oswald Ottendorfer, editor of the New York Staats Zeitung, who has been seri- ously i'll, is improving.
 The steamship Chester lowed into New York the North German Lloyd steamer Straasburg, which was disabled with . broken shaft March 25.
 Rudolphe H. Fonda has brought suit against John H. Norton of Meriden, Conn, for the alienation of his wife's affections, claiming $10,0O0.
 fire in the state prison at Auburn, N. Y., caused damage to the extent of $150, 900. Augustus Saint Gaudens of New York has | been selected as the sculptor who will de- sign and make the bronze statue of Phil lips Brooks.
 John Spinks of Syracuse, N Y., while seeing the sights in Chicago was robbed of all his money by shell workers.
 Friday, March 31.
 The regular catcher of the Harvard Uni versity Baseball nine has scarlet fever. John Price, a bad man of Baltimore, who has killed four men and served 30 years ill prison, was again sentenced to seven years in Jail for shooting at a 15- year-old girl, who refused to marry him. The president of San Domingo is charged with being a safe breaker
 John Harrington of Chimney Rock, N J., wanted to die He cut his throat and itlrn la1 it,fr uall hut 1al and his neck was sewed up. He is still alive.
 A tug ran into and sunk ferryboat in Hell Gate, East river, New York. Several horses were drowned
 The captain of Provincetown (Mass.) fishing schooner just in, reports the loss of three dories containing six men. They dis appeared in snowstorm of Highland light
 An internal machine loaded with dyna- mite. was discovered on the steamship Bownmore lying at Nanimo, B. O. Strik- ing miners are suspected.
 The opera house at Bath, Me. was burned, also the Revere house, adjoining.
 Saturday, April 1.
 The North river shad season has opened. There is said to be q scarcity of chorus girls. It is estimated that 2,000 women will appear in tights at the various Chicago the aters this summer.
 Mary F. Harold of New York is insane from worrying over the mysterious suicide of friend.
 A nephew of General Pasykiewicz, the once famous and much hated governor of Poland, landed as an immigrant in New York.
 One new passenger and freight line and one new freight line have been established from Germany to New York
 Mrs Elizabeth l.. Boldly was arrested in Baltimore on charge of fraud. She was running federal patronage office.
 Some anonymous crank has been writing letters to Judge Moore of Kings county court, New York, warning him to leave the country.
 John Melville of Newark ended a spree, during which he spent SIC, 900 inheritance by being arrested on 8 charge of trying to shoot man.
 Monday, April 8.
 A fierce woodland fire is destroying some of the best timber lands in Virginia and in North Carolina
 The great provision deal on the Chicago board of trade. which for 12 months has kept up the price of pork, has been loos- ened up.
 Charles Speigelstein, 10 years old, of New York, charged Jacob Schnich with stab ping him while he was saying his prayers. John Dorr, waiter in saloon in New ark, will sail for Southampton to take pos session Of an estate valued at 3400, 900 left by his uncle.
 Governor Flower commuted the sentence of death pronounced against Michael T. Sliney of New York city to one of life im- prisonment
 A severe earthquake shook the villages in the vicinity of Mount Etna.
 Three lives were lost and many persons injured at the burning of the Higgins House in Bedford, Pa.
 The opening of the Cherokee strip is an assured fact. The date will probably be about July l.
 Tuesday, April 4.
 By the cave in of a mine near Hazleton, Pa, two coal miners were buried 600 yards underground and three others were in- jured.
 The bodies of four tramps were found n the ruins of burned barn at Hacken- sack, N. J.
 Miss Nellie Villas, daughter of Senator Villas of Wisconsin, died of quinsy. Her father is tarpon fishing in Florida and can. not be notified.
 Pietro Mancuzo of New York was killed by being thrown down stairs at his board ing house. Several arrests have been made Rumors of a proposed underground road in New York city caused Manhattan ele- vated stock to drt p 10 points. Gas from varnish exploded in huge brewery tank at Portland, Or. One man inside the tank escaped while another was killed.
 Max Koch, a German, tired of life, tried to jump from the Brooklyn bridge, but was pulled back by policeman. Balfour was cheered by thousands of Antihome rulers at Belfast, Ireland.