Connecticut western news., 1893-03-02
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. es.
 Congress--Senate: Washington's fare well address was read; the sundry civil ap- propriation bill was passed. House: The all night session adjourD d at 6 a. m.; at the Wednesday session the Indian appro- priation bill was passed; Mir. Hatch failed to call up the sntioption bill.
 An earthquake shock was felt at Sacra- mento and several places in Solano county, Cal
 The case of Allen county, O., against Senator Calvin S Brice for Sl7, 900 in omit ted taxes and penalties was settled by the payment of sl1, ,S0020.
 Ex-Secretary William c. Whitney, ac- companied by his daughter Pauline and his sons, will make long trip in the West Indies on H. M. Hanna's yacht Comanche.
 Erastus Wiman has retired from the R. G. Dun mercantile agency after a connec- ton of 30 years.
 Mir. Cleveland has been asked to recog- nize Henry George. The Hon. Tom John son and the Hon. Michael D. Harter be- lieve that MT. George should be made con- sul general to Manchester.
 Friday, Feb. 24.
 Congress-Senate: The diplomatic and military academy bills were passed the legislative bill was discussed House: Colonel Herbert was cheered as he entered the house; the Indian appropriation bill was taken up against vain attempt to call up the antioption bill.
 Major Edward A. Haygood, cousin of ex-Governor Haygood of South Carolina and Confederate veteran, was taken from Atlanta to Charleston yesterday to be tried for bigamy. On the train were his two wives.
 Dr. G. s. Wyckoff was arrested in Ale ghany for complicity in the Leechburg murder and attempted bank robbery, in which William C.. Schaefer was killed.
 Dr. George W. Avery, a we'll known phy- sician of Hartford, died of pneumonia. Dr. Avery was in New Orleans as an army sur geon with General Butler. There is trouble and dissatisfaction among the 5U0 employees of the Branford Lock works, which will likely terminate in a strike.
 President Parsons of the New York and New England railroad has resigned, and it is admitted that friends of MT. Mcleod own a controlling interest in that property. Saturday, Feb. 25. Congress-Senate: The legislative bill was considered. House: Several amend ments to the Indian appropriation bill were adopted; it was agreed to refer the Sherman bond amendment to 8 conference committee.
 The National Federation of America has issued an appeal for money to aid the home | rule bill for Ireland. The president has approved the act granting pension to the widow of the late Major General Doubleday. The winders in the Wakefield (Mass. Rattan company's factory have struck. At San Diego, Cal, Allen Manvell, presi- | dent of the Atchson, Topeka and Santa | Fe railroad, died.
 The Indiana house of representatives has l passed what is known as the Pullman tax | bill The bill provides for the taxation of sleeping car, telegraph, telephone, express | and merchant dispatch companies on their | capital stock. The yeas were SS, but one vote being cast against the bill Monday, Feb. 27. A score of Stamford (Conn.) young men propose to go to the Chicago fair in a | freight car, which they will use as hotel | while there.
 Judge Thayer of Bridgeport, Conn.,, has | refused divorce to young woman, q clerk in Enrich Brothers, New York. He | is opposed to making Connecticut an easy | place to secure divorces. A supposed ghost was captured in a | haunted house at Plymouth, Mass, Satur- | day night, while on her knees before an al | tar saying an "Ave Maria" She was de vout servant in the family which left the | house some weeks ago. A vein of chromium iron ore, 60 per cent | pure silver and 10 feet thick, has been | struck in a we'll at Winfield Station, Ind. | The largest enameling works in America were opened at Dubuque on Saturday. | Frances Kohler, aged IS, of Baltimore, | has sued for assault Charles Kreidenof, a | footless veteran, who had proposed mar riage. but postponed the ceremony from | time 70 lime
 Tuesday, Feb. 2s. Congress-Senate: The pension appropri- | ation bill was passed without amendment. House: The Indian appropriation bill was | passed; the senate amendments to the sum- | dry civil bill including the Sherman bond provision, were nonconcerned in; the sen ate amendment to the car coupler bill was | concurred in.
 Walter Craven, Ralph Stuart and Fred Latte have withdrawn from Baroness | Blanc's company at San Francisco because | of dispute about salaries | John Vanaman, Sr., the oldest man in Cumberland county, N. J., died near Cum berland He was born June 22, 1793.
 A fire broke out in the large 3-story wooden block on Main street at Glouces- ter, Mass, belonging to the Center estate
 
 destructive that has occurred there for many years.
 Marshal Carter B. Harrison, the presi- dents brother, is out with a petition for :he United States circuit olerkship at Nashville