Connecticut western news., 1893-10-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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 Harrison K. Thornton, missionary in Alaska, was killed by natives
 Walter H. Rett, a we'll known Atlanta lawyer, killed himself with pistol.
 The switchmen on the Illinois Central and Yazoo and Mississippi have returned to work.
 The National Baseball league had a most prosperous season, every club having credit balance.
 The National bank of Kansas City, which recently suspended, has been permitted to reopen for business.
 The stockholders' meeting of the Louis vile and Nashville road was tho shortest on record, lasting but IS minutes
 The directors of the Episoopal Tbeoloa- icsl school at Cambridge, Mass., have se- lected Rev. George Hodges of Pittsburs ss dean.
 Efforts are making to secure an appro- priation of sso, ,ooo for the yellow fever sui. ferers at Brunswick, Ga One desth and i6 new cases were reported there yesterday. Friday, Got e Colored Odd Fellows celebrated thsir semicentennial at Philadelphia Three billion cigarettes were amoksd in this country in the fiscal year just sndsA Edward Hanlan offers to, back Dunnsa to row Gaudsur a lk miles straigAtawsy race for q 900
 The total score in the great intsrnstio billiard match at New York isi Roberts, o,$0l; Ives, 5,7s8 Superintendent Byrnes of New York fell on the stairway at his home and out . s. we're gash over his eye. Benjamin F. Tennis who assaulted and murdered e-year~old girl, was. ssntsnosd to be hanged at Harrisburg. Isaac Green, whose body was found along the railroad track near Highbndge, is b. lieved to have been murdered. The Bank of England has reduced ita rate of discount from sA to per can't Its bullion decreased ESQ, 900 during ths lAst week.
 Heinz Bros. & Co.'S pickle establishment at Pittsburg was burned. Loss, co, ,0oo insured. One of the firm, J. O. Hsinx, Jr., was arrested for sstting fire to the works sssurdss. oet- |. Bears lost t1b0, 900 in a corner on. Laoks- wanna stock in Wall street Lady Somerset has subscribed ai0o 10 | the coal miners, strike fund. Hon. Hannis Taylor, minisesr to Spain, | who has been quite sick, is reported better The Buffalo Courier, Democratic has come out in strong editorial against Judge Maynard. Mrs. Maria Brooks and daughter of | Rochester have presented so ,ooot Auburn | Theological seminary. Executions amounting to ela,ab0 werc issued against Henry oppsnhsimer, Pists- burg shirt manufaoturer. Rev. F. R. Webster, pastor of the Uni- vsrsalist church in. .Everstt, Mass, has re- signed to enter the Episcopal church. The entire freshman class in the State college at Bellefonte, Pa, rstrack" be- cause two of their number had been sus- pended for having cider in their room. Three cable cars ran away In Broadway, New York. near Thirty-third strvet One grip was tangled in broken strand and | ran many blocks before word could be sent to the power house and the cable could bs stopped. Traffic was delayed for two hours
 Monday. ooa Q.
 Boston and surrounding towns are threat ened with a water famine.
 A boy in Providence fatally shot another | boy while playing with rife. Another attempt will be made in Chicago to raise fund for the Duke of vsragua.
 The Cumberland (N. J.) county excise commission has been indicted. charged with sxtortion.
 There has been another hitch in the nsgo- tiations for the extradition of Embexsler Weeks from Costa Rioa.
 President ClevslAnd's family has moved | from the White House 10 Woodlsy, Ar. | Cleveland's suburban residence
 Congressman Scranton of Scranton, Pa, editor of the Scranton Republican, was ar rested, charged with criminal libeL
 The express companies entering St Louis arc building depot for joint occupancy, which will be the largest in the world
 Mrs Stephen Bordo of Bridgeport, Conn., tried to kill hcrself by jumping cut of window because her children were starving.
 Alexander Salvini, the actor, was mar ried in Cleveland to Madelsidc Dixon, who played in his company for several seasona
 The proposition of President Jeffyiss ci the Denver and Rio Grande railway of s 10 per cent reduction has been accepted by N Tuesday, ooa. 10.
 A man was found in Central park, New York, suffering from smallpox.
 New Orleans has raised A relief fund of about s7b, GOO for the cyclone sufferers.
 Frederick Gsbhard was fined sloo in a New York court for neglecting jury duty.
 The Countess of Clancsrty, formerly Belle Bilton, & London music hall singer, is s mother.
 Bcrthold Pepper, the New York thsates usher whe elopcd with the wife of a man in Moriches, N. r., was arrested in San Fran cisco.
 Motormen and conductors on electric cars in Newark. N. T., grumbls because of an order compelling them to wear ties and | collars
 Howard L. Bain, the ex-oashisr of ths Home Savings bank, Brooklyn, who wss convicted of embexzlipg. was sentenced to serve four years in the state prison.
 The Cunard Steamship company will lay up the steamship Campania for a montA this wintsr and have her altered in hAr- mony with the plans of the Lucania
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