Connecticut western news., 1893-12-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK. A
Thursday, Dec. !.

Thursday, Dec. q.
 The new Servian cabinet was completed A niece of President Carnot has entered 8 convent.
 Influenza has caused "A deaths in London in the past week.
 A railroad bridge near Bowling Green, Ky, gave way, letting through freight train. #
 The president has nominated Joseph B. Doe of Wisconsin to be assistant secretary of war;
 The famous danse du ventre, from the Midway plaisance, has been suppressed in New York.
 The residence of ex- Congressman George D. Tillman at Clark's Hill, s. O., was de stroyed by fire.
 The American Sugar Refining company declared quarterly dividend on common stock of per cent.
 The Right Hon. John Morley, chief sec retary for Ireland, has gone to Monte Carlo for rest by order of his physicians.
 The steamboat Waldo A. Avery, with 10000 bushels of corn, was totally destroy ed by fire in the straits of Mackinaw. The officers of the supreme lodge of the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias were received by President Cleveland at the White House.
 Friday, Dec. 8.
 Actor Charles Coghlan's first wife says she will sue for divorce.
 M Drumont, Parisian editor, has been challenged to fight duel by nephew of Premier Casimir Perier.
 There have been five incendiary fires in Wheeling within a week.
 The strike at the Snowden coal mines in West Virginia is about over.
 A yacht made entirely of aluminium was launched at St. Denis, France.
 The Southern Female university at Bir- mingham, Ala, was destroyed by fire. A Chinaman was found hanging in his laundry in Pittsburg, and it is not known whether it is case of suicide or murder. A New York crook is trying to swindle country postmasters by representing that he has postage stamps for sale at big dis count.
 The wife of Professor Tyndall confessed at the inquest that the overdose of chloral which killed her husband she gave to him by mistake.
 Saturday, Dec. g.
 Princeton's football season has ended The Coughlin murder trial was begun in Chicago
 The trials of the new British warship Theusus were unsatisfactory.
 The Canadian government has authorized the sale of certain of the Thousand islands. The Brazilian government has made secret loan or issue of $75 0O0, 900 in nation al bank notes
 The first shipment of gold to Europe $500, ,0O0-will be sent on the steamship Trave to Bremen today.
 H. E. Huntington has been elected presi- dent of the Central Pacific Railroad com pany to succeed the late Senator Stanford. Robert Jaffray, elder of the West Pres byterian church session of New York, re- ceived the resignation of Dr. Paxton in of ficial form.
 The English admiral at Rio Janeiro re- fused to allow Peixoto's agents to arrest Senator Barbosa on the royal mail steamer Magdalena.
 D. B. Penn, Jr., son of ex-Governor Penn of Louisiana, who was a member of the Worlds fair national commission, is dan gerously ill.
 Monday, Dec. Il.
 There has been rioting in Sicily by SO cialists.
 A diver died of fright while at work on wreck at Ashtabula, O.
 James c. Harvey, ex-minister to Portu- gal, died in Washington.
 General John Newcomb Knapp died at his home in Auburn, N. Y.
 The government of Argentine has de- clared political amnesty to all refugees. Lansing B. Mizner, who was minister to Central America when the Barrundia in- cident occurred, died in Benica, Cal. The bride of D. R. Doney of Honesdale, Pa, to whom he was married but three weeks ago, has mysteriously disappeared. An election to fill the vacant seat caused by the death of General Lilly of Pennsyl vania will be held on the third Tuesday in February.
 Rev. Dr. Krimlar of New York, at Christian Alliance convention in Philadel- phia, predicted that the millennium would occur in 1899.
 The Germania club, the most influential German social organization in Chicago, re- fused the proffered gift of & portrait of Governor Altgeld, but later accepted it.
 Tuesday, Dec. 12.
 Chauncey M. Depew is in London. Two robbers escaped from jail at Somer- vile, N. J.
 At Plano, Tex, the National bank:.was robbed of Sl9, ,442.
 Nine jurors have been secured in the Prendergast trial at Chicago.
 Admiral Sir John Corbett, K. O. B., re- tired, died at Brompton, England.
 Moody and Sankey, the evangelists, will conduct revival meetings in Washington next February.
 The great Directum, king of trotters, has left Chicago on his way to his winter home at Pleasanton, Cal.
 The sixth week of the Coughlin trial opened in Chicago with the taking of testi- mony by the prosecution.
 Major Pope, commanding the marines at the Charlestown (Mass.) navy yard, has been transferred to the Mare Island station at San Francisco.
 Police Commissioner McGrane of Albany was arraigned in the police court, charged with bribery, intimidation and other of. lenses on election day.