Connecticut western news., 1893-12-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Dec. 21.

Thursday, Dec. 21.
 There were 164 deaths from influenza in London last week.
 Bishop Lawrence announced himself as in favor of cremation.
 Winter racing at Ivy City will not be re- stunned until after Christmas.
 James M. Bowling, late cashier of the New Orleans mint, was indicted for em- bezzling $25 900. The Kearsarge has been ordered from New York to San Domingo to protect American interests.
 Mir. H. R. Lucas, known all over the trot- ting horse world as Pike, died at the Mary land University hospital in Baltimore.
 Dr. Irmer, who is friend of Dr. Peters, the well known African traveller, has been appointed governor of the Marshall islands in the Pacific ocean.
 The president and cashier of the insolvent Bell County National bank were sentenced to five years imprisonment in the govern ment prison at Saltwater, Minn., for em- bezzlement and perjury.
 George B. Boynton, who was brought from Brazil on charge of having attempt ed to blow up the Brazilian cruiser Aquid- aban, declares that he will sue the govern ment for $i00, 900 and Secretaries Herbert and Gresham for large amounts.
 Friday, Dee. 22.
 A rich vein of gold has been discovered near Burlington, Ia.
 Three miners were drowned in the Oak Hill colliery at Delaware. Pa.
 A tray of diamonds valued at SIS, 900 was stolen from Chicago jewelry store
 fal ttot hoe haa rested, charged with forging bank notes. The Roman Catholic Church of the As tension at North Tonawanda, N. Y., was destroyed by fire.
 John J. Vail, cashier of the late Com mercial bank of Brooklyn, has been ar rested on a charge of perjury.
 The trial of Dr. Meyer, the alleged poi soner, has been declared off at New York because juror became insane.
 Juror Benson, whose illness threatened to seriously retard the progress of the Coughlin case, has entirely recovered. Sixty employees of large dry goods firm in Sheffield, England, were burned or injured in escaping from the building, which was destroyed by fire.
 Saturday, Dec. ga.
 Herr Guttmann, editor of The German Medical Gazette, died of influenza
 The jury in the Monson case at Edin- burgh returned verdict of not guilty. The Italian troops gained a victory in northeastern Africa over the dervishes and killed hundreds.
 A powder magazine at Waltham abbey exploded, resulting in the death of several persons and the woundfng of a number of others.
 
 Colonel T. w. Higginson. essayist. sol dier and reformer, was TO years old Friday, and held reception at his home in Cam bridge, Mass.
 At Perth Amboy, N J., George Scofield mistook James Johnson for burglar and shot him in the neck, infiicting wound that may prove fatal.
 Grip has become epidemic at the county poorhouse at Norristown, Pa., and about 100 of the inmates of that institution are suffering from the disease.
 A landslide near the Roanoke river, on the Norfolk and Carolina railroad, caused wreck in which the engineer was killed and three brakemen were injured.
 Monday; Dec. 25.
 Three persons died in Pittsburg of star vation.
 An armed crank was arrested in Spring field, Mass.
 A nickel-steel ingot weighing 150, 900 pounds was cast at Homestead, Pa.
 An elevator in the new Stock Exchange in Chicago fell, fatally injuring four men. Robert Sutherland. aged IS, and Louisa Ward, aged IS, eloped from Lowell, Mass Maria Naflet, who owns an $11 900 house in Buffalo, was arrested there charged with shoplifting.
 General N. P. Banks was found wander ing about Lynn, Mass, too ill to give an account of himself
 Three policemen of Ironwood, Mich, were convicted of stealing supplies from the public relief stores.
 White miners who are on strike at Lin ton, Ind, threaten to shoot the negroes who have taken their places.
 William Hawley, serving a five years term for burglary, committed suicide in the New Jersey penitentiary at Trenton by inhaling gas.
 Tuesday, Dec. go.
 There was another antitax riot in Sicily. Chauncey M. Depew returned from Flu rope.
 Chancellor von Caprivi Is said to be de- irous of resigning his office.
 The steamer Seneca, for New York, re- turned to Havana with her forehold on fire
 Two Scranton Pa.) police officials were seriously injured in a battle with drunken Hungarians.
 Alexander Sullivan denied Mrs. Foy's statements duplicating him in the Cronin assassination.
 H. B. Shields was arrested at Chicago for Kidnapping E. M. Byers, 8 Pittsburg manufacturer.
 There is great qualification in Topeka over the appointment of J. c. Wilson as one of the Atchison receivers.
 A dynamite crank has threatened to blow up Armour institute, Chicago, and to kill Dr. Gunsaulus, it's president.
 A train was held up at Seminole station, in the Indian Territory, by eight despera- does, who robbed the mail and express cars and each passenger, the robbers escaping