Connecticut western news., 1893-01-05
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, Dec. 2s. Baltimore is to have a tin plate plant-a branch of a concern in Wales. Mrs. Mary Schenck, aged eighty, of Ra- cine, Wis, wandered from her home and froze to death.
 While Frank Skillings was acting as Santa Claus in Springfield, O., his head dress caught fire and he was fatally burned. Rachael Gottlieb, dealer in fancy goods, Newburg, has assigned. Cyranius F. Brill, of Kingston, was com- mitted to the state reformatory for forgery. Mrs Kaufman Hall was sentenced to the Onondaga penitentiary for eight years for manslaughter and the criminal practice of medicine.
 A number of students suspected of com municating with nihilistic students in St. Petersburg were arrested in Warsaw. In consequence of the failure of the Franco-Swiss convention, Swiss manufac- turers decided to limit their purchases from France.
 In Albany the Great Eastern Casualty and Indemnity company, of New York city, was incorporated. Friday, Dec. 80. Mir. Gladstone was eighty-three years old Thursday. Hundreds of telegrams and let ters were received at Hawarden and Biar- ritz, where Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone are stopping. The premier is enjoying excel lent health. Queen Victoria was among the earliest to congratulate him with a par ticularly gracious message. Despondent Mrs. Minnie Kaufman Earth. lems, handsome young widow of Canan- daigua, committed suicide. She was en- gagged to be married, and her lover was in the house at the time. In the sheathing of the steamer Oceanic, from Hong Kong for San Francisco. GUS tom officers found $12, 900 worth of smug- gled opium.
 D. N. Trowbridge, manufacturer and dealer in cooperage stock, Toledo. has failed. Estimated liabilities, s60, 900; as- sets, S35, 900.
 It is believed that Burdette Irish, young married man, and May Supp, the nine teen-year-old daughter of City Treasurer Supp. of Auburn, have eloped.
 George Taylor, aged sixty-four, for many years general freight agent of the Inter-
 
 Saturday, Dec. 31.
 Levi Rizenberg, aged ten, was killed by an electric car in Syracuse. The electric railroad from Canisteo to Hornellsville was formally opened. Prince Metchersky, manager of The Graschdanin, of St Petersburg, has been sentenced to one month in prison for libel ing public officials.
 Pending the result of the commercial ne- gotiations between Germany and Russia, it has been agreed between the two powers to maintain the status quo until May 1.
 Malcolm Purdy was crushed to death by the falling in of paper mill at Watertown, N. Y.
 President Corbin, of the Long Island railroad, has issued an order that heads of departments must dismiss every employee who is addicted to drink.
 Referee William Herman, of Utica, has granted a divorce to Erwin w. Northrup from his wife. F. Genevieve Northrup. Both live in Lowville, N. Y. +
 Heinrich Brothers, furniture dealers of Utica, have failed.
 Monday, Jan. 2.
 Edward S. Stokes has sued his cousin, w. E. D. Stokes, for criminal libel in rejecting on his management of the Hoffman House
 Ben Crosby, of Yale, 'o2, died of typhoid fever. He was a famous football player. President Duss intimates that the reports of Mir Feeds assumption of interest in Economy's new government are not worry ing anybody in the Harmony society.
 United States Senator c. K Davis will be his own successor from Minnesota with out the formality of a joint caucus.
 Burgess John McLuckie, of Homestead, Pa, has been released on q, 900 bail.
 Baroness de Roque, the mother of Mrs- Maybrick, states that her daughters health is improving. .. R. G. Dun & Go. B weekly review of trade says that the most prosperous year ever known in business has closed with strong ly favorable indications for the future.
 Donaldson Caffery, of St. Mary's parish, La, has been appointed senator of the United States to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Gibson.
 Tuesday, Jan. 8.
 Matteo Lanni, an Italian, who killed his wife, was sentenced to seven years im- prisonment for manslaughter in Provi- dence.
 Mayor Horton took the oath of office in Newport, and the new city council was sworp in.
 The Master Builders association, of Bos- ton, has adopted resolution for an eight hour day for their workmen.
 Governor Flower has appointed as judges of the municipal court of Syracuse Patrick J. Ryan for the term of six years and Will liam G. Cady fos,five years.
 The plant of the Arctic Ice company at Bangor Me, was blown down by terrific gale. Loss. $12,OOO.
 Percy Carter, a sevepteen-year-oldb boy of Good Ground, L. l., was drowned while skating on Shinnecock bay
 In the course of an address delivered by Emperor William he again said that the reichstag would be dissolved unless the army bill was passed. .s..s.
 Fire destroyed Caldwell & Peterson's cor rugating works at Wheeling. Loss, $lO0,- 900; insurance, $45, 900.
 Physical Culture in women's Colleges.
 The whole answer to the question, Is the health of the average young woman equal to the successful prosecution of the work of a college course? may be given in the briefest terms as follows: The first duty of the college authorities is to give just as careful physical ex- animation for original entrance as their examination into the applicants scholar ly proficiency, and their next duty, tue applicant having been admitted, is to see that her advancement is symmetrical, and that she is led across the threshold of mature womanhood as well equipTcd by reason of bodily strength and t. l. opment as by that of intellectual a:.l moral development for the full enjoy- ment of life's pleasures, tasks and vari- ,us wholesome activities
 In the future the question whether or not young woman's health is quite safe at college will be absurd upon its face. It will be absurd because one of the definitions of woman's college will be: A place where the health of young q -1