Connecticut western news., 1893-05-18
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 Thursday, May II.
 The new immigration law went into force at Ellis island.
 The wife of Mysterious Billy Smith. the pugilist, died in Lynn, Mass, of blood poi soning.
 John K Tallman, a we'll known resident of Albany, is dead.
 The rajah of Keunjhar, India, is besieged in his capital by 10000 insurgents.
 Mary McCann, the servant girl who has been unconscious for 26 days in hospital at Orange, N. J., as the result of 8 fall from a trolley car, has recovered conscious ness.
 The appeal of Colonel Hayes, now in Sing Sing, was argued before the general term and decision reserved.
 The trial of Lizzie Borden has been fixed for June 5.
 The treasurer of Putnam county, O., is said to be $25, QUO short In his accounts.
 The failure of the Australian bank added to the uneasiness of Wall street. Friday, May 12.
 Mrs. Anna Harris of Tonawanda was convicted of poisoning her infant child and sentenced to II years and months impris- onment.
 At mass meeting of garment cutters in St. Louis President Gompers of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor was called a trai- tor and liar and hissed out of the hall.
 By the death of one representative the H. hnois Democrats have but 8 bare quorum in the house.
 Two judges of St. Clair county, Mo, were committed for contempt because they refused to make tax levy.
 Another warehouse on the Hull docks was burned, probably by strikers.
 A tank of gas used for charging soda fountains exploded in the street in New York, injured Q man and horse and did other damage.
 The annual meeting of the New York Tammany society will be held this evening Two men were killed in the wreck of 2 freight train near Parkersburg, W. Va.
 General Edward D. Townsend, for .
 
 army. died in Washington.
 In boarding house fire at New Rochelle, Matthew O'Brien was burned to death.
 Saturday, May 18.
 The last day of the trial of James H. Pigot, the Brooklyn official, was made ex- citing by several altercations.
 Ignatius Donelly, president of the Min. n1f haa Io1 ofol session of the state legislature to remedy the farmers elevator bill.
 The New York tax commissioners are holding the examination into the assess ment on Gould's personal property in se- cret.
 Edward O. Leech, director at the mint at Washington, resigned.
 Two men were hanged in Sherman, Tex, and the widow of the man they had mur- dered saw the execution.
 Train robbers near Laketon, Ky, held up 8 train, blew up the express car with dyna- mite and secured about q, GOO. A cyclone near Pinckey, Mich, injured several persons and much live stock. A Chicago firm have begun suit against the Cordage company to recover a lot of hemp and twine. Charles and George Hegermann, broth CTS, of Flatbush quarreled over the divi- sion of their fathers property, and George is now under arrest charged with using Q pistol and knife on Henry. By the breaking of boom 10, ,OO0, 900 feet of logs were swept out into Georgian bay, Lake Michigan. Monday, May 15. Joseph and Robert Hall brothers, o1 Steelton, Pa, went to Greenpoint, l.. l., to buy green goods, and shot one of the swindlers who tried to rob them of s650. England's home secretary has refused to shorten the term of imprisonment of the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland. The Yale treatments crew beat the New York Athletic clubs crew. William Flannelly was arrested in New York charged with fatally shooting Mary Sexton, girl with whom he ran away from Jersey City. It has been found that the caravels will have to be taken to Chicago by the St Lawrence route. Mrs. Hall, matron at the Connecticut state prison, has been suspended. Eugene and Jeanne Leroux, who wert | held in Brooklyn as suspicious persons be cause they had 8 fortune in gems, were dis | charged and rearrested for smuggling. The new postmaster at Terre Haute, Ind was installed and his new force of letter carriers with him. | Tuesday, May 16. | The suit against Cora Tanner, the actress bY Colonel Sim of Brooklyn for divorc' was ended and decision reserved.
 The Right Rev. William Henry Angus tus Bissell, bishop of the Episcopal dioces' of Vermont, died in Burlington, Vt.
 General Porter has issued orders for tn, annual New York state camp to begin June 10.
 James H. Pigot, the indicted Brooklyn official in whose case the jury disagreed, i to be tried again.
 Henry s. Webber of Booklyn, jumpet from Troy boat opposite Newburg. NY. and was drowned.
 The sentencing of Dr. Buchanan, con victed of murder, was postponed unti Wednesday.
 Senator John Sherman of Ohio deniet that he indorsed the banking methods O Zrinoi Dwiggins of the defunct Columbii bank of Chicago.