Connecticut western news., 1893-11-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Nov. I6.

Thursday, Nov. 1o. There are over 500 United States prison FITS in Charleston. .a-e The only surviving bank in Middlesboro, Ky, closed its doors. A thief robbed the poor boxes in Brook lyn Catholic church. The Chicago board of trade building has been declared unsafe. The large cigar factory of Marcas Morales
 m Philadelphia was burned. John w. HoRg chief naval clerk, dropped lead at his home in Rockville, Md. The barracks of the civic guard near Bar. ,elona were wrecked by dynamite bomb The man who attempted to kill the Ser vian ambassador in Paris says he is an an- archist Secretary Hoke Smith has withdrawn trom his law firm In Atlanta, and the firm has dissolved Sergeant John Sevick, a survivor of the famous 600 at Balaklava, is dying of con sumption in New Orleans and is in desti- ute condition. The coroner's jury investigating the rail road wreck at Battle Creek, Mich, re- turned & verdict that the accident was due to gross disobedience of orders. Friday, Nov. IT. Ex-Secretary Rusk is said to be recover ing.
 The United States cruiser Chicago is at Genoa Black diphtheria has appeared in Cam den county, N. J. Prince Alexandria of Battenburg, Aus tria, Is dangerously i'll. The hard times have filled up the recruit | Ing lists at the Philadelphia offices. J. N. Farnworth, city auditor of Lock Haven, Pa., and manager of the opera house, is dead. Of 9o,00o operators usually employed in textile mills in Philadelphia, only 7,5oo are now working. Patrick s. Donovan, who murderedS V ohn Chew, the jockey, was sentenced to 10 years in state's prison. It Is announced thst Corbett and Mitch | ell have arranged to fight at Jacksonville, Fla, for a purse of t20, 900. Miss Elizabeth Elkins, daughter of the ex-secretary of war, was married In New York to Edwin Bruner, broker, by Cardi- l nal Gibbons Saturday, Nov. 1s. The flagship San Francisco is at Port Limon, Nicaragua Several small bombs were exploded nt Lisbon, but no damage was done. An elevator Is to be built on the east
 side of whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls Two little girls were sufrocated in the burning of Edgewood seminary at Mad | lson, Wis Fire destroyed the Chesapeake and Ohio
 freight depot and contiguous buildings al | Owensboro, Ky. A wholesale plot by employees to rob the Boston and Albany railroad has been dis | covered, it is claimed. The state department at Washington has | not heard of the arrest of Embezzler Men | age If 1t has occurred. | Senator Peffer says new political party,
 of which the Populists will be part, will
 be in working order by 1896. ... | Charles Ewart, once rich merchant in
 Liverpool and later diplomat, died In a poorbouse In Norristown, Pa. | A jewelry thief who grabbed 6 tray oi diamonds in a Pittsburg store was oap
 tured, but two of his confederates escaped. | Monday. Nov. 20. | Heavy rains have caused the Fiber tc overflow above Rome. | The Pennsyvania-C Cornell football game
 was won by Pennsylvania by score of SC
 too
 | Ex-Mayor Lewis Patterson, Jr., of Ale ghany City died from a carbuncie on ths
 neck.
 The New York bank statement shows g greater surplus reserve than has ever be fore been held.
 Two valuable paintings which were :
 part of Delaware's Worlds fair exhibit
 have been stolen.
 A robbers cave was discovered near Elisa
 beth, Ky, which contained jewelry and
 several skeletons.
 The soldiers of the United States post
 Fort Sheridan have rebelled against ths quality of the food.
 It is said that Actor Henry Woodruff
 may marry Anna Gould, although theiI | engagement is denied.
 Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems, pastor of the
 Church Of the Strangers, New York, died
 at the home of his daughter.
 During the burning of the Western
 Warehouse and Storage company's large
 four story warehouse at Kansas City thres
 fremen were fatally injured | Tuesday, Nov. s1.
 Chester, Pa, is to have an electric rail
 way system.
 Sylvia Grey. London actress, married :
 wealthy Australian.
 The 5-year-old daughter of Mrs John
 Huseck of Harwood, Pa, was burned tc
 death.
 Seven workmen were seriously injured in
 a collision of an express train with con
 struction train near Carrollton, O.
 Two young men, rivals in love, fought .
 duel near Napoleon, O., with swords and
 jackknives, and both were hacked to pieces
 Roxie McKernin, 6 hotel thief. known
 under dozen aliases in every large city iu
 the United States, was arrested in Cincin
 natl
 John s. Smith, & travelling salesman for
 Holyoke (Mass.) paper firm, died of as
 phyxiation in a Minneapolis boarding | house.
 Senator-elect Bradley of Asbury Park,
 N. J., proposes to introduce a bill in ths
 next legislature dividing Monmouth ooun
 ty and creating new county named Nep
 tune.
 Tried to Blow Up Neison's Monument MaNruEII Nov oI An attrmnt WAS