Connecticut western news., 1893-02-09
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, Feb. 2.

 densed For Our Readers. Thursday, Feb. 2. Stephen Decatur Johnston, the veteran hotel keeper of the Thousand Islands and | proprietor of the Isaak Walton House, | died of paralysis.
 An explosion of firedamp occurred in the | General von Blumenthal coal pit at Reck- | linghausen, WestphaIfa Eighteen miners were killed instantly and F were injured Hon. George c. Shearer died at Watkins, N. Y., aged 75 years. In 1862 he was elected judge of Schuyler county and | served one term.
 Miss Ethel Rogers and Miss Elizabeth Reeves, pupils of Linden Hall seminary, Lancaster, Pa, have died of diphtheria at l that place.
 Ex-Governor Robinson of Massachusetts has been retained as counsel for Lizzie Borden.
 A record of accidents in and around Bos-
 ton caused by the electric street cars in 1892 shows that 10 persons were killed and | 265 injured.
 In the Tennessee senate Tuesday reso- lution advocating the amendment of the United States constitution so as to elect United States senators by direct vote of
 the people was adopted. Friday, Feb. 8. Maurice Moriarty of Ware, Mass, over
 seer of mason work on the Central Massa- chusetts railroad, was killed by a milk train at Weston. A colored man was killed at the same time.
 The First National bank of Little Rock
 has failed for $500, 900. George M Pullman intends to present Chicago with a children's hospital. Four negroes suspected of having killed two country merchants were lynched at Richlands, Va.
 Powell Partridge & Storer's brick and
 terra cotta works at Rocky Hill, N. J., were destroyed by fire.
 It is said Mrs Blaine and her sister, Gail
 Hamilton, intend to write the life of James G. Blaine. Dr. Lancaster Drew, secretary and treas
 urer of the Central Savings Fund, Trust
 and Safe Deposit company, Philadelphia, has disappeared, and his accounts are said to be sl0,00O short.
 At Xenia, O., paper mill was complete | ly destroyed by fire. Two hundred men | are thrown out of employment. Saturday, Feb. 4. Ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bayard and Mrs Bayard arrived at Niagara Falls and are quartered at the Prospect House. At Schenectady Margaret Thurber, aged 32, and her 5-year-old daughter Josephine
 were fatally burned. The little girls clothes caught fire, and the mother tried to extinguish them. John Cooper, the tramp indicted for the murder of George l.. Cottle, a reputable citizen of Skaneateles Junction, N. Y., was d rod tu of mi in ha degree.
 John McAdams of the firm of McAdams Brothers, Penn Yan, N. Y, was run over by the cars at Dresden last night, crushing
 both legs. He died this morning. General John F. Ballier died at his resi- dence in Philadelphia. He was born in Wurtemburg in 1915 and came to Philadel- phia in 1888. The president sent to the senate the nomi-
 nation of J. Rice Winchell to be collector of customs for the district of New Haven. Monday, Feb. 6. Dr. Horace Lathrop, prominent physi- | clan of Cooperstown and member of the State Medical society, has been stricken with apoplexy 1t is feared that he will not recover. Miss Sallie c. Koop, 28 years old, com | mitted suicide in Brooklyn by taking chlo- roform, and then she fired four shots into her left breast. Miss Koop was the daugh- ter of Herman H. Koop wealthy retired merchant, who died suddenly four years ago. ...--...# Judge l.. c. Lincoln, a prominent attor-
 ney of Conway, Ark, is dead. He was a I third cousin to ex-President Abraham Lin coin.
 Dr. Spencer c. Devan, past assistant sur geon of the United States Marine hospital service, died at Philadelphia. Stephen A. Walker, who was United | States district attorney in New York in the I latter part of President Cleveland's term and who was for seven successive terms president of the board of education, died of pneumonia.
 Tuesday, Feb. l. Chancellor McGin granted writ of err | for in the case of Wesley Warner, sentenced to be hung at Mount Holly, N. J., on March 15 for the murder of Lizzie Peak. | A train from New London on the Consoli- | dated road struck woman named Arm strong and her infant child at Shamrock, R. l., instantly killing the child and injur- | ing the woman so severely that she will probably die. The woman became bewil- dered on the track.
 Sherman Weldon, bachelor, 35 years I old was frozen to death on the road be- tween Charleston and Rural Grove, N. Y. Charles w. Walworth, president of the | New York Walworth Business college, is | dead. He conducted commercial colleges | in Utica, Philadelphia, Washington and | Detroit. Professor J. H. Worcester. Jr., D. D., professor of systematic theology at the Union Theological seminary, New York, | died of heart failure.