Connecticut western news., 1893-07-20
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Thursday, July 18.

Thursday, July 18.
 Judge Pryor of New York denied the motion of Alexander Pollock for new trial in the case in which his wife secured a verdict of s37, 900 damages.
 Jim Bell, 8 notorious and much wanted thief, was captured in New York.
 Serious political troubles are brewing in Peru.
 A barrel of turpentine exploded in a paint factory in West Superior, Wis, and blew the engineer out of the window. Another person of the number injured in the Iowa cyclone died at Pomeroy.
 Milwaukee bankers have been indicted by the grand jury for illegal banking.
 The Viking ship arrived at Chicago
 When Edward Geoghegan, the Brooklyn wife murderer, was resentenced to be exc cuted on Sept. 4, be tried to break his handcuffs and had an epileptic fit, all of which created a great sensation in the courtroom.
 Friday, July 1A.
 The Falcon, Lieutenant Peary's ship, ar rived at St. Johns, N. F.
 There will be an international exposition at Antwerp next year from May till Octo- Der.
 General Jardine's condition is very crit ical. Mrs. Jardine, who was taken i'll owing to her long vigil at the bedside of the general, is slightly better.
 s. S. Garrison, superintendent of the Home For Feeble Minded, at Vineland, N. J., is hioooughing to death.
 President T. E. Burlingame of the Bank of Commerce, Springfield, Mo, which failed, has been arrested here charged with fraud.
 Admiral Kaznakoff and officers of the Russian war vessels were given a recep- tion in New York at the city hall by Mayor Gilroy.
 General W. H. Enochs, an Ohio con gressman, was found dead in bed at Iron ton, O.
 Governor Jones of Indian Territory says the condemned Choctaw Indans must bs shot.
 Active hostilities have broken out in Samoa.
 Saturday, July 16.
 Visitors are not allowed on the roofs of the big buildings at the Worlds fair now. Two men while intoxicated and fighting on the railroad track near Pelhamville, N. Y., were killed by an express train.
 Sturges T. Dick, cashier and son of the founder of the Meadville (Pa.) banking house of ]. R. Dick &. Co.,, committed sui eide In his bedroom
 Michael Winchelf, wealthy contractor of Erie, Pa, was killed on the Lake Shore railroad.
 Twenty Siamese were killed and IA wounded during the exchange of fires be tween the forts at the mouth of the Me nam river and the French gunboats.
 United States Attorney Mitchell has re- quested the Washington authorities to se- cure evidence against John c. Enc, the de faulter president of the Second National bank of New York, who recently returned from Canada.
 Edward Thomas and Stephen Wocineck of Milwaukee were sunstruck, and both died.
 President Cleveland will be unable to at tend the celebration to be given today by the citizens of Caldwell, N. J., his birth place.
 An army of crickets is stripping the vi- cinity of Casper, Wy, of all vegetation. Monday, July IT.
 Rev. Henry A. Adams, an Episcopal minister of New York, has written let ter declaring his intention to join the Catholic church.
 Daniel Burke walked into the court room at Cloverport, Ky, and announced that he. killed Joseph Cartwright, for whose murder two men were about to be tried.
 Reed Relois of Hyde Park, Pa., attempt ed suicide because Elsie Smiths parents refused to let her marry him, recovered, married Elsie and then poisoned himself again.
 Richard P. Roughton and Fred. T. Raw | lings killed each other in a street duel at Louderville, Ga.
 Sheriff Werner of Crittenden county, Ark, claims to have been robbed of $11 500 by highwaymen. A
 Two freight trains were in collision near Radford, Va, and an engineer and brake man killed.
 The Atlantic Yacht club took it's an. nual cruise down the sour.d. 1 Tuesday, July IS.
 Remarkably rich gold fields are said to have been discovered in British Guiana.
 The national alliance of stage employees is in session in New York.
 The New York health authorities are ex- perimenting with electricity 8 purifier for croton water.
 The request of Mayor Boody of Brooklyn to inspect the testimony given to the grand | jury, which expressed its regrets that it could not indict him, has been granted.
 Superintendent Byrnes of New York is taking his annual 40 days vacation at Red | Bank, N. J.
 Three banks in Denver and two in Kan sas City suspended.
 Daniel Leary, lineman, was instantly killed in Jersey City while at work at the | top of pole
 The deers in the New York state deer park are to be turned loose inIthe Catskills.
 French marines captured two small Siamese forts.
 The court martial of the British officers who disobeyed Rear Admiral Tryon's fatal order is in session.