Connecticut western news., 1894-07-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thurxsfay. June 2s.

Ind, has been acquitted Colonel l.. NJ. Martin has been appoint ed general manager of the Iowa Central | railway to succeed Major MoNeill The proposition to have separate mu- | ii. nal elections appears to be in bad vaN Lefore the constitutional convention An unknown woman who jumped into | she Schuylkill at Philadelphia wore on her | finger n wedding ring in which aru the | Initials l.. :. A number of lower Brule Sioux left their reservation without tho necessary | permission. The Indian police will force | them to return. Mayor Latrobe of Baltimore has ap- | pointed a committee to talk charge of the proposed Chesapeake and Delaware ship ! canal enterprise. General Fevrier, grand chancellor of the | Legion of Honor, presented President | Casimir- Perier with the grand cross of | the Legion of Honor and with the collar | of the grand master of the Legion of Hon. | or, which position the new president as sumed in succession to the late president | In view of his rank as chief of the state. | Friday, June 20. Leading planters of Louisiana. Arkan- sas and MissIss.ppi have called conven sion to meet '-I Vicksburg on July to de. wise means for selling this seasons crop of cotton seed. The oilmills have com bined against them. | The United States torpedo boat Fries son left Davenport la, under tow for St | Louis. She can be completed in two | weeks She carries 20 mechanics, who will accompany her to St Louis and fin ish her there.
 | Central Pennsylvania coal operators re- solved not to pay over 10 cents a ton, but to pay 50 cents year hence if other re- gions did the same. | Receiver Knight of the Massachusetts | Order of the Iron Hall says that lodge de- ficiencies have been greatly exaggerated
 Eight members of the Cook County | Marching club were injured by m explo- sion of fireworks at Bloomington, Ills, | The first carload of California apricots | of the season of 1894 was shipped east from Fresno for Minneapolis The New York State Pharmaceutical as- l sociation has elected Charles F. Fish of Saratoga president. | Saturday, June so. |. The blast furnace of the Riverside mill, I Wheeling, which has been idle for four | months will resume with its complement of 3, 900 hands. l Ulysses Hayden, negro, was lynched near Mouett, Mo, by an infuriated mob, who accused him of shooting Dotz Green wood, a brakeman.
 An order has been issued by the British council that all British sealers must ob- tain special license and must carry a black and yellow flag beneath the national colors.
 c. c. Ellsworth, assignee of the Cham berlain Investment company, Denver, sold assets of the company, the face value of which was over g, 800, 900, at auction for $10, 100.
 The International Lard and oil Refin- ing company of New York has purchased land in Medford, near Boston, and will erect works to be ready in about six | months
 Colonel H. G. Parsons, the owner of Natural Bridge, Va, was shot and killed at Clifton Forge, Va, by Goodwin, con- ductor whom Colonel Parsons had report ed for neglect of duty.
 Monday, July a.
 Five of Muncie's Qnd. glass factories closed yesterday throwing 1,600 employ ees out of work.
 The town of Mogollon, N. M., in the Mogollon mining camp, was almost total ly destroyed by fire Saturday. Loss, s75,- GOO.
 Michael Fitzpatrick of Ballston Spa and formerly of Salem, Mass, was drown ed while bathing in Saratoga lake yester- day.
 AS fast freight train on the Lake Shore pulled up the grade to New Car lisle, Ind, a gang of eight men boarded the train and robbed the crew and passen- gers.
 Operations will be resumed today at the extensive rolling mills of the Portage iron works at Duncansyille, Pa, and the Hollidaysburg Iron and Nall company of Hollidaysburg, Pa
 Benjamin O. Perkins, the Linden agent for the American Express company and the Monon and Glover Leaf railroads, was arrested at Charlottesville, Ind, for embedding a large sum of money from Wells, Fargo X Co. Perkins confessed. Tuesday, July 3.
 Bismarck made three speeches to dele. gates from the authors and press con gress.
 The body of an unknown middle aged man was found floating In the Connecti- gut river
 Howell Thomas went to prison for five years for his part in the Townley estate claim swindle.
 At Syracuse Henry Voger killed VII. liam Strutz, of whom he was jealous, and then committed suicide.
 To save his life, Philip Russell, employ ed at Swede's furnace, near Bridgeport, Pa., swam through boiling water.
 The May account of the receivers of the Philadelphia and Reading shows the balance was reduced S112, 97I.2S between April 30 and May 31.
 At Philadelphia Lewis Wise (colored) shot Bertha Taylor, also colored. When l policeman tried to arrest him, Wise shot him, but was in turn shot down by an other patrolman. None will die.
 Wednesday. July 4.
 Three white caps were fatally shot at Evening Shade, Ark, for trying to whip negroes.
 Three thieves who had fired barns and stolen cattle in Atkinson, Neb.. were lynched.
 Crazed with grief over his mothers death, 13-year- old Robert Mellin of Oswe- go drowned himself The meeting of the North American Turnerbund at Denver has been postponed on account of the strike.
 Near Nashville Clark Pritchett was fa- tally shot by his son Van. The younger Pritchett has disappeared
 While bathing at Pass Christian, Louis ville, Reginald Rolph, son of w. T. Rolph of New York, was drowned.
 passenger train on the Albany Min eral railroad near Edmonson, Ala, was derailed. Four of the crew were injured.
 The four story brick warehouse of Strat- | ton & Tertsegge, hardware dealers, Louis vile, has been gutted by fire. Loss $il0, 900.
 Because rejected, Charles pusan shot and fatally wounded Miss Hattie Hull near Tolesboro, Ky. Dusan is considered Insane.
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