Connecticut western news., 1894-04-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thurrtlay. April 10.


 The pope addressed the Spanish pilgrims and bestow ed his blessing.
 The United States cruiser Chicago ran aground at Gibraltar, but got of safely.
 A free silver man was elscted chairman of the Oregon Democratic state convention.
 The mayor of Chicago dismissed three captains and two inspectors of police for cause.
 The Merchants hotel, Bangor, Me, was gutted by fire, and six persons were seri- ously injured.
 workmen of York, Pa., threaten trouble if colored men are employed in building the street railway.
 Signor Crispi apologized to the chamber of deputies for his heated remarks to the peoples deputies"
 The supreme court of Michigan has unan- imously decided that the state inheritance tax is unconstitutional.
 A hearing was begun in the probate court at Westervelt, K. l., to determine the sanity of Amos Cross of Jamestown, now confined in the Butler hospital.
 Friday, April 20.
 Rudyard Kipling, in an interview in Lon. don, abuses America again.
 Ransom, Ills, has been almost totally destroyed Dy wlnustorfn. Many lives are reported to have been lost when the Aquidaban was sunk.
 The anniversary of the death of Lord Bea- consfield was commemorated in London.
 One hundred acres of fine timber have been destroyed by fire near Hartford.
 Three children of Williamsport, Pa, ate wild parsnips. One is dead, and the others are dying. The will of the late Millionaire Samuel Simpson of Meriden, Conn, bequeaths about SS0,00o to charities. Three men were killed and one was fatal ly injured by an explosion of boiler at the Keokuk Qa.) electric light works The first annual celebration of Peace day was commemorated in Philadelphia in the presence of state and municipal dignitaries and foreign representatives.
 Mrs. Charles Perkins Stetson, the social reformer was granted divorce without alimony from her husband, Charles w. Stetson, the artist, of San Francisco. Saturday. April e1. Lightning destroyed farmhouse near Mount Vernon, Ind, and killed one man.
 Muncie Indianapolis chief of police, has supplied his men with whips to be used on tramps
 Three thousand people cheered ex-Presi- dent Harrison at Cheyenne, Wy, on his way east.
 A fight is expected at the Krebs q. n coal mines between white strikers and ne- gro labor. Virginia and Maryland oystermen and police exchanged 1000 shots without kill ing any one. Miss Helen Gould, her travelling com panion, Miss Coates, and a maid are flying westward to the Pacific coast.
 The creditors of ex-Secretary Foster have taken charge of his interests in Fostoria. | O., and assumed. the liabilities
 It is officially announced that several cases of Asiatic cholera have been discov. cred in Husiatyn, town of Austrian Ga licia.
 An exciting discussion was had in the Italian chamber on Deputy Engers de mand to investigate the Worlds fair Ital- ian commission. Monday, April a3.
 An earthquake shock has been felt In southern Mxico.
 Two of Saicago's public schools are closed on account of smallpox.
 William Christian, brickmaker. had his head cut off by train at Watertown, NY
 The jury in the Nancy murder trial brought in verdict of acquittal for Lieu tenant Nancy.
 Ice and high water broke boom at New Duluth, Minn., and set l, 900, 900 logs adrift | In the St. Louis river.
 Mr Gladstone's illness is really an alice tion of the bowels, which has been so often recurrent that it is not now so easily check ed as formerly. | Counsel for Miss Pollard have filed nos | tice that they will call up the defendants motion for a new trial next Saturday morn. l ing for argument. Judge Kopenhaver has voluntarily gone 1 to the county jail of Kansas City to re- main until he Is discharged by the circuit court on the charge of contempt.
 An unknown robber entered the office of a county treasurer near Portland, Or, shot the cashier, and then jumping through a window made his escape with about 6, 900. Tuesday, April a4. Elmira, N. r., is threatened with a seri ous flood
 Emperor William was received with high honors at Dresden. Gold has been discovered in gravel pit near Lebanon, Ind. Herman Libert, aged 79, of Deerfield, | Ills, came home from his wife's funeral and hanged himself.
 Eight prisoners, headed by Otto Riley, train robber and highwayman, escaped from the Perry co. T.) jail. Four Yale students have been arrested for having attended the brutal prize fight in New Haven last February.
 England favors New Zealand's annexa- tion of Samoa If the United States and Germany can be induced to assent. Burglars after robbing the store of J. r.. Gillian & Co. at Petersburg, Pa, set fire to the building and destroyed an adjacent store and residence. Gertrude Henrietta Wehinger, popular belle of Port Jarvis, MY inhaled chloro- form to relieve pains in her side and was found dead in bed. Wednesday, April 25.
 Every house in Gilchrist, La., has been | blown down.
 Congressman outhwaite said in Colum- bus that he was not a candidate for re- nomination. Frank Hall and George H. Smith of Oys- ter Bay, N. Y., quarreled, and Hall shot Smith in the breast. Mrs. Augusta Weber of Elizabeth, N. J., is suing her wealthy husband for divorce. 1 She claimed that he starved and beat her. Sister Florentine, A mem Der of the Order of St. Benedictine at Yankton, $. D., ad- mits giving q cruel beating to 6-year-old girl
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