Connecticut western news., 1894-08-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Aug. 9.

Lake Erie for his health.
 The North Dakota Prohibition state convention named for governor Roger Allin of Park River.
 A terrific rainstorm in Lincoln county, Colo, has washed away railroads and done much other damage
 Fifteen more of the crew of the bark James Allen, wrecked on an Alaska is- land, have been picked up.
 G. N. Wells, bookkeeper for the Royal Cigar company of St Louis, committed suicide by taking morphine.
 The reservoir of the Big Sandy river, near Hugo, Colo, may break at any mo- ment, being swelled by storms.
 Jabez Balfour, the much wanted fugi- tive ex-member of parliament has been surrendered by Argentine to the British government
 Colonel William Allen Huntley Sillow- age, who once saved President Lincoln from capture by the Confederates, is i'll and destitute in Boston.
 Friday, Augs.
 Senator Voorhees, Is improving daily.
 Miss Tillie Saborn. an aeronaut, was killed by fall at Anderson, Ind.
 Archbishop Ireland has indorsed Mgr. Satolli's position on the liquor traffic st St. Paul
 w. R. Melville, the defaulting clerk of the Bank of California, pleaded guilty at San Francisco
 State Gas Inspector Jordan at Indian apolis has reported that Indiana's gas wells are giving out
 A. W. Jarvis, attorney for Louisa coun- ty, la, was murdered at his home in Wapello by lunatic
 The house of Princess Soltykoff at Slough, England, was entered by burglars and robbed of jewels valued at f10, 900. ists from Barmouth, Wales, capsized on the Mauddach river, and 10 of the pas sengers were drowned. Adolphus Gluck, mayor of Dodge City, Kan, has been placed under bonds to an swer allegations for falling to notify the county attorney of violations of the pro- hibitory law. s. ..a...
 Saturday, Aug 4. Ills, has been disproved.
 Russians living near Topeka will return home on account of hard times.
 The business portion of Lake View, Mich. was burned. Loss, S13o, 900.
 c. A. Keller, an American Railway un- ion organizer, has been arrested in Chica- go for conspiracy. .a s
 The body of ex-Coun y Treasurer Neff of Dakota City, Neb., has boon found floating on Crystal lake.
 The 125 employees of Yates & Wharton, matters of Newark, who went on strike Thursday, have returned to work.
 Chicago surgeons have successfully re- moved a tuinor weighing 21 pounds from the stomach of Mrs. w. M. Howell.
 John Cavanaugh, employed by Delafield Smith of Shrewsbury, N. J., hung him self in the eowhouse on Smiths farm.
 An unsuccessful attempt to wreck a train on the Rome, Watertown and Og- densburg road was made at Watertown. N. Y.
 Monday, Aug. 6.
 Yellow fever has made its appearance in Santiago. ..#
 The village of Harrow, Essex county, Ont, was consumed by fire.
 Oak Harbor, small town near Toledo, was almost totally destroyed by fire.
 The Vigilant beat the Britannia in a mdeSh r0So aIlahSso Dg bho 1rihco VI Wales.
 There Is no fear that the Chinese Japa, nese trouble will cause European oompli- cations saa..
 George J. Bendie, one of the wealthiest men in southern Mexico, has been assas- sinated
 Nelson E. Bush, formerly a pastor, Is in jail at Syracuse, having been caught robbing the cash drawer of a drug store
 Secretary Carlisle has accepted the res iapation of George Bingham, appraiser ol merchandise at the Buffalo custom house
 Patrick Sergeant of Newton Lower Falls, Mass, while drunk tried to board q train on the bridge over the Charles river at Riverside and fell 50 feet from the bridge to the river and was killed.
 Tuesday, Aug. q.
 The great bicycle relay race from Wash ington to Denver is under way.
 The striking employees of the Chicago Stockyards company returned to work
 The pope has issued a letter to tho Bra gillian bishops urging them to educate the masses.
 The sealer Viva has arrived at Victoria B. O., 26 days from Hnksdate, with 20, 900 skins aboard.
 Camp Douglass, where the Wisconsin militia are encamped, was twice threat ened by forest fire.
 The quarantine which has been on al the Illinois state prison at Joliet since Jan. 1 has been raised.
 The British ship Queen Victoria ha. just made quick trip frsm Yokohama tc San Francisco in 3S days.
 TIA fonrfh hfarnlal of 4h. Painters and Decorators Union of North America opened in Buffalo.
 The Rev. Samuel J. Knapp of New York is seriously i'll at his summer resi- dence in West Mystic, Conn.
 Steve Brodie, the well known bridge jumper, who was stabbed in front of hi. saloon on the Bowery, will survive. Wednesday, Aug. 8. There was S20, 900 fire at Lebanon, Ind Boil worms are doing immense damage to Texas cottonfields. Henry Whitman was fatally stabbed al Chicago by son whom he had chastised Harry Mantroedi was hanged at Potts vile, Pa, for the murder of George Och. last August.
 Harry F. Johnson was hanged in Al lentown, Pa, for the murder of his chilt in July, 1893. Tho convention of the Central New York Volunteer Firemen's association be gan in Ithaca, N. Y. The Philadelphia battalion, naval re serves, is on its tour of duty on the St Louis at League island.
 Imported negro worknen raided ook, strikers homes near Uniontown, Pa anc several people were shot
 Tho first assemblage of the Priests' Ec clesiastical league in this country Is as sembled at Notre Dame, Ind. Frank w. Hawley of Pittsford, N. Y, has filed claim for s3l, ,0l6 for the kill ing of his herd of Jerseys under the tuber culosis law.
 A Town He Would Like to Visit. was in the front car of fast ex press travelling to New York last week Just in front of me sat two men. On, wore a wide brimmed, stiff straw hat and his know it all manner seemed t, ip1 fo thaf ha Aal IL: