Connecticut western news., 1894-01-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Dec Sa

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 The entire upper end of NarrowsburR, N. Y., was swept by firo The churches of Jersey City are about to form an organization to relieve the poor. An Italian in Brooklyn who has twice been shot is supposed 10 be a Maea victim. Prince Bismarck Is reported to be suffer ing from his old complaint of neuralgia in his arm.
 of King Iobeugula had been aunihilated by the Matabeles
 Two colored children were burned in bed at Paducah, Ky, the fire catching from sparks from A stove.
 The marriage of Senator Faulkner to Miss Virginia Whiting is to take place at Hampton, Va, on Jan. a
 Contractor Smith has taken his claim for t00o0 for work on the New York state capitol to the court of appeals.
 Silver speculation in Bombay has cel- lapsed, owing to the fact that there has been no rise in the price of silver.
 Herr Leyden, formerly attache of the German legation at Washington, will bs appointed minister to RoumAnia
 Harry L. McIlyaine, at one time lead ing coal merchant of Chester, Pa, com mitted suicide by hanging himself
 Friday, Dec. So.
 Yellow fever has broken out In Rio de Janeiro.
 A roofer was found dead on a church roof in Cincinnati.
 George w Wood, one of the Erie canal constructors, died in Lookport, N. Y. The sale of so,e4o, 900 worth of Cherokee strip bonds to the Erlanger syndicate was confirmed.
 The eMiantonomoh loft the Brooklyn navy yard under sealed orders and will probably 20 to Brazil
 It is proposed to establish in Chicago a loan association which will do away with pawnbrokers.
 J. Pierpont Morgan bought the New York and Northern railroad for q ,ooooo at the foreclosure sale.
 Two seamen of the American schooner Henry Crosby were shot and seriously in- | jured by San Domingan soldiers. A gang of countcrfoitev which has bccn making spurious D cent pieces has been ls- cated in Rensselaer, county, N. Y.
 sasurdHy. Dee. SO. Fifteen lives were lost through the wreck of the steamer Alert, near Melbourne By decree of the court of appeals of Kentucky the lotteries of that state may re- sume business.
 Mrs. Cleveland win be rendered lunch. con on Jan 12 by Mrs. Stevenson, wife of the vice president
 Mrs. Hettie Hinkel, the oldest inhabltant of Quaker valley, died at her home in Qua kake, Pa, aged lo4 years.
 Two departments In the Thomson. Hous- ton electric works are to be moved from Lynn, Mass, to Schenectady, N. Y. The Rev. Elias Watchman, Jewish rab- bi, and his son Robert have been arrested for Illicit distilling in Newark, N. J.
 General Gourko, governor of Warsaw aud one of the most distinguished generals of the Russo Turkish war, Is again said 10 b@ fin dying condition.
 Judge Colt, sitting at Boston, appointed Thomas C. Platt of New York, William T. | Hart of Boston and Marsdcn J. Perry of l Providence receivers of the New York and New England for Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
 Monday. Jsn- t.
 The Rochester Qpa) tumbler works will start up at once.
 Lottie Collins has broken down complete ly from relaxation of muscles of the throat. The dead body of German, evidently a suicide, was found in Mount olivct osme- tery, Baltimore.
 Eight persons were fatally injured by the blowing up of natural gas pumping sta- ton at East Chicago.
 The Buffalo board of police has decided to canvass the entire city to ascertain ths number of destitute people
 At an insane asylum in Weston, W. Va, Frank BillipRslea, a lupatic, murdered his wife and killed himself with a razor.
 Ex-Banker John Reed of tho Western Trustyand Savings association has been ar rested at Kansas City, charged with fraud. A. IT. Rowland. who disappeared from the steamer Pilgrim on the trip to New York, is believed to have fallen overheard. The six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, New York, was won sy Schock, who covered i,ooo miles in l2 hours
 Tuesday, Jaa. \.
 New municipal officials were inaugurated in Massachusetts cities.
 President Andrews of Brown university has received call from Chicago uni versity.
 It is said that thore is a discrepancy Of more than s29o.ooo in Ncbraska's state finances.
 The Haymarket Square railroad station in Boston has been abandoned for the new Union depot
 It Is reported at Ccttinjc, capital of Mon- tenegro, that there has becn a hcrce fight in Albania between the Lume and Kabosoh | tribes.
 Ex-AssemblymAn William P. Moores of Plattsburg, N. Y., was found dead in bed in hotel in Albany, he having had heart failure.
 Chicago's new Young Mems Christian association building, ls stories high, was formally opened. The building is the finest occupied by any Y. M. c. A. in America
 The New York state board of health has condemned and ordered killed i7 of sx-vice President Morton's beautiful Guernseys, 1t having been found that they were suf- fering with tuberculosis.