Connecticut western news., 1894-08-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Aug. 10.

Thursday, Aug. 16.
 Three prisoners broke jail at Hunting ton. Pa -...s .
 The condition of the pope's health is said to be again alarming
 Mrs Rebecca Bond died at Montgom- cry Ala, Ut the age of l05 years.
 The price of whisky at Peoria, Ills, was advanced 3 cents being quoted at s1.25.
 Robbers fatally wounded Matt Ryan at r4 Loomis street, Chicago, and rined his saloon.
 The condition of ex- Premier Mercier O, Quebec, who had been reported dying is much improved.
 Ernest Carnot, son of the late president of France, was privately married to Mile. elarguerite Chiyis, daughter of Senator Chivis.
 The twenty sixth annual convention of the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union of the-United States and Canada began in York. Pa. .. ..a
 Chairman J. A. Stranahan has called meeting of the Pennsylvania Democratic state committee at Harrisburg next Wednesday to fix a time for the state con- yention. ----# ~
 Friday, Aug. IT.
 Walter Tribole has confessed to setting fire to the Rio Grande bridge at Antlcrs Colo.
 The Northwestern fair, to be held in Tacoma from Aug. 15 to Nov. l, was dei- icated
 The Kaffir r.hels at Zoutpansberg, South Africa, have murdered women and children.
 Thegrand jury of Shelby county, Tenn, has indicted 5o persons for selling liquor without license. -..
 James Osborne, son of prominent farmer of West Graize county Mo, was shot and killed from ambush. ~
 Japan Is pouring fresh troops into Ko- req, and upward of 10000 Jaranese sol diers are now in Korean territo.y.
 Oscar Lauren and Ada Wickman, mem- bers of party at Long Lake, near Min neapolis, were drowned by tho capsizing of Q boat.
 Christopher Bernhardt, O prominent citizen of Buffalo, committed suicide on his wife's grave in Forest Lawn cemetery in that city. ...
 In the regatta at Ryde, Isle of Wright, the Britannia, Satanita and Vigilant competed. The Satanita won, and the Vigilant was third. Saturday, Aug. IS. A death from cholera was reported in London.
 Union Pacific dining room girls at Lara mic, Wy, have struck against wearing uniforms.
 Congressman McCreary has announced himself as a candidate for Senator Black burns seat.
 Miss Helen Martin, daughter of the United States senator, has entered con- vent at Leavenworth, Kan. z- -..- 4 F. Professor Campbell Of the. Lick (Cal.) observatory has demonstrated that Mars has no atmosphere and Is therefore unin- habitable. Flora McCrossin, young girl of Cedar vile, O., Is in jail for horse stealing. Four prisoners confined for small of lenses escaped from the jail at Ballston Spa, N. Y.
 A young farmer named Dryden has been arrested at Lapeer, Mich, for poisoning fine live stock. a.-- ..... e Monday, Aug. 90. m |.
 Dr. Freire, minister of finance in Bra gil, has resigned. =z--- Hannah Bender of Boonoton, Ky, was shot dead by burglar. Three new cases of smallpox have been discovered in Newark, N. J. It is said that Russia Is still striving to restore peace between China and Japan. Fire damaged the engine house of the Boston and Maine railroad s35, 900 worth. The big summer hotel on Holmes is- land, near Laporte, Ind, has been burned down. Because of troubles in Morocco the Brit ish gunboat Bramble has been ordered to Tangier. .-..-. Anthony Witkewich, a Pole jumped of trolley car in Paterson, N. J., frac- tured his skull and is dying. The l, 900 United States troops in camp at Evanston, Ills, engaged In a sham bat i tie under command of General N. A. Miles.
 Charles B. Messler, justice of the peace Of Whitehouse, N. J., committed suicide because the bartender at the Rail road hotel refused him drink. Tuesday, Aug.
 Seven persons were injured in trolley collision in Providence. The street car strike at San Antonio, Tex, lasting five days, ended, the strikers winning ....==. Three people were killed by supposed | incendiary powder explosion at Fort Smith, Ark.
 Three men are nnder arrest for compile ity In the murder of Edward Crosby at | Merrimac, N. H. ...... .-.-.s
 Labor delegates claiming to represent | 15, 900 Milwaukee voters have decided to | join the Populists. A riot occurred between rival parishes | of Polish Catholics at the dedication of 8 church in Cleveland. At a Chicago conference brotherhood l trainmen dec ded to appeal for the rein statement of American Railway union strikers A section foreman and two men have been arrested in Chicago for attempting | to wreck @ train during the Pullman l troubles. ..... The steamer China, just arrived at San | Francisco from Yokohama, made the transpacific trip in t2 days and 46 min utes beating all records. | Wednesday. Aug. ga. Congressman Wilson will probably take I trip to Europe soon after congress ad- | journs.
 Mrs. Ann Hart. 72 years old, of Albany | street, New Brunswick, N. J., fell from . ! window of her home and was killed. Ned White, sporting writer on Chi cago newspaper, shot John K. Haines of the editorial staff of The Iron Age in that | city. .. - .... The health authorities of Jersey City | are alarmed over the great number of cases or typhoid fever in the hospitals of that city. The 1s-month-o old child of Policeman | Cannon of Orange, N. J., pulled a tub of | boiling water over on himself and was scalded to death.
 Two young men named Welsh and Phillips of Youngstown, N. r., were drowned at Niagara Falls by the capsiz- ing of their beat ... | A boiler explosion occurred near Ell- wood City, Pa., and Levi Boiler and his son Harry of Sumbel, Mercer county, were both instantly killed ...a.. . | Roman Coins Found ;n Mashop.lsnd