Connecticut western news., 1894-08-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Aug. 9.

The preSluenb nas reCOBHlZeu Doy as Turkish vice consul in New York.
 A Hollander has been victimizing Hud- son river towns with a plea for steerage money to Europe.
 Henry Smith was fatally burned by the explosion of an oil tank at the Etna Roll ing mills. Cleveland
 Albert G., son of Andrew D. Dugue of North Adams. Mass, was drowned by falling into the reservoir.
 Mrs. Flora Mundis the notorious horse thief, will be taken from Kansas to Okla homa on requisition papers.
 Coxey's commonwealers, under com mand of Carl Browne reached Atlantic City and took a bath in the ocean General J. B. Weaver was nominated for congress by the Democrats of the Ninth congressional district of Iowa.
 Sandow. the strong man." was mar ried in the cathedral in Manchester to Miss Blanche Brooks the daughter of a local photographer. The commander of the Italian forces at Massowah, Egypt, Is erecting prison capable of accommodating 1000 convicts, where dangerous Italian anarchists will be sent.
 Friday, Aug. 10. Two men are reported lost in a cranber- ry marsh fire near Camp Douglass, Wis. A St Paul banker by the name of Smith is reported missing at San Diego Cal.
 Five prisoners escaped from the jai, at Mayville, N. Y., but three were recap tured
 Charles Miller, awaiting trial for mur- der in the Tombs, New York, committed suicide.
 A stray bullet at the Manasquan (N. J.) rife range struck Calvin Curtis, aged 12, in the forehead A movement has been started to send shipload of four to Korea to relieve the distress of the poor there. About 50 employees of the Cooperative stove works of Buffalo have, struck, and | the works have shut down. The subcommittee of the New York Re | publican state committee has settled the | Milholland- Brookfield controversy in fa- | vor of Brookfield. The French government has concluded | its case in the trial of 80 anarchists in the | assize court in Paris, and counsel for the 1 defense has begun summing up. Saturday. Aug. H. Wine growers in California have form | ed a trust.
 Almost the entire town of Fithian, | Ills, was burned. Three distinct shocks of earthquake were felt In Memphis It is said that Sioux City (Ia- firm is | shipping horsefiesh to the eastern market. Miss Bernie Mayer and Miss Bainhart were drowned in Lake Michigan near | Stevensville, Mich. | c. c. Martin and Mrs. Murray Milton | were thrown from a carriage and killed | near Evergreen, w. Va | In a duel near the City of Mexico with pistols Senor Jose Verastegul chief of the \ government stamp department, was killed | by Francisco Romero, we'll known oon- ! gressman.
 Nicholas PIaski, crazy Italian, 80 years old, jumped of the Point bridge in | Pittsburg into the Ohio river while fleeing from imaginary pursuers- The fall was | 75 feet, but when the man was fished out | of the water he was absolutely uninjured- Monday, Aug. Is. Cholera is slowly, but surely, spreading | westward in the Russian provinces | The force of Mexican soldiers that were sent against the Yacuqui Indians are | meeting with defeat The Merchants and Miners Transporta- | ton company of Baltimore will award a | contract within few days for two new ! steamers.
 Warden Moore of the house of correc- | ton at Baltimore has decided to put the \ eight arrested Coxeyites to work making good roads.
 The great lumber city of Austin, Pa, ! was visited by fire for the tenth time since | its existence, destroying l, 300, 900 feet of \ lumber and number of cars The attorney general of Illinois has | filed a petition asking that the charter of the Pullman company be declared void on | the ground that its provisions had been | violated.
 A dispatch from Tromsoe, Norway, states
 that the sealing vessel Malygen and fast | cutter sailed from that port Friday eyen- ing for Spitzbergen, their object being | to bring back the members of the We'll ! man polar expedition. Tuesday. Aug. l4. Policeman Michael Dundon shot Po- | liceman Thomas Quigley in St. Louis. | In a serious combat recently in Tumbes, I Peru, many were killed on both sides. \ The famous Bar6in versus Bardin di- vorce case was begun in Chamberlain, | s. D.
 | The Kabyles of Tangier have revolted.
 Some of the Khalifas have been killed,
 and others are in flight. '
 The ninth annual convention of the
 Railway Agents Association of North
 America met in Boston. | A Lehigh Valley freight and Buffalo
 Creek locomotive crashed at Buffalo, and
 three employees wore injured. | Three boys-Frank Burns, William
 Slattery and Matthew Slattery-were | ad xvhf Ia inn n O.
 The drafted men of 1863 at Albion, N.
 r., have asked the county to return to
 them the cash they paid to escape the first
 draft under the new state law.
 Two strange men with revolvers at
 tempted to hold up five citizens at Corn
 ing, N. Y. The police arrived, and after
 hard struggle captured the robbers.
 Wednesday. Aug. 15.
 One inch of rain has fallen all over
 South Dakota.
 Emperor William witnessed the sham
 battle at Aldershot.
 Congressman Shaw of Wisconsin is very
 i'll of typhoid fever and pneumonia
 An attempt was made to wreck the | Grand Trunk express near Gladstone Sta
 ton, Ont.
 Professor Joseph A. Armsley, the emf.
 nent Syrian scholar. died at Glendora,
 Cal, aged 72 years.
 Driven to desperation by despondency
 Mrs. Henry Mack drowned herself and
 two of her children in the Mississippi.
 Chancellor Canfield of the University
 of Nebraska has declined the presidency
 of the Ohio State university.
 The striking miners of the New York
 and Cleveland Gas Coal company of Pitts
 burg refused to accept the company's s | terms.
 Edwin H. Oakes, manager of the Lynn
 (Mass.) Electrical company, was arrested
 charged with setting the Strout building
 on fire July 2l.