Connecticut western news., 1894-01-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Jsa- IS.


 Newton F. Fassett, father of ex-Senator J. Sloat Fstssett, died at his home in Elnii ra, N. Y.
 Mme. Vii, wife of the Chinese minister, was presented to Mrs. Cleveland by Mrs. Gresham.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made near Richmond. Ind, to wreck the Pennsylva- mia pay car. Clyde Nsttox. who broke jail at Wichita, Kan, after having been copvicted of Inur- | der, was recaptured soon after. Reports from Pennsylvania mining dis l tricts indicate that the miners have failed to obey the general strike or'ler. John Hardie and Richard Msnning were | fatally injured at Hammond. Ind, by the explosion of a tank of oil on a car. Four trunks filled with opium were | seized at Spokane, Wash, and ;. B. Davis was arrested for attempted smuggling A construction train fell through the l trestle at Fsirview, N. T. One Italian ls- borer was killed. and 26 others were in- | jured
 The case of msnslaughter against Eugi- neer Woolly, who WAS charged with dis | obeying orders and causing the wreck at | Battle Creek, Mich, was dismissed. | Friday, Jan. 19. William Holyoke, the painter, died in | London. Mrs. Anna Austin has been elected mayor | of Pleassuton, Kan. Mrs. Mary de Noon was killed at her home in San Francisco by the collapse of a folding bed.
 Mrs. Amy Anderson, who was repated to | be the oldest woman in New Jersey, has died at Allentown, aged l07 years and | months
 | F. D. Wanamaker, claiming to be | nephew Of the ex- postmaster general is In | jail at Tifiin, O., charged with disposing of | fraudulent draft. The ice broke on Loyus lake near Say | vile, N. Y., and a skating party of To per sons was plunged into the water. but all were saved after 8 terrible struggle. Street Commissioner D. Cramer of Ma con, Mo, was instantly killed by an cleo tric shock while attempting to arrange the incandescent wires in a private house.
 Five masked men held up a train on the | Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs road two miles north of St Joseph, Mo. and the entire contents of the safe in the express car were secured by the robbers.
 Saturday, Jan. %.
 Joseph McNaugher was appointed re- ceiver for the Pittsburg Brass company. | SCnhtAcfs Witc OA kuc pEcStut9tt VI Wellesley college, is dangerously ill with pneumonia
 Luther P. Hatch, for years town clerk and treasurer of Marshfield, Mass. is said to be a defaulter.
 The attorney general of New York state will take up the hearing in the Sheriff Beck case at Buffalo on Tuesday next
 The city council of Louisville has an- nexed all suburbs, including Sye towns, thus adding 10000 to Louisville's popula- ton.
 The daughter of Valiant, the anarchist, has written letter to Mme. Carnot asking her to induce the president to pardon her father.
 The Chinese Six Companies have issued a circular ordering the Chinese labor-rs to register according to the provisions of the Geary act.
 Albert Bomberger, formerly of Lancas- ter, Pa, WAS hanged at Gando, N. D., for the murder of his aunt and uncle and their four children.
 Monday, Jan aa.
 The board of health of Lowell, Mass, has pronounced typhoid fever an epidemic in that city.
 The mayor of Cincinnati has been au- thorized to expend s100, 900 on work for the unemployed.
 Edward Bicknell, trial justice of Orange, Mass, has been arrested on the charge of embezzlement.
 A dispatch from Baltimore says that John l.. Sullivan's wife has left him and that the ex-champion Is on roaring racket.
 John Briggs, special officer charged with the murder of James Parfitt during the riots at Gilberton, Pa, on Aug. 2, has been acquitted.
 Doc Reynolds, who was charged with killing James Reynolds in Meredith, N. r., was found guilty and sentenced to Au- burn for IS years
 Councilman William Townsend of Potts vile. Pa, has been arrested and held in q 900 bail to answer the charge of embex. clement and misdemeanor in office.
 Tuesday. Jan- a3.
 The Fayerweather will contest was TO newed at New York with host of lawyers engaged.
 Mrs. Catherine Reischer of Canton, O., was seized by two men, who cut of her abundant black hair close to the scalp.
 Mrs. John H. Holman, wife of the presi. dent of the Boston Herald corporation, died suddenly at her residence in Boston.
 Robbers near Gallipolis, O., tortured James Dewitt, an old man, by hanging 1ntil he told them where his money was
 Two Chinese engaged in fight in Trini. ty M. E. church, Denver. with the result that one will die and the other is badly wounded.
 Train wreckers built a barricade on the New Jersey and New York railroad tracks near Hackensack, but the engineer saw the obstruction in time.
 One of the negroes who assaulted the i2- year-old daughter of MT. Jacquin near Verona, Mo, was captured by posse oi farmers and burned at the stake.
 Judge William H. Calkins, ex-congress- man from Indiana, who was defeated for governor by Isaac P. Gray in 1884. is re ported dying at his home in Tacoma