Connecticut western news., 1894-06-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, June '.

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 A 10 per cent dividend on Worlds fair stock, amounting altogether to S790, 900, will be paid Saturday. Fire completely burned out the largest retail dry goods store in Woonsocket, R. l., owned by A. J. St. Onge. Home Secretary Asquith has consented to act as mediator between the London hack drivers and hack owners. The Republican district congressional convention at WatervilIe, Me, renominat- ed Hon. Seth l.. Milliken for congress. M. Vaile, who attracted national at has lived in Jackson county, Mo, since | 1859, is dead.
 Senators Villas, Smith, Gallinger, Black burn and Patton have been appointed a committee to receive petitions and give | hearings on the existing industrial dis tress.
 | Friday, June 8. The yacht Vigilant was again reported. The pope has been growing weaker dur | ing the past few days. The president has appointed Howard H. Baker postmaster at Buffalo. The American Locomotive Manufactur- CTS association met at Richmond today. M Carolus Duran, the French painter, will paint the portrait of the daughter of | Cornelius Vanderbilt, for which S20, 900 is to be paid
 The Sugar trust case, which was to have been heard in the supreme court, Boston, was, at the request of Attorney General | Knowlton, postponed for 10 days. Theodore P. Haughey, president of the defunct Indianapolis National bank, was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary | for his part in wrccking that institution.
 The will of Brewer Valentine Blatz, | filed at Milwaukee, distributes an estate of | S3, 900, 900 to his five children, one of whom is Mrs. Alma Kletzch of New York. | By order of supreme court c. H. Dart, Il treasurer of Meeker county, Minn., has been busted, and the long contest with Governor Nelson, who first suspended him, | is ended. | Saturday, June Q.
 At Epson the Oaks was won by the Duke oI Portlands brown Ally Amiable
 James Spicer was shot deai at Yaleton, Pa, by a constable while resisting arrest | The United States steamship Marion sailed from Honolulu on May 24 for San | Francisco.
 Twenty five of the Coxeyites who set sail from Denver are missing as result | Ol tuc upsclbluS Ol tflciT DOtAl-
 During fight William Canny, II years old, of Jersey City, was seriously stabbed by Franz Wetzel, another youngster
 While on her way to school 6-year- old Maggie Fitzgerald of Morristown, N. J., was run over by train and instantly kill ed.
 In opposition to a reduction of l shil- ling day wages the Scottish Miners fed | haS 1al hxya Dfrfxy Nts. t,- favor of strike.
 John Morrissey, second cabin passen- ger on the steamship Lucania, from New York, just arrived at Queenstown, died of consumption on the passage. Monday, June II.
 Lord Chief Justice Coleridge Is gradual ly growing weaker.
 Richard Crol1er, the leader of Tammany hall sailed quietly away to Europe.
 Monk. oolored jockey, was shot dead by J. B. Mates, stable hand, at Provi- dence
 Orange & Ingram, president of the New York State Firemen's association, died at his home in Troy.
 Senator McPherson of New Jersey is suffering from an enlargement of the veins about the heart.
 Mrs. Simpson says Congressman Simp. son is much better and that he shows signs of permanent improvement.
 James Merritt, sick with cancer and de- | ranged, threw himself into the Niagara river below the falls and was drowned.
 Captain Hooper, commanding the rev enue cutter Rush at San Francisco, states that there is no truthSn the report that the Bear had been wrecked in Sitka har- bor.
 The Canadian cruiser vigilant fired a shot at the American fishing schooner Lorring B. Haskell off Hastings, Ont, as the latter was escaping from the harbor, where she had not complied with the rev enue regulations.
 Tuesday, June 1a.
 Charles Mitchell, convict escaped from Sing Sing prison.
 The Uruguayans are plotting against the Montevidean government
 There were 55 fresh cases and 29 deaths from cholera in Russian Poland last week.
 The Scranton (Pa.) bricklayers, who have been on strike since May for an in crease, have given in.
 | John Whytall, formerly large leather merchant of Halifax, is missing and Is believed to have killed himself | union has voted in favor of working dur ing July and August, contrary to custom.
 The English combination of coal own. CTS has decided to make general reduc- tion of 10 per cent in the wages of miners.
 The trial of Erastus wiman, the whilom Staten Island magnate, on two charges of forgery was begun in New York today before Judge Ingraham.
 Wednesday, June IS.
 James Kemp of Philadelphia was fatal. y cut by falling against buzzsaw.
 Peter Chiney, the Chicago counterfeit CT, has been arrested at Tahlequah, I. T.
 Ramon Coronal, Chilian prospector, was found murdered near Phoenix, A. T.
 Miss Ella Vahey, an aged Pittston (Pa spinster, disappointed in love, cut her throat.
 Seattle and western Washington have been without eastern mails for two weeks on account of floods.
 Saumel McKelvey and William Minnis of Franklin, Pa, were killed by freight train near Polk, Pa.
 President Cleveland nominated Joseph R. Jewell of New York to be agent for the Indians of the New York agency
 Mrs. l.. c. Cicso of New York city, a | phlloDI buo Eyo dt 6lens Falls, N. Y, fell down flight of Is steps and died in two hours.
 A boat belonging to the United States coast survey steamer Patterson at Tongas l narrows, Alaska, was overturned, and three men were drowned.
 Carl Nearing, aged 12, of Cochecton Center, Sullivan county, N. Y, fell from B horse drawing a cultivator and was dragged half mile. He was killed
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