Connecticut western news., 1894-05-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April a6.


 Strong City, Kan. The miners eight hour bill passed to
 second reading in the commons.
 The board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church is in session at Albany. The American scaling schooner Henry Dennis was lost off the coast of Japan. the crew being saved. London anarchists have been refused permission to erect platforms in Hyde park on May day.
 Mexico threatens 10 increase import du- ties 25 per cent in retaliation for the atti- tude ot the United States and England to- ward silver.
 A daring plan for wholesale delivery of prisoners in tine Kentucky penitentiary was frustrated and the wholesale slaugh- ter of guards averted. Friday, April e7. Freshets have flooded the whole country about North Stratford, N H. Michael Connell was elected from John Freeman's saloon in Troy, N. Y. His skull was fractured and be died. James Emmons, wealthy farmer of Whitehouse Station. near Bennington, was bunkoed out of s5Oo0 by sharpers. The dead body of Albert Dewey was | found by tramp in a ditch near Fulton. l N. J., and it is supposed he was murdered. Walter Gay, disciple of Leon Bonnat,
 has gained the gold medal for America at | the international art exhibition in Vienna. The sum of $500 has been left to Rad | cliffe college, the annex of Harvard, by the will of Mrs. Sarah Parker of Roxbury, ! Mass.
 Emperor William has given his consent to Princess Frederick Charles of Prussia renouncing the Lutheran faith and becom- \ ing Roman Catholic. Hendrix de Jong, who has been in prison \ at Amsterdam, Holland, on suspicion of \ having murdered two women to whom he | had been married, was sentenced to four years Imprisonment. Saturday, April es.
 May day processions have been forbid | den in Austria. Burglars robbed the postoffiee at Win | chendon, Mass, of s40O. I A commission is organizing in Spain to prevent the spread of cholera. P N. Lund was burned to death while | fighting a prairie fire at Fairmount, Minn. Da Cana and his officers have succeeded | in escaping from the Portuguese men-of- | war. \ tween Portugal and Brazil grows prom ising
 The I.asters' Protective Union of North | America is holding its annual convention | in Boston.
 James D. Robinson and Benjamin White, | negroes, were hanged at Manassas, Va, | for assault.
 | The Worlds fair buildings have been | l C., ,,f cago, for Ss7, 800. Thomas Crumpton (colored) was hanged I at Washington for the murder of George | Shanklin last June. Monday, April 30. Senator Quay, although still very weak, has arrived in Washington. J. w. Kremer, Louisville plasterer, shot and killed his sleeping wife. Mrs. Lease has recovered sufficiently to leave Richmond for Danyille, Ills. Henry, the Parisian anarchist bomb | thrower, has been found guilty and sen fenced to death. Odd Fellows at Lowell, Mass, observed | the seventy-fifth anniversary of the found | ing of the order. A herd of about Ea wild buffaloes has | been discovered in the mountains of Val Nerde county, Tex Michael Quirk of Mount Vernon, N. r.,
 was killed by falling down stairs while | visiting his sweetheart. | Mrs. Cornelia c. Weir Morgan, wife of l Senator Morgan of Alabama, died at the
 senator's home in Washington. The much advertised wrestling match | between lion and bear at the California | fair was stopped by the s. P. c. A. Six anarchists have been arrested in | Liege, Bele ium, charged with complicity | in the recent dynamite outrages in that | city. -...-. Tuesday, May 1. The girls at the Wellesley college are | to be taught how to row. The Olympic club of New Orleans offers so5,000 for the Corbett-J Jackson fight. Sixto Ceredo. Mexican bandit, has been | caught, and four of his band were killed. Bloodhounds are on the trail of four ne
 groes who broke jail in Birmingham, Ala. Fifty thousand soldiers will guard the 1 line along which the czar will travel to the Crimea
 | St. Louis capitalists and turfmen are going to construct bull ring in the City of Mexico.
 A bill for the disestablshment of the
 Welsh church passed it's first reading in the house of commons. The right of Chinese parents to dwarf
 their children's feet is to be decided in San Francisco by test case. In a fight between striking joiners and
 the police at Vienna one policeman and
 two strikers were injured. Dr. Long, prominent physician of Cleveland, Tenn, was found dead in 8
 sleeper from Florida at Atlanta. Wednesday. May 9.
 King Alexander of Servia will make a
 three months tour of the continent. Longshoremen in Elizabeth, N. J., went
 on strike because of cut in their pay. Judge Mccormick, in Elizabeth, N. J.,
 has decided that election bets are illegal.
 The body of Abram Dater of Troy, N. r.,
 who disappeared Saturday, was found
 hanging in a barn.
 Owing to the unfinished condition of the
 new hoist bridges at Genesee street, Utica,
 N. Y., no capalboats are moving. + A party of 15 men were run into by an
 engine at Homestead, Pa. One man was
 killed, and two were fatally injured.
 Frank Henderson of Newburg, N. r.,
 who was shot by burglars last week, died.
 There is no clew to the murderers yet.
 A band of Mormons arrived in San Fran.
 cisco yesterday, bound for the southern
 Pacific to convert the white residents.
 A farmer named Gardiner was shot dead
 in his farmhouse at Ballyhairstock, Coun,
 ty Antrim, Ireland. The murder is of
 supposed agrarian origin.
 Rector Ahlwardt, the anti-Semite who
 was released from prison. recently for i-
 beling Hebrews, was sentenced to three
 months imprisonment in Berlin for in-
 sultin3 Prussian off 2iNls in speech.