Connecticut western news., 1894-06-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, June al.

A new Episcopal diocese will be created out of the northwest tier of counties in Wisconsin.
 The wenty-sixth annual convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers is held at Niagara Falls.
 Remains of prehistoric man of the mound building period have been found at Charlotte Harbor, Fla
 The report that two Americans were eaten by cannibals on Tiburon island, in the gulf of California is discredited. Homer T. Fuller has rrs ..gnad the pres idency of Worcester Fols .oeanical insti- tute; also his profcSsorship of geology and mineralogy.
 They have a militiaman so religious in Omaha that he disobeyed orders and re- mained away from rifle practice Sunday. His name Is Charles Cederquis. Eight thousand dozen soft crabs arrived at Baltimore from Chesapeake bay. Pack ages consuming from to 15 dozen sold at from to l5 cents per dozen. Friday, June 2s. Twelve houses were struck by lightning at Brazil, Ind.
 A p'indstorm at Brookvilie. Ind, did s25, 900 damage.
 $ A. woodbury has been nominated for governor of Vermont by the Republic ans.
 James Saudler, alias Burgin, who has been a terror of North Carolina for years and has killed dozen men, has been ar rested.
 The Massachusetts house has rejected, s2 to S3, the bill fixing 54 hours per week es the limit for the labor of women and minors in mills.
 Henry B. Foulke and George Falken- stine of Philadelphia, theosophists, pro pose to lead an army of Coxeyites to Gray Gables to poster the president during his vacation.
 The theory of the law that a husband and his wife are one person, and that the wife must ie in the domicile of her hus- band, has been departed from by the Mas sachusetts supreme court in divorce case. Robert H. ripple of Minneapolis, tray cling solicitor of the Red line and rail- road man we'll known in the northwest, was thrown from his horse near Great Falls, Mon, and was killed. Saturday, June 23. Willie Martin, years old, who lives on First street Jersey City, was overcome by the heat yesterday and Is in & critical con dition.
 On account of defects in the applications for saloon licenses there is a possibility that Camden, N. J., will experience dry spell after July l.
 The Manhanset House on Shelter is- land narrowly escaped destruction by fire Thursday morning The flames were ex. tinguished with loss of $500. Policeman Stillwagen of Flushing, N. Y., was attacked by eight young men Thursday night and severely beaten. War rants are out for the arrest of several of the thugs.
 Charles Minschin is in jail in Mount Holly, N. J., accused of cutting his wife's throat and inflicting dangerous wound. He says a horse bit the woman. She does not know how she was injured. David Hoagland and George s. Daily were attacked by highwaymen near Elem ington, N. J., Thursday night. Hoagland was knocked unconscious, but Daily fought the men of. Jacob Ageno of Elem ington was arrested on suspicion. Monday, June a5.
 Four persons were killed at crossing near McHenry, Ky, by a Chesapeake and Ohio Southern train on Saturday.
 All departments of the Cleveland Roll ing Mill company's plant will resume op- erations on July l, giving steady work to LOGO men.
 Jacob Mayfield was found murdered early yesterday in the street near his house in Oamha- His pockets were turn ed inside out.
 A young man registering as Phil Ar mour. Jr., Chicago, has victimized many Montreal merchants. Young Phil Ar mour Is at home.
 Judge Hallet, in the United States dis trict court Ut Denver, sentenced a Coxey- ite named Nolan to four months and six others to 30 days in jail on Saturday. Charles E. Rowley of Columbus, O., supreme recorder of the Fraternal Mystic Circle, has been sent to jail for contempt. He refused to produce the records of the fraternity In court. James Saunders and John Riley, two burglars from New York, captured in Winsted, Conn.,, with gang of thieves on June 12 and wanted in Poughkeepsie, broke jail at Litchiield, Conn. Tuesday, June ae.
 Governor Flower spent Sunday at the Rod and Gun club near Monticello.
 The saloons at Leadville will be closed for the first time In the history of the city next Sunday.
 William Groat of East Syracuse & con ductor on the Lehigh Valley railroad, was killed in Manchester, N. r., by train which was pulling out of the station. The 200 employees of the Pullman com pany at Ludlow, Ky, have struck and will remain out until the company con sents to arbitrate.
 The bill agreed upon by the house com mittee on pensions to increase pensions of survivors of the Indian and Mexican wars from SS to SIP a month has been reported to the house.
 Colonel William F. Wheeler, eI-private secretary to Governor Medary of Minne- sota territory and to Governor Sibley. first executive of Minnesota state, died at He lena, Mon, Sunday night, aged 70 years.
 Wednesday, June a7.
 The town of Milford, N. H., celebrated Its centennial anniversary.
 The Edgar Thomson steel works of the Carnegie company at Braddock, Pa, have resumed in full, giving employment to l, 500 men.
 A pitched battle between fish poachers and two officers near Geneseo resulted in the fatal wounding of one of the former. Name unknown.
 Minnie Jones, 17-year- old girl of Low ensboro, Ala, was called from her house on Sunday night and brained by her sweet heart, William Wilson.
 The large four story brick building of Wheeler & Howes at Bridgeport, Conn, was gutted by fire. William Judd. a fire man, fell from a ladder and was killed.
 Caleb Cooley, mulatto, has been hanged by a mob at Bowling Green, Ky, after admitting that he had attempted to assault the wife of his employer, W. P Coleman.
 City Treasurer Williams of Rochester has sold the s25, 900 water extension bonds and $500, GOO additional water supply bonds to Blake Bros & Co, New York; the Mechanics, Rochester and the Man haitian Savings bank, New York.
 Light on Sugar.
 WASHINGTON, June 20.-The sugar in- IA