Connecticut western news., 1894-04-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April 1e.

Heath of Gettysburg fame.
 A number of persons were injured in an elevator accident in Providence.
 Richard Robinson fatally stabbed John Pauling, fellow brakeman, in Syracuse. The trial of the alleged Indianapolis bank wreckers, involving sl, ,00o, GOO, was be- gun.
 Commodore Ramsey has been made & rear admiral by the retirement of Admiral Benham.
 The New England contingent of Coxey's army may charter a steamer and meet him in Washington.
 About TOO men, women and children, employees of the Dolphin jute factory in Paterson, x. J., went on strike.
 The Countess Russell wants the law to restore to her her husband, who was re spondent in a divorce suit brought by her. Albert and Alpheus Lawson of Hills dale, N. J., twin brothers and heirs to an estate, have been missing since Tuesday morning.
 Friday, April IS. national strike.
 Wichita (Kan.) school officers are charg- ed with levying bribes.
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 A female brigade of the industrial army Is being raised in Oakland, Cal.
 The British government will soon de- clare protectorate over Uganda.
 Kelly's industrial army captured a train at Evanston, Wy. aud is riding east. It is alleged that Newall B. Parsons. confidential bookkeeper of the Wells Stone company, Saginaw, Mich, stole s63, 900 in bonds.
 Highwaymen attempted to rob Henry c. Hamilton, a foreman in the Pennsylvania railroad shops in Jersey City, and one of them was captured.
 The trustees of the estate of Lady Henry Somerset are petitioning the courts for an injunction to restrain her from closing all the saloons on her estates.
 Mrs. Clotilda Hoeniger, an old news woman who died in St. Paul. aged T6, was the youngest of IS children of Leonhard von Hoeniger, chief justice of Bavaria.
 Saturday, April IA.
 The Pennsylvania road has at last made arrangements to enter Detroit.
 Senator Dixon of Rhode Island will re- tire after completing his present term. Sixteen men were killed by an explosion of firedamp in Czupiia (Servia) mine Edward Boone has confessed to the rob bery of the South Bend Qnd.) postoffice. James Willis, living near Wanaque, N. J., was attacked and robbed by highway men.
 French police found large quantity of anarchists materials at 8 village near Paris.
 Chief of Police McCabe of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and some members of the force were fined $l0 for fishing with nets in Lake Nor gan.
 Lawyer Edward Hurlbert of Utica, N. r., has been indicted for taking the money of a widow to invest when he was insol- vent.
 Michael Pheifer a saloonkeeper in New ark, N J., was burned on the face with a redhot poker by his wife, who tried to put out his eyes because he is suing her for di- vorce.
 Monday, April 16.
 Samuel Palmer, prominent horseman of Buffalo, fell dead on the street in Chi cago.
 The condition of Representative Jerry Simpson of Kansas has taken turn for the worse.
 The French naval commission reports the navy of France to be in very bad con- dition.
 Minister Thurston, en route to Hawaii, arrived in San Francisco accompanied by his bride
 A body supposed to be that of sailor from the schooner Kate Markee was found near Sandy Hook.
 Thomas Halbrook fatally shot Miss Car rie Hatfield in Huntington, w. Va, because she refused to marry him.
 Louis Lyons, while walking with Miss Callie Screen in Gallatin, Tex, was shot dead, it is thought, by rival.
 In a street fight in Memphis, during which F shots were fired, Policeman Haynes and a countryman named Gull hdge were both killed.
 The trial of ex-Secretary of State Jochim at Lansing, Mich., for making false returns of the vote on the amendment increasing the salaries of state officers resulted in disagreement of the jury.
 Tuesday, April II.
 A congress of religions was opened in San Francisco.
 Two children were carried over the Spo- kane falls and drowned.
 Mgr. Bonacum warns Catholics to have none of Father Corbett.
 The Viking ship has been bought by Chicago Scandinayians.
 Ex-Mayor Horace J. Pointer of Newark, N. J., is dying in that city.
 The Colorado supreme court gives the governor the power he wants
 Connecticut farmers are casing their to- bacco rather than sell at present prices. William HaInman of Smithtown, N. r., was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun.
 Twenty-four murders have been commit ted in Luzerne county. Pa, within four months by foreigners, none of whom has been arrested. Arie. the captured Roman anarchist, has confessed that when caught on the 1lth inst. he was on his way to blow up the Italian senate.
 Wednesday, prn 1s.
 The house of lords passed the Bering sea bill.
 Russia's antitontine insurance law goes into operation today.
 Louis Knorr, theatrical man of St. Louis, shot himself in Boston.
 Hugo w. Sanger, the Utica (N. Y) fire bug, was given 20 years sentence. A branch of the Harvard observatory will be established at Flagstaff, A. T. Twelve persons have died of typhoid in Montclair. N. J., and the disease is spread ing.
 Mrs. Cleveland received a magnificent album, the gift of American residents in London.
 Miss Mary Tillyer of Railway, N. J., fell dead in church Monday night while sing ing hymn.
 Leander Smith, the indicted freight agent of the Reading road at Camden, N. J., committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
 After July 1 the headquarters of the British embassy will be at New London, Conn, where Edward Goschen, the secre- tary. has secured a cottage A Model Man.