Connecticut western news., 1894-08-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Aug. a3.


 treasury passed the S64, 0Oo, 900 mark, be- ing gain of nearly s2oo 900 since Tues | day.
 Mrs. Blanche s. Leathers has been r granted a license a steamboat master by the inspection authorities at New Or leans.
 The stable connected with the Poland Springs House in Maine was burned, to- gether with about 80 horses and much other property. . The steamboat Monarch struck a rock and went to the bottom at Long Sault, Rainy river, Canada, and 50 excursionists escaped by means of rope Miss Mary s. Sherman, daughter of Sem ator john Sherman, Is to be married on | Dec 12 to James McCallum, clerk in the United States supreme court. For the week ending at noon on Aug. | 20 there were 32 new cases of cholera and 23 deaths from that disease reported from different parts of the German empire. Mrs. E. R. Howe, the confidence wom- an who operated SO successfully in Bos- ton, Worcester and Springfield, was ar raigned in Hartford and held for trial Friday, Aug. a< The trouble between Bishop Bonacum and his priests has broken out anew. The Japanese minister to Korea has been killed by his own oountrymen. The next challenge for the Americas cup will be issued by the Earl of Lonsdale. Superintendent of Police Linden of Phil adelphia refused to obtain transportation for 200 commonwealers. The triennial oonvocation of the general grand chapter of the United Royal Arch Masons is being held in Topeka. Barlo, a half breed, and squaw killed John Oko a doctor, and hurud him on the St. Regis reservation, Canada. Two farmers, Wilmer Woodside and Louis Ober, have been caught making crude counterfeit coin near Altoona, Pa. Cossacks in Borgustan, in the Caucasus fought government agents sent to treat sick cattle, and cavalry shot down II of the villagers.
 The pope has written a letter to NJ. Turquet, formerly under secretary of state, confirming the papal adhesion to the French republic.
 Mrs William Kelsey of Huntington, N. Y., was horribly burned while trying to save her children, who were in danger of being burned by the explosion of a kerosene lamp.
 Saturday, Aug. a5. A fresh earthquake shock was e1pe- II flouCeu db Odubd ShbariuA SiClly. Joseph Curtiss, a bicycle thief, and two burgla<sesoaped from jail in Utica, N. Y. It is reported that the Prince of Naples is to be made the first viceroy of Sicily by King Humbert. # The crush in the cathedral at Pittsburg was SO great at the funeral of Vicar Gen. eral Wall that several women and chill dren tainted
 Mrs William Carvey, living near Wa bash, Ind, has sold her 1S>month- old child to her husband, from whom she sep arated, for $6. .a MT. Lindholm, late assistant secretary of state of Michigan, who disappeared from Ishpeming in March last, has been arrest ed in Gothenburg Sweden. The Kaff1r chief Malobock, who sur rendered to the beers after being smoked out of a cave twice tried to commit sui eide by plunging into the campfire. Monday, Aug. a7. Laborers digging ditch near Sheridan, N. r., have found the skeleton of mas todon.
 The rich Futurity stake, worth about $50, 900, for e-year-olds was won by But terf1ies. r..-. Lottie Lindemarth and Lizzie Kern berger were drowned while rowing in the Schulykill river.
 Mrs Lines, wife of business man of Plainfeld, N. J., tried to kill her chill dren while insane.
 MT. Howard Gould says that the Vigi lant will not take part in any more races after the contest for the Cape May cup.
 The worsted and moquette mills of the Alexander Smith & Sons carpet works in Yonkers, N. Y, have closed for an indef- mite period.
 Sir William Vernon Haroourt chancel. Tor of the exchequer is suffering from an eye malsdy which threatens to render him entirely blind.
 Herman von Othergraven, who claims to be German nobleman, has been sent to jail charged with embezslement by Pittsburg firm. ....
 Tuesday, Aug. es~ .-
 Three petards were exploded in Mon tauban, France
 Extensive smuggling is reported along the Cape Breton coast. a 4-. s-s
 Tawhiao II, the Maori king of New Zealand, has died of influenza.
 Nancy M. Walker of Rochester has just celebrated her one hundred and third birthday.
 Griswold and Lata, who robbed . St Paul train and killed a policeman, are supposed to be New Yorkers.
 The authorities at Metz have caused the arrest of Mime. Ismert, a French lady, who they charge with being a spy.
 William Schriver, the catcher of the Chicago Ball club caught ball thrown from the top of the Washington monu- ment
 An Ohio paper insists that. Mother Mandelbaum, the notorious New York fence is alive and that the report of her death in Canada was a ruse.
 By the collapsing of bridge over a ra- vine at Fairmount park, Kansas City, 50 persons were preoipitated to the ground, distance of Is or 20 feet, and 20 of them were more or less injured.
 Wednesday, Aug. es.
 Chancellor von Caprivi has gone to Carlsbad for few weeks Marie Havranok, aged 2, was killed by l a Philadelphia trolley car.
 Congressman Bryan has been made | editor of the Omaha World Herald.
 The severe drought has caused .severai | cheese factories in western Ontario to | close down. |
 Eight new cases of smallpox were re- ported Monday at Milwaukee, and riots | have again broken out
 A vestibuled train on the Baltimore and | Ohio was wrecked near Parksburg, Pa, | by large powder on the track
 Geronimo and his warriors, who have | been confined for several years at Mount | Vernon, Ala, arc to be released
 Four members of the crew of the Ger | man vessel AdeIheir, from Aptwerp to l Dantzic, have been attacked with cholera |
 The anarchists of London are migrat- | ing to the provincial cities, and Home | Secretary Asquith has sent out a circular | warning the chiefs of police throughout | the country.
 An old Shoe an Unsafe Safe.