Connecticut western news., 1894-07-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, July 19.

attended the State Firemens association convention in Bennington, Vt.
 The amended statement of Robert Bu- chanan in London shows liabilities of tl5,6 and no available assetS
 The monument erected on the grounds of ths New York State Soldiers and Sail ors' home at Bath, was unveiled.
 The new Union station at St. Louis. which has the largest train service in the world, will be formally opened on Sept l. Nellie Kenne, 9-yoar- old child, hanged herself at Bradshaw, W. Va, because she had been kept home from school by her mother to care for two infants.
 w. A Johnson. colored, the Harvard football player, who was arrested at New port charged with passing forged cheeks, was held in Boston for the action of the August grand jury. 7
 Friday, July 20.
 Heavy rains have effectually extinguish- ed the Wisconsin forest fires
 One man died and three persons were prostrated in consequence of the heat in Chicago
 Earthquakes continue to shake Constan- tinople, and each recurring tremor adds to the ruin. The final interment of the remains of the late President Carnot took place at the Pantheon.
 A 13- year-old boy named Blanchard de- liberately drowned his Swear old compan- ion In Ottawa -
 A plot to blow up public buildings in Lima and Callao has been discovered, and many arrests have been made.
 The Spanish government is negotiating with tho yoyernmanf n tha A rUaOIine R public for a reciprocity treaty.
 Premier Crispi, in the Italian senate, announced the victory gained by the Ital ian troops at Kassala over the dervishes. The Knights of Pythias are arranging in Denver, the building to cost slOO 0O0.
 Saturday, July Fl.
 Wilmore, Ky, has been wrecked by a cyclone.
 The Danubian states have combined to fight the cholera.
 Boilers in sawmill at Helena, Ark, blew up, killing three men.
 It is estimated that 1000 foreigners have left Cleveland to return to Europe King Leopold of Belgium will receive the officers of the Chicago next Saturday. Lizzie Christine, n young woman, is under arrest at Sedalia, Mo, for horse stealing. Several shocks of earthquake have been felt lately in the Harqua Hala A. T. ) mountains.
 One hundred men charged with partici- pating in the Pratt mines riot are in jail in Birmingham, Ala
 A motion of want of confidence in the the government was defeated in the Cana dian house yesterday. .. Convicts in the Columbus (O>) peniten- tiary struck against poor food and sue ceeded in getting improved victuals
 Monday, July g.
 Ike Weir, the Belfast Spider, is again in custody for assault in Boston.
 It Is expected that Governor werts will remain at Sea Girt, N. J., until Sept. l. Henry Lcta was fatally shot by Bar tender Billet of the Globe hotel at York, Pa.
 Mrs. J. Dundas Lippinoott, prominent Philadelphia woman, died suddenly at Bar Harbor Me. M. Mir Gladstones return to London is due to the condition of his eye which has become worse.
 According to corrected time, the vigi-
  utes go seconds
 Mrs Anna A. Perry, aged go, was found dead in her bathtub at her home in West Chester, Pa.
 By a vote of 309 to TO the French chamber of deputies adopted the paragraph punishing iustifications of anarchism.
 Dr. H. N. Hart. one of the most promi- nent physicians of Philadelphia, was drowned while bathing at Connellsville, Pa
 Tuesday, July 24. Cardinal Gibbons celebrated his six 1tieth birthday.
 Fighting continues in Rio Grande do Sul, with varying results.
 Samuel K. Ross of Urbana, O., shot his wife five times, killing her. Dynamiters made an attempt to blow up the town of Dunbar, Pa
 It is again reported that the Masons of Cincinnati have expelled Colonel Breck- inridge
 The Boston Building Trades council has pronounced against the Meigs elevat- ed railroad bill.
 Comte de Dion won a steam road wag on race from Paris to Rouen, in which 21 vehicles took part.
 The khedive of Egypt is engaged to Ermine, youngest daughter of the late Sultan Abdul Aziz.
 The Vigilant was beaten by the Britan- mia Monday by 45 seconds, after having been more than seven minutes ahead on the last round. ..=
 There was a head end collision on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railway near Cincinnati, and three n t,,;,,
 Wednesday. July as.
 The cholera Is spreading to an alarming extent in Turkey. ...H-
 Haverhil Mass shoemakers are threat ening big strike when business picks up. Two negroes, fugitives from Arkansas, were lynched near Lake Cormorant, Miss. Four women were drowned while bath ing in the San Joaquin river, near Port land, Wash.
 John McGill of New York was proba- bly fatally injured at Saratoga in trol. ley collision.
 Augusta Koch, T years old, wrapped herself in a coal oil saturated sheet, set fire to it and perished in St Louis.
 The Massachusetts contingent of the ma val reserves started for Lovell's island on the monitors Passaic and Miantonomoh. Repairs to the cutter Satania, which ran into and sank Lord Dunraven's cut ter Valkyrie in the Clyde have been oom- pleted.
 The explosion of lamp In a millinery store at Great Bend N r., caused $50, 900 confiagration. which wiped out the business portion of the town.
 The steamship Miranda of the Red Cross line, having on board Dr. Cook s arctic expedition, collided with an iceberg on July r. duying fog about five miles from Belle Isle, but no lives were lost.
 Since his recent attack of the grip the czar has betrayed symptoms of per manent affection of the lungs He will probably make his imperial residence at Kiev, where the climate is more ia vorable than at St Petersburg.
 The Duchess of Marlborough has en- tered into possession of the Deepdene, Lord Francis Hopes estate near Dork- inc It's nohla owner calls if a sshaastlv