Connecticut western news., 1894-09-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thur~day, Sept. 20.

The Suncook mill strike at Concord, N. H., is near its end.
 Attorney General Olney returned to Washington after a months absence.
 A shooting affray was reported from near AbbevIlle, La, in the Vermilion parish, in which two regulators lost their lives.
 In 0 fight between 100 police constables and picket of 5000 men about the Lo- gan pit, near Motherwell, Scotland, the miners used catapults.
 The residence of Marshall Corry, a prom inent farmer living near OwinRsville, Ky, was struck by lightning. and he, his wife and daughter were instantly killed.
 One division of the grammar school at Salisbury, Mass, was closed as the result of a religious quarrel precipitated by the appointment of a Catholic young lady as a teacher.
 While gang of bridge builders for the Northwestern railway was near Elva, Ills, on a hand car they ran over an ex- plosive which had been carefully placed on the rail, and seven men were injured, three of them fatally.
 Friday, Sept. a1.
 J. Coleman Drayton left Boston for Bar Harbor, where he will remain a week or two.
 The American Tin Plate company at Elwood, Ind, has decided to cut wages 20 to 80 per cent
 George Schmous was hanged in the AL leghany (Pa- county jail for the murder of his wife and children.
 Several school children in Hazleton, Ia, were poisoned, it is supposed, by eat ing candy that was colored green.
 xx-. New York criminal, was arrested in Bal timore for trying to pass forged check.
 Brazilian officers state positively that they saw General Saraiva, the rebel leader, killed and his body mutilated by govern ment troops
 The navy department has issued orders to have the old monitor Wyandotts reflt- ted at Norfolk for the use of Maryland's naval militia
 Senator Hehrard of Paris has sent ssc- onds to Deputy Arene to arrange a duel in consequence of the publication of an article written by Arene ref1ecting on the senator
 Saturday, Sept. a2.
 Hitler Bros stables at Marion, Nass, were burned, with 10 horses.
 Later advices show that only 695 Chi nese were captured at Ping Yang.
 William Campbell of the County club of Boston appears to be the champion pro fessional golf player of the United States
 G. R. Edwards and George Pullen (col- ored) were fired upon from ambush two miles east of Warren, Tex. Edwards was killed and Pullen badly wounded.
 William Smith of Alleghany, serving a 23 year sentence in the Western peniten- tiary, was shot In the back and probably fatally wounded by keeper George w. Logan.
 Dr. Anton Palitschek. late consul gen eral to the United States. located at New York, has been dismissed in disgrace from the consular service of the Austro Hun gnrian empire.
 James Darcy, a general merchandise dealer of White Top Mountain, Tenn, was assassinated by unknown persons, who called him to his door and riddled him with bullets.
 Monday, Sept 24.
 Dr. Bryant reports that President Cleve- land is in excellent health.
 Kentuckians are buying rifles to resist taxes levied to pay railroad bonds
 Hope of a acompromise between the Mas sillon miners and operators Is at an end.
 Judge J. NJ. Van Arsdale of Mount Sterling, Ky, accidentally took carbolio acid and died.
 Professor George c. Chase has been in- augurated as president of Bates college, Lewiston, Me.
 Hampton O. Marsh, for 25 years presi- dent of the National Iron bank of Morris town, N. J., is dead.
 Two desperate prisoners escaped from the jail at Catskin, N. Y., through the aid of corset steel saws.
 The expected indictments against Messrs- Havemeyer and Searles of the Sugar trust have been framed in the dis trict attorneys office and only await the action of the grand jury.
 Federal Judge Morrow of San Francisco has decided the Ezeta extradition cases, mente cannot be extradited, as their of- lenses were purely political.
 Tuesday, Sept 25
 Northern Italy is suffering from severe drought.
 The Maiden Mass authorities have begun a war on illegal liquor sellers.
 The special Bulgarian elections have re- suited in the success of the Russophiles.
 The Yorktown of the Bering sea fleet arrived at San Francisco, where she will be overhauled.
 Twenty persons were injured by the collapsing of a floor during a fete in town near Brussels
 George B. Anderson of the District of Columbia, secretary of legation at Rio Janeiro, has resigned on account of i'll health.
 The Mosquito Indians have been send ing delegations to Colombia praying that their territory be annexed to the republic of Colombia The United States minister to Colom- bia, MT. Luther F. Mckinney, has been inspecting the Panama canal He will shortly return to Bogota
 Mass meetings in southern Arizona are protesting against the desertion of the San Carlos military posts. They fear the 3, 500 Apaches on the reservation.
 Wednesday. Sept. a6-
 Burglars robbed the postoffice at Pel- ham Manor, N. Y., for the seventh time.
 About 200 employees of the Germania silk mills at Holyoks Mass, went out on strike.
 The schooner Morning Light arrived at Portland, Me, with seven sailors who were found adrift In 8 dory.
 George J. Gould and Howard Gould will sail from Southampt onon the steam ship New York for this country.
 Daniel Cross, a farmer of Charlotte, N. Y.. was killed there by falling under the wheels of a traction engine he was run ming.
 A crank apparently 50 years old was rested at Alexandria Ind. He said his mission on earth was to kill President Cleveland.
 News has been received from Tahiti that Count Festetich, the Austrian noble man who married J. B. Haggin's daugh- ter of San Francisco, is dead
 Oryal Lnhnsnn and William Malona