Connecticut western news., 1894-02-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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The cotton compress at Dublin, Tex. valued at sl50, ,Ooo has been burned.
 St. Joseph, Mo, has vo.2d for Se0o,00 worth of honds for a new sSnool building.
 A school in Worcester, Mass, has beer closed on account of a diphtheris epidemic
 Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon. wife of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, is serious ly i'll.
 Thetwenty-seventh annual encampment of the Massachusetts G. A. R. was held ir Boston.
 The report of ex-Presideut Hsrrison's marriage to Mrs. Stanford annoys him very much.
 Governor Matthews of Indiana has issued a requisition for zimri Dwiggins, the Chi cago banker.
 W. K. Sullivan of Chicago has been ap pointed receiver for the American Iuvest ment company.
 Mrs. Emily Brucegirdle, widow. com cutting her throat
 The steamer Peru brings advices from Yokohama that smallpox has broken out aboard the American gunboat Concord.
 A building in Indianapolis was wrecked by an explosion of natural gas, and a fam. fly of six persons was buried in the ruins one child being killed.
 Friday, Feb. e.
 A mailbag was robbed of s5, 900 in the de pot in South Bend, Ind.
 Seven persons were injured in & coasting accident in Unionville, N. Y.
 British ship owners have appealed to the foreign office for protection in Rio de Ja- neiro.
 Banker Zimri Dwiggins has been arrest cd in Chicago, and he will be taken to In diana.
 Governor Mckinley has declined an in vitation to speak in Philadelphia on Friday evening.
 Mrs- Della Hershfeld of Helena, Mon, has sued her husbands relatives for alien ating his affections.
 The Brazilian insurgents asked Italy to recognize them as belligerents, and the re ply was unfavorable.
 William s. Carson, New York travel ing salesman was thrown from train and killed near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
 Princess Colonna'a suit for divorce in Paris has been adjourned for a week, wher judgment will be pronounced.
 The Gloversville (N. Y.) police were called in to protect T. c. Shearman, who was delivering tariff reform lecture
 Saturday, Feb 10.
 The police have been called to protect an Italian bank in Waterbury, Conn
 Nine French officers have been killed in an engagement with the Tuaregs. Worlds fair stockholders may receive dividend of 10 per cent on their stock.
 Bob Marler. who accidentally shot Mrs. Bowden in Pineville, Ky, was hanged.
 A plot against Peixoso's life is said to have forced the decree for special elections. Two children who were locked in house in Bloomsburg, Pa, were burned to death.
 A squaw claiming to be the wife of ex- Governor Rice of Iowa is trying to break his will
 The report on the project to build & rail way through Mexico and South America Is finished. The great Lake Side nail plant In Ham mond, Ind, is about to resume, buI at a reduction in wages The records have been so mutilated that evidence of fraud in Michigan's vote Is partly destroyed. The decision of the Union Pacific cases in Denver IS in favor of the employees and against the receivers Monday, Fob. IT, Four attempts were made to burn the Worlds fair buildings in one day. Slosson won the triangular billiard match in Boston, beating Schaefer and Ives. Sydney Parsons was fined SIS in Boston for spanking boy named Burlingame. The Ohio miners agreed to accept re- duction of % cents in the price of mining. The big sailing ship Dirigo was launched at Bath. Me, according to previous plans. The Northern Pacific receivers and the representatives of the employees have reached an agreement Ex-Congressman James Rush Lefand died at his home in Wilmington, Del, after a short illness. Henry Irving cleared s50, 900 during his two weeks engagement with his company l in Philadelphia Westville, Ind. 8 town of ], 900 people, is crazed with excitement over an epidemic of black diphtheria A great strike is expected to come In the Washington woolen mills at Lawrence, Mass, in few days. rursday, Fsh. Is. A negro has been lynched in Bucke-s, Tenn, for fiendish crime. George W. Childs Drexel has been in. stalled as the editor of The Public Ledger. Peixoto's ministers threaten to resign because of bis purpose to continue the state of siege.
 Seventy-five persons have been rescued from the wrecked steamer Resolven in the English channel. James J. Hsyne, who robbed his sister of s75, 900 and escaped to Guatemala, has returned s55, 900 to her. Princrss Colonna said in New York that | she left Paris because her husband was plot | ting to steal one of her children. An aged Greek merchant murdered his wife in Birmingham, Ala, after dragging her across the street bv her hair. Charles H. Pendexter, the we'll known Republican politician of Westfield, N. r., died at his home in Tottenville. N. r., of | typhoid pneumonia Owing to the threats of United States Minister Terrell in Constantinople . nat uralized American has been released from prison in Iskanderum.