Connecticut western news., 1894-04-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April 5.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
 Thursday, April 5.
 Explorer Selous was married to Miss Gladys Maddy in England.
 Dispatches from Rome say the pope had a fainting fit lasting half an hour.
 A steamer has been sent from Lisbon to bring Admiral da Gama to Portugal. Richard Croker, the New York political leader left San Francisco for New York. Eight thousand miners are out of work h Birmingham, owing to a cut in wages. Ex-United States District Attorney Bur nett has forfeited his bond in Cincinnati and slipped away.
 The United States coast defense vessel Monterey has been ordered to sea for final trial and inspection.
 Seven members of the Carmady family of Lambertville, N. J., ate wild parsnips and are likely to die.
 The bipartisan police bill for New York passed the New York senate by a party vote, the Democrats being in the negative. Captain Cranfield and crew of 20 men sailed for New York from England on the steamer Majestic to take back Lord Dun- ravens Valkyrie.
 Friday, April 6.
 Cardinal Dusmet is dead in Rome. Seventy-five firms in Chicago have lock ed out s,001 striking painters.
 A society has been organized in Chicago to follow Parkhurst's methods.
 Seventeen. of Samoa's native rulers have been convicted of melting rebellion.
 The funeral of ex-Congressman George H. Halsey took place in Newark, N. J. The University club of San Francisco en- tertained General Harrison and Whitelaw Reid with a banquet.
 The body of Thomas W. Morgan, the last but one of the l3 Gaylord mine vic tims, has been discovered.
 Permission has been given Tn Chicago to eegin quo warranto proceedings against the charter of the Whisky trust.
 A New York woman, supposed to be dead, was carried to a morgue in Lowell, Mass, where she revived among the corpses.
 Investigation seems to show that the epidemic of typhoid fever in Montclair, N. J., was caused by a milkman named Tay- Tor, whose family were sick while he con tinued to serve milk.
 Saturday, April T.
 Baron de Chifford, the crack shot of Monte Carlo, is dead.
 Captain O'Shea, former husband of Mrs. Parnell is bankrupt.
 An equal suffrage bill will be introduced in the Canadian parliament.
 Frank Slavin has been declared a bank rupt, with liabilities of e70O.
 Henry c. Payne, the Union Pacific re ceiver, is said to be recovering.
 A glee club of 30 Indians from Carlisle, Pa, will start on tour Monday.
 Lennet Davis of Savannah fatally shot w. H. Rawls for alleged intimacy with his wife.
 Suit will be filed against c. c. Moore, the noted Lexington (Ky.) infidel, for blas- phemy.
 The body of Thomas Picton, the last vic tim of the Gaylord mine disaster, has been recovered.
 The Russell Manufacturing company's big wooden mill at Pittsfield, Mass. will shut down.
 Michaelo Maestrop. an Italian banker on Fourth street, Jersey City, has decamped, owing, it is said. slo,oOo.
 Monday. April 9.
 Congressman W. l.. Wilson is in San An tonic, Tex, in much improved health.
 Albert Johnson, night watchman in Cincinnati, was mistaken for dog in the dark and shot.
 Four indictments for fraud have been brought against Pension Agent Van Lue- ven in Minneapolis.
 The steamer Campania of the Cunard line bent her eccentric rod and had to put into Queenstown for repairs.
 Anti-Parnellites held a meeting in Dub lin, and Mr. Healy said that the Liberals had kept their word in regard to home rule.
 Dr. k. l. Brenizer, dentist in Ithaca, N. Y., committed suicide because of de spondency due, his friends say to the re- cent tragedy at Cornell university.
 Richard Wistar, the last of the eccentric multimillionaire Wistar brothers of Phila- delphia, died at Atlantic City of 8 broken heart from grieving over the death of his brother Lewis
 The captain of a Norwegian steamship just returned from Bluefields says that the American killed there recently by the Nicaraguan governor was George Flynn of Brooklyn, son of the foreman of the An chor Dock line.
 Tuesday, April 10.
 A Chicago laborer shot his wife and him. self
 Mrs. Dennis Hunt of Nyack, N. r., shot burglar.
 There was blizzard and five feet oi snow in Maine.
 Millions of cinchbugs have appeared in Pettis county, Mo
 Three we'll known counterfeiters were ar. rested at Milwaukee.
 The industrial army in Salt Lake City is surrounded by militia.
 The cruiser Colum bia did not go into commission at Philadelphia.
 William Sturges, who has s2, ,0OO, 900 al stake in Chicago court in suit-againsi John V. Farwell, has become insane,
 An unsuccessful attempt was made te wreck the New York limited express or the Baltimore and Ohio at McKeesport, Pa
 Sixty Indian families near Peru, Ind the remnant of the Miami tribe have unit ed in a suit against the government fol S91, 900 annuities due them.
 "Wednesday, April II. General Slocum's condition is improved The Pennsylvania coke regions are quiet again. In the house of lords the Boring sea bil was read for the first time. Dr. Edward Cone Bissell, professor il Mccormick Theological seminary, died 1T Chicago. The Marquis of Ailesbury, who married Dollie Tester, the London music hall sing CT, is dead. Dr. w. B. Brown, the alleged hired assas sin of w. A. Mackey, was found guilty il | Wooster, o. The Frothinghan arcade in Scranton Pa, was totally destroyed by fire, sup posed to be of incendiary origin. | The marriage of Captain Forester to Mis-, I Aline Milbank, granddaughter of Sir Fred | erick Milbank, occurred in London. | One hundred and fifty track hands or the Shamokin and Mount Carmel (Pa. Electric railway struck against reduc | tion in wages A disastrous explosion of dynamite oc cured near the town of Dogmitz, Ger many, blowing three men to pieces and ia tally injuring five others.