Connecticut western news., 1894-05-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TburSday May 1.

Thursday. May 3.
 The Great Northern railroad resumed operations.
 Many Mexican troops were ambushed and killed by Yaqui Indians.
 The trial at Rome of the officers and di- rectors of the Banco Romano was begun. Lawrence Spiller, negro, was found guilty of the murder of Lottie Row in Staunton, Va, and sentenced to be hanged. The Kenwood felt mills, three dwelling houses anc a grocery store in Kenwood, N. r., a suburb of Albany, were destroyed by fire.
 Mrs. Louise Cooper. who claimed to be the wife of late ex-Collector of Customs John Martin at Rochester, was arrested for perjury.
 The families of IS strikers were evicted at Oliver, Pa. by sheriff's deputies. No violence was attempted during the work of eviction.
 HenryC Young, of the firm of Young Brothers, Erie, Pa, was found dead in Il secluded part of that city. He was proba- ply murdered.
 Friday, May {.
 Chief Photographer Ramse was acquitted of the charge of destroying wires during n 1trike.
 There are 1,5o0 miners out at Duluth, mostly Finlanders, and they are striking for q. 50 per day.
 Bismarck says he is unable to under. stand the contention of his opponents that he aspires to rank and titles.
 The speaker of the house of commons the Right Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, will retire from the speakership.
 Mrs. Georgiana Hughes of Buffalo, while temporarily insane from trouble, tried to throw herself into Niagara falls.
 Floyd Peresett (colored), who killed George Fox, also colored, in Utica, N. I., in last December, was convicted of assault in the second degree.
 Governor Flower has appointed Chat field Leonard of Cooperstown, N. I., sur rogate of Otsego county in the place of the Hon. Albert C. Tennant, resigned.
 A lone highwayman held up the stage between Sonora and Milton, Cal, ordered the passengers out and blew open the iron safe with powder, but got nothing.
 Saturday, May 5.
 Twelve hundred men in Missouri mines have joined the strikers.
 A small fire caused panic in a female seminary at Andover, Mass.
 Texas treasury Is absolutely empty, with prospect of a big deficiency soon.
 The assessors of the town of North hbridge, Mass, have decided to tax bicycles.
 The will of the late Frank Hatton leaves everything to his widow, Lizzie R. Hatton. Dr. Sam Houston, who died in Independ. ence, Tex, was son of the famous Texas hero.
 Thirteen anarchists have been arrested at Liege for supposed complicity in the re cent bomb explosions
 A supposed internal machine found in Hyde park, London, turned out to be a meat tn filled with soot.
 William Whalen, who sold sS00, 900 worth of worthless mining stock in St. Louis, has been sent up for four years.
 Albert Koppler was killed and eight other persons were injured at Park Ridge, Ills. They were in a building which blew down.
 Monday, May7.
 The Ontario legislature has been pro- rogued. and elections will take place with in two months.
 A heavy hailstorm did slO0, 600 damage in Iowa City, Ia., breaking all the glass in windows facing west
 The differences between the executors of the P. T. Barnum estate and the heirs have been amicsbly settled out of court.
 As the steamship Saale was about to leave for Germany, Philip Florsheimer of Chicago, passenger, dropped dead.
 The Worlds fair buildings, except the Forestry building and La Rabida convent, have been sold to Chicago syndicate for $S0, 900.
 Two indictments have been returned by the grand jury against Charles J. and Frank R. Meadowcraft of Chicago, private bankers, who failed last year.
 At secret executive session of the Mu- sicians' league convention the question of utilization with the American Federation of Labor was decided adversely. United States Senator Wolcott of Colo rado, who was proposed for membership in the Metropolitan club (the millionaireso of New York, has been black balled. Tuesday, May 8.
 A submarine cable has been completed between Hong Kong and Labuan, Borneo. Andrew Carnegie has taken a beautiful | 1-