Connecticut western news., 1894-11-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Oct. e5.

At Newmarket England, the Cam bridgeshire stakes wero won by Indian Queen
 Sixty-one persons lost their lives through the recent explosion In the Ani- ma oolliery.
 An equestrian statue Of Major General George B. Mcclellan was unveiled at Philadelphia.
 The Marchioness of Queensberry has obtained a decree nullifying her marriage to the marquis.
 The weavers in the worsted cloth mill of Rossmiller & Go. at Manayunk, Pa, have struck for an increase of 15 per cent in their wages.
 The Swedish schooner Alene. loaded with gunpowder which wns at anchor near Peterhead, Scotland, was blown up and all the crew lost.
 A challenge to joint debate was made to Hon. William F. Sbeehan at his New York address by a committee of anti-Hin Democrats of Buffalo.
 Argument was begun in the United States court on the appeal from the deoi- sion of tho United States court in favor of the American Sugar Refining company, against which the government brought suit under the Sherman antitrust law.
 Friday. oct. go.
 A break in the big coal combine Is in- minent
 Commander William Evelyn, U. s. A.. is dead. aged 73.
 Dewolffs s large cloak factory at White Plains, N. r., was totally destroyed by fro.
 A collision between two freight trains occurred in Prussia, and 10 trainmen were killed.
 Mrs- Rosetta Safton, mother of the late millionaire banker, A. M. Safton, died in St. Joseph, Mo. aged 102.
 Clarence Robinson, the murderer of Lawyer Gibbs, has bcen extradited from Ohio and is now in Buffalo jail
 Miss Ethel Ingalls,, eldest daughter of ex-Senator J. J. Ingalls,, and Dr. Edward Giles Blair were married at Atchison, Kan.
 The postoffioe safe at Middleport, N. Y, was blown open and sl00 in cash and several hundred dollars worth of stamps taken.
 A colored Democratic orator who at tackled General Harrison in a speech at Indianapolis was mobbed by crowd of negroes and almost killed.
 Saturday. Oct as.
 Another case of smallpox has developed in Washington.
 J.,W. Parker was appointed postmaster at Edgewood, Pa.
 Eugene Outlin, the American barytone, Is very sick in London
 Police Commissioner Sheehan of New York was a witness before the Lexow committee.
 ff-r of the editors of the Port Jervis (N. J. Gazette, is dead
 Ambassador Bayard is to be made a doctor of laws by the universities of Ok ford and Cambridge.
 A cablegram from London states that the ameer Is not only alive, but attend ing to official business.
 The late Francis Buttrick. million aire of Walthams Mass, has bequeathed s115, 900 to public charities
 The steamer Emskar, which left Phila- delphia Oct. 8 and about which there was great anxiety, was lowed into Queens town with a broken shaft
 Monday, Oct. 29.
 The old board of directors of both the Atchison and the Chicago Santa Fe and California roads have been re-eleoted-
 Chief Sargent of the Brotherhood oi Locomotive Bremen, is negotiating foi the removal of his headquarters to St. Louis. George W. Albright of Ithaca, N. r., was stabbed by man whom he discover ed leading his horse and carriage from his barn.
 The propeller D. M. Wilson, owned by J. A. Miller of Buffalo, sank opposite Thunder Bay island light All hands were saved.
 Admiral John G. Walker called upon the president, and 1t is said he spoke oi the necessity of securing that naval sta tion In Hawaii.
 At a meeting In Q colored church IF Flemingsburg. Ky, George Boyd, with , pistol, fought Ben Robinson, with C knife. The latter was killed, while tho congregation looked on. Tuesday. Oct. 30.
 The schooner Sunbeam, whose beach ing at Tuckerton, N. J., has been report ed, has become a total wreck. Chinese papers received by steamer con tain accounts of numerous outrages by bandits and pirates in China. Two women of Ill repute were found dead in bed in Denver. and the police be lieve itis the work of 6 strangler.
 Two of the Pacific express robbers hay, been captured in The Dalles, Or, ant | SIS, 900 of the s14, 900 stolen has been TO i covered.
 Mrs Hanna Johnson of 1ee Jefferson street. Newark. N. J., let her clothe, catch fire while ironing and was fright | fully burned. | The body of the woman who drowned | Tn he fa rfx oSA l. N. J., has been identified as that of Mrs | Thomas Mack of Brooklyn Though the earthquake in the provincs of La Rioia, Argentine Republic, lasted | but 26 seconds. 1t Is thought that g, 00l persons were killed or hurt. The late F. W. Porter, auditor of tn. Rock Island railroad, was a defaulter tt the extent of $23, 900. State Auditol Gore of Illinois made the announcement Wednesday. Oct. 31.
 E1-Premier Mercier died in Montreal. All the Fall River mills except fiv. which are undergoing repairs resumed | work
 Seven people were smothered by smok, in a tenement house fire on West Thirty second street, New York. Wheeler Johnson (colored) was killed oy EmIneb N. hoWlanu (Wnite) a6 boyn tonville, small hamlet few miles from Troy. N. Y.
 The summing up In the investigation Of the charges against Superintendent Broadway of the Elmira reformatory com | menced at New York. A. J. Holmes, 20 years ago one of Sar Francisco's millionaires, died at the Sar | Francisco almshouse and narrowly escap ed burial in the potter's field. The big dry goods firm of Strawbridgt & Clothier of Philadelphia, which for the | past e5 years has been in business, will dissolve partnership on Jan. l. 1s95. The prohibition against the landing ol | American cattle and American dressed meat announced by a decree of the Ham burg senate was extended to every port oi Germany.
 | Rutherford P. Hayes Married.