Connecticut western news., 1894-02-08
NEWS or THE WEEK.
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Thursday, Feb. I.
 Hon. Frederick Lansing died at his resi- denoe in Watertown, N. Y.
 Seven indictments were found by the grand jury for election frauds in Graves end, N. Y.
 Cardinal Gibbons sent to the pope at Rome portraits of President Cleveland and ex-President Harrison.
 Five sailors were drowned while attempt ing to reach shore from the schooner Ger tic K. Foster, wrecked near Halifax.
 Three hundred socialist peasants at Ala his, Spain, have invaded the state lands and divided them into lots for tilling.
 George Case, fireman on the Tioga rail. road, was smothered by snow while his en zine was stuck in a drift near Millerton, Pa
 The trial of Mrs. Margaret Kane on the charge of administering paris green to her mother-in-law, Ellen Kane, began in Bos- ton.
 An explosion of fredamp occurred in the mines of the Fayette Coal company at Fayette City, Pa, in which five miners were badly burned.
 A bill has been introduced In the Massa chusetts legislature providing that no holder of a liquor license shall take pay from one person for liquor to be furnished to another.
 Friday, Feb. ..
 The threatened strike or lockout of min CTS at Cripple Greek, Colo, has begun.
 Two boys while coastiug in Moline, Ills f, ran into an electric car and were fatally hurt
 The threatened duel between Colonel A. c. Fisk and Senator David Boyd of Den yer has been averted
 Alfred House, a farmer in Gardnersville, N. r., was killed by his brother Alfred, who then cut his own throat
 The Watkins bill to punish prize fighters and abettors of prize Sighting has passed the Iowa house by a unanimous vote.
 D. Lohman, the treasurer of the Brook lyn excise department, who has been miss ing since Sunday, has not yet returned.
 Four children, aged { to IA, in the Robin son family at Emberg Church, Ia, died of diphtheria and were buried in one grave
 A double tragedy of murder and suicide occurred on Champ de Mars street, Mon treal, when Dufresne, e young man, shot his sister and then killed himself
 A willow and woodenware warehouse owned by Felix & Marston was destroyed by fire in Chicago. Two of the employees were fatally burned in escaping.
 Saturday, Feb. 1
 Cardinal Luigi Serafni, bishop of Sabi. na, Is dead.
 Representative Robert c. Brown of Taun. ton, Mass, died.
 Miss Charlotte Gary, daughter of Judge Joseph Gary of Chicago. was married
 Ex-President Ames of the Beresford (S. \ hanE Ia oh rad xxifh ha1 lar f and has been arrested.
 Hassan H. Wheeler of Brooklyn, presi- dent of the American District Telegraph company, died at his home.
 A match has been arranged between Hagen, the worlds champion skater, and Joseph Donoghue of New burg, N. Y.
 The Massachusetts Society For the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals endeavorsd to stop the sale of little green lizards and failed.
 Lawyer Charles W. Dwight and Assist ant State Attorney Knight fought in Judge Chetlaine's court in Chicago, and both were fined. rington and Joseph Kenny, Parnellites, have issued . manifesto that the Liberal governments rule in Ireland is a confessed failure.
 Monday. Feb. k
 Mrs Priscilla Van Horn, famous in many reform movements, died at Pittsburg, aged s7 yearA
 Isaac L. Edwards, the murderer of Mrs. Sellers, has been sentenced to be hanged at Logan, O, May 2o
 Governor Matthews says positively that the Jackson-C Corbett prize fight will not take place in Indiana
 Tue Boston store, St. Magdalen's church, eAs Y. NJ. c. A. building and a row of flats wsrs burned in Omaha The glove cutters strike in Gloversville, u. Y., Is ended, and the men will return to work at reduced wages. Prayor Lee brained his wife with an aI ct Knoxville, then cut her head of and was drowned while trying to escape. Arrangements are perfected for the giv- ing of . series of bullfghts at San Antonio. Tex, next month on the grandest scale. Jesse House, who murdered his brother Alfred at Garnerville, N. Y., has been com. mitted to the New York State Insane hos pital.
 Tussday, Fsb. c It is said in London that Da Gama has been supplied with money by the Roth schilds.
 The British steamer Scotch Greys, with part of her crew and all of her cargo, has been lost. Robert Rothberger, once . rich New Yorker, has died in Chicago hospital from the effects of drink. W. Astor Chanler, the young American now exploring Africa, is expected to reach Mombasa on Feb TO- The Ives faction in the Northern Pacific asked for the appointment of commission- CTS to take testimony. The Salvation Army of Chicago has sum- moned Colonel Ingersoll to appear before its bar and be tried as the personifcation of satan. Four persons were arrested in Mount Sterling, Ky, for the murder of Captain J. l.. Bomar. H. Clay Turner, an old enemy, Is one of them. By two accidental explosions of . dyna- mite cartridge in a cut of the drainage o. nal near Romeo, Ills., two men were killed and three injured.