Connecticut western news., 1894-02-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Jan. ga.

Ten thousand miners of Ohio have re- fused to accept 8 reduction in wages. The American steam yacht Valiant has left Calcutta with the Vanderbilt party on board.
 Seven hundred thousand sea salmon fry will be sent out from the United States hatchery at Orlani, Me. The industrial exhibit of mining and metallurgy which Chilli has arranged has been postponed until September. Mir c. Creighton Webb, secretary of the United States legation st St Petersburg was presented to the czar and czarina. John V. Bender, pardoned murderer, is again under arrest at Utica, N. r., charged with killing George Barber at a masquer- ade ball A student movement was started for the purpose of raising a memorial fund in memory of the late Frank Bolles, late sec retary of Harvard. It is said that the address to President Cleveland issued by the Hawaiian Patri. otic league was written by T. NJ. Davies, guardian of Princess Kaiulani. The grand jury has indicted the city of Auburn, the Lewiston and Auburn Horse Railroad company and the superintendent of the railroad company for allowing Court street to be dug up for tracks. Friday, Jan. aa. Five hundred British troops were ordered to go at once to Egypt. The pope is preparing an address to be delivered Sunday on current events in Italy.
 The body of & murdered man whose identity Is unknown was found in a brook near Lincoln, Mass. Secretary Carlisle has appointed Thomas F. Lane of New Jersey a chief of division in the registers office. Dr. Jaques, a member of the Austrian reichsrath, committed suicide by shooting himself with revolver. Henry l.. Sheldon of Boston has been ap- pointed to succeed Judge Thompson, who recently committed suicide. house in Springfield, Ills, owned by Senator Palmer and occupied by State Treasurer Ramsey, was destroyed by fire. Another person injured in the Hacken- sack meadows railroad accident, Edward
 N. Clark, died, making the number of those dead 18. who resigned because he was charged with main by his flock. Saturday, Jan. n. Four girls were killed by a snowslide in White Bird gulch, Idaho. A woman and two children perished of cold in Oklahoma during blizzard. It is said that the pope has summoned Archbishop Corrigan of New York to Rome.
 Fritz Hussolt, an ex-Bavarisn army of ficer. has gone insane from studying the ology in Dubuque, Ia. Three girls who were recently commit ted to the western house of refuge at Al bion, N. r., managed to escape. William Leisk, Polander of Northfield, Minn., is charged with driving his wife
 and child insane by beating them.
 William Thomas and Nellie Minor. two attendants in the Utica State hospital were drowned in the Erie canal at Oris- kany.
 The large new switchyards of the Chica- go, Burlington and Quincy road at Gales bury, Ills, closed in consequence of dull business The commission appointed by the Italian senate to inquire into the relations between certain senators and the banks exoneratsd the senators Monday, Jan- go. Champion James J. Corbett was given a big reception in Madison Square Garden, New York. An engine on the Iron Mountain railroad
 blew up, and the engineer was blown 50 feet, but not injured. Rev. Dr. Irwin Miller, grand master of the Masonic order of Mississippi, Is seri- ously i'll in VicksburR. The incident which has led to the trouble between Great Britain and the khsdive may now be regarded as closed. The new Washington bridge over the Housatonic river collapsed on the Milford (Conn.) side and fell into the river. Joseph k. Seeden, the editor of The Con necticut Valley Advertiser, was found dead In bed at his home in Middietown, Conn. Comptroller Eckels has authorized the new First National bank of Meadville, Pa, to begin business with a capital of $lo0, GOO Circuit Judge Person of Lansing. Mich, has decided to summon B grand jury to in- vestigate the state officers salaries amend ment scandal.
 Tuesday, Jan 30
 The report that the Portuguese wsrships have sailed from Oporto is unfoundcd.
 The Cumberland (N. J.) county board of
 excise commissioners will be placed on trial
 today.
 Dr. R. l.. Burtsell of St Mary's church,
 Rondout, N. r., has gone to Palestine from
 Rome
 The reichstag has approved the exten-
 sion of the German-Spanish commercial
 treaty.
 William Milhollin of Springfield, O., died
 after fit of hiccoughing which lasted 70
 hours.
 One of the oldest Berlin firms, Soloman
 & Maas, dealing in exchange on grain i'm
 ports, has failed.
 Many persons have been wounded in
 Zurich in an attempt to suppress an an-
 archist demonstration.
 Twenty-six lives have been lost by the
 wrecking of the British bark Port Tar.
 rock in Brandon bay, County Kerry. Ire.
 land
 Private advices received at Cincinnati
 announce the death in Saxony a few days
 ago of Frederick A. Low. the distinguished
 explorer.