Connecticut western news., 1894-03-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Feb. R2.


 Mrs. Annetta Legi, lo4 years old. died in New York city.
 The wheat duty in France will be fixed at instead of francs
 A San Francisco woman was killed by horse sneezing in her face
 There is great excitement in Lancaster, Fla, over . bomb explosion.
 Stockholders in the Columbian exhibl- tion will get small dividend.
 Five woodchoppers were caught and kill ed in a snowslide in the Nevada noun tains
 A coroner's jury in San Francisco re- turned verdict of suicide in Msy Brook yn's case
 The Hon. James P. Baxter was nominat- ed for mayor of Portland, Me, by the Re publicans
 Rescuers are still at work, but there is no news from the men imprisoned in the Gaylord mine. commerce commission is critically i'll of malarial fever at Creston, la Prisoners in the jail at Carthage, Tenn, overpowered the jailer's wife when she carried their supper in and escaped to the woods. Friday, Feb. 23. The German comedian Gardner is Ill in Kenton, O. An old cannon mysteriously exploded in
 White Plains, N. Y. Geneva, Ala, is half submerged, owing to freshets in that locality. Thieves overpowered Chicago capitalist on a street car and stole S25, 900. The negro variety theater at Houston was burned, and two lives were lost. Incendiaries attempted to burn the town of Pecatonica, Ills, three fires being started. Dr. F. M. Abbott of Indianapolis was wounded after shooting down a highway man. Eskimos seeking an additional appropri- ation for Alaska are on their way to Wash ington to see the president A six inch gold vein in the Cripple Greek mining district, Colorado, is reported to
 have assayed SIS, 900 to the ton. Eugene Dalliedousse of Flatbush, x. r., was chosen president of the National Gre nation society at it's meeting in Indianap- olis Ex-State Senator Daniel Paul of Center. burg, O., has again mysteriously disap- | peared, taking 80 900 with him, 1t Is sup I posed- enturdAy, Fen. HA General Jubal A. Early is better There is terrible famine in Starr county, l Tex. Troops are ready in Boston to deal with | riot. An investigation of the patent office is in progress. Colorado has the heaviest snowfall known I there in l2 years. A loss of sl00,ooo has been caused by in. | cendiaries in Fort Wayne John Harris, highwayman, was killed | in Kentucky by a sheriff's posse. Leo Lauthier, the French anarchist, has been sentenced to prison for life. 1 There is no perceptible change in the con- | dition of ex-Minister E. J. Phelps. Henry Post. 36 years old, of Camden, N. J., Is hiccoughing himself to death. In the Coughlin case at Chicago the at | torney for the defense denounced state witnesses as perjurers- One man was killed and two injured in a collision of coal trains on the Hunting don aud Broad Top road at Huntingdon, ! Pa, yesterday morning. Monday, Feb. ae. Alexander c. Cattell, ex-United States
 senator from New Jersey, is seriously ill Charles Pa ne Reed, a student at Wes-
 leyan college, was found dead In his room. | At Greenfield, Wis, Ever Everson shot
 his mother and then cut his own throat
 after family quarrel. | General Early's rally in strength was of
 short duration, and his vitality Is slowly
 but surely giving way. Lydia Heckert, aged 8 years, was burned
 to a crisp while lighting fire in the grate
 at her home in Pittsburg. Walter Wellman, & newspaper core
 spondent, will lead an expedition toward
 the north pole, starting in two weeks | The new National party will meet in
 state convention in Pittsburg on March 1a
 and in national conference on March 1& | The island of Nautilus was swept by a ! fearful hurricane, during which 50 lives were lost, and train was blown over the
 Port Louis bridge. | Richard Prior, the negro who murdered Richard Ehler and fatally shot his wife
 near Stroudsburg. Pa, has been captured
 and Is in jail at Belvidere, N. J. l Tuesday. Feb aT. | George J. Gould Is at Hot Springs.
 Ex-Minister Phelps is out of danger.
 Richard Croker and party arrived at | Austin.
 Bank President French of Tacoma has
 been arrested.
 There has been a mysterious explosion in | theater in Pisa. | Ex-Senator Jasper NJ. Dresser of Indiana
 died at St Augustine, Fla Mrs. Ellen Trafford. rich recluse of
 Passaic, N. J., was found dead. | Erastus Wiman, when arraigned in New
 York charged with forgery, pleaded not
 guilty. | Mrs- Frederick Mandelbaum, known in
 New York city as a notorious fence, died
 in Hamilton, Ont. By a boiler explosion at the big iron
 works at Al-xandrowsk, Russia, 25 men
 were killed, and 10 were seriously injured. | Secretaries Lamont and Herbert have de
 cided that there shall be no football con
 tests brtween the cadets at Annapolis and | m