Connecticut western news., 1894-10-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thurx,,ay. Oct, II.

war held a reuoion in Boston.
 The Central New York Methodist Epis- copal conference Is in session In Syracuse.
 Miss Mary Kerr of Englewood, N J., was killed by a falling chimney during the storm.
 The twentieth annual convention of the American Association of Bankers opened In Baltimore
 The funeral of ex- Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania occurred at Bellefonte, Pa, with military honors
 J. G. Perrault, deposed priest, has sued Bishop Shanley of Grand Forks, N. D., for $5U, 900 for slander.
 Brussels has received the first carload of California wine ever shipped direct to Belgium from this country.
 It Is expected that most of the transat- lantic steamers running to Canadian win ter ports will be laid up this winter
 gigantic coal combine has been form sd in British Columbia, and the price is expected to go up all along the Pacific coast.
 The Twenty second New York congress sional district Republican convention has reached its five hundred and seventy fifth ballot, but still remains in deadlock.
 Friday, Oct. 1e.
 The aineer or Algnanlstan ls reporteu very i'll.
 Four earthquake shocks were felt in Athens Wednesday.
 Work was resumed In five of the New Bedford cotton mills.
 Leo Hawcraft was mortally wounded by O footpad in Reno, Nev. The town is full of desperate characters.
 Government and municipal officers in Dar 1off from anarchists in London.
 Troop l., Sixth cavalry, the Indian troop otherwise known as "Casey's Scouts !" has been disbanded.
 A premature explosion of blast in Drnn's coal mine, Keilhsburg, Ills, kill ed William Walters and Harvey H. Smith
 The explosion of boiler in Hodges sawmill, near Dexter, Mo, killed two Johnson brothers and young man named Wilkinson.
 It Is stated in Fall River that the oper- atives as a whole will accept the manu- lecturers proposition to go to work Mon- day morning.
 Saturday, Oct. 13.
 Delegates to the bankers convention in Baltimore were entertained by Governor Brown in Annapolis.
 Thomas Bailey Aldrich and H. L. Pierce, ex-mayor of Boston, are in Van couver, B. O., en route to Japan.
 Indians are said to be mining gold in the Gloss mountains, Indian Territory, but they drive away white prospectors.
 Governor Flower has decided that veter- ans are exempt from civil service rules as well as the civil service laws of the state. Adolphus Meyer. deputy United States marshal In Alaska, has been arrested for smbezzlement of public funds amounting to $2, 900.
 Local miners have jumped the claims of English capitalists in the pichaoo placer mines, Arizona holding that aliens cannot legally possess them. Judge McComas of the supreme court of the District of Colum bia denied the ap- plioation of the Miles Sugar company of Louisiana for mandamus to compel Sso- retary Carlisle to appoint inspectors to as- certain the sugar production of tho com pany.
 Monday, Oct. 16. Professor virchow has expressed doubt regarding the efficacy of the Roux vaccine against oroup. |. While hunting near Catskill, N. Y., ex- Senator Bloodgood was accidentally shot and may lose the sight of one eye. General Windsor B. French of Sarato- ga who WAS nominated for member of congress has withdrawn his name.
 Colonel W. c. P. Breokinridge has been suspended from communion by Mount Horeb church in Fayette county, Ky.
 Ex- Senator Thomas W. Palmer, presi- dent of the Worlds Columbian commis- sion is seriously i'll at his home in De troit
 Judge Wallace of San Francisco sen fenced John Joy to life imprisonment un- der the habitual criminal act. Joy robbed a man of $5.
 Eugene V. Debs, president of the Amer ican Railway union, has started on a tour of the eastern states and will speak in a number of cities en route to New York.
 Tuesday, Oct. 16. The boundary dispute of Mexico and Guatemala has been adjusted. Sir Alfred Stephen, formerly lieutenant governor of New South Wales, is dead. The demand for Columbian silver half dollars is far beyond the expectation of treasury officials Before the steamer Arawa left Honolu- lu a rumor was in circulation that Queen Liliuok alani had gone crazy. A friend of the University of Pennsyl- vania whose name is withheld, has pre- sented the institution with $50, ,000.
 The new Gould memorial church in Roxbury, N. r., is now complete and in charge of the Rev. W. H. Demarest, its pastor.
 The postoff1ce department In Washing. ton has begun the work of examining overtime claims of letter carriers in New York state. A petition Is being circulated In Glov- ersville, N. Y, for the nomination of Luoius N. Littauer, glove manufaotursr, for congress.
 Mrs Thomas Harrigan and her three children were burned to death in barn in Elizabeth, N. J.. It is believed that Mrs. Harrigan set fire to the barn while suffering from temporary insanity caused by malaria Wednesday, Got. IT.
 The Brazilian government troops won victory over the insurgents in Rio Grande do Sul
 Judge David Wetty of Beaver City. Neb., has been arrested on the charge of receiving bribes.
 Near Glen Allen, Ala. Jefferson Ali son, jeweler of Jasper, was shot from ambush and killed.
 The execution of Salvador French, the hudrcHlsb Ol bH0 bdTCeIOEd Lyc6um bn6a- ter plot, is imminent.
 The Greek government and the local authorities of the island of Corfu are talk ing measures for the safety of the czar.
 Detective Hutchinson of Belvidere, N J., has arrested Charles Schoonmaker of Failsburg N. Y, on a charge of bigamy. Heart failure caused the sudden death at her home In New York of Mrs. Duryea, mother of the dancers Julia and Amelia Glover
 William Massey, who has been in prison at Bordentown, N. J., since May 24 on suspicion that he murdered Lizzie Hol- loway, was released from custody. The Child In the Basket.