Connecticut western news., 1894-08-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, July 26

The American Railway union lodge at Galesburg, Ills, voted to give up it's char ter.
 Assistant Secretary of the Navy McAdoo joined the New York naval reserves in Gardiner's bay.
 Thousands of very small frogs are re- ported to have fallen in heavy shower of rain in Cambridgeport, Mass
 The woman in jail at Marietta Ga, charged with forgery, denies that she Is the person known as Mrs. Bradford in New York
 The British wooden bark William La Lacheur was lost of Cape St James, on Poryost island, 600 miles from Singapore, with all hands, I7 men.
 Simon Reskins, Russian, made ma licious assault upon the residence of George M. Pullman and was arrested, charged with malicious mischief.
 Friday, July es.
 Queen Victoria is reported to be suffer ing from the heat
 Scottdale (Pa-) coke strikers gave up their guns to the sheriff.
 The Pieola Caselli- Phelps marriage took place at Vicksburg, Miss:
 J. : Johnson, the famous cycler, will join the Buffalo Press Cycle club.
  Carlisle, Ky, for assault on a l3-year-old girl.
 Strikers in Pueblo, Colo, are charged with burning the Santa Fe depot at Ne pesta.
 Tropical heat prevails in Berlin, and many deaths from sunstroke have been reported.
 George w. Dee, farmer living eight miles west of Burlington, Ia, was burned to death in his house.
 Wallace Burt, half breed Indian, was hanged at Doylestown, Pa, for the mur- der of Mir and Mrs. Rightly. Charles Wilson (colored) was executed in the jailyard at St Louis for the mur- der of Moses Hodges in a quarrel over woman.
 Saturday, July as-
 The two hundredth anniversary of the Bank of England was celebrated Friday.
 The steamer City of Peking, which went ashore in Yeddo bay, Japan, has been f1oated. -... Harrison Duncan, a negro gambler was hanged in Clayton, Mo, for numbering policeman.
 The semiannual report of the New York state G. A. R. shows loss in member ship of 400.
 A meeting of the strike commission ap- pointed by the president has been called for Monday. t-e
 Joe Roebsky, jealous Pole, shot his wife in the arm and blew out his brains at Durica. Pa
 The prisoners confined in the Warren county (N. J. jail again made desperate but unsuccessful attempt to escape from jail. John McGough, who shot William Ross at the polls in Troy last March, was sen fenced to Clinton prison for I9 years and six months.
 Monday, July 30.
 Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill and party have started for the Pacific coast. Wilbur Hughes was beaten to death by Claude Haddox, whose daughter Hughes wanted to marry.
 Hon. Hannibal F. Hamlin was renom- mated by the Republicans by exclamation for the Maine legislature.
 Cardinal Ledochowski, prefeot of the congregation of the propaganda fide, died at Lucerne, Switzerland.
 The minor state of siege which exists in the chief provinces of the Russian em- pire has been renewed for year.
 While bathing in the Passaic river at Harrison, N. J., Henry Berkman was talk en with cramps and was drowned.
 Mrs. Henry E. Perrine, the mother-in. law of the president, has been called home from Gray Gables on account of the se- rious illness of her husband.
 The body of men styling themselves .sthe United States industrial army" in camp at Roslyn, Va, opposite Washington, have issued an appeal to the public for aid
 Tuesday, July ST.
 The miners strike on the Gogebic range, Michigan, has been declared of.
 The railroads are sending their bills In to the city of Chicago for riot damages
 Lanesboro, Mass, was struck by cy- clone that destroyed crops and orchards
 A thunderbolt>struck the high steeplo of the Broadway church of Norwich. Conn, and made it look like a skeleton steeple.
 George Bateman of Cambridge, Mass, swung hammock on the roof, tying one rope to a chimney, which fell on him and killed him. <#
 c. A. White a Bostonese, is prisoner at St John, N. B., on a charge of at tempting to bribe the chief of police to protect him in running gambling house
 Bank Cashier John W. Love of Watkins, N. Y., Is in jail there. He embedded $7O, 900 and disappeared last February. leaving his clothes on the shore of Seneca lake.
 Curtis Bayson, one of the seven men who held up the west bound Frisco freight at Red Fork, I. T., a week ago, has been arrested, admits his guilt and duplicates others.
 Wednesday, Aug.1.
 Lord Dunraven will have his yacht Val kyrie sold Friday just as she stands.
 Albert and Thomas Lee, woolen manu- lecturers of West Manayunk. Pa, have assigned.
 A farmer found near Lima, O., after a grass fire, the bodies of two infants in a wash boiler.
 O'Donovan Rossa will close his lectur- ing tour in Ireland late in August and re- turn to New York. Schuyler Van Tassel a Respondent painter blew the top of his head of with Q shotgun at Tarrytown, N. Y.
 The main building of the Northwestern Lutheran college at WatertowR, Wis, was struck by lightning and burned. Haroourt announces that the govern ment will closure the committee stage of the evicted tenants bill on Aug 7 William Randle of Rockwell Tex, split his wife's head with an ax, and the sheriff is on his trail with bloodhounds- A secret compact has been arranged be- tween the Argentine Republic and Great Britain by which Jabez Balfour will be surrendered. Thomas R. Morrow and his wife and daughter were struck by lightning at Russell, Ont Morrow was killed The others will die. Not the Same Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Hoke Smith told me short