Connecticut western news., 1894-05-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thnrs,lar. May 24.


 Prima Donna Minnie Hauk has been decorated by the sultan of Lahore.
 Mir. Gladstone is suffering from cold, and the operation on his eyes will be de layed.
 A riot of striking stevcdores in Chicago was squelched by prompt action of the police.
 Charles A Eimball has pleaded not guilty of bribery in the Hayerhill (Mass. poodle cases.
 Moody Merrill, the missing lawyer, trus- tee and financier of Boston, was debarred in the superior court.
 Captain Nathan Peters, aged 92, the old est Freemason in the country, is very ill at Southampton, Mass.
 It is feared that the schooners Emma l.. Nelson and Leon Ellsworth have been lost in the recent lake storm.
 The Paris police are prepared to make wholesale arrests of anarchists should any attempt at uprising for the death of Hen ry be made.
 The court martial of Lieutenant Nancy on charges growing out of the shooting of Captain Hedberg at Fort Sheridan began at Fort Smelling.
 Friday, May 25.
 Mrs. Lease is very i'll with inflamma- tory rheumatism.
 Mir. Gladstone's right eye was success fully operated upon.
 The Universalist church at Mansfield, Mass, has called a woman preacher to take charge of the parish.
 The Idaho G. A. R. encampment has passed resolution in favor of Louisville for the encampment next year. The house committee on public build ings decided to erect the new Chicago building on the site of the present postof flee
 Governor Flower has vetoed Assembly man Lawson's bill to prevent the display of foreign flags or emblems on public build ings.
 About 40 skeletons of white men and Indians have been unearthed by workmen building n new road at Caldwell, x. J., near Fort William Henry.
 Lewis Fiehl, who was convicted at BridgetIn, x. J., of murder in tine second degree for the killing of Christian Zaiss, was sentenced to 20 years in state prison.
 Saturday, May 20.
 The viking ship has been donated to the Field museum, Jackson park, Chicago. Nine cases of malignant diphtheria were found in one section of Providence Thurs day.
 Henry Weeks was shot and killed at Greenville, Va, by Benjamin Hitc, a neighbor.
 A flood on the Rum river has damaged St. Frances, Minn., S30, 900 and weakened the dam at Anoka.
 The Democrats have nominated the Hon. A. H. Taylor for congress from the First Indiana district.
 The grand court of the United Commer- cial Travellers of America began its annu- al session at Cleveland. James Dunan, who shot Alderman Lo- masney in Boston on March :, was com mitted to an insane asylum.
 The two young men from Chippewa, Ont, supposed to have gone over Niagara Falls yesterday have turned up safe.
 At meeting of the representative wo- men of Kansas, in Topeka, an expression denunciatory of Colonel Breckinridge was adopted.
 Monday, May 2s.
 M Dupuy has consented to undertake the task of tryng to form the French min- istry.
 Charles l.. Lease, husband of Mary k. Lease, denies the story of separation from his wife.
 The supreme court has decided in favor of the state of Indiana in the Big Fopr and other railroad tax cases. Mrs. Zeila Nicoiaus and her husband are at Muscatine, Ia., and have retained counsel to procure divorce
 Rev. J. NJ. Taulbet attempted to deliver an A. F. A. lecture at Lexington, Ky. but the meeting was broken up by a show CT of rotten eggs.
 United States Marshals Ward and Watts have captured in Florida A. J. Steven son, who has been wanted by the govern ment for five years.
 While gang of men were engaged in clearing away freight wreck near Hol- lidaysburg, Pa, a tree fell, fatally. crush ing Supervisor V. s. Deebler and two workmen.
 Professor Henry Preserved Smith, D. D., formerly professor of Hebrew in Lane Theological seminary at Cincinnati, has been declared guilty of heresy by the Pres byterian general assembly.
 Tuesday, May 29.
 John Morley succeeds the late Baron Bowen as trustee of the British museum.
  lying at the point of death in South Or ange, N. J.
 C. M Paul du Chalelier, the archaeolo- gist of Brittany, has been decorated by the French republic with the title of officer of public instruction.
 David Taylor of Boston has been Iom- mated for governor by the Sociilist-Lubor party of Massachusetts.
 ID T.@f .1 Albert $. Reed were found guilty of break ing the Indianapolis bank.
 Lawrence Richter, German shoemak- CT, was shot and killed by Mrs. Pauline Barowski at her home in Pittsburg.
 Much suffering is occasioned over a large district in the north of Spain and south of France from cold and snow.
 Eleven miners were killed and five seri- ously injured in an explosion from fire damp in the Anderules mine, Chaleroi, France.
 Wednesday, May 80.
 The postoffice at Mechanic Falls, Me |, was broken into and $1, 900 stolen.
 Dunrayen's yacht, the fast cutter Val kyrie, dropped anchor in the Clyde.
 The work of Charles Theriat, an Amer. ican, has received honorable mention" nt the Paris salon.
 The Spanish chamber of deputies has adopted the principle of bill for the SUD- pression of anarchism.
 A trolley car on the Lynn and Boston line was struck by Boston and Maine train and thrown 20 feet.
 Kim Wing of Merida, Mexico, has gone to Hong Kong to get 20, 900 of his coun- trymen for colonizing in Mexico.
 Frost did considerable damage to fruit and grain crops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and other northwestern states Senor Don Claudio Vicuna, although the legally elected president of Chilli, has been banished for 15 years for daring to assert his prerogative.
 Fred Nixon, his sister-in-law, Mrs. Will liam Nixon, and her 10-mopths-old baby of Toronto are supposed to have perished In the recent storm on Lake Ontario.
 Bullock Teams Against Railroads.
 An instance of road versus rail com