Connecticut western news., 1894-10-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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 speaksr Crisp will participate in the Tennessee campaign and will speak in Nash vile Oot 25.
 Lieutenant Governor Shsehan of New York has retired from tho law nrm of which he'was . member.
 Fifty q, 900 bonds were stolen from the esoritoire in the house of Stephen A. Dut ton, 17o Carroll street, Brooklyn
 Otto Zeigisr broke the worlds bicycle record in Sacramento. making . flying mile in tho official time of t:50 fiat Tho ending of all litigation involving John Crerar's will leaves hia trustees free to distribute nearly Si,ooo 900 among various benevolent institutions in Chi oago.
 Mrs. Etsa Philiips while picking chest nuts in the Scftuate woods, came aoross an envelope containing the insurance pa- psrs of MrA Emily O. ChanbsrA who. it is alleged, was murdered by LAwrsnoe O Keegnn-
 During the production of the play "Uncle Josh Spruoeby" at MArsngo. Ills. Huse N. Morgan, one of the leading sct- ors in arranging tho sawmili scene, acoi- dentally lot his hand fall abSswesn the saw and the log. and It was literally torn to pieces.
 Friday. Oct. 1s.
 Comptroller Janios A. Roberts of New York is rapidly improving in health.
 The Gaulois says thnt the French expe- dition to Madagascar will number i6, GOO men.
 More than 8, 900 people attended the session of the Christian Endeavox oonvsn- ton at York, Pa.
 The annual session of tho New Jsfssy state council, Junior O. U. A. M!, opened In Camden, N. J.
 A large part of the extensive plant of the well known Tredegar iron works as Richmond was destroyed by nrs. ffJohn Murphy, director of the depart mont of public ssfety of AlieRhany City, was held in s2. GOO bail for court to an- aver charges of receiving bribeA l, Dr. Kremien of Baltimore, convicted of murdering John Forre by poison in order to secure the, victims money, was sen. fenced to 10 years in the penitentinry.
 At the Central Hudson yards in' West Albany John, Metz, foreman of . gang of branch tenders, felled John Knadlsr to the earth by hurling a coupling pin at him, fractaring his skull.
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 Samuel Booth, the sixteenth mayor Of Brooklyn, died at his home in that city.
 The latest intelligence received from Kabul Is that the ameer of Afghanistan has improved In health.
 An express package containing $s. 900 In gold was stolen somewhere between Cheyenne and Ogden on the Union Pc oific
 The Albany Central Federation of La bor has instituted school for the instruc- ton of voters In tho system of election balloting.
 Theodore Zimmerman, wounded by the militia during the riot Wednesday night at Washington Court House. O.. died. making total of five killed
 William Lake. farm hand employed by Joe Van Camp In Albion, N. Y.. shot Miss Hunt, . girl in the employ of the family, and then took his own life.
 Ermisch and wonigkel. the youthful bandits who slew Lindhoff in St. Paul last May after having robbed him and several others In barroom, wsrs hsng- cd in St. Paul
 Monday. Oct. sa.
 Lasksr, the chess player is seriously Ill In London.
 Thero is practically no change in the Fail River strike situation
 Tho barn buildings of the BurnhAm In- dustrfal farm near Canaan, N. Y., were burned.
 News received from Batavia states that the volcano of Galoengong Is in a state of eruption.
 In the great race for a purse of $l1 1000 at Mystic park Directum cut his foot and broke down.
 The Panama Canal company has bssn reorgnni zed, and this week 500 iabofers win begin work.
 Governor Mckinley addressed an audi once of about IS, 900 in the big aud itorium at New Orleans
 United States Marshal J. Adam Beds of Paineville, Minn., has sent to the at torney general his resignation of the mar shalship on account of the order forbid ding federal employees to do campaign work.
 Tas.d.y. Oct. sa.
 Almost as many women as men have registered in Denver.
 A powder mill exploded at Athens, and six workmen were blown to pieces. At Little Falls. N. r.. the mother of State Senator Edmund O'Connor died 6t the age of si. The engines of the new bsttlsship Maine developed g. S22 horsepower, earn Ing for her buildsrs bonus of $8o. 0oo.. Forty bodies have been recovered from the oolliery Ut Anina, Hungary, where the explosion of fire damp occurred on Saturday last. The jury In the case of Miss Mary E Bartlett against the estate of Dr. Henry J. Bigelow for breach of promise At East Cambridge. Mass, disagrsed. Judge Jenkins refused to permit the Deutsche bank of Berlin to take the s6, 900. 900 in receiver's certificates which the Brayton- Ives party wished to disposs of to 1t. A searching party In the steamer MI: | noussinsk has left Yeniseisk, arotio Rus Sis, in search of the steamer St. Jsrnsn. In which the explorer Captain Virgins left Ysniseisk . month ago wsda~sday, oct- aA w. s. Somers of Charleston, W. Va, . government inspector, dropped dead in Cleveland of heart disease. J. S Wilcox shot and seriously wound | cd John Brothers, registrar of slscttona for Salem towhship, N. c. All of the bAtters employed in the hat | shop of Cummings, Matthews & Co in Orange. N. J., arc on strike. The postoffice at Huntington, Msss., was broken into and rAnsacked, and over $500 In stamps and monsy was taken. The steamboat Sunshine, which has piled between Connecticut ports and New York. was burned to the waters edge in New Haven.
 Helen Grier an old woman convicted of poisoning her sixth husband has been sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary in Spokane, Wash. The orsw of the fishing schooner Amy Hanson of Boston reports that that vessel was sunk of Egg rock. nsar Mount Des- srt, and all of the crew rescued. J. B. March, mayor of Kinsey. Kan.