Connecticut western news., 1894-06-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The taking of testimony in the trial of the Elmira refornatory affair began at Elmira yesterday.
 Charles Steubenzy, a retired saloon keeper, drowned himself yesterday in the earxl at Trenton.
 heading, Mass, celebrated her two hun drcd fiiticth anniversary yesterday, and Governor Greo nhaige was the chief cele- bran:.
 White Caps attacked an inotfensive ne gro in Ncwroad, La, killed him and wounded several others who were in his house.
 Chicago will open charity pawnshops similar to those of New York, where in- terest at 1 per cent per month will be charged.
 Captain Sweetland of the New England commonwealtrs was released from jail in New York and rcjoiEed his men at Will inington, Del.
 Minnie Ingraham Dratt and her brother, James, Dratt abducted her own child from the home of her divorced husband at Vol colt, N. Y.
 Friday. June 1.
 Patrick J. Cunningham, l9, was fatal. iy injured while playing baseball at North Providence.
 In the last 15 days 615 inches of rain have fallen at the state experiment. station Ut Geneva, N. Y.
 Andrew J. Smith, a we'll known lawyer of Trenton, was found dead in bed ut an institution for the euro of alcoholism. A 80 days educational trip Is to be made by schoolboys of Rochester on u steamship chartered for tour of the great lakes.
 Morris Goldberg, who died at Oakland, Cal. left an estate of $500, 900, of which there are three New York beneficiaries.
 Representative Jerry Simpson left Wash ington for Berkeley Springs, Va, accom- panied by Representative Pence of Cobra do.
 c. $. George, farmer, and Edward Davis, his hired man, were arrested at Fitchburg Mass, for uttering counterfeit half dollars.
 Henry Bateman, a barber of Watertown, N. Y, while intoxicated fell from his room window in tho third floor, breaking his neck and dying instantly.
 Saturday, June 2.
 Uruguay's cabinet is said to be on the point of dissolution.
 Isaac II. Taggart has been installed as sheriff of Erie county, N. Y. ...-
 Rev. Dr T. Dc Witt Talmage left San Francisco fer Honolulu and Australia
 Engineer Morgan was injured in a col lision on the Erie road near Miamtsburg C..
 Private Secretary Thurber will spend the summer at Buzzard's Bay with his family.
 James D. Ford, prominent attorney of Toledo, died of heart disease in a Cincin- nati hotel.
 Della Moody of the Salvation Army shot herself and died on her husbands grave in San Francisco.
 The Iron Mountain road is being sLed for ejecting Miss Cora Moore of LAtile Rock from one of Its trains.
 Consideration of the civil marriage bill in the Hungarian dlet has been postponed until after the cabinet crisis.
 President Carnot has decorated James Stokes of New York for his efforts in be- half of the I. NJ. c. A. of France.
 Monday, JuIe l.
 The New Jersey riders won the tristate relay race between Now York and Phila- delphia
 A commercial treaty between Argentina ard Italy on the fayo ei nation basis has been signed. E
 In contest at throwing a laSel all at Annapolis, C,dst lzsTd Of South Carolina won, throwing 347 feet
 By agreement of counsel the case of Prendergast, tile assassin of Mayor Harri- son, will not be tried until fall.
 Ex-Speaker of the State House of Repro. sentativcs Hon. F.. II. Wilson has made a person al assignment at Providence.
 Tho demonstration by the Paris social ists in commemoration of the bloody week of the commune was abandoned.
 The engagement Is announced of S. T. Pullen. banker of Poltlaud Ne tl Mrs. Elizabeth Cayozza, the well known authoress.
 The Cambria Iron company's mechan- ical department as Johnstown, Pa, has suspended one-half its employees because of scarcity of coke.
 The synod of the Reformed Presbyterian church at Philadelphia has adopted reso- lutions against the admission of Utah to statehood on moral grounds.
 Tuesday, June 5.
 Ex-Governor Charles Collins Ven Zandt of Rhode Island died in BrcoSline. Mass.
 There was an uproar in the French chamber of deputies in the debate on the cabinet policy.
 The revolutionlsts in Saly a Tor have tri. umphed completely, md President Ezeta has fei the country.
 Admiral Walker has been instructed to watch ths situation at Hawaii and not to permit inter erence.
 Bro lies block, four story structure en Chur, h street, Burlington, Vt, was to- tally destroyed by fire.
 Captain Aldolph Freitsch of Milwaukee arrived at Buffalo with the IS ton schoon- CT in which he will cross the Atlantic.
 Steel SS Walker of St. Joseph, Mo, the largest wholesale grocery house on the Missouri river, Las g. ne in. O the hands of a trustee.
 Nj araguans are in full charge of Blue fields. Ever ything Is reported to be quiet, and there is no probability of any imme- d ate change.
 Wednesday, June 6.
 Cholera, while not epidemic along the Oder, is increasing in Prussian Silesia-
 The steamship Texas of 5000 tons bur den, with general cargo and deckload of cattle, was wrecked of Prepassey.
 Salt Lake has agreed to furnish the Sacramento Coxeyites with five days sup plies on their promise to move on.
 A battle in which three men were wound cd was fought on the north bound Frisco train between Arthur City and Grant, I. T.
 Gideon Granger, who created a sensa- tion by his testiomny before tho Lexow committee at New York and then disap- peared, reappeared before the committee and testified.
 J. R. Todd. life prisoner in the Ore gon pcnitentiary, who claims to be dis. tant relative of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, has written to the president asking to be pardoned or executed.
 It has been decided by the United States courts that the separate coach law, pro- viding separate coaches on railroad trains for blacks and whites, Is unconstitutional, thereby knocking out the Kentucky stat uts.
 'Tisn't true that the perfume of few CTS is bad for folks lungs. At least, in the town of La Grasse, France, where vast quantities of perfumery are made, consumption is almost unknown.