Connecticut western news., 1895-01-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Jan. !.

ters will expire during this month.
 Thefts of valuable miniatures from the Vatican library have been detected.
 Holmes county, Miss is excited over tho discovery of what certainly Is "A large bed of Ignite, or brown coal
 Frank NJ. Hall, g years of age. of Green point. N. Y., married man. was run over by an electric car and fatally hurt
 At the new penitentiary in Nashville by an explosion of dynamite, one colnred workman and two other negro men were killed
 Jonas NJ Walker, who made millions in tho mines, which he subsequently, lost in eastern speculations Is dying in San Francisco.
 At South Bend, Ind, Edward Powers, champion colored lightweight pugilist of Michigan, was sentenced to three years in prison for larceny. Fire broke out in a laundry on Edg- ware road, London, and the flames spread SO rapidly that when the building was consumed the charred remains Of its eight inmates were found among the ruins Friday, Jan. 4. At Concord Hon. Charles A. Busiel of Laconia was inaugurated governor of New Hampshire.
 | DhllOht ono bA hh9 aoshAihS | citizens of Ieadville. Colo. was terribly and probably fatally injured by runaway | team.
 More than slO, 900 worth of diamonds and other iewelry was taken from the store of Hiokok & Nixon at El PaSo, Tex, by burglars
 In Sacramento 50 special officers and 200 private citizens have been appointed to patrol the city and drive out the crimi- | nal element.
 Six persons were injured In railroad wreck which occurred on tho Philadelphia and Reading road short distanoo below | Germantown, Pa | One hundred and scventy-flve thousand | dollars have been received by President Harper of the Chicago university from | John D. Rockefeller as New Years | gift
 It was learned that Mir Gladstone had a serious accident last week Ho stumbled over an open drawer, cut his forehead, broke his spectacles and was unable to sce for several hours. Saturday, Jan. 6. A visit of English oricketers and Rugby | football players to the United States next fall Is projected. Mir. Richard Croker of New York has entered four horses including Montauk, for the Ashley Plate and other races at Newmarket and Ascot, England.
 The owners of the Clyde steamship In- | istrahull, which is now nine days overdue Il at Limerick. Ireland, believe that she, with her crew of 20 men, has been lost. Adolpho Fisher a cabin passenger shot and killed himself while seated in his staueroom on the steamer Scandia while the vessel was in quarantine at New York. Oliver D. Chesbro, aged -. a captain on the Providence and Stonington steam boat line. fell down an elevator shaft in Willard's hardware store at Westerly, R. | l., and broke his neck
 The report of Commissioner Frederick | Cunningham in the ease of tho collision between w. k. Vandorbilt's yacht Alva and the H. NJ Dimock assesses the dam ages at sl96, 3s7 25 against tho Mctropoli- tan Steamship company. Monday, Jan. 2.
 The strike at the Edgar-Thomson steel | works at Braddock Pa, is broken.
 The village of Orlu, in the Pyreneos has been party overwhelmed by an ava | lanche
 At Pittston. Pa. Odd Fellows hall | with the entire block on which 1t stood was destroyed by fire. | The little town of Nebo, I. T., was wis | ited by thrcc men, who robbed the stores and left the town in ashos. | Heavy snowstorms have prevailed throughout Austria, and railroad commu- nication is interrupted in many places.
 At Xenia, O.. O powder mill exploded, demolishing the building and killing Adolph kreble, Arthur Harris and Cliff ford Horney .....#. . 
 Daniel II. Craig who died of heart dis ease while sitting in a chair at AsbuIy Park, N. J.. was the originator of the fast news service in the United States.
 Captain Dreyfus the French captain convicted of selling military secrets to foreigners. was disgraccd before b,000 sol diers In Paris and sentenced to life im- prisonment. 1 Tuesday, Jan. 8.
 died at Chatham. Ont | Maud Williams. aged 10 years was at- tackled by two dogs on Troy hill. Allegha- ny, and may die
 Queen Louise of Denmark Is seriously i'll, and there is very little hope entertain ed Of her recovery.
 The Yorktown reservation tn South Da- kota probably will bc opened for settle ment early in the spring.
 c. Nj Acree, a wealthy planter of Be- nolt Miss. accidentally shot and killed himself in Memphis while cleaning a pis- | tol
 James Cook, a well known politician, and Charles Hudnall Of the city engineers office shot and killed each othor In New Orleans
 Frank Usher. son of Luke Usher of Potsdaln, N. r., committed suicide by jumping into the ocean from the steam ship City of Birmingham of Cape Hat teras. 1 General the Right Hon. Sir Henry Fred- erick Ponsonby, G. c. R., private secreta- ry to Queen Victoria. was stricken with paralysis at Osborne cottage and is now In 8 critical condition | Wednesday, Jan. Q.
 Mir and Mrs Gladstone left London for Canpes
 Severe snowstorms have impcded traffic in different parts or England
 By mistake Andrew Berry. 45 years old or Is Hamilton street. New York city. took dose of paris green and died At Sloss Station, Ala, two negroes | were instantly killed and third seriously injured by an explosion in the ore mines
 Robert Bruce will within the next fort ! night start for southern Turkey In search ! of Frank Lenz, who. in June, 1S93 set out to make trip around the world on { his wheel
 I The New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad is preparing to equip it's Nsntasket Beach and Warren and Bristol branches with electricity to replace the | present steam power. i At Eldorado Springs. Mo. John Com stock WAS taken from his boarding place by a mob Of unmasked citizens, carried to l a secluded spot in the suburbs, severely horsewhipped and given a few hours to 1 leave town.
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