Connecticut western news., 1895-03-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, March Ix.

A company has been formed In San Francisco to work the sands along the beach for gold ..
 Miss Lizzie Martin of Kendallvillo. Ind, . bride of a month, committed suicide by taking morphine.
 Professor Huxley, the we'll known writ CT on natural science. etc, Is suffering se- riously from influenza
 The body of Victor Hugo was deposited In a sarcophagus, especially constructed for the purpose, in the Pantheon
 Forty-five distinct coal companies, op- erating about 70 big mines, have been brought into a single organization-ths General Hooking Coal company.
 Harry Browne. a notorious water front character of San Francisco, known as Horseshoe Browne, shot and killed his wife and then shot and killed himself.
 General Metzinger Is said to be arrang- ing a campaign in Madagascar, with 8. 900 men, to explore and clear 0 road to the marshy region for General Duchesne's main force
 Friday, March IS.
 Admiral Besnard. French minister of marine. has ordered Lebel rifles for ma rines in Madagascar.
 An attempt to steal the s226. 900 gold base of the famous Montana silver statue was made at Kansas City.
 In direct opposition to the Sugar trust. Louisiana planters have determined to erect a refinery in Now Orleans
 Mahlon P. Reissinger, farmer residing near Wiltshire, O., was robbed of S900 by four masked men, who forcibly entered his dwelling.
 Cincinnati's Law and Order league has preferred charges against certain detectives -l-.-- -t.-.x- h. l..-N- efforts to purge the city.
 At meeting in Waco Tex, the direct ors were instructed to proceed with the rebuilding of the Texas Cotton palace. which was burned last January.
 During gale, wh ile rounding Cape Matapan, an explosion of sulphurio acid occurred on the steamer Armenie and two passengers died from suffocation.
 Stephen Hinkley, Jr.. bookkeeper in the Canal National bank at Portland. Me, is missing, and a shortage that may reach e5, 900 has been discovered in his accounts. Saturday, March 1e.
 At New Staeensville, Mon., A. B. She'll ing shot and killed Charles Mccullough and then shot his own head of.
 Wreckage from the Chicora, which was lost, with 24 persons on board, several
 
 St. Joseph, Mich Miss Sarah Mclean Hardy. fellow in political economy at the University of Chicago, has been elected instructor in po- litical economy in Wellesley college. The executive committee of the State Agriculture association, in session at Syr. acuse. fixed the dates for the annual fair to be held there as Aug. 26 to 31 inclusive. Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby, private secretary to Queen Victoria and keeper of the privy purse, who was stricken with paralysis on Jan. 2, Is pronounced to be dying. George W. Northredge walked In a law yer's office in Chicago to claim e25 re- ward for information as to his where abouts and was informed that he is the heir to f50o. 900 In England. Monday, March IS. Miss Edna Thornburg. daughter of the Hon. George Thornburg of Little Rock. was asphyxiated by coal gas Vice President Stevenson's daughter Julie is engaged to Mir. Martin Hardin, son of Kentucky's attorney general President Cleveland came back to Wash ington after his II days of recreation on the water much improved in health. Allen Ashley. Detroit saloon keeper and his brother Frank were both shot dur ing a row at the saloon of John Holtz. The labor situation at New Orleans re- mains unchanged, the colored screwmen working under the protection of the state troops.
 The first week in the trial of Clarence and Sadie Robinson at Buffalo for the murder of Montgomery Gibbs closed with terrible chain of circumstantial evidence connecting the accused with the crime. Justice William J. Gaynor of the su- preme court, Brooklyn, created a sensa- tion by refusing absolutely to appear as a witness before the Friday assembly com mittee now investigating the recent troll ley strike in Brooklyn. Tuesday, March Is.
 Colonel NJ. V. B. Edgerly president of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance company, died in New York. Grand Duke George of Russia, the ear owitz. brothor of the emperor of Russia, is in Algeria for the benefit of his health. The president announced tho appoint mont of Joseph R. Herod of Indiana to be secretary of the legation of the United States to Japan
 Will Blake has been arrested at Perry, O. T.. for counterfeiting and has confessed
  ton gang of outlaws A large number of the Pullman strik- CTS of last summer, with their families and others, intend to settle this spring as a colony in the south E- -- James Blizzard of Port Norris, N. J., committed suicide by driving horse and buggy dowL to a wharf and into the wa ter, where he was drowned. Jack Kerry, a gambler of Sioux City. Ia has left for Ireland In response to a cablegram informing him that he had fall en heir to an estate in County Kerry and f60, 900.
 Wednesday, March 70. MT. Eckels, the comptroller of the cur renoy, has gone to North Carolina for a weeks shooting. George De Forest was shot dead in Oakley, Mich, by his brother Calvin and in turn shot Calvin.
 The Duke of Aosta, nephew of King Humbert of Italy. was formally betrotbed to Princess Helene of Orleans. The steamer Spokane, plying on Koo- tenai lake was burned. but another steam CT was in the vicinity and rescued the pas sengers-
 Ten miles southeast of Caddo L T., David Chris while beating his wife. was shot twice by her brother, 15 years old. and died of tho wounds Near North Carmel, Me, Frank Thomp- soh, farmer, while drunk, killed his brother Edward by beating out his brains with apiece of f1rewood. Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out, |" is line of Scripture in green goods circular, hundreds of copies of which are being sent out from New York every day.
 Christopher ". Larrabe. nephew of ex- Governor Larrabe of Iowa and cashier and head accountant for Boyd, Stiokney e Co yy.halaSnla coal daslaxs l.kix.aszka ia