Connecticut western news., 1895-09-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday. Sept. 12.

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 The British and foreign transatlantic steamship lines have agreed on an imme- diate advance of steerage rates.
 The Fall River (Mass.) Manufacturers association voted unanimously not to ad- vance the wages of the mill operatives.
 Sir Julian Pauncefote, British embas- sador to the United States. will sail for New York on the steamer Campania on Saturday next.
 Henry M. Stanley, African explorer, author and recently elected member of parliament, arrived at New York on the steamship Majestic.
 James Ashbury, who took the yachts Cambria and Livonia to America in 1s70-71 respectively to compete for the Americas cup, is dead.
 The steamer Lady Wolseley of Dublin, bound for London with 100 passengers on board, stranded on Goodwin sands. The passengers and crew were all rescued. The yacht Windward of the Jackson HarInsworth expedition, has arrived at the island of Vardoe in the Arctic ocean, having broken out of the ice belt between Franz Josef Land and Barents sea. Friday, Sept. 13. Fire started in Watson, Foster & Co.'s factory at Montreal and did $50, 900 dam ages. ...a Waterbury, Conn.,, was the scene of pa- rades and other forms of jollification of it's volunteer fremen. At Houghton, Mich., party of men went down shaft No. of the Osceola mine and found 25 dead miners. During a storm which passed over City Island, N. Y., Mime. Albert was struck and instantly killed by lightning
 Conway Springs, Kan, was visited by fire which burned the entire business portion, inflicting a loss of $50, 900.
 Two children of J. H. Lavender were burned to death by fire which broke out in.the ranch house at Spokane, Wash. Thunderstorms did much damage in northwestern New York state, 0 dozen persons being injured and two killed at Cape Vincent.
 At Chicago Charles Brooks furniture manufacturer of Goshen, Ind, found the body of his brother George in a picking vat at Rush Medical college. Saturday, Sept. 1A. Two more bodies were recovered from | tho Osceola mine at Calumet, Mich. The French transport steamer Comorin was burned at her dock at Marseilles. The Kearney National bank of Kearney, | Neb., capital s100, 900, closed It's doors to | business.
 Charles Theodore Russell Bates shot and killed himself at Wilmington, Del, | it Is supposed, with suicidal intent.
 t.Curtis Station, o. T., the east bound passenger train on the Santa Fe was held up by four men, but they got nothing l President Alfaro of Ecuador has ordered | an issue of new postage stamps to com | memorate the victory of the Liberal party. | J. L. Parker, deputy collector and in- | spector of customs at Lynn, Mass, and managing editor of the Lynn Item, has been removed from his political position for offensive partisanship. | A San Francisco paper prints a sensa- tional story stating that Florenoio Busta- mente, the San Salvadorean refugee who was surrendered to the authorities at La | Libertad by the captain of the City of | Sydney was saturated with coal oil and | roasted alive.
 Monday Sept. 16.
 The entire business portion of Lenox- dale, Mass, was destroyed by fire.
 Secretary Olney has returned to Wash ington from New England. where he has been spending the summer. i Sampland lillian, an Armenian, was
 
 | prietor of roadhouse in Burrellville, R. I.
 Horace N. Rates, prominent Phila- ! delphia merchant, died from the results of injuries received by falling from win dow of the Delaware Water Gap House.
 At Dayton, O., the confessed murderer | of Mrs. Elizabeth J. Burns, who was in jail awaiting the action of the grand jury, committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell.
 Professor 0. V. Riley, for many years entomologist of the department of agri- culture and we'll known among scientists in this country and Europe, while riding a bicycle was thrown and killed.
 Colonel John Warren, well known on both sides of the Atlantic because of his prominence in Irish politics and as a lead CT of the Fenian movement, died at the Massachusetts General hospital In Boston.
 Tuesday, Sept. II.
 The governors of the Newport Casino have reelected MT. Cornelius Vanderbilt president.
 At Lawrence, Mass, the fiftieth anni- yersary of the city's incorporation was fttingly celebrated.
 Lord Dunraven has written from New port, R. l., declining the banquet offered him by the St. Lawrence Yacht club. | Dcdh, WnO Wfo OOhooihhO1 oo death for the murder of infants intrusted to her care, has been executed in Invercar- gill, Auckland, New Zealand.
 Talk of a new issue of government bonds has been revived as a result of the re- cent rapid decline in the treasury gold re- serve, and rumors are current h Wall street that such an issue will be author ized next month.
 Charles N. Davis 45 years of age, con- victed of the killing of 6-year-old Anna May Shannon of Cohoes, and George Smith, convicted of the murder of a de- fenseless old man named Riohtmeyer near Albany, were sentenced in Albany to be electroouted.
 Wednesday, Sept. 1s.
 Citizens of the Cherokee strip are cele- brating the second anniversary of the opening. The uprising among the natives in Ma rocco Is spreading and assuming a much more serious aspect. , The session of the states general (the Netherlands parliament) was opened by the queen regent in person.
 The Norwegian bark Clodian, Captain , A. Johansen, has been totally wrecked of1 Umea, Sweden, and her crew has beer lost.
 G. M. singer, postmaster at Dunne, Ind, was found dead in the rear of his postofice having been murdered by rob bers.
 The rumor which was in circulation lr Berlin that a North German Lloyd steam ] ship had been sunk, with 150 persons or board, proved to be unfounded. Advices have been received from the Danish trading station of Angmagsalik, , | on the east coast of Greenland that 6 ship, supposed to be Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's Tram, was sighted at the end of July, stuck fast In an ice drift. 4 Ills Fee.
 B. F. Hamilton of Biddeford, Me.