Connecticut western news., 1895-02-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Feb. aI.

died In Liverpool in poverty.
 Governor Morton commuted to impris onment for life the sentence of George W Cram, who was convicted in New York city of the murder of his wife.
 William K Carlisle son Of tho secretary of the treasury left on the Rcd Star line steamship Wcstcrnland. which sailed for Antwerp with the hope of recupcrating his failing health.
 Five men brutally attacked the bride of John Pitrov ski in Hammond. Ind, while the wedding festivities were In progress. Pitrowski shot and killed John Kovajak and wounded Kymne Koykoski in the leg.
 Friday. Feb. 2a. North Texas is putting in the biggest crop of oats ever known in the history of the state.
 Dapiel F. Shea was brutally murdered in his store on Main street, Ellicott City, Md, by robbers.
 At Columbia, S C., tho students quar- ters of the Allen university for colored people were burned.
 MT. Howard Gould will sail for New York on the steamship New York from Southampton on Saturday. Congress hall at Tucson, A. T., was entered by masked men, who held up the faro table while the game was in progress
 The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern freight train was stopped at Vigo, O., by three masked men. and the trainmen were robbed of valuables. At Utica, N. Y, Amos A. Kimball was sentenced to 12 years and II months at ,, Auburn prison for gagging and robbing an old man named McAlahon. United States officers in Omaha arrested the leaders of what is believed to be one of ! the best organized and oldest gangs of counterfeiters that have troubled the gov ernment for years.
 Saturday. Feb. e3- The pope has entirely recovered from the chill which recently attacked him. The New York state council of the Jun for Order of American Mechanics opened 1 in Syracuse.
 A committee appointed to examine the books of John F. Bell, county trcasurer of Durango, Colo, has reported a short age of over SIP, 900.
 The Thomaston (Conn.) Savings bank was entered by burglars. The safe was | blown open, and 1t is believed that the burglars took all the cash. Captain Dreyfus of the French army, who was recently degraded and sentenced | to Imprisonment for life in fortress, has | been removed to the Isle de Re, in the bay of Gascony. At barn raising held by J. NJ. Lam- bert near Daleville, Ind, a heavy beam was loosened by the strong wind and | pitched down into the crowd. David Goots was crushed to death. Alonzo Funk. bouser was fatally and William Jasper slightly hurt Monday, Feb. 25. Cherokee Bill was convicted on two more charges of robbery at Fort Smith. | Ark.
 The race between the Britannia and the | Valkyrie at Cannes was won by the Bri. tannia. ......
 Captain Doughty and crew of the miss ing Philadelphia schooner John NJ. Moors | have been saved Stamboul. the trotting stallion of An. drew Hildebrand of Oconomowoc, Wis. was killed by the cars
 | Dr. +. Smith, one of the most promi. nent physicians of central New York, died at Mount Upton, N. Y. | The condition of James B. Gentry whc murdered Miss Madge Yorke in Philadel phia, shows slight signs of improvement
 The strike of the weavers at the Geneva mills in Providence ended by the manage ment conceding everything to the strikers
 At meeting of the French cabinet council NJ. Gadeau, minister of agricul ture, submitted decree prohibiting tn, importation into France of American cat tie on account of Texas fever and pleuro 1 pneumonia. | Tuesday. Feb. ga. | At Sharon, Pa., natural gas explosion | wrecked II double dwelling and injured five people.
 Anxiety is felt in regard to the Mexican man-ofwar Libertad, which sailed from Vera Cruz about Feb 10 for New Orleans
 The hank building and vault of ths | First National bank of Griswold, Ia.. wers wrecked by burglars, but the burglars got | nothing. George Weaver and his wife, an old cou | pie living alone on farm seven mile. west of Dayton, O., were burned to deatt in their dwelling.
 | Cordelia Eill. the colored child who shot and killed her father in defense of hel mother in Charleston. W. Va, was triet by jury and acquitted. | George W. Davies committed suicide or | the doorstep of the home of Clerk of Cour- Delong in Canton, s. D., because Delong', |
 Chief Justice Andrews has refused $ special term of the superior criminal court of New Haven for the trial of Drs. Lex and Whitten,, charged with the murder o Maggie Schloss. .-. .. | Wednesday, Feb. 27. | It is reported that there are 26 cases o smallpox at Hot Springs, Ark.
 The official treaty ceding the Cong g-I- n. chamber of deputies in Brussels. | Edward Kahley, farmer living neal Bennington, N. J., committed suicide b. hanging himself to a tree in his orchard | The L0a miners who were imprisoned ir the Whitw ani- -HaIghmoor colliery at Nor nianton by the collision of two cages wers rescued.
 M k. de Staal, the Russian embassadoi at London, was offered the post of Russian minister of foreign affairs in succession to the late NJ. de Giers.
 A. Phillips, a logger living at Chchalis, | Wy, shot and killed his wife and then blew out his own brains. The affair grew out of Phillips jealousy
 John Cation and Amos Goodwin en- gagged in a boxing match near owensboro, Ky. Goodwin got mad and shot Cation dead. He was not caught.
 Karl F. Denison of Leadville, Colo. while at luncheon poured a drink of wa ter into a glass which he supposed wal clean. It cob tained several drops of cyanide of potassium, and he died within an hour.
 Lehigh is corruption of the Indian word lechau, "a fork.