Connecticut western news., 1895-07-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, July Il.

 Dudley P. Ely, a millionaire resident of that city, died suddenly of heart disease.
 The wife and child of Dr. T. J. Henry, leading physician of Apollo, Pa, were run over by freight train and instantly killed.
 United States Ambassador Bayard paid his first official visit to Lord Salisbury since the latter's resumption of the pre- miership.
 Dr. Chauncey NJ. Depew, in company with his son, Chauncey NJ. Depew, IT,, sailed for Europe on the American line steamer Paris.
 Vice Admiral Kasnakoff governor of Cronstadt, entertained tho captain and officers of the United States warship San Francisco at a banquet.
 Mir. and Mrs James Britt of Haledon, a village near Bloomfield, N. J., were held up by two men on wheels and robbed of property valued at S1, 200.
 Friday, July 1a.
 Britannia, the Prince of Wales yacht, beat Ailsa by three minutes.
 John A. Hutchinson, private secretary to Senator Smith of Now Jersey, died In Washington of apoplexy.
 In the Elkhorn coalneld tho strikers laid down their guns and have resolved to have peaceful settlement with tho oper- ators.
 An unknown man succeeded in pcne. trating the galleries of the Royal palace, Madrid, where he shot himself in the breast.
 In a collision which occurred between two immigrant trains at San Pablo, Ar genuine Republic, 15 persons were killed and 30 injured.
 The proceedings in tho suit of Zelln Nicolaus Ruhman against George Gould to recover that famous $40, 900 check are being held in private.
 Minnie Ingersoll, Is years old, of Chap el Hill, N. r., and Nicholas P. Strife, farmland were murdered by John Hooh, an ex-convict, because the girl declined his attentions.
 Saturday, July 13. The National Retail Jewellers associa. tion met in annual convention at St. Louis. The British general elections were com menced and 4S members were returned unopposed.
 Five cases of smallpox have developed in the family of David Rcece, a tinworker, at Etnaville, o. A boy named Tucker shot and killed a handcuffed negro convict at Raleigh and buried the body in the sand.
 Arguments were begun in tho second trial of Dr. Seaman, who is accused of manslaughter of Emily Hall. Christian H. Boetz, jeweler, i'll, de- spondent and out of work, hung himself in the cellar of his homo in Jersey City Postmaster General Wilson has issued an order forbidding postmasters to draw
  Seven hundred Chinese attacked Hain- chu, island of Formosa. Two hundred of them were killed and many were captured Bishop McQuaid's s twenty seventh anni- versary was celebrated at St. Patrick's ca- thedral, Rochester, with imposing cere- monies. Monday, July IS. Judge William H. Spofford, well known resident of Bristol, K. l., died aft | CT long illness. ..... Governor Hastings has Q clean sweep in | two out of four legislative districts in | Lackawanna county. A burglar murderously assaulted Isaac | Davis of Philadelphia and his sister in a cottage at Atlantic City. Dr. Seaman has been convicted of hay ing performed an abortion upon Emily | Hall by means unknown. The United States cruiser Columbia was seriously strained when she was | placed in drydock at Southampton. The comptroller of the currency has granted authority for the organization of the First National bank of Locke, N. Y. At Providence 20 molders in the employ 1 of the Franklin Foundry Machine com | pany are on strike for an increase of 10 | per cent in wages. At Pittston, Pa., James l.. McMillan, | an ex-member of the legislature and treas urer of the grand lodge of the Knights of ! Honor, died yesterday. Tuesday, July 1e. - | A soaking rain visited upper Michigan, checking the forest fires. The cruiser New York sailed from Gravesend, England, for New York.
 Eliza Kelly was killed at Buffalo by John Larouche, known as Buffalo Dutch. | Prompted by jealousy, Stephen Webb of Baltimore shot Emma Harris, aged 20, three times, inflicting mortal wounds | Lee Phillips, 19 years of age, was shot and fatally wounded by an old man named Button on Cole creek, near Bradford, Pa.
 Mary Taylor, granddaughter of General | John F. Taylor, aged years was gored and trampled to death at her home in Reedsville, Pa.
 Mrs Perlina Rose, widow of the late | Jesse Rose, and the richest woman in Tor rington, Conn.,, fell from the balcony of her house and was instantly killed. At Lewiston, N r., the steamer Cibola | of the Niagara Navigation company was entirely destroyed by fire, and the engineer was caught in the engine room and burned to death.
 Wednesday. July n. | Professor Stephen J. Young of Bowdoin college died suddenly at Brunswick, Me, of apoplexy.
 ] The Binghamton (N. " Dairy associa- tion. today advanced the price of milk from to cents per quart. The lord mayor of London, Sir Joseph Renals entertained Augustin Daly's com pany at lunch in the Mansion House. Dollie Belknap, aged If years, adopted daughter of Fleming Saryer and wife of | Uniontown, Ind, poisoned her adopted parents
 Prince Bismarck's health Is much bet ter, and as he is unwilling to travel he will probably not go to Gastein or Kissin- gen this year.
 Warrants have been issued for 25 proml- nent men of Cottonwood Mills, Kan, for the lynching of George Lynch at that place in May, 1894.
 The Rev. Dr. Arthur Brooks of New York city died on the North German Lloyd steamship Fulda, July 10, two days out from Southampton.
 Baron von Hammerstein, formerly edi- tor-in-chief of The Krcuz- -Zeitung at Der lin, has fled from Berlin, and official seals have been placed upon his dwelling. 
 York-An Ancient Prophecy.
 The suggestions that the city and state of New York shall drop the prefix "New" and be called simply "York' recalls an ancient saying which has long