Connecticut western news., 1895-05-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, May 1s.

The Rothsohilds' kerosene factory at Be ku has been destroyed by fire.
 The United States cruiser Marblehead has arrived at Anglers from Naples
 The president has appointed Joseph K. Haynes postmaster at Newark. N. J.
 The annual session of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows of Connections opened at Winsted
 The total retrenchments In the Italian naval department for the current year will be 5. 900, 900 lire
 Private Geelin. @ marine on the cruiser Raleigh, fell into the sea while boarding the vessel and was drowned.
 The Pall Mall Gazette says that appli- cation Is to be made to try Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor separately.
 Francois Coppee has won the e20o prize offered by the French academy for the best drama written In memory of Emile Au- gier.
 The dowager Duchess of Marlborough was presented at the queens drawing room upon the occasion of her reosnt mar riage to Lord William Beresford.
 Friday, May IT.
 T. J. Tremaine of Buffalo, better known as Toronto Red, jumped from the Brook lyn bridge and escaped unhurt.
 Mir O'Donovan Rossa of New York Is on board the White Star line steamship Germanic, bound for New York
 Count Kalnoky. the Austrian imperial minister of foreign affairs, has resigned, and the emperor has accepted his resigna- tion.
 A fire that caused a loss of between $500. 900 and $S50, 900 occurred at Coney Island, and about 40 wooden buildings were destroyed.
 At Cleveland, George Floyd. . detective employed by the Valley Railroad oom- pany, was shot and probably mortally wounded by his wife
 Prince Alexander von Hohenlohe- Schil- iingsfurst, youngest son of the chancellor of the German empire was married to Princess Emmanuele von Solms- Braun fels
 Assemblyman Eugene F. vacheron of the Third district of Queens county who was indicted Monday on the charge of ao- cepting @ bribe and who fed to escape ar rest, returned to Albany at the solioita- ton of his friends.
 Saturday, May IS.
 Cold weather, accompanied by snow, is reported from various parts 0 England and from the continent.
 The Spanish steamer Gravina was lost of Capones during a typhoon. and only two of those on board were saved In the first race of the Thames yacht races MT. A. R. Walkers Ailsa was beaten by the Prince of Wales Britannia
 It Is stated at the navy department that the Meade case stands where 1t did with out any change since the action of Satur- day.
 Lizzie Davis, poor woman. apparently half orazed by poverty, made a desperate attempt to jump of the Brooklyn bridge but was prevented.
 Dr. Richard Dubois Traver, one of the oldest and best known physicians in Troy, N. Y., took 8 large dose of ohlorel by mis- take and died shortly after. .. Postmaster General Wilson has revoked the fraud order issued by Mir. Wanamaker when postmaster general against ex Mayor Daniel +. Beatty, the plano and organ manufacturer of Washington, N. J. Monday, May 20.
 Dispatches from all parts of Maryland make no note of damage to fruit crops by the cold weather of last week.
 Three negroes were lynched In dense swamp on the Suwanee riNr, near Ella vile. Fla, by white men for assaulting 8 white girl.
 A panic followed the falling of a oarv- ing from the ceiling in the Boston Music hall and the bursting of an electric globe simultaneously.
 A trolley car plunged through an over head bridge in Plymouth township. Pa. fatally injuring two persons and seriously injuring four others.
 A collision of Catholic societies with the Liberal associations took place at Ant werp and the police were obliged to charge the mob with swords.
 George Dixon. the champion feather weight pugilist of the world, was arrested in New York, charged with being drunk and disorderly and fined s5. It is reported that Mrs. Mary E Lease and Miss Mary Morrilly, both of Wichita, will shortly form law partnership and open offices in Topeka and Kansas City. Kan. Tuesday, May a1. The annual convention of railway teleg- raphers met at St. Louis. The big meeting of Confederate voter ans at Houston was begun.
 General Sohoheld reviewed the troops at Camp SohoHeld, Tennessee A riot occurred between union and non- union lumber showers on the lumber docks at Cleveland
 The striking weavers at Providence caused trc ~ble at the mill gates and were charged by ; squad of policemen The presit ent has signed an order di- reoting that Admiral Meade be retired and also containing stinging reprimand from tho president The governments s16. 900, 900 suit against the estate of the late Leland Stan- ford will be tried in the United States court at San Francisco early in June.
 Mrs Cleveland completed the christen- ing of tsQ, new American line steamship | St. Louis by selecting from the interna- tional code of signals the four flags which are to indicate St Louis of New York. i" Wednesday. May aa. French troops in Madagascar are suffer | ing from fever.
 The treaty between Chile and Bolivar has been ratified
 Frost has cut down corn, barley and early fax in South Dakota. Bismarck was presented with the free dom of o2 Polish towns on Saturday. The funaxal of Mrs Borkes. sister of President Diaz, took place at Mexico city. An organization of skilled employees of the steel plants of Pittsburg has been formed. Sheriff Kennedy took Searoy. the Aquja Creek train robber. to the penitentiary at | Richmond
 The property of the Atlantic Traction company was sold to Baltimore syndi- cate for s15o, 000. .. The Norwegian ship Field. coal laden, from Grimsby for San Diego. Cal, now 218 days out. has been given up for lost A convention of tobacco workers repre- senting Missouri, Virginia, Kentucky, New York and New Jersey is in session at | St. Louis
 | Tons of Papers. A statistician has learned that the an- r,,,al acrer-ooro t., ..I -