Connecticut western news., 1895-01-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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sey died at Newark, N. ]. Count von Schouvaloff, late Russian minister at Berlin, has been appointed military governor of Warsaw.
 The New Haven postal authorities re- port that a mail pouch for Hartford con. taining 600 letters was stolen there. Hon. Oliver Shaw, senator elect from the Second Middlcsex district, died at his residence in Watortown, MaSs, of pneu- monia.
 At Council Bluffs burglars robbed N F. Conaut's lcwelry store of 90 watches and 100 solid gold rings while business was going on. Mrs. c. A Sprockels Is searching for a sunburst of diamonds valued at consider ably over e, 900 which she lost while at- tending swell reception in San Francisco
 Ex-Police Captain John T. Stephenson. the first of the New York police officials tried and convicted as mn outcome of the exposures brought about by the Lcxow committee, was sentenced to three years and nine months in Sing Sing and to pay & fine of q, 1000. Friday. Dec. 2s. John Moreland was found frozen at Gleim's Run, O., near his home. Francis II, the last king of Naples, died at Arco, in the Austrian Tyrol. Five boys were terribly burned in suburb of Richmond by an explosion of gunpowder.
 During the recent storm a disastrous prairie fire swept over largo area In the southern part of N county, O. T. Frank Mclaughlin, publisher of the Philadelphia Times, and Mrs. Martha A. Holmes were married in Philadelphia. | Six horses and two mules were killed in Philadelphia by coming in contact with the electric light wires which werc blown down.
 At Elwood, Ind, David Jones, the wealthy farmer who Is unable to sleep, has passed his ninety-third day and night without sleep.
 The old capitol building at Atlanta, formerly the seat of the state government, but now usod ns an office building, was visited by disastrous fire George E Eastwiek, manager of the sugar refinery at New Orleans, and Miss | Celeste Stauffer, the young lady who was engaged to Samuel J. Tildcn, were mar ried
 | Saturday, Dec. go.
 Phallas, the celebrated stallion, owned | by J. l. Case died at Racine Wis. Chnmrajendra Wadiar Bahadur,, the maharajah of Mysore. one of the most inn portant native princes of India, died at | Calcutta.
 The body of Mrs. William Waldorf As. tor was removed from Cliveden prcpara- tory to embarking it at Liverpool on board the Cunard steamship Aurania,
 The pope has completed the text of his encyclical in regard to the position of the church in the United States but is still engaged in revising the manuscript Ex-Lieutenant Charles K. Dodge, n flashing young infantry officer, who was stationed at Fort Vancouver and Town send. was accidentally drowned while yacht ! ing.
 William A. Lippert, alias W. A. Layar,l, who Is wanted by the authorities in Cape Colony for alleged forgeries committed there in 1889 and 1890 amounting to sS43, 675, was arraigned in New York and ad- mitted his identity and said he was ready ] voluntarily to return to Cape Colony. Monday, Dec. 3I. The santa Rosa treasury robber has i been captured at Vallejo, Gal. Mrs. Antonio Navarro, formerly Mary Anderson, is now convalescent. The application of Frank Bezek con- ! i Scranton, Pa, Tor q new trial has been refused.
 Throe negroes robbed and murdered K. ! Y. Daniels, prominent farmer, near Birmingham. Ala, and triple lynching Is imminent.
 1 Michael Schrank of Buffalo, aged IT, hanged himself In the attic of his foster mothers house out of love for young girl of his own age l City Attorney James Mytton of St Jo- seph, Mo, has made formal charges of bribery and protection of vice against the police force of that city.
 The will of James C. Fair, the noted bonanza millionaire and ex- United States senator from Nevada. disposcs of an estate the value of which Is estimated at s40,- GOO, 0O0, the greater portion going to the two daughters living In New York and other relatives residing in Iowa Tuesday, Jan. I. Adolph Sutro will rebuild the burned Cliff House. near San Francisco ! At Rome. Ga, three children of Mrs. Violet Kemp were burned to death.
 At Cedar Rapids. la, William Jaughlin and wife wero instantly killed by train.
 Alfred Dolgc's new summer residence in Dolgcville x. Y., was totally destroyed i by fire.
 Five horses are now under inoculation in Washington for the purpose of produc- ing bhIOd serum for the cure of diphtheria. i At New lIavrn Ella Crossland the B. year old child Of Joseph Crossland, fell upon an open grate and died from tho burns.
 | At Pittsbure, William McMullcn, a la- borer, cut his wifes head almost on with & hatchet and then cut his own throat i with n razor.
 Daniel Finley, convicted of tho murder of his wife in New York 3i years ago and sentenced to imprisonment for life was liberated, having boen rardoncd. | MT. I.orin A. Thurston. Hawaiian min ister to the United Statos.is a passenger on board the steamer Aurania, which sail. ed from Queenstown Tor New York.
 Wednesday, Jan. 2.
 The pope has appointed Bishop M Mar< ty of Sioux Falls to the bishoprio of St Cloud Minn.
 General Elraticri. commanding the Ital- ian forces in Africa, has arrived at Adua, capital or Tigrc. Abyssinla The station agent at Noawata, Ark, was held mp by lone highwsyman, sup posed to be Cherokee Bill. and the station robbed
 Robert Luckey. member of tho noto- rious Cook gang was landed In jail at Fort Smith. Ark, and is now held on the charge of murder. At Lancaster Ky, the Miller hotel was burned and Edward A. Pascoc, his baby and his mother In law, Mrs Masters, lost their lives in the flames 1 At Bay City, Mich. Daniel G. Tromley lumber inspector. crazed over politics. murdered his wife and child set fire to , the house and made his escape. !. NJ. Pcrcival of New York fell down the stairway of the billiard room in Mon- treal, fatally Injured himself by bursting blood vessels and died in few hsurA