Connecticut western news., 1895-04-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April IS.


 station by Central Hudson train.
 The large six story building of the Ma tional Saw company, occupying almost c square at Baymiller and Sixth streets, Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire.
 John c. Kelley of Brooklyn has beeu appointed collector of internal revenue for the First district of New York and Fitz- hugh Lee for the Sixth district of Virginia
 Rev. J. c. Reed, the Baptist minister who is on trial for attempting to rob the First National bank of East Portland Or, was found not guilty by tho jury on the ground that he Is insane.
 The attorney general filed in the United States supreme court a memorandum for the consideration of the justices. giving the government view on the petition for a rehearing of the income tax question filed by the opponents of the law and op- posing it.
 Friday, April l9.
 Harry H. Pierce of Holly, N. Y., has been appointed West Point cadet alter nate.
 The fifth international convention of the Young Women's Christian associa- tions opened in Pittsburg.
 At Ida Grove, la, A. Schleiter, rich business man, shot his wife and then him. self. He is dead, and she cannot live.
 The funeral services of the late James ". Scott, proprietor of the Chicago Even ing Post and Times Herald, were held in Chicago.
 A mob of 500 strikers-mon and women made an attempt to prevent number of brickmakers from working in Vienna, and riot followed.
 The big stone crusher of Lukens & Yerkes, located In Plymouth township, Pa, together with the adjoining build ings, was destroyed by fro.
 Governor Morton has issued a requisi- tion on the governor of New Jersey for the return to New York state of Oliver Curtis Perry, the train robber, captured in that state. Saturday, April 20. Patriots day was observed generally throughout the Bay stato. Harvey Phillips, member of the Will bur Opera company, died at Cleveland of appendicitis.
 J. O. Wilmcrding's bequest of s4o0, 900 to the California State university for a trades school for boys is now available. Friends of Thomas Mccarthy of Lewis ton, Me. buried an unknown body for his. He is alive and well at Lowell, Mass. K. s. Crocker, a wealthy cattleman of Evansville. Wy, has been indicted for the murder of his partner. Harry Booth, on Jan. 24.
 The annual meeting of tho Society oi the Sons of the American Revolution oi Massachusetts was held in Faneuil hall, Boston.
 Mrs. Charles H. Parkhurst was elected president of the McAIl mission at tho na- tional convention which closed at Pitts field Mass.
 Thomas l. Baford, an American civil engineer was killed near Zacatecas, Mex ico, by another American named Gordon, with whom he was making & prospecting trip.
 Monday, April as. " l.. Minchon, charged with assisting O'Brien, the bunko man, to escape, has been found guilty as charged At HaveIhill, Mass, the 5-year-old daughter of k. J. Hall was fatally burned while playing Indian with a group oi children.
 The pine land bill, which practically ties up the state timber for a number oi years, has been passed by the Minnesota legislature.
  struck a team containing Mir. and Mrs Henry Frank, aged 62 and 65 respective ly, and both were instantly kiiAl The Mattinicock Oyster company oi Long Island has asked Governor Morton to order out the naval militia to protect their beds. which are leased from the state Mir. Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, will sail for Eu rope with his wife this week. He has been granted six months absence witl pay.
 Rube Smith the leader of the celebrat ed Burrows gang, sent up from Mississip | pi to serve life sentence for attempted train robbery. died in the penitentlary hospital at Columbus, O. Tuesday, April 23.- The long threatened strike of the Pari. | omnibus men was begun. The wedding of Hon. George Nathanie | Curzon. Nj P, and Miss Mary Letter tht | American beauty and heiress, occurred ir | Washington.
 David Spiro, a lawyer, was sentenced tS three months in the penitentiary in th' | circuit court, Newark. N. J., for stealing | money from the clothes of court employees Secretary Lamont issued an order retir
  | McCook and reviewing his career from th' | date ot his appointment as a lieutenant ir | 1852.
 The grand jury in London found tru, bill against Oscar Wilde, who Is charged with serious misdemeanors, and his tria | was set down for Friday next at the OlC | Bailey.
 The condition of Mrs D. T. S. Parnell | who was murderously assaulted and robbed near her home at Bordentown, N. J., or | Thursday night, remains practically un | changed.
 Wednesday, April a4. A water geyser was struck near Sheri | dan, Ind, while drilling for oil. The Buffalo grade crossing bills hay, | passed the New York senate without de | bate.
 Mrs. William Taylor, the Virginia fai
 midget, three feet tall and weighing 4oC | pounds, Is dead. The Troy conference of the Methodis | Episcopal church concluded its sixty -thirc annual session at Saratoga Captain L. G. wilmarth, owner of tn, | steamer Wiltsie dropped dead in a store | in Lyons, N. Y. from heart disease. Mrs Mary P. Davis of Edwards, N. r., | died on a New York Central train at Ly | ons, N. Y, on her way from Michigan. .. Feliciano Mariavos and Mauriceo Rivera two of the most desperate outlaws on tht west coast of Mexico were iudically shot | to death.
 A warrant Is out for the arrest of Thorn as F. Borden, treasurer of the Metaoome
 and Anawan mills, Fall River. Mass. ii, | is charged with embedding s6,o13. Thomas B. Belch of Saugerties, N. Y., | got a verdict of s10. 900 against the New | York Central and Hudson River Railway | company in the Ulster circuit court fGI | the loss of his hand.