Connecticut western news., 1895-06-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, June I3.

mer Padgett at Psttersonville, N. Y, is dead
 David Cohen, out of work and despond- ent, jumped from the Brooklyn bridgo and was picked up unhurt.
 Jerry Simpson has been forced to aban- don his featuring tour in a covered wagon across the country to Topeka on account of the rain.
 Mime. Amelot who murdered the Abbe de Broglie. near Paris. will not be tried for her crime, she having been officially declared insane.
 Gold Is said to have been found in pay ing quantities at the bottom ois the ocean near the western end of San Clemens is- land, of the coast of California.
 It Is reported that Miss Frances E. Will lard, president of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, is to be married in the autumn to an Englishman of wealth and position.
 The lower branch of the Connecticut legislature, by a vote of 12S to 22, voted not to concur with the senate in passing the pool bill allowing local option and ls days racing on Connecticut tracks
 Friday, June 14.
 George Andrews, the colored wife mur- derer. was hanged at Belvidere, \. J.
 William Bowne of Waterbury. Conn. shot and killed William Harvey. his broth er-in-law.
 The steamer Colon has arrived at San Francisco from Panama with two suryiy- ors of the Colima on board.
 Eighteen mont ths- old Bertha wurr of II Morton street. New York city, died from the effects of a mosquto bite.
 Near Ravenna, Mich, at & Methodist camp meeting, lightning struck one of the tents instantly Killing Mrs, Burleson.
 The president has informed the oom- mittee in charge of the Harlem canal opening that he cannot attend that cele- bration on June 17.
 Owing to the shooting of Fred ohl by negro, the Princeton college students haye withdrawn all their patronage from the negroes of Princeton.
 A. s. More. a former employees of h. man, Swann x Co, cotton brokers of New York city, is in custody for forging the name of that corporation and individual members of the firm to papers which he sold for s1oo, 900.
 Saturday, June 15.
 Three lunatics confined In the State h. sane asylum near Topeka made their es- cape
 By the breaking of the grip on Chioa- go cable car seven persons were injured, two of them seriously.
 A young lion kept in the house of Frank c. Callahan. at Bridgeport, Conn, as a pet, attacked and savagely clawed bur glar.
 Jacob Pincus the trainer of Mir. Rich ard Croker's horses, brought an action in the London courts for a divorce from his wife.
 A Trilby club has been formed in Jersey City, and any girl who wishes to join must send a photograph of her foot by way of application.
 President Theodore Roosevelt and Com missioner Avery D. Andrews of the New York police board made an early morning tour and found seven policemen asleep
 Eight prisoners, among them a man awaiting trial for murder, four for high way robbery and other desperate oharao- ters, made their escape from the county jail at New Brunswick, N. J.
 Monday, June IT.
 It is reported that Richard Genee, the German composer and poet Is dead.
 At Wauregan, Conn, the postoffice was broken into by burglars and robbed of $500.
  ened with destruction by the caving in of mines.
 Secretary Lamont with Mrs. Lamont will leave Washington this week for a trip to the Pacific coast
 At Fort Worth, Tex, Mont MoCullooh, in fit of jealousy, shot and killed his wife and then blew out his brains.
 Miss Mary Abigail Dodge better known nj Han xxfn ha fnE fp her home in Massachusetts within a few days. A boom committee is to be organized to bring the advantages of Pittsburg as a meeting place for the next Republican na- tional convention before the country at large
 General Coxey learned of the secret marriage of his ls-year old daughter, who posed in the tramp to Washington as the goddess of peace of the commonweal, to Carl Browne, who was Coxey's lieutenant
 Tuesday, June Is-
 Among the presidential postmasters ap- pointed was Henry Stowell for Seneca Falls, N. |.
 \. Y., is the worst known in the history of the county.
 Forty head of cattle displaying symp-  Adams county, Ncb.
 The Terminal railway of Buffalo, capi- tai $500, 900, to run from Blssdell to De pew, has been incorporated.
 Millers will assemble at Chicago on June 25 to form new association to take the place of the old Millers' National as- sociation.
 Henry Failing, president of the First Nati han of nd nr haG hsa indicted for refusing to give information to assessors.
 The west bound stage was held up near Ukiah, Colo, on Saturday by lone high wayman, and s1,2o0 secured from tho Wells Fargo strong box.
 John Raynor, a Lancaster (N. Y. hotel keeper, drove his pacer lively heat at the race course Sunday. He passed under the wire first and fell from the sulky dead.
 Wednesday, June 1s.
 Colonel Henry Mapleson was married to Mrs. Robb- Milenberger in Paris.
 A bogus newspaper ,nan has swindled business men of Natchez out of s145.
 Kaiser Wilhelm visited Munich incogni- to, much to the surprise of the regent.
 The resignations of the Austrian cabi- net were formally presented to the em- peror.
 The postoffice at Beaver Falls, Pa., was robbed, and the thieves got away with s10,0 900.
 Trouble is feared at Lehigh, la, be- tween striking white miners and colorcd men who took their places.
 Major General" Fitzgerald of con- monweal army fame has been sent to jail for intoxication at Lynn, Mass.
 Joseph l.. Bates, while overcome with grief at the death of his wife, attempted to commit suicide at Saratoga, by shoot ing.
 It is reported that Mir. Gladstone has announced his purpose never again to speak in the house of commons or from a public platform.
 A Tea Sorting Machine.
 Some interest has been created by the