Connecticut western news., 1895-08-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Aur. 8.

 hired man, Charles Burgess.
 Gottlieb Glitman and Henry wineburg were crushed to death by the cavinR in of a gravel bank at Philadelphia.
 Special trains carried large crowds to town to attend the Worlds Christian con ference which convened at Northfield, Mass.
 Tom Eek has signed an agreement to race John $. Johnson, the bicyclist, mile against Robert J. at the Buffalo meet on the 14th.
 w. H. Crossman & Brother, coffee i'm porters of New York, announce that they will ship S1, 900, 900 in gold by the steam ship Augusta Victoria
 Joe Hamilton and Clarence Chapman of Lonoke county, Ark, cut each other to death with pocketknives because they could not agree as to which owned a bull yearling.
 George McMillen, 22 years of age, went insane on Grand Trunk railway train at Battle Creek, Mich, and was confined in jail, where he hacked himself with a knife and died.
 Friday, Aug. @.
 The hearing in the sugar bounty case now pending before Comptroller of the Treasury Bowler was resumed.
 The New York and Hudson River Camp Meeting association opened for the season on the camp grounds at Sing Sing.
 Miss Elizabeth Blaney Bird, aged 42, prominent in Buffalo society, but subject to fits of melancholy, killed herself with a revolver.
 The comptroller of the currency has ap- pointed Frank M. Wallace of Pittsburg a national bank examiner to succeed A. K. Henlion, resigned.
 Rev. Dr. James Hepburn Hargis, a prominent Methodist clergyman and tho presiding elder of the west district of the Philadelphia conference, is dead.
 Nearly all the big English elm trees in the southern part of the White House grounds have been killed by a small worm resembling the ordinary caterpillar.
 The jury in the case of Colonel John T. Van Cleef, ex-secretary of the New Jersey state board of assessors, who was indicted for obtaining money from the state for maps under false pretenses came in with a verdict of not guilty.
 Saturday, Aug. 10.
 About $500, GOO worth of lumber was burned in ogdensburg, N. Y.
 Frank A. Luques, New York artist, was drowned at Westbrook, Mo, while bathing.
 The German schooner Johannc was sunk at Hamburg after having been in collision with lighter
 It is reported that company has been formed in England to run line of steam CTS between Cardiff and New York.
 Tho Britannia won the race for the Mo teor cup offered by Kaiser Wilhelm, beat ing tho Ailsa by about four minutes.
 About TOO employees of the Boston Manufacturing company at Waltham, Mass, are on strike and threaten to make trouble.
 Thirty three thousand troops will leave Spain for Csba this month, and 20, 900 next month if they be necessary, to aid in quelling tke rebellion there.
 Near Portland, Me, 90 Italians em- ployed by contractors on the Portland and Cape Elizabeth Electric road struck, and a free fight ensued, in which two men were badly injured. Monday, Aug. Ie. Robert A. Barnes, treasurer of Sumter county, Ala, committed suicide in Liv- ingston owing to bad health.
 The spars for the Valkyrie arrived in New York on the steamer Furnessia They are of oak and were carefully guard ed.
 North Carolina State Farmers alliance will meet in Cary on Tuesday. Eight thousand people are expected to hear Con- gressman Sibley speak on Thursday.
 Senator Sanders of Montana is along the line of the Northern Pacific organiz- ing the force friendly to the Ives faction and preparing to aid in resisting the reor- ganiZation scheme. The bodies of 13 men have been recover ed from the collapsed building at West Third street and West Broadway, New York. A number of bodies are supposed to be still in the debris.
 There was a desperate battle between a gang of tramps and posse of citizens in the suburbs of Marion, Ind. Otto Mo Freely and Charles Webster received wounds that will prove fatal. Tuesday, Aug. 13. Two sharp earthquake shocks were ex- perienced in the City of Mexico.
 Ex-President Harrison has been "men- tioned' in connection with the supreme court vacancy.
 Another body was found in the collaps- ed building at West Broadway and West Third street, New York, making Il in all.
 The remains of Justice Jackson were laid to rest in a private family cemetery | at Belle Mead stock farm near Nashville. Four people on board the sloop Chris tine, which left Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, on Sunday, are missing, and the yacht has not been found. Henry D. Purroy was elected chairman of the Tammany committee on reorgani- zation in New York. Norman $. Mussey, lawyer of Now | York city, attempted suicide by jumping | from the structure of the Sixth avenue | elevated road.
 | The Mount Vernon (N. Y.) Society For | the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will | use camera in getting evidence against | persons driving overloaded carts in the hot weather.
 Wednesday, Aug. 14. In trolley car accident tt Hartford, l Mrs. E M. Webb sustained broken leg, and Mrs. Hattie King was severely hurt. The decision of Justice O'Brien in the | Whisky trust case in New York was sig nal victory for the reorganization commit | tee.
 Michael K. Dwyer has arrived home | from England. He enjoyed his visit, | though it was not as profitable as it might | have been.
 At meeting of the Spanish cabinet ministers it was decided to pay the Mora claim in lump sum in September with | out interest.
 Two thousand employees of tho River side tube works at Benwood, W. Va, have been notified of an increase of 10 per cent in their wages.
 Minister Denby is consulting with the British and Chinese authorities relative to the full and complete investigation of the riots at Kucheng. Friends of Supreme Court Judge Dixon in New Brunswick, N. J., received word that he is critically i'll at his summer resi- dence at Bay Head, N. Y. women's Editions.