Connecticut western news., 1895-05-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ThurHdar. May 2.

 lost in the assembly at Albany.
 Mir. William Saunders, member of par lament for the Walworth division of New ington, is dead. ....
 The Rev. John Hagen White was conse- crated bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Indiana.
 The directors of the Pennsylvania Rail- road company declared semiannual divi- ilend of ? 11 per cent.
 The condition of the Duke of Orleans, who broke his leg on Friday last while out hunting, is serious.
 MT. John R. Rogers, the theatrical manager. has filed petition for divorce from his wife, Minnie Palmer.
 W. T. Loper. manager of the United Press in New York city. committed sui eide at Washington hotel by inhaling gas
 Governor Morton has granted a respite of one week to Dr. Buchanan, the con. demned wife murderer confined in Sing Sing, to permit of the dismissal or deter imitation of the appeal filed by his counsel with the United States supreme court.
 Friday, May 3.
 New Orleans reports the largest April cotton movement on record-324, 900 bales, against S4S, OOU laSb year.
 John G. Wooley of Minnesota Is being boomed by eastern Prohibitionists as their presidential candidate for 1896.
 Ex President Greenhut of the Whisky trust has taken legal proceedings to set aside his removal from the directorate.
 L. W. Medriasse. bookkeeper of the San Antonio (Tex.) National bank, has disap- peared after eonfessing shortage of s3,0O0.
 Maud Lyons, a 14-year-old circus per former, received partial paralysis while doing difficult act in Chicago and may not recover.
 One hundred of the leading Baptist churches in the United States have been asked by the board of foreign missions to contribute s2. 900 each to wipe out the def icit.
 The magnificent new Odd Fellows tenn pie in Philadelphia, which has been in process of erection for several years, will be formally dedicated two weeks from next Tuesday.
 Saturday, May {.
 Extensive forest fires are raging near Bradford, Pa.
 The steamer N E. Fairbank. loaded with corn, burned at Morgan's Point. Ont
 The latest estimate of the number in- jured by Wednesdays Kansas oylone Is s8.
 The general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church south will meet at Bal timore next year.
 In an explosion at the Cambria iron works Johnstown, Pa, several men were seriously injured.
 Marshal K. Price, convicted of the nur- der of Miss Dean. was sentenced at Den- ton, Md, to be hanged
 Lee Gum You, who murdered Lee Hong Quong in Philadelphia on Nov. 26 last, was sentenced to be hanged. . A cable lift on the drainage canal at Chicago broke, killing Elmer Tongen, laborer, and injuring three others.
 Five of band of Guatemnlan outlaws who have been committing murders and robberies about San Juan Beautista, Mex loo, have been captured.
 Monday, May 6.
 General Campos has cabled Spain to send 20, 900 additional troops to Cuba and also hold 50, 900 in readiness.
 Lewis Clark has been arrested at Syra- ouse charged with the murder of Patrick Quinlan at Homer on Dec. 30 last.
 Three members of John Miilor's fam fly at Miller's Landing, N. r., on Canan- daigua lake have died of black diphtheria-
 John G. Watkins and Mrs. Julia Hill. an eloping couple from Utica, N. r.. were jailed at Cleveland on the charge of adul- tery.
 Fifteen killed and two score more or less injured is the revised list of the vio- tims of the cyclone which swept north western Iowa
 The resignation of the Servian cabinet is imminent, the skuptschina, or chamber of deputies having voted a pension of 48O, 900 francs to ex-King Milan
 The New York Advertiser declares that Congressman Bourke Cochran will re- move to Ireland and endeavor to win . seat in the house of commons in 1896
 Claus Blixt. who was waiting trial at Minneapolis for the murder of Catherine Ging pleaded guilty before Judge Pond, changing his plea, and was then sentenced to imprisonment for life. Tuesday, May !. Seven prisoners escaped from the St Louis workhouse.
 The French killed 300 Hovas in Fri days battle on the Betaiboka river. The pope has directed laudatory letter to the episcopate of Canada for their zeal for Roman Catholic schools. Jabez Spencer Balfour ex-M P, was formally charged with embezzlement in the Bow Street police court London. Irving g. Chase. overseer of the Briggs Manufacturing company at Voluntown, Conn.,, committed suicide by shooting. Emma Rosenstrauss, wife of a New York merchant. who lives at Rock Hill, Sullivan county, shot herself fatally. Brockton (Mass.) manufacturers have | decided almost unanimously to increase | the prices of shoes from 15 to 20 cents a | pair.
 At Purcell, L T., George Ritchie is un- | der arrest charged with having murdered | Mrs Walls Lee Freemason' s housekeeper, and of settling fire to the house to hide his | crime.
 Wednesday, May 8. Sir Frederick Leighton, president of the | English Royal academy, Is dying In Al | giers.
 The queen arrived in London In order to attend the drawing room which Is to be held at Buckingham palace Robert Stockton Green, ex-governor of | New Jersey, died at his home in Elizabeth of valvular disease of the heart. Oscar Wilde was released on bail after | furnishing personal bond for SIP, 500 | and two sureties in s6, 250 each.
 The foreign members of the Armenian | commission have left Mush on visit to the villages of the Sassoun district. | Chief of Police Blodget has been in- structed by the police board to enforce the antigambling laws at Saratoga, this sea- | son.
 | Five thousand troops have started from Canton for the island of Formosa In order to suppress the anticipated opposition of the Black Flags to the occupation of that island by the Japanese. | As result of overlndulgenco In onions Herman Wilson, aged s years is dead. and Elmer Wilson and Paul Mozier, two other ! children, are lying at the point of death at | fhair hnmaa in Iaffnrannuilln Ind