Connecticut western news., 1895-12-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rhursday, Dec 5.

000r have been Killed In the IoreeU or New York state this season.
 George RosN Sr., aged 90 farmer liv- ing near Corning, N. l.. was sturck and instantly killed by a railroad train
 John B. Ginty of the firm of J. B Gin ty & Son. dry goods dealers of Syracuse, died suddenly at his home in that city. aged 6S years.
 Messrs- Richard Croker and Pierre LOT illard of New York have entered horses to run for the Champagne stakes at Don- caster, England, In ls9d Harry Martin, alias St Clair. alias Lincoln, who is regarded by the police as the boldest highway robber and burglar in the country, has been arrested In Chi oago
 The president has commutsd to two years imprisonment the five years sen tsnee imposed upon Abram Pardon in Now Jersey for embedding national bank funda
 Friday, Dec. 6.
 A. H. Andrews & Co, the we'll known furniture manufacturers of Chicago, have failed, with liabilities placed at ss50, 0oo
 The Chaffey House, the leading hotel of Allegan, Mich. was almost totally de- stroyed by fire, with loss of nearly sl0o. . 0Oo
 Herr Ahiwardt, the leader of the Anti Semitic party ip the German reiohsras has arrived in this country, with the view of starting crusade against the Jews here
 Information is received in London that the British steamship Madura, from Hamburg to Port Royal, s. C., foundered in midocean on Nov. 2S all the crew be- ing saved except one
 Peter Maher. the Irish champion heavy weight and Robert Fftzsimmons, cham pion middleweight of the world. were matched to fight to a nnish near Fl Paso. Tex, between Feb. II and 15.
 The Massachusetts Ship Canal compa- ny an organization formed for the pur- pose of constructing Q canal across Cape Cod. has forfeited its charter, having fail- ed to deposit the s15a 900 required by the commonwealth
 Saturday. Dso !.
 Six thousand additional Spanish troops army.
 Hon. Seth J. Thomas, the Nestor of the bar of Suffolk county, Mass. died sud denly in Boston aged sS years.
 The town of Mariestad, Sweden, has  and three-fourths of tho inhabitants are homeless.
 Frederioksbure, Va, Is greatly excited over the disappearance of Mir. W. s. Hon ey, one of the prominent merchants oi that place.
 Ira Frazer of Horioon, Warren county. N. r.. charged with sending an obscene letter through the mails, was held to ap- l~. k. ~x<1 fxrr-
 Rev. William J. Stevenson, who wa stricken with paralysis in the pulpit oi Christ M K church on Sunday, Dec l. died at his homo in Philadelphia
 William Byrd, son of Rev. & V. Byrd was shot and fatally wounded by Charles Kelton at a social session of the Christian Endeavor society in the church at Denver
 Mood.y. Doc c Fire destroyed part of the soap manu factory of James S. Kirk & Go. in Chica 90 The loss is estimated as tl30, 900. Two masked men attempted to rob thu railroad station at Bucyrus. Kan. W. A Gilman. the agent offered resistance ana was fatally shot-
 J. S Helmer of Lockport, N, r., con victed of deoeiving Bank Examiner Clark was sentenced to three years at hard labol in Auburn prison
 Carl Ringe a prominent St Louis busi ness man, shot and mortally wounded himself In the head while standing il front of his residence. William Fl. B Smith, an inventor. diet In New York hospital as the result of [ quantity of poison he had taken severn hours before his death. Lady Reed, whose maiden name wa Miss Rebeoca Potteiger and who hgureS in an action for damages for alienatinl tho affections of Brewer George F. Laue from his wife. died at Reading. Pa. aRet 70 years. She spent many years abroad where she married Sir John Reed, sino deceased. Tussday. Dss. 10. Rufus ". Peokham's nomination fo supreme court judge was confirmed The almshouse at Duxbury. Masa, va burned All the inmates were removes without injury.
 The postofioe at Clinton, Oneida ooun ty. N Y.. was broken into by burglar and $500 stolen
 Five hund ed thousand francs in gol arrived in New York on the French steam ship La Gascogne. At Indianapolis, Judge Baker confirm
 
 awaka Electric road. which ends . lon litigation.
 Senator Don Cameron of Pennsyrvani | announced formally that be would not b . candidate under any circumstances fo | reelection.
 The chapel building of Cham berlain ir | stitute, at Randolph. one of the histori aoads mics of western New York, was de stroyed by iira
 The great brood marc Daisy B. th from running a paling into her side . Pilot Grove Mo
 | One hundred and seventeen men em | pIoyed in the constr rrction of the Lexinp | ton avenue power house in New Tor struck in sympathy with the strikin housesmiths.
 | Wednesday. Dec II. Samuel G. Lewis, ex- comptroller of th Pennsylvania railroad, died in Philadel | phia from heart failure. Rose Dolly. who Is wanted at Portland Me, for the alleged murder of her infan child, was arrested in Dorchester, Mass.
 Thomas P. Proctor, one of the mos prominent members of the bar of Suffol county. Mase. died suddenly at bis hom | ae sokunlon idiuhs okca oo ycoka | William O'Connell Bradley was swor in as governor of Kentucky. and the firs Republican administration in the histor of that commonwealth was ushered in.
 News Is received from Kankskes (Ills- Insane asylum that Billy Andrewa an ol time circus clown, is dead. Death was du to paresiS He was about b5 years old.
 Louis Charles Antoine Guilbert Pierr Fulton, marquis de Chambrun, who is wed Miss Margaret Nichols on Thursday secured the marriage license in Cincir natl yesterday.
 The Westinghouse Airbrake compan has filed a suit in Baltimore against th Boyden Airbraks company, asking for a injunction to restrain the latter from fui ther alleged infringements of fluid pre- sure automatic brake mechanism.
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