Connecticut western news., 1895-04-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, March 2S.

in a race of Nice.
 The business section of Oregon. Ills, was destroyed by fire.
 A bill has been introduced in the Min nesota legislature prohibiting sectarian in- struction or costumes in public schools
 Samuel Gibbs and his brother John, Green county (Tenu.) farmers committed suicide by jumping in the Nolachucky river.
 The five children of Phoenis Christian sen, ranging in age from to Is years, perished in the fire which consumed his residence at Minot, N. s.
 w. W. Darlington, an anarchist while being arrested at San Francisco for adver- Using for young and pretty girls for whom he pretended to have situations, blew out his brains.
 The assembly committee on waSs and means at Albany decided to report ad. versely on the bill appropriating S25, 900 for the construction of q stable attached to the executive mansion.
 Friday, March go.
 The Texas lower house has passed tho antitrust bill.
 Robert Betat (colored), who set fire to MT. Flurry's barn at Bluff Greek, Miss, has been lynched
 A seemingly inexhaustible flow of nat ural gas was struck at Fulton, N. Y., at a depth of l,645 feet.
 The British bark Cupica, now 1S9 days out from Liverpool, with Q cargo of tin for Astoria, Or, has been given up as lost
 Five members of the county board of Iron county, Mich, have been arrested, charged with collision and systematic rob bery of the county.
 St. Paul's Catholic church at Omaha the scene of the battle between rival church factions two weeks ago, was burn ed probably by an incendiary.
 Ex Representative Springer. the new judge of the Northern district of Indian Territory. arrived in Vinita. I. T., and was given an ovation by tho local bar.
 Captain Philo Norton McGiffin, who commanded the Chinese warship Chen Yuen and who was captured with his yes sel at Wei Hai-W is on his way home to Peoria, Ills.
 Saturday, March 30.
 The AilSa again defeated tlle Britannia
 John W. Carey. general counsel for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail- way company is dead.
 Moraski Daniel Boone g years of ago, committed suicide in New Orleans. He was descendant of the great Daniel Boone
 Mrs. William Reeves and her 14-year-old daughter Hattie were burned to death in fire which destroyed their home at Northport, x. Y.
 Peter Rader, aged 65 years, a we'll known resident of South Easton, Pa, was killed hy passenger train while he was walking on the tracks at Easton. Pa Lieutenant Alfredo Campellcni of the Italian navy has arrived in Baltimore where he will stay until June when hts marriage to Miss Nancy Hurst will take place.
 Nothing has been heard of the schooner Samuel V. Colby, which sailed from Fer tune Bay, N. F., Feb ?, with n cargo of frozen herring. bound for Gloucester, and she is now given up as lost
 Monday, April 1.
 Charles P. Cline of Chicago is held in Detroit on the charge of endeavoring to sell stock in bogus electric company.
 Ex-State Treasurer Taylor of South Da- kota has been located at Valparaiso, where he expects to be safo from extradition.
 The Arkansas house has passed a bin to regulate the price of telegraph messages within that state for every line over 75 miles in length.
 Owing to quarrel with his wife, Ho- ratio K. Elliott of Cleveland has been dis covered to be bigamist, with both wives in the same city.
 The charred body of Dad Hilderbrand of Crawford county, Mo. was found in the ruins of his home, and his wife's relatives are now accused of his murder.
 At Baltimore. Louis A. Tiemann, a cigar manufacturer, killed himself by taking stryohnine in beer, and Balthazar Buhl cut his throat on his wife's grave.
 Thero is great excitement near Delhi, O., over the pursuit of a negro named Will liam Neal, who murderously assaulted his employer, William Smith, and who will probably be lynnhed if caught.
 Tuesday, April g.
 Two moonshiners were killed in battle with a sheriff posse in Hampstead coun- ty, Ark.
 The long delayed British ship Mozeshy arrived in San Francisco, 241 days from Liverpool
 A deputation is in Ottawa to ask an ap- propriation of S25o. 900 for the Worlds fair in Montreal in 1896.
 Rain, which Wisconsin farmers have been praying for for weeks, was general Monday throughout the state.
 Major General Ruger has ordered es- corts to express offices in Oklahoma to guard funds for the payment of troops.
 The courthouse of Regina, the capital of the Canadian northwest territories was destroyed by fire with all its valuable ter ritorial records.
 The options held by syndicate on 50 Wisconsin paper mills expired at noon yes ta,. tba SI n l has fallen through.
 The committee to select a site in the south for the Pullman colonists, who have been organized into the Mutual Coloniza- tion society, left Chicago Monday.
 Wednesday, April 8.
 The Illinois supreme court in an opin- ion filed decided that the Democratic ap- portionment of 1893 was constitutional.
 Some one has anonymously sent s6, 900 for the Dr. Parkhurst testimonial fund, swelling the total amount to s29, 2os.25.
 William Steenstrand, the cotton king. who exploited the great corner in cotton in 1890 which resulted in his losing S5,- poo. 900. is dead.
 Captain sfowgate has been indicted again for alleged frauds on the govern ment during the time he was disbursing officer of the signal service
 At Watonga, O. T., Al Evans and Dr. Babb, bedfellows in a hotel. quarreled over the proper division of the bedcloth- ing, and Evans, drawing a revolver from under the pillow. shot and killed Babb.
 A warrant was issued in San Francisco for the arrest of E. $ Solomon, at one time governor of Wisconsin and later gov ernor of Utah, who is charged by Mrs. Lydia Virgil with felony and embezzle- ment
 The Guatemalan boundary question is settled, and President Diaz of Mexico has formally signed with the Guatemalan min istry the official document which prevent ed the threatened open rupture between the two countries.
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