Connecticut western news., 1895-04-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April A

The Sagamore. summer hotel nearly completed at Nantaskot Beach. was de- stroyed by fro.
 Mrs Hubert W. Todd of New Haven committed suicide by drowning herself In Quinnipiao river.
 Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft, Harvard, 'ss. will be assistant professor of chemistry at Cornell next year.
 Miss Sterling's Children's home at Mil foot farm, Aylesford. N. S, was burned, but the inmates escaped uninjured.
 It has been discovered that F. w. Griffin, assistant cashier Of the Northwestern Ma tiona! bank of Chicago, is a defaulter to the extent of s50,0o0.
 The friends of John Mcbride. the min FITS leader and president of the Federation af Labor, are seriously concerned regard ing his health.
 Mont DesSins mountain desperado, was shot and mortally wounded at his home on the middle fork of Licking river, Kentucky, by Deputy Sheriff N. F. How ard while trying to avoid arrest
 Friday, April 5.
 Dr. Foster of Toronto has accepted the chair of philosophy in Chicago university.
 Burglars brOke into and robbed the postoflice at Monsey. Rockland county, N. Y.
 Manitou. tho only county in Michigan which wont Democratic last Monday. has been wiped out by the legislature.
 Two trainloads of supplies have been sent from central Illinois for the destitute people of Galway county. lrcland.
 The Ohio miners. in convention at Co., lumbus, arc expected to adopt scale which may stop the Pitrshurg strike
 Mr. O'Grady of Monroe introduced In the assembly at Albany by unanimous consent the Lexow New York police bills
 A cyclone at Jacksonville, Ga wrecked the negro Baptist church in which a school was in progress The teacher and 42 children were buried in the debris, but all were, taken out alive.
 The San Francisco chamber of com merce adopted rosolutionsand autographed Secretary of the Navy Herbert n protest against the sending of the coast defense vessel Monterey to Peru or to any other foreign port.
 Saturday, April 6.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck a passenger train on the Alton road near Joliet.
 During tho last six weeks the price of beef in Kansas City has increased from 90 to 35 per cent.
 Richard Gates (colored) was hanged at Lagrange, Ga, for the murder of Lee Siege another negro.
 Tho strikers at the Bedding silk mills in Northampton, Mass. now number ,bout I40. The mills are still running
 Combustion in Hummer &5 Finch's roll Ing mills at Augusta, Wis, totally destroy ed the property, causing loss of s35, 900.
 An attempt was made at Ninersville, O.. to INV up with dynamite the family boat ol John Forbes, miner who had been imported to take the place of strik- Ing minors
 Governor Morton signed the hill lcgis. lating out of office tho president and trus- tees of the village of Saratoga and chang Ing the manner of electing the president of that village.
 Monday. April 8.
 General William Malone has made an assignment of all his property in Peters burg, Vn.
 Professor Bchring. the diphtheria se- rumist. is suffering from incipient con- sumption.
 A dispatch from Stockholm says there Is good reason to fear that an open rup- lure, with consequent hostilities, with Nor
 
 way is imminent
 Marshal k. Price, arrested in Harmony, Caroline county, Md, for the murder of Sallie Dean, the 14-year-old schoolgirl, has has made a confession.
 Chief of Police Michael Brennan of Chi rago las resigned, and the cause for his sudden action is supposed to result from quarrel with the mayor.
 Guilford, containing about 800 acres, the country seat of the late Arunah $. Abeil, the founder of the Baltimore Suu. has heen sold to Henry Rice of Boston for t1, 600. O00.
 Charles Hawthorne of Cleveland, who sued the Baltimore and Ohio railway for tl00. 900 for the loss of both legs and the crushing of an arm in collision. has been awarded SEQ, 900.
 Tuesday, April Q.
 Charlie Chase. aged 72, known through. put Now England as lottery king. died In New Haven.
 William Henderson, one of the founders of tho big shipbuilding firm of Hender- son Brothers of Glasgow, is dead.
 John Stephens, farmer residing in Marion township, Noble county, O., mur- dered his son by striking him on the head with club.
 The expert thieves who footed the Springfield Qlls) postoffice are known, the post office inspectors having discovered their identity.
 The Standard oil company is making arrangements to remove its northwestern distributing point from Chicago to the head of the lakes.
 Before a crowded house the speaker of the house of commons, the Right Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, NJ. P, arose and announced his resignation.
 The appeal of Mme. Joniaux, the poi soner of several members of her family, who was sentenced to death in Berlin on Feb. 3 last, has been rejected
 Wednesday, April 10. It is now stated that the Carson (Neb) mint shortage amounts to $50, GOO.
 W. Jennings Domorest, the we'll known Prohibitionist, died at his home in New York city.
 The court of appeals at Albany has de- rided that notaries public are public off, cers and cannot ride on railroad passes.
 Because of a debt fight ensued at San Jacinto, Cal, Monday night, during which three men were shot, two fatally.
 Dr. J. Howard Taylor, medical inspect pr Cf the board of health in Philadelphia. repOrts seven new caSee of Snnllpoy since