Connecticut western news., 1895-05-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, April 26,

Thursday, April 26.
 Collector George H. Hall, Jr., of Bu- chanan county. Mo, Is short in his ac- counts SIS. 100.
 The New England Cotton Manufactur- ers' association opened its annual conven- ton at Providence.
 The Priory Farm For Homeless Chil- dren at Chestnut Ridge. Duchess county, N. r., was destroyed by fire, but no lives were lost.
 The Massillon Coal Operators associa- tion has established the price of coal at s3 per ton, l5 cents less than before the out ting began.
 The notorious Bill Cook Is on his way to New York from Fort Smith, Ark. to serve a term of 45 years at the Albany penitentiary. "...s.
 The trial of Catherina ". Nolan for the alleged poisoning of her brother. John Nolan, at Waterford, was continued at Ballston, N. Y.
 The First National bank of Plainfield, N. J., was robbed of e22, 750 by sneak thieves, and the police have no olew as to the identity of the robbers.
 Friday, April %.
 Rivalry between Rochester bakers has reduced the price of bread from to 2x cents a loaf. The rumor of an uprising among the Indians on the Winnebago reservation in Nebraska is denied.
 A new American syndicate will begin work next week on the first 250 miles of the Hudson Bay railroad.
 r,auu flor, If Chica hrauara was formed, which will put an end to the beer war and advance prices.
 It Is alleged that extensive customs frauds have been discovered In the impor- tation of sugar at San Francisco.
 The S-year-old daughter of Lyman Bill lings of Little Falls, N. r.. swallowed a penny squeaker and strangled to death. The 9. 900 employees of the Dobson tex threatened to strike for increased wages. were locked out
 Saloon Keeper August Lehrsaok of West Hammond. Ind, gave S1, 0O7.70, less the prico of two beers to a stranger who ask ed him to cash bogus check for that amount
 Saturday, April 2I.
 Fire destroyed the greater part of Mime waukan, N. D. John Craig a miner. was ambushed and Killed at Coal Greek by strikers.
 The seventy-sixth anniversary of Odd Fellowship began at East St Louis.
 An Italian woman in New York city out her faithless lover's throat with ra- zor.
 Seven hundred quarts of nitroglycerin exploded near Bluffton, Ind, and one man was killed
 Seven men were injured by the collapse of a building in process of demolition In New York oity.
 Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor were brought up for trial in London at the Old Bailey and pleaded not guilty.
 Patrick Hurley of Mount Morris com mitted suicide at St Mary's hospital, Rochester, by cutting his throat
 The Niagara Falls Power company of fers the New York Central to furnish cleo trio power for the Central's.line in return for the use of.tho railroad company $ prop erty for the purpose of transmitting cleo trio power to Buffalo.
 Monday, April 20.
 Horace E Daniel and his wife Mary, boarders at 4S Hancock street, Boston, were found dead in bed, both having died from asphyxiation.
 Oliver Curtis Perry. who escaped from the Matteawan (N. Y.) State Hospital For Insane Criminals over two weeks ago, was returned to that institution.
 At Dexter Park, N. r., on a wager that he could kill 90 out of 100 picked pigeons at 30 yards rise 50 yards boundary. Cap tain Brewer killed 100 birds straight.
 Medinger, the famous bicycle rider, was shot and killed with a revolver ir Paris by his wife, who afterward commit ted suicide Jealousy was the cause oi the tragedy.
 At Asheville. N. C., the grand jury re kins, agent of the Standard oil company, holding that the company Is trust, con trary to the laws of the state.
 Mrs. Rosa Zella Ruhmann, bette, known as Zella Nicolaus, whose entangle ments with the Gould family gave hel widespread notoriety, has brought suit ir the Hudson county court at Jersey City against George J. Gould for $50, 900 dam ages.
 Tuesday, April 30.
 The mikado of Japan is suffering from a chill.
 Chicago will have its greatest labor demonstration today.
 The G. A. R. hall at Elyria, O., was wrecked by gas explosion.
 There Is no fear of big miners strike in the Massillon (O.) district.
 Herr Gustav Freytag, the we'll knowr German author, Is i'll with pneumonia.
 Miners wages in the Schuylkill 'regior will be 10 per cent below the s2. 50 basis
 The sale of the Atlanta and Florida railway has been postponed until June 8.
 The Indian troubles at Turtle Noun tain, N. D., it is said, have been stirred up by Canadian half breeds
 Fire in the building occupied by Ruby & Adams wholesale confeotioners o Philadelphia, did damage to the extent o SEQ, 900.
 Two of the rolling mills of E. l. Du pont. Denemous 6 Co, at Wilmington, Del, were blown up by the explosion o 500 pounds of powder.
 Wednesday, May l.
 The trial of Oscar Wilde was continued in London.
 Robert G. Carlton of St Louis was flnet s100 for "mashiue."
 The strike of the garment workers al Sb. Louis IS at an end.
 The Minneapolis arrived at Fort Mon roe, where she will be reftted.
 Wooding & Co, the oldest dry goods firm in Danyille. Va, assigned.
 The Pennsylvania house voted dowr the bill creating Quay county.
 Scarcity of beef is causing an advance in the price of footgear in Chicago. A scheme for building an old maids home has been started in Bethlehem, Ky.
 An Indiana court decided that the Ger man seceders from the Knights of Pythia. cannot use that body's ritual. Owing to San F'rancisco's $350, 900 def felt for the year, city employees have beer asked to wait a month for their wages The name of the late Governor Leon A b bett of New Jersey was mentioned un pleasantly in connection with the pardon of Eva Hamilton during the session of tho Voorhees statehouse Investigating com mittee in Trauton