Connecticut western news., 1895-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
 Friday, May 10.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
 Friday, May 10.
 Secretary Grosham's s improvement con- tinues steadily. |,
 At Toronto the trial of Dallas T. and Harry Hyams for tho murder of William Wells was commenced.
 Russia France and Germany, it is an- nounced, are about to increase their naval forces in the China seas.
 Advices from the Pescadore islands show that 1,300 persons died there from cholera during one month.
 Harriet M Burrell of 6 Ringgold street, Boston, committed suicide by jumping out of a third story window at her home.
 John Lawrence Toole, the well known Eng glish actor, is suffering from paralysis and will permanently retire from the stage Charles Hasso German, 67 years old. who was out of work and Respondent. hanged himself in the cellar of his house in Williamsburg, N. Y. Rear Admiral Meade has been detached from command of the north Atlantic squadron at his own request and has ask
 ed to be placed upon the retired list next month.
 Saturday, May Il. TWO C0llQreu were III Newark. N. J., by the trolley cars, and
 another was seriously wounded. Nathan Burnham, aged 6S, committed suicide in Hartford by throwing himself in front of a freight locomotive. Nearly two thirds of the tribe of Mon- tagniao Indians at Fort Chino, Labrador, 160 in number. have died from starvation. Ground will be broken in New York city next week for the erection of a mann
 moth ten story hotel, 100 feet square, for women only. "'' The senate at Albany has passed the bill of the finance committee providing the annual appropriation for the care and
 maintenance of the insane. At Liberty, Mo-, Oscar Hummel, 15 years of age. was almost instantly killed on the public school grounds by baseball | hitting him over the heart The directors of the Ma lonal Sporting | club of London will decide on Tuesday next whether the club will put up purse | for a fight between James J. Corbett and | Peter Jackson. Monday, May 13. Otto Kenhitz German opera singer, became violently insane in New York. In the Black Hills, in, South Dakota, | four inches of snow fell Saturday night The United States customs officials have unearthed gang of smuggers whose head | quarters are in Montreal. Princeton defeated Harvard In the open- | ing game of the intercollegiate baseball | series by tho score of to 3. Lord Rosebery embarked on board the
 admiralty yacht Enchantress at Ports | mouth for a cruise in the channel for the | benefit of his health. Governor Morton has vetoed the bill | giving county boards of supervisors the
 absolute power to order the reconstruction | of bridges in the county. After being out for over 22 hours the | jury impaneled to try Police Inspector Mo
 Laughlin of New York city announced
 that they had failed to agree upon yer | dict.
 1 Ex-Judge John w. Westcott, promi-
 nent member of the Camden County Bar association, was murderously assaulted in
 his office in Camden, N. J.. by ex-Coun- | oilman Alexander J. Millette, who alleges
 that the ex-judge insulted his daughter by | ordering her out of his office. Tuesday, May 14.
 There are S25 cases of typhoid feyer at Stamford, Conn.
 The Standard oil company offered s1 50 | for crude oil Tuesday. | Fish Lave mysteriously disal peared from | the waters of Lako Michigan. | The Citizens Gas company of Terre
 Haute, Ind, has made an assignment | Arthur ". Dove Is trying to re-establish
 a colony of Shakers on the Pacific coast. | Mrs. Thaddeus Brown and her son, aged 5, were fatally burned in farmhouse fire | near Bryan, O.
 I
 threw the bomb at Haymarket nine years
 ago. is said to be in California. | J. Edward Addicks has been elected
 president of the Bay State, Dorchester.
 Roxbury, South Boston and Boston Cas- | light companies.
 | Bishop Gulston Roberts is en route to
 Rome to induce the pope to send more
 missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands to
 care for the lepers. | Wednesday, May I5. The Ancient Order of Foresters of Penn
 sylvania met in annual convention at Read | ing, Pa.
 | In Alvin, Tex, an organized band wait | cd on all negroes and commanded them to
 leave town or be prepared to meet death. boiler explosion took place on the new
 steamer Unique in Lake St. Clair, causing
 the death of two men and possibly third. | The efforts on the part of the enemies of | Superintendent Broadway of the Elmira | (N. Y. reformatory to legislate him out of | office have failed.
 The trial by court martial of Medical h. | spector Edward Kershner on the charge of
 perjury and violation of naval rules was
 resumed at the Brooklyn navy yard. | Mgr. Satolli. after expressing rogret at
 the attack of Father Phelan of St.. Louis
 on the Christian Endeavor societies, sug-
 gests that the petition that the priest be
 unfrocked be referred to the archbishop of | St. Louis
 The special senate committee at Albany
 which has been Investigating the bribery
 charges against Senators Coggeshall Rob
 ertson and Raines in connection with the passage of the New York city firemen's
 salary bill explicitly exonera tss the sena-
 tors mentioned in its report