Connecticut western news., 1895-09-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thurs.iay, Sept. |.

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 All grades of refined sugar have been advanced one-sixteenth cent per pound.
 Chief of Police Mertz of Spokane, Wash, has been removed from office by the city council
 At Knoxville, Albert s. Mcdowell, a young lumberman, was shot and mortally wounded by John Sneed.
 At Huntington, Carroll county, Tenn, 13 houses were demolished by cyclone, and one man was seriously injured
 Charles Allen, one of the Springfield Qlls.) postoffice robbers, who broke out of the Ludlow Street jail in New York on July last, was caught at Springfield, Mo. The editor of the Berlin Socialist organ Vorwaerts has been arrested, and all of the copies of last Sundays edition of that paper have been seized in consequence of the publication of an editorial on the Sc dan day celebrations.
 According to tho statement of N. P. Cook, secretary of the London Baseball association, the English tour of the Bos- ton Amateur Baseball club has come to a disastrous end, and several of the team are stranded in London.
 Friday. Sept. c.
 General A. " Kautz is dead. He was on the retired list.
 Great damage has been done in the vi- cinity of Lisbon by a hurricane and floods. An immense landslide occurred near the town of Bray, 12 miles southeast of Dublin.
 The committee on time and place for the next New York Republican State league convention has selected Syracuse, leaving the time to the executive commit tee.
 At Anderson, Ind, by the dumping of the refuse from a strawboard factory into the river millions of fish were killed, pol luting the water supply of the city so that it had to be shut off.
 Mir. B. F. Raymond, who is supposed to have been an American and who register ed from Paris, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver at the Grand hotel, Brighton, England.
 In consequence of the activity of the nihilists it has been found necessary to guard the czar's every step as completely as the movements of his father, Alexan- der III, were guarded by the police at the most perilous period of his reign.
 Saturday Sept. :.
 While Colonel Ingersoll was standing in the crowd at Peoria, Ills, his pocket was picked of S250.
 A wounded by the premature discharge of his rife while shooting on Sept. 9, is dead. The police of Vienna have closed eight betting shops and forbidden the proprie- tors to open similar places anywhere in Austria.
 Four young Japanese belonging to the Japanese Christian mission of San Fran cisco went to a Chinese restaurant, and were fatally poisoned.
 The man who jumped overheard and was drowned from the steamer State of Ohio, en route from Cleveland to Buffalo, has been identified as Leon Gorse.
 The bomb found upon the man arrestoa in the bank of Messrs. Rothsehild, in the Rue Lafltte, Paris, was opened by ex- perts. who pronounced it harmless.
 Near Sullivan, Ind, James Ward mur- dered Aaron Hunter, his father-in-law, and John Hunter, his brother in-law, with an ax and committed suicide by shooting when he was surrounded by posse of miners and farmers, who were determined to lynch him.
 Monday, Sept. 9.
 Near Bath, N. Y., an Erie train killed a man and horse at a crossing.
 granddaughter of ex-Prcsident liar rison was saved from drowning at Old Forgo N. Y., by Benny Mckee.
 Professor Wiggins predicts very heavy storms on both the Atlantic and Pacific between the 17th and 21st inst.
 Miss Mary Bennett, IS years old, of Eighty street and Shore road, Brooklyn, saved another girl from drown ing.
 At Utica, N. r., the body of an un- known woman, apparently about 90 years .f .,x Sl.< E,f. canal.
 Zip Wyatt, alias Dick Weaver, the cap- tured leader of the desperate outlaw band that succeeded the famous Dalton gang in Oklahoma territory, died in the Garfield county (Kan.) jail.
 J. D. Farden, the cashier of the Adams Express company, and J. R. Barnett, city ticket agent of the Vandalia at Terre Haute, Ind, have disappeared with package of money containing S16, 900.
 Tuesday, Sept. 10.
 Bridge Jumper Steve Brodie has bought country place at Harrison, N. Y., for $11, 900.
 Near Harpersville N. r., four men were seriously injured in the wreck of work train.
 At Greenville, Mich, an attempt was made to blow up the First Congregational church with dynamite.
 It is reported that Hanover, the famous race horse, has been purchased by William K. Vanderbilt for $50, 900.
 The pope has approved the nomination of the Rev. Dr. Kennedy to be rector of the American college at Rome.
 The New Jersey supreme court handed down an opinion declaring unconstitu- tional the county elective judiciary bill.
 Frank Colin, alias E. D. Lendon, was arrested at St. Louis charged with mur- dering his wife in Houston four months ago
 Clara MoArthur, who made the leap for faime and fortune from the Brooklyn bridge, was arraigned in the Tombs po- lice court and was fined s5.
 Wednesday, Sept. II.
 The forty seventh annual session of the great council of the United States of the Improved Order of Red Men opened at Providence.
 At Marine City, Mich., four boilers in the Marine City Slave company's salt block exploded with terrific force, injur- ing two men.
 The Norwegian steamer Xania has been sunk by collision near Flushing with the Spanish steamer Manila, and six of her crew were lost.
 It was reported that Mrs Frances Hode- son Burnett, the authoress, and her hus- band, Dr. Swan NJ. Burnett, we'll known scientist, had separated.
 In the Durant trial Tuesday at San Francisco the session was consumed with testimony of witnesses who discovered the clothing and other belongings of the dead girl in Emanuel church.
 Joseph Quay, young man of good fam fly, was sentenced to four years In the penitentiary for having stolen several thousand dollars worth of leather from his fathers premises at Quebec.
 Honesty Rewarded In This Life.
 "The case presented in last nights pa-