Connecticut western news., 1895-10-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Oct. TO-

by the explosion Of Kitchen range m h tenement house in New York city.
 Miss s. F. Cody, a 15year-old Brooklyn girl, whose fortune of about S20, 900 Is contested by relatives, has disappeared.
 John Montague aged 6l years, was found dead in bed at Washington hotel, having been asphyxiated by escaping gas
 Rev. Father Charles Flaherty, convict ed of having improper relations with a girl under l6 years of age in Geneseo N. r., was sentenced to seven years in Au- burn prison.
 At Stamford Conn, an eel got into the wator supply pipe of the electric light plant, and the street lights and many resi- dence and store circuits were cut out for two hours while the pipe was being clear cd of the obstruction.
 Howard D. Herr, cashier of tho depart. ment of public streets; John H. Danahy, deputy superintendent of streets, and Jo. seph Burke, formerly an inspector of streets, have been arrested in Buffalo for embedding city funds.
 Friday. Oct. II.
 The Missouri penitentiary has been partly burned at Jefferson City.
 Ice nearly an inch thick formed in the interior of Rookland county, N. Y.
 
 ufaoturing company's car scat works In Easton, Pa, was gutted by fire,
 A spinning factory at Boobolt, West phalia, collapsed and buried 40 working men in the ruins, ten being killed out right.
 The Congregational Home Missionary society Is in unusual straits financially, and it Is in debt to tho banks sl79, 900, it's treasury being empty
 Mrs. Mildred Ewer, the mother of La Regaloncita- La Gloriosa and La Prooiosa, the three child dancers, died in Brazil, leaving her children penniless.
 A stay of proceedings has been granted in the case of Father Flaherty, and the prisoner was liberated under sl0, 900 ball pending an appeal for a new trial.
 The British steamer Natier, bound from Cronstadt to Rotterdam, has been in collision with the British steamer Li- yonia. The latter vessel sank, and 14 of her crew were drowned.
 Saturday, Oct. 1a.
 It is reported that the queen of Korea has been killed.
 Edward Morris of Now York, 70 years old, committed suicide by shooting him self
 The Higginbotham mill was burned, and four women employed therein wero killed in Glasgow.
 General J. s. Clarkson of Iowa, who is supposed to represent Allison's presiden- tial boom, is in New York.
 James T. Brooks, ex-chief of tho United States secret service department, died of heart disease in Pittsburg, aged 76 years.
 Two Cases of leprosy In Iowa have boon reported to the governor, and the matter has been turned over to tho state board of health.
 The United States cruiser Marblehead has been ordered to proooed at once to the gulf of Alexandretta, for the proteo. ton of American missionaries in Turkey.
 Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, we'll known as a writer of high class literature for juve- nile renders, is Ill beyond recovery at Chi- cago, and her death is expected momen. tarily.
 Monday. Sept r4.
 A bank caved in at Hughes Brothers & Bangs quarry, Saohem's Head, Conn, and killed two Italians
 The battleship Texas will be docked at the Norfolk navy yard on Wednesday and prepared for her official trial.
 Typhoid fever Is epidemic at Hamilton Square, N. J. Several deaths have oo- cured, and n number of bad eases are re. ported.
 August Gruba and an unknown man were instantly killed in Philadelphia by shifting engine on tho Pennsylvania railroad.
 Ex-President Harrison will leave Iudi- annapolis soon for Washington for the pur- pose of arguing case before the supreme court of the United States.
 The supreme court of South Dakota has handed down a decision in the case of ex- State Treasurer Taylor, reducing the term of Imprisonment to two years
 Frederick Keller Kelham, a graduate of Harvard college and the Columbia Law school and a practicing lawyer in New York, was killed by locomotive on the elevated road at Fifty-third street and Eighth avenue.
 Tuesday. Got. IS. The Tucker block in the town of Dyers burg. Tenn, was destroyed by fire Loss, S75, 900.
 The lake schooner Nellie Duff foundered | two miles oil Lorain. O. The captain and two men were drowned.
 Mrs. Jennie Croft, daughter of c. M. Hite of Roaring Springs, Blair county, Pa, was so badly injured by being thrown from carriage that she died two hours later.
 Four men were suffooated by smoke In a coal mine near Story City, In. The dead are Albert Peterson, single; Alexan- der Eastman, single; I. N. Negeson, sln- gle; George Payne, married. O. J. Baldwin of Youngsville, Pa, a victim of the Pittsburg trolley car aooi- dent, died at tho Homeopathic hospital. This makes four deaths, and several oth- CTS are in critical condition.
 Two oonverters at the Frankstown (Pa.) mill of Jones & Laughlin overturned. and 1o tons of molten metal poured Into the pit below, whore score of men were at work. Many were seriously burned, two fatally.
 Wednesday, Oct 16.
 John Boyd Thacher has accepted the nomination for mayor of Albany.
 The Cleveland chamber of commerce will visit the Atlanta exposition Nov. 90 to ga.
 The grand jury of Monroe county, N. Y., has returned an indictment against Rev. John NJ. Fitzgerald on the charge of arson.
 Commodore de Gross Livingstone, one of the most prominent citizens of Cano. stola. N. F., fell downstairs and was killed.
 Thomas Kerrigan has been resentenoed to death by Justice Ingraham for the mur- der of Aaron Alexander on April 4, 1894, in New York.
 Bernardo Foglia who has been or. trial for shooting his wife on Nov. 2i, 1894, In New York, was found guilty of man. slaughter in the first degree.
 In freight wreck on the Buffalo divi- sion of the Western New York and Penn sylvania railroad near Eldred Pa, Firo- man Jesse Baxter was killed and Engi. neer Broadway and Brakeman Hogrieve injured, the latter fatally Prominent Pennsyivsnisn Dead BLooMsBuRG, Pa, Oct. i6.-Hon. Will liam Elwell, president judge of the Twcn. ty-slxth judicial district of Pennsylvania