Connecticut western news., 1895-03-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ThurstiaY. March i.

seven miners were Killed Whle QeScenu- ing the shaft of the Mail Beach lead mine near Shrewsbury. Shropshire
 Bill Doolin, the Oklahoma outlaw, es- capped from the cave in which the officers had driven him and is still at large.
 T. L. Shropshire. for years the trusted cashier of the Central Railway of Georgia in Birmingham, has committed suicide.
 The class of '95 of Cornell university voted to inaugurate at the Cornell the GUS tom of seniors wearing caps and gowns.
 Gertie Lowls, : years old, of 526 Court strcot Brooklyn. was burned to death while playing about the stove Ut her home during her mothers absence.
 Count Stolberg- -wernigerode. who was last week elected to the reichstag as the representative of the agrarian party has resigned the presidency of Fast Prussia on against tine agrarians.
 Friday, March &.
 Lord Rosebery's condition is slowly im- proving.
 The steamship Friesland, which went aground as she was leaving Port said, has been fioated.
 Near Lakeport N. H.. Sheldon Lougee Was instantly killed while jumping from a railway train.
 The woman's suffrage bill passed the lower branch of tho Maine legislature by Q vote of 80 to 55.
 The greatest excitement has been creat- ed in Parchinl, Germany, by the failure of the Mecklenburg Credit bank at that place.
 The directors Of the American Sugar Refining company have declared the regu- lar quarterly dividend of 3 per cent on the common stock.
 A dispatch received at Madrid from Hrelva says that fire occurred in the Sohel mine at Coronado, causing the death of 20 miners.
 At Jefferson City. Mo. the house passed the senate bill prohibiting pool selling and bookmaking except upon race courses dur Ing the racing season.
 The Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, United States elnbasSador to England, and Mrs. Bayard went to Windsor to dine with the queen and be her guests over night.
 Saturday, March 0.
 Lord Rosebery is recovering slowly.
 Walter Sanger. the bicycle champion, is dangerously i'll with typhoid fever at his home in Milwaukee.
 At Easton, Pa, while buying bill of goods In n store, Ben jamin Neck, a mer- chant of Broadway, N. J., dropped dead of heart disease.
 Two American mine prospectors salted a mine west of Zacatecas. Mexico, and then sold it to Louis Foot. agent of Brit ish syndicate, for s1oo. 0co with $50, 900 down.
 The house at Guthrie O. T., passed a bill prohibiting the manufacture or giv- ing away of cigarettes or cigarette paper under penalty of $500, half of which is to go to the informer
 The general term of the supreme court of New York returned m oral decision re- moving Police Justice James +. Quigley of tho Gates avenue court, Brooklyn. for the intentional violation of his official du- ty in the disposition of cases connected with the recent trolley strike.
 Monday, March II.
 Max Miller committed suicide in New York by jumping from the rcof of his resi- dence.
 Senator German and his family will sail from New York carly in May md will spend the summer abroad.
 Mir. Cornelius Vanderbilt has decided to occupy his new villa, The Breakers this season at Newport, R. l.
 General Rosecrans has been in poor health for some time, and there has been no change in his condition recently.
 At Jefferson City. Mo. the bill to pro hibit the alien ownership of land in that state has been passed by the house.
 The Paris Figaro declares that neither France nor Great Britain will permit Ja- pan to seize the island of Formosa.
 The cable chess match between tho Man. haitian Chess club of New York city and the British Chess club resulted in draw.
 A mob of armed men broke into the office on the levee in New Orleans where tho West India line stored the tools usod by its nonunion screwmen and threw the tools into the river.
 Tuesday, March 12.
 The we'll known Buffalo maltster John B. Manning, has made an assignment.
 The Britannia and Dakotah were win ners in Mondays yacht races of Cannes, France.
 An expedition is organizing to bring Lieutenant R. E. Peary back from the north pole.
 Cardinal Gibbons has received sum- mons from the pope to proceed to Rome early in May.
 The Grand Duchess of Hesse, sister-in- law of the empress of Russia, gave birth to a daughter
 Lord Rosebery has almost entirely re- covered from the attack of influenza which has confined him to his house for nearly two weeks.
 Officials of the British legation at Man aeua state there is absolutely no truth in the reports of firing on an American yes sel by a British ship.
 IN m mastiff Kennet carried of nearly all the prizes at the dog show in Chicago last week, has sold mastiff to the mikado of Japan.
 Wednesday, March 13.
 The Earl of Bessborough Is dead.
 Eight persons lost their lives in the nrs in the Old Abe mines at White Oaks, N. M Walter Merrill aged 72, president oi the village of Port Henry, N. Y., and president of tho Citizens National bank there, died from pneumonia. The managers of the Pinnickinick Gler Falls and Farnum mines in West Virginia and their employees arrived at a settle Llent, and coo men returned to work An open switch caused a wreck on tho International railroad at Dickinson, Tex. and Fireman II. A. Taylor was SO Lady scalded that he died from his injuries. The proceedings in the income tax cases in the supreme court at Washington were continued with argument by Attorne, General olncy for the validity of the tax. The body of David Aldridge of Rome, N. Y., one of the victims of the steamer Longfellow disaster, was recovered from tho wrecked hull eight miles down th' river from Cincinnati. The st1narior co1Irt nf Tacoma has decid ed that the city does not own the mair water supply, although s2, 900. 900 wa: paid for it, and the supply in the residence portion of the place has been shut of. An Artistic Career. She-Isn't Mir. Palette mnrriedP