Connecticut western news., 1895-02-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Feb. t4.

In6 pope Htaltu nus btcH oiiknag nA- fected by the damp and changeable weath- CT that has lately prevailed at Rome The body of Mrs. A. l. Lockhart of New York. who was q cabin passenger on the steamship Eibe, has been recovered. Mrs. Lewis Degroat who lived alone on lonely road near Chester. N. Y., was found frozen dead from tie int nse cold An explosion of natural gas at Mead vile. Pa. wrecked two buildings One person was killed and three others injured seriously.
 Gilbert Hatfield. who played third base for the Toledo club of the Western league last year. has been left fortune of s15. o00 by his father.
 A duel was fought near Paris fetw on Lieutenant Marcel Canrobert and NJ Hub bard, a sociali member of the chamber of deputies. 1t was fought with swords, and NJ. Hubbard received a wound in the chest
 Friday. Feb. Is. A monster benefit was given at the Buckingham theater. louisville. 10 raise a fund for Eugene V. Debs Henry D. Polhemus one of Brooklyn's best known clubmen nnd financiers, died at his home from pneumonia The Knights of Labor delegates in ses- | sion at Columbus O.. have decided to form an independent association. Three more bodies were washed ashore 1t Liverpool. N. =. f om the wreck of the Gloucester schooner Clara F. Friend. The feel of the Dunraven syndicate's s new yacht Vnikyrie III, which is to con- test for the Americas cup. will be laid in Glasgow oarly next week. Difficulties have arisen between the Si- amese and the French on the left bank of | the Mekcng river. near Kammoun. and | serious disturbances have occurred The health authorities of Camden. N. T., have be n kept busy trying to check I the typhoid fever epidemic here and now | they are confronted with the smallpox. Mrs Emma T. Nelson-weight, 400 been posing as fat woman in different museums, died at her home in Camden, \. J.
 Saturday, Feb. Is. Philip Martin tcolored). the murderer | of Eli Stillwell, was hanged in Kansas City.
 Two school children. brother and sister. | aged 10 and 12 years, were found fro en | to death near Parsons. w. Va William J. Hasson. who cut his wife S | throat from ear to ear, was sentenced to | IS years imprisonment in Baltimore Dr. c. R Foster of MacMasler college, | Toronto, has accepted a call to the chair | of theology in the University of Chicago | divinity school
 A larger boiler exploded in Cobb's saw mill. near Towanda, Pa and Theodore l Pencil, fireman. and John Mack, teamster, | were instantly killed, and Frank Myers, a mill hand was fatally injured. Dennis Mclaughlin, Gottfriod Wal | baum. Nicholas Crusius and John c. Carr were sentenced in Jersey City to one year | imprisonment and a fine of $500 each. | They are known as the Big Four" and | were convicted of maintaining the Gut | tenberg race track. Monday, Feb. Is. Near Orovil.e Cal, a stage was robbed ! by lone high wayman armed with 8 shot, | gun.
 Hon. D. Ogden Bradley, pres dent of | the Tarrytown National bank, died sud denly in Dobbs Ferry, x. Y. At Mount Vernon. Ky, Monroe Bussel | killed Doc Jones his hrother in law, by striking him on the head with an AK. | James Frazier and A. B. MoQuiston of | Rexford. Pa, wcrc killed by the explosion of a boiler al all oil well near Rexfosd. It is announced et the New York sub trea ;ury that ssl. 000, OC0 in god has been received on account of the Brlmont. .Mor- | gan syndicate.
 | The Chinese emperor has ordered the | governor of Shan; ;ung to behead Cll tho | civil offio CTS and mil ary and naval off cers conn, oted with the defense of Wei | Hal Wei.
 Mir. and Mrs. Fernando Yznaga of Lon. don have agre, d upon a separat on. Mrs. | Yznaga, who was Miss Mabel Gun tis Wright leforo her marriage, was n belle for three sons in New York's fashion. able socie.y before her marriage | Tuesday, Feh. 10. | The deadlock In the Delaware senator. ship continues.
 Queen Victoria is SO crippled by rheu. matism that she cannot walk. | Joseph Mischak, who had wife in Ger. many and who was engaged to three girls in Buffalo, committed suicide in that city. Colonel T. J. Martin, adjutant general of tho department of the Missouri, United States army, is thought to be dying in Chicago.
 | The jury in the case of Alexander Brady, on trial in Norwich, Conn.,, for the murder | of Fred c. Perdue, returned verdict of not guilty.
 While playing with n gun son of F. k. Allen, who resides in Harmony township, near Susquehanna, Pa, shot and killed his brother.
 William Lake, the slayer of Emma Hunt, was removed from Albion to Auburn. N. r., where he will be executed the first week in April.
 IL Is now quite certain that c. NJ. Fig gat, the defaulting cashier of the Bank oi Lexington, Va, stole about s150, 0o0 from that institution.
 | Wednesday, Feb. 20.
 Mr. Henry Irving, the actor, is severely
 indisposed.
 Dr. Hulke, president of the Royal Col lege of Surgeons of England, is dead
 Senator Cullom of Illinois Is confined to his room with a slight attack of the grip.
 The khedive signed marriage contract with his favorite Circassian slave in She presence of the Egyptian ministers. Nlncenzo Nimo, an Italian barber in New York city, murdered his wife Marie in the presence of bis two children by cut ting her threat with razor. Mir. Campbell has introduced bill In | the Washington state senate making il l unlawful for any male person to wear a cue, the object being to drive out the Chi l ncSe.
 A bill is 70 be pushed in the legislature of Illinois to reorganize the city govern ment of Chicago on plan that would place the departments under charge of a cabinet appointed by the mayor.
 An action for $50. 900 damages against the North German Lloyd Steamship com ! pany will be brought in Buffalo by Sieg- . mund Frank, brother of Jacob Frank, the
 ticket broker who lost his life in the wrecS | of thc Eibe.
 
 Frenchmen With English Wives. l It is a curians fact that nntxyithstand.