Connecticut western news., 1895-08-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Aug. 2e.

N. Il.
 The strike of mill workers at Dundee has assumed serious proportions. About IS, 900 operatives are idle.
 Henry Britton drank paris green at his hoyel near Carthage. N. Y., because he was old and poor and death resulted.
 The president has signed an order ex- tending the classified service to include all printers and pressmen employed in the various executive departments.
 A whole Salvation Army brigade was arrested in the midst of prayer at Madi- son, Wis, for blockading the streets. The men were locked up, but the women were released.
 Rev George Hibberd of New York city was found dying on the West Shore tracks at Little Ferry, N. J. He probably fell from train. Death came while he was in an ambulance.
 Miss Mary Elizabeth Manning, daugh- ter of the late Daniel Manning, was mar ried at Albany to Jules Cornelius von der Cudermeulen, son of the private secretary of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland.
 Friday, Aug. es.
 Ten thousand people attended the peace convention at Mystic Conn. A. s. Cleghorn father of Princess Kali ulani of Hawaii, is in New York.
 Stephen W. Leech, an actor, singer and composer, is dead at Oakland, Cal. Since the outbreak of cholera in Japan there have been 25, 900 cases of that disease and Is, 900 deaths. Mrs. Joseph Neidlinger of Cleveland, on arising, found diamonds valued at S1, 100 and nurse missing. Recorder McDonough of Hoboken, N. J., fined August Bremen of New York city $15 for promiscuously pinching young girls.
 The plant of the Troy (N. Y.) Steel and Iron company was sold for $400, 900 to F. s. Witherbee acting for the reorganiza- tion committed. Charles P. Barnes, aged So, while at prayer meeting in Potsdam, N. Y., was stricken with paralysis, resulting almost immediately in death.
 Two men answering the description of the Lake Shore train robbers fatally shot Detective George W. Powers, who attempt ed to arrest them near Grand Rapids. Saturday, Aug. 2k The First National bank of Franklin, O., has suspended. George W. Howard, ex-vice president of the A. R. U., has been released from jail. Dick Moore of St Paul and Billy Hen
 
 | at Bradford, Pa. The town of Iwona, Pa., had $76, 900 | fire Altoona's fire department was called | to help subdue the flames. At meeting of the Western Baseball association the franchise of the Denver | Omaha club was taken away. The Cunarder Campania has arrived, making the trip in 5 days 9 hours and minutes and breaking her record. Librarian of Congress A. R. Spofford has deposited s22. 900 in the United States | treasury to settle the discrepancy in his | accounts.
 President Freedman of the New York | Baseball club is trying to secure the serv- | ice of Manager T. E. Burns of the Spring field (Mass.) club. Albert von Hussnett, claiming to be an | Austrian count, was locked up in New | York because he could not raise 50 cents | to pay for a meal. | Monday, Aug. 20. | Lewis Hammond and wife of New York | city committed suicide in Boston ho- | tel. Eight persons were injured at West Ny | ack, N. r., during the annual shoot of 1 the Nyack Gun club l Lieutenant Pelzer, the Belgian officer | commanding the Kassi district of the ] Congo State, has been killed while fight ing natives. | An attempt to assassinate Baron Al | phonse dc Rothschild was made by send | ing him an internal machine, which in- | jured a clerk.
 Gendarmes surrounded the village of Favora, Italy, and arrested 42 members of Mafla societies on charges of murder and 1 other outrages.
 At Little Rock Judge Wilson yesterday 1 dismissed the prosecution against Mrs. | Noe, who was arrested for appearing on the streets in bloomers.
 Near Mason City, Neb., two men were captured who are supposed to have robbed the Union Pacific express near Gothen- burg on Wednesday morning.
 Tuesday, Aug. aT.
 Count Matsugata, the Japanese minis ter of finance. has resigned.
 Harrison P. Bridge, a young multimill- ionaire of Boston, died in San Francisco.
 Albert Briggs, ST., aged 55 years, com mitted suicide at his home in Cedarville, N. J.
 | W. W. Kittell, an attache of the war department, Washington, shot and killed himself in his room at the Hotel Wiley, Pittsburg. | United States Senator White said that Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald has asked him to introduce bill which shall ex- clude Japanese.
 At Springfield, Ky, a mob composed oi about dozen negroes took Harrison Lew is, the negro, who murdered Joe Brooks, also colored from the jail and hanged him to tree in the courthouse yard.
 Samuel Clark, farmer, 6S years old, oi Murray Hill, was killed at Scotch Plains, N. J., while engaged in dispute with a man in buggy who had collided with his wagon. He had grasped the latter horse by the bridle when the man whipped up the horse, and, knocking Clark down, 1 ran over him.
 Wednesday. Aug. 2s.
 The English college athletes sailed fol America from London
 The eighteenth annual convention o the American Bar association convened il Detroit.
 By the explosion of boiler of a thrash ing machine at Oswassa, Ills, two per sons were killed and number of others 1 injured.
 WE. Hovey met R. D. wrenn, tn, present champion, at Newport, R. l., tt decide the national championship and woI in three straight sets.
 Mark w. Harrington, late chief of tn, weather bureau at Washington and pro lessor of astronomy at the University O
 Michigan, has been elected president O the University of Washington and installed
 in the duties of that office.
 J. c. Allen, alias Caldwell, who is serv ing a ten years sentence in the Arkansa penitcntiary for horse stealing, is unques tionably familiar with many of the mur derous operations of Fl. H. Holmes, nov confined in the Philadelphia jail, and ha
 made confession.