Connecticut western news., 1895-08-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Thursday. July 25.

the Oung Men s lHrssllan assocldtlOu III Washington.
 In St Louis George Reed, painter, shot and killed his wife us the result of jealous rage.
 Leroy F. Thomas, a resident of Saratoga Springs, was found dead in a railway car at Fonda, N. Y.
 A thcater at Bonn, Germany, was de- stroyed by fire, but the audience escaped, and only one person was injured. !. At Chester, Pa, an emery wheel burst in H. B. Black & Co. s edge tool factory, killing Frank Newman almost instantly.
 The engagement of Miss Pauline Whit ney, daughter of ex-Secretary Whitney, and Mir. Almeric Fl. Paget of St. Paul is reported.
 The race for the Machell plate Of 1000 sovereigns at Gatwick, England, was won by the American horse Banquet I, for merly owned by NJ. F. Dwyer.
 Lake Shore and Michigan Southern train No B was held up and robbed at Reese, a small station 3s niles west of Toledo, by six masked men, who secured a large amount of money from the express car.
 Friday, July e0.
 The Unadilla Valley railroad was form ally opened.
 The United States cruiser New York has anchored in the North river after her trip from Europe.
 The New York Mills Cotton company at Utica, N. Y., has notified its employees in mills Nos. 2 and | of an increase of wages.
 Elizabeth Perkins, better known as Liz Finnegan, who had been for many years one of the most noted women of the criIn- in..4 class, died in Boston.
 A mixed local train, while entering the railroad station at Raudten, Prussian Si- lesia, dashed through the building, and the engineer and several passengers were killed.
 A receiving order in bankruptcy was issued against Oscar Wilde's property by the Marquis of Queensberry, claiming s677 costs in the debtors unsuccessful ac- ton for libel
 The great wheel at Earl's court, Lon- don, an imitation on a larger scale of the famous Ferris wheel of the Worlds fair at Chicago, stopped and imprisoned crowds of passengers for several hours.
 Saturday, July a7.
 Princess Helene of Orleans, who mar ried the Duke of Aosta, is seriously i'll, after having drunk iced milk.
 
 gross, also prominent in the antislavery movement, died at Edgewood, a suburb of Providence.
 While changing her seat in pleasure boat Miss Nellie Hain overturned it, and she and two companions were drowned at Burlington, Ia.
 Arthur Parnell fell overheard from the steamer Bon Voyage, near Oswego, N. Y., nnd it is said no boats were manned to at- tempt tor rescue him.
 Albert Stafford, a brakeman on the Del aware and Hudson railroad was crushed so badly between freight cars at Corinth, x. r., that he will die.
 Lady Frances Roso Cunning. widow of the late Rev. Sir Henry Cunning Bart, has been arrested in London on an extra iition charging her with forgery.
 Thomas Downs was passing a pulley to the axle of the Ferris wheel at Chicago when he fell to the ground, n distance of 136 feet, and his death was instantaneous. Monday, July go.
 Ex-President Harrison made a patriotic speech at flag raising in Old Forge, N. Y.
 The Dane county insane asylum at Ve- rone, Wis, was struck by lightning and entirely consumed.
 One-half a million dollars in round numbers is about what the last devastat- ing hailstorm cost North Dakota. State Senator James A. Bradley and five other men narrowly escaped drowning in the surf at Asbury Park, N. J. R. W. Patterson, publisher of the Chi eago Tribune, was thrown from a horse, and one of his ankles was fractured. The Chinese minister, his private sec. retary, interpreter and servants are at Wat kins, N. T., to remain several days. Max Lazarus, a newsboy, l2 years of age, died in Rochester from blow, it is alleged, from the fist of Charles Merrill, another newsboy. Porter Heap. the 1S-year-old son of Ma jor Heap, United States engineer in charge of the Portland (NIc.) harbor fertilization, died from blood poisoning caused by slight burn. Tuesday, July 30. Lieutenant Knapp is investigating the navy yard at Charlcstown, Mass. A severe rainstorm visited St. Louis, wrecked two buildings and fatally injured man.
 Tho 10-day-old daughter of Charles Small of Hartford was accidentally poi soned by her father. August William Kenkel, a Polish count, exiled patriot and painter, shot himself in his room in Chicago. Tho returns from the English elections now at hand show the election of 33S Con- servatives 72 Unionists 116 Liberals, 69 anti-Parncllitcs and 12 Parnellites. Before leaving Manzanillo for Cienfue- gos Captain General Martinez de Campos pardoned all the political and war prison CTS and ordered them set at liberty. Referee Edward Jacobs filed his report in the suit brought by Mrs. Ollie Corbett against her husband, James J. Corbett, the pugilist, for an absolute divorce find ing Corbett guilty and recommending that Mrs. Corbett be allowed S100 a week alimony during her lifetime. Wednesday. July 31. The August Hartung brewery at Homes dale, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Bishop John P. Newman of Omaha opened the series of Saratoga summer lectures.
 The bclated Cunard line steamship Au- rania arrived at New York with all safe and well.
 News that all Methodist ministers in China, who were in grave danger, are now safe in Shanghai was received. The New York Republican state com nittee met and called the state convention to meet in Saratoga on Sept. IT. On the White river, eight miles from Camp Apache, A. T., has been found a re- markablc cave in which were between 300 and 400 human skeletons. The coroner's jury in the inquest on ] Lillie Low, who was found dead in the woods on Washington heights, Now York, returned verdict of suicide.
 It has been ascertained that 12 persons lost their lives by the destruction by fire of tho Manx luggcr Zenith, which was lost Sunday night near Baltimore, on the Irish coast.