Connecticut western news., 1896-01-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Jan. 2.

Charles Jones and Lon Irwin were fa- tally shot and Thomas Wolfe stabbed in general fight at Straight Creek mines, in Kentucky.
 The Hamburg American Steamship com pany has definitely adopted Plymouth, England, as port of call instead of South ampton.
 A dispatch from Canea, island of Crete, says the Cretan revolutionary committee has informed the foreign consuls that it declines to surrender.
 E. D. Fish, one of the stockholders whose failures were announced on the Stock Exchange in Liverpool, is dead. His body was found in a tunnel of the Mersey railroad.
 Word was received in Boston from Som- Cross G. Smith, formerly New England agent of the Associated Press. Death re- suited from consumption.
 Friday, Jan. ..
 M Herbert Joseph walther Frere- Or ban, the distinguished Belgian statesman, died in Brussels.
 Albert W. Woodley was hanged at Pitts burg for the murder of Mrs. Jennie Bu- chanan in Alleghany City on May g, 1894.
 The five members of the Yehuda broth erhood, recently convicted of counterfeit ing in Philadelphia, were each sentenced to five years imprisonment and to pay fine of q ,000.
 The inauguration of Frederick T. Green halge as goyernoGbf Massachusetts for the third term and of Roger Wolcott as lieu tenant governor for the fourth term took place at the statehouse in Boston.
 The five cities of New York, St. Louis,  have filed applications with the national Democratic committee for designation as the place of holding the national conven- tion.
 A successful raid was made on the moon sinners who have been operating in south. western Arkansas. Two stills and eight men were captured and two men, who made stubborn resistance, were killed.
 At Columbus, O., Mir. and Mrs. John H. Hubbard, their son Allen and infant daughter Dorothy, Miss Fay Hubbard and Mrs. Grace Hubbard Lee were burned to death in fire which destroyed the resi- dence of MT. Hubbard
 Saturday, Jan. {.
 The bakery and confectionery establish ment of J. Van Velsor, in Buffalo, was burned. Loss, $50, ,000.
 One hundred girls employed in s. K. Wilson's woolen mill, at Trenton, struck on account of wage troubles.
 D. G. Luflin, general freight agent of the Lake Shore railroad, died at his home in Englewood, suburb of Chicago.
 The Children's home at Columbus, O., in which there were 200 inmates, was de- stroyed by fire. All the children were res cued.
 ta. @f,~s. made for the establishment in New York of a branch of the Imperial Bank of Rus- sia.
 Herbert Gedney, a young lawyer of Mid. dletown, N. Y, was found dead in his of flee, having evidently committed suicide.
 Jules Coutant, a member of the cham Der of deputies of France, was shot and se- riously wounded by his former election agent in Paris.
 Monday, Jan. 6.
 A severe earthquake shock was felt at Victoria, B. c.
 The treasury statement shows the gold reserve to be s61 ,311 1928.
 The Norfolk and Western offices at Ro- anoke, Va., were entirely consumed by fire.
 Prince Alexander of Prussia is dead. He was 75 years of age and was a general in the Prussian army.
 Miss Frances E. Willard, owing to indis- position, has cancelled her engagements for Maryland and Virginia. Mrs. Rachel Reid Butterfeld, the wid. ow of the late General F. ". Buttertield, died at her home in Kansas City, The president has signed the bill au. thorizing the acceptance of the ram Ka- %akI ;,n Con tl~ %1l Francis Satolli, papal ablegate to the United States, was elevated to the cardi. nalate in the Baltimore cathedral with inn posing ceremonies and in the presence of hundreds of ecclesiastical dignitaries of the Catholic church and distinguished persons in all circles of life. The beretta was con ferred by Cardinal Gibbons. Tuesday, Jan. T. J. A. Davis, deputy collector of customs at Malone, N. Y,, died at that place, Ray Hamilton of North Colebrook, Conn.,, fell from his wagon and received probably fatal injuries.
 Hon. Rufus W. Peckham took the oath of office as associate justice of the supreme court of the United States at Washington. Colonel Thomas W. Knox, prominent member of the Lotos club and an author of stories of travel for boys, died suddenly In New York.
 While four workmen were being lowered into the new shaft of the Luke Fidler mine at Shamokin, Pa, the "billy" fell | upon them. They were instantly killed. The strike of the employees at the West ern New York and Pennsylvania shops ii | settled, and the men returned to work. | The demands were acceded to in all re. | spects except as to the restoration of wages Mrs, Cornelia Seibels of Atlanta or Au- | gusta, Ga., has been found wandering in | the streets of London. She has completely | lost her memory. Mrs. Seibels is about 8l | years of age and has nearly s1 ,000 in her | possession.
 Saturday, Jan. 8. Philip Reclam, the famous publisher, died in Leipsic.
 Sir Julian Goldsmid, the well known | Hebrew philanthropist who has been i'll for some time past, died in London. Fire destroyed the Commercial House al Bristol, Vt, the barn connected, with all its contents an adjacent dwelling and a blacksmith shop. W. J. Weber and Gus Weber, his broth. CT, were arrested in Chicago charged with | plotting to kill E. V. Hamlin, secretary of the Kilmer Steel Tile company. The resignation of Hon. Charles NJ. | Preston as superintendent of state banks was received at Albany Mir. Preston's | term would not have expired till May next. Mrs. Margaret Baum, aged s4 years, was employed about stove in her home near Callicoon, N. r., when her dress | caught fire, and her body was burned to 2 cinder before help arrived The schooner Billow, bound from Rock land, Me, to Richmond, with a cargo of | lime, which went ashore on Duck island, on the coast of Maine, and the cargo of which caught fire, was burned to the wa ter's edge.
 Death of Dr. Lathrop. Los ANGELES, Jan. 1.-Dr. George B Lathrop, a professor in the University of | Aiohipan died hare of consnmntInn