Connecticut western news., 1896-09-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Saturday, Sept. 5.

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 The meeting of the American Social Soi- enoe association in Saratoga ended.
 The Irish National league elected P. A. McHugh vice chairman, in place of T. D. Sullivan.
 It was reported that the Duo d'Aumale had invited the ozar to Chantilly and that the latter had declined.
 The first cure of tetanus by antitoxin serum in a public institution took place at Fordham hospital, New York.
 Mrs. Nat Goodwin has retained counsel to bring a counter suit for divorce against her husband, the noted comedian.
 A dispatch from Cairo states that ohol- era has suddenly broken out afresh, oaus- ing much alarm to the British sanitary authorities, and that there have been 54 deaths during the last three days.
 Dr. Thomas Gallagher, released from prison by the English government, arrived in New York on the steamer St. Paul. He was found to be violently insane at intervals, and a reception to him had to be abandoned.
 Monday. Sept. ..
 John Theurer shot and killed Michael Murphy, who attacked Mrs. Theurer in their home in New York
  common law wife of John l.. Sullivan, died at Bellevue hospital, New York.
 Dr. Gallagher, the Irish patriot, who man, showed glimmer of returning req son.
 Alonzo Sperling, 80 years old, died at New Brunswick, N. J., from wounds self inflicted Aug. 25. Sperling was suffering from consumption
 J. F. Connelley, United States consul to Japan, has made a report showing that American industries are in no danger from the competition of Japanese labor.
 A little girl, near Paterson, N. J., was bitten by pet cat. She died with symp- toms of hydrophobia and physicians quar- antined those who touched the child.
 By the aid of ohisels, secured in some unknown way, John Love, who was awaiting trial for murder, escaped from the jail at Huntington, w Va, accom- nanied by five other criminals.
 Tuesday. Sept. 8.
 The Canadian players won the interna- tional cricket match in Philadelphia. Sir Joseph Archer Grove, the distin- guished author and diplomatist, Is dead. Mrs. Florence Maybriok, who is con- fined in Woking prison, is said to be oriti- cally i'll.
 News from the Pribyloff islands is tha, the seal herds are being rapidly extermi- mated by pelagio hunters. Deputy Excise Commissioner Clement decided that wine given in church at com munion services does not come within the prohibition of the Raines law.
 William H. Dubois, a bookmaker, held up the faro bank of John R. Bradley at Rockaway Beach, N. Y, and at the point of a revolver compelled the proprietor to give up $500.
 The New York state division of the League of American Wheelmen held its fall meet on the Manhattan Beach track, Pennock, Won Rodeck, Fuller and Owen being among the winners.
 William Gallagher, the released Irish political prisoner, who recently came to New York from London, was adjudged hopelessly insane and sent to the asylum at Amityville, N. Y.
 Evaristo Fernandez was stabbed in a quarrel between Cubans and Spaniards in New York, and a detective had a desper- ate struggle on fire escape in arrestins one of the alleged stabbers.
 Wednesday. Sept. 9.
 Mark McGoldrick of Fishkill Landing, N. Y., was found on the railway tracks with his head split open with an ax-
 An injunction was issued by the su. preme court preventing the Drug trust from discriminating against customers.
 Colonel Rattle Watkins of the American Volunteers was married to her typewriter, J. F. Lindsay, at Carnegie hall, in New York.
 Edwin Gould bought the extensive Stewart mills at Groveville, Dutohess County, N. Y, and will use them, 1t is said, for great masch plant. Mary Hoffman, IS years old, of West Winsted, Conn, was attacked by bur glar and beaten into insensibility. She uil probably die from her injuries.