Connecticut western news., 1910-05-19

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 John c. Gargan, the Brooklyn young man who shot and killed his brother and father-in-law aEd was convicted of murder in the secor+} degree ny il jury in the supreme cOuft in Brooklyn. was sentenced to Sirg Sing fer ice with q minimum sentence Of tWHHty years.
 The large manufarturiI= and sales warehouses of the K"ch X Uenke Fur niture company of Cleveland. O.. were totally destroyed by fire. entailing 6 loss of $400,000. The fire spread to row of houses in the rear of the eStab- lishment and consumed five of them.
 U. G. Walker, formerly president of the defunct South Cleveland Banking company of Cleveland O., was sen fenced to five years in the Ohio state | penitentiary. Walker was found guilty of perjury in making false statements to the state bank examiner.
 A freight train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was held up by three masked men at Bayway. N. J., in one of the most lonely spots on the Balti- more and Ohio system, and the bandits easily escaped, taking with them cigars and woolens worth $4,000
 Thirteen persons seven of them passengers, lost their lives in the sink | ing of the steamer City of Saltillo in the Mississippi river at Glen Park. Mo. The boat was thrown against rock | by the swift current two hours after her start from St Louis.
 A yawl boat containing four men which left Fort Gaines, near Mobile. Ala, bound for Fort Morgan, a gov ernment reservation, was overtaken by a storm, which wrecked the boat and ] all of the four occupants were drown ed. eH.. 1e.e.
 Bert Sperry, his three children and their grandmother were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home in Fairbault, Minn. The father was trying to save his children and the grandmother when the floor col lapsed. a.. Forest fires 1eveled the south half of Mosinee, Marathon county, Wis, and 1 the buildings destroyed include ten residences, four general stores and the postoffice.
 | A fire which broke out in a barn in the center of Placerville, Cal, destroy ed the courthouse and several business houses, causing loss of $100,O00.
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 TN l. Valencia, Spain, of the Republican deputy, Senor Soriano, a l collision took place between Republic ans and gendarmes, in which the lat ter charged, and the Republicans used knives and stones. An officer was stabbed and killed and many persons wounded. .l.. | An explosion in the Wellington coal mine at White Haven, England, cut l off the exit from the 136 miners who were working below the surface. Res cuing parties succeeded in saving four men who had been working at the bot 1 tom of the shaft, but were prevented by the gas from penetrating to point where the main body of men were im- l prisoned.
 A band of brigands that had long terrified the neighborhood of Grodno, Russia, was cleaned up in a battle with rural guards. Four of the out laws were killed, and four others were captured. The captain and one of the guards were killed, and an officer and six guards were severely wounded.
 
 The Atlantic transport steamship Minnehaha, which struck on Seal Rock Scilly islands, on April IS, was f1oated after days of strenuous work on the part of the divers. The Minnehaha can now claim the record of being the first large vessel to be saved from Scilly rocks. ...|
 Emperor William of Germany au. thorized the Kiel Yacht club of Kie to announce that he would give prize for American German sonderkIasse yacht races to be sailed off Kiel in 1 1911 under the same conditions that prevailed in 1909.
 A typhoon in the Kohe district of Japan wrecked a steamship bound from Osaka for Nagoya, and fifty peo, pie were drowned. Many smaller yes. sels were lost with those on board of them, and tremendous damage was done ashore.
 Many Jews living in Kiev and in other Russian cities and towns were expelled by the Russian government A few of the race have been allowed time in which to arrange their affairs but all marked for expulsion go before June IA.
 A fatal explosion occurred while the mine laying division of the German fleet was maneuvering off the coast near Wilhelmshaven, and five bluejack cts were killed and two others injured ~nrn-,e Professor B Id ward Bennett Garriott, chie1 forecaster of the Unit
 rEoTEG' States weather bureau |. died cI166pnlV at his homo in Wa o.