Connecticut western news., 1886-10-20
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-1ne Nlnusor Hotel, at RoSelle, N. J., was , burned and one of the servants woman, perished in the flames. Harlem Commons heirs will soon begin | suit to establish their claims to property in N. Y. city worth S3O, ,OOO. The Knights of Labor are holding Armour & Co. responsible for the lockout in the Chi cago packing houses, and intimate that the firm will be boycotted.' A slight shock of earthquake was felt in South Sydney, Cape Breton, and the neigh boring country. It occurred about o'clock in the afternoon and lasted only 8 second or two.
 -Lillie Barrett, young girl of Nays Land- Ing, N. J., charges that man whose name is given, assaulted her, and, while unconscious, placed her on a railroad track to be run over by a train.
 Solomon Cook, while engaged in the work of extrcatlng the steam yacht Ava from the mud in the Christiana River, at Wilmington, Del, was struck by broken hawser, and had his skull fractured. Two other men were se- riously injured at the same time.
 The shipwrecked crew of the Dunottar Castle were cast upon Ocean or Cure Island July l5, whence the mate and three men made their way in an open boat to the Sandwich Islands, being at sea fifty-two days. Twenty two others were rescued by passing vessel after stay of thirty-three days.
 Two men entered Wilmarths Bank at Ash land, Wis, aeout 10 o'clock in tho morning
 
 vault at the point of their revolvers. While he was in tho vault the robbers secured S4, ,OO in cash from small safe and made their escape. The police and posse of citizens are on the track of the robbers in the woods.
 The New York Republican County Con- vention assembled at the Grand Opera House, New York city, put in nomination Theodore Roosevelt for Mayor, John c. OConor for President of the Board of Aldermen, Louis Goebel for Register, Edward Mitchell for Judge of the Supreme Court and Granville P. Hawes, for Judge of the Superior Court.
 sam Hadden, a crippled soldier, shot and killed his father in quarrel ar Shlawasseo county, Mich.
 The knit goods manufacturers in the vicinity of Cohoes have decided to lock out thelr twenty-thousand operators.
 The COW owners who occupy the distillery sheds in Chicago will fight in the courts for the privilege of selling swill milk
 The Hebrews in Quebec claim to be dis franchised by the sharp trick of appointing one of their great festivals as election day.
 Female medical students are to be admit ted to the clinics of the Boston Hospital-but the students of homeopathic schools are ex- cluded.
 At West Stratford, Conn.,, brass-worker named FTese fatally stabbed his wife and then jumped upon the railway track, where a train cut his head off.
 The steam barge Selah Chamberlain was sunk in a collision with the steamer John Pridgeon, Jr., near Sheboygan, Wis, and five unknown men were lost.
 -Charles Coffin, brakeman on the Maine Central Railroad, jumped from the train near Portland, Me-, and falling in front of a pas senger engine was instantly killed. Lewis Webster, twice tried and convicted and sentenced to death at Warren, Ohio, for tho murder of a man named Harrington, has, on third trial been acquitted by the jury.
 Nathan A. Baer, merchant of Harris burg, Pa., charged with embezzlement and fa,sifying his accounts as treasurer of building association, has suddenly disap- peared.
 Students of the Maine State College at Oronto are in rebellion, refusing to attend recitations till alleged injustice to five of their number is redressed. Two classes have been suspended.
 In New York city the Committee of One Hundred met and put Mir. Theodore Roosevelt in nomination for the Mayoralty. Ex-Senator Gerard and others dissented from the action of the committee.
 real estate agent, who was accused of leading ! young girls astray, pleaded guilty to four out i of ten counts of the indictment, and was re- manded for sentence.
 The County Democracy of New York city , In convention indorsed the nomination of
 
 as common nominees of both that body and Tammany Edward Patterson for the Supreme Court, P. Henry Dugro for Superior Court, James J. Slevin for Register and Henry Rut- gers Beekman for President of the Board of 1 The sale of swill milk is prohibited in Chi cago Tn consequence of pleuro-pheumonia in , tie distilleries.
 The probate of the will in which Miss Caroline Welton left s15O,OOO to the Society hp 1f 4oo ,l,. l< lore Connecticut court on appeal.
 A freight train ran into shifting engine | through an unclosed switch at East Liverpool, Ohio, resulting in the killing of Brakeman Walker and in fatal injuries to Foreman Peck.
 , Samuel W. Pauley, veteran of the Mexi- can war, and his wife Judith lived within fifty miles of each other in Pennsylvania a period of forty years, each believing the other dead.
 The County Democracy Committee of ! New York adopted a resolution indorsing .i Tammany Halls action in naming Abram S.. Hewitt as the democratic candidate for Mayor.
 Forty arrests were made by the Chicago police in conaection with the assault upon Waller, the witness against the anarchists. Four of the men were identified by Waller and 1 were beld.
 -Rear-Admiral Edward T. Nichols, U. s. I had been spending the summer here and had I been in usual health until Saturday morning, when he was found suffering from an apoplec- tlc. He remained unconcious from that time until his death.
 Shenandoah, Pa, and the entire Maha- , noy Valley is threatened with water famine. Only one shower of rain has fallen there in ! nine weeks. The water supply at the colieries Is exhausted, and unless rain should come within the next few days most of the colieries 1 not supplied from the Girard Dam will be compelled to suspend operations. 1 Since 1875 the rate of recession of Niagara Falls has been 2.3S feet per annum. An attempt was made by gypsies to kidnap . child from the streets of Woburn, Mass
 -E1-Senator David Yulee of Florida, died at the Clarendon Hotel, in New York city.
 Three slight earthquake shocks were felt ! Tn Charleston and the surrounding country.
 The newly appointed chief clerk inv the Wilmington, (Del,) Post Office has proved a defaulter.
 Railroad navvies unearthed several ante- dlluvian curiosities while blasting near Wilkes barre, Pa.
 The Chicago pawnbroker who was robbed after red pepper was thrown in his eyes will probably lose his sight.
 -Margaret Link, aged sixty years, and her ' daughter, aged eighteen, were burned to death Ut their residence in Cincinnati, Ohio. | A national convention of distillers, brewers and liquor and beer dealers is called to be held in Chicago, on Monday, the 18th inst
 The recent singular deaths in family near Shelbyyille, Ill.,, have been traced to poi son from copper valve in the cistern.
 Chicago has been flooded with we'll exc cuted counterfeit of the new ten-dollar silver certificate. One arrest has been made.
 The Knights of Labor took steps to end the strikes in Chicago and Amsterdam by tele- graph and sending committee from Rich mond.
 Nathan NJ, Neeld, managing partner of S Cn Chicaon nOrS hackers