Connecticut western news., 1889-08-21
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Gathered From the Four Quarters.

The Montana Constitutional Convention completed it's work on Saturday and ad- journed sine die.
 The Thirteenth Regiment of Brooklyn, Colonel Austen, departed last night for a weeks tour in the West, with Cleveland as take part in the parade at the carnival at Hamilton, Ont, on Friday, the 23d.
 Dr. Harry P. Loomis of New York, who has been in charge of the experiments with the Brown-Sequard elixir. will make no more tests at present. Blood poisoning and other ments made, and the enthusiasm over the new discovery has abated.
 Sir John Macdonald appears to have failed in his recent overtures to the Government of Newfoundland, as the Premier of that colony positively informs the Canadian Premier that he will not consent to make the question of Newfoundland entering the Dominion an issue at the polls dnring the approaching elections.
 Knox and Reed. solicitors for the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, filed plea of not guilty Saturday to the allegations made by Nancy w. Little and other JohnstOwn sufferers against the club through the bill in equity filed some weeks since. R. G. Dun S Co.,, in their weekly review of trade, report the number of failures in the United States at 1S1 and in Canada at 32, total of 213 for the last seven days, against total of 2O1 last week and 219 in the cores bonding week of last year.
 The new cruiser Charleston was given a trial run in San Francisco bay last week. No government officials were aboard, and the trial was simply to test some alterations which had been made ill her machinery since the official trial trip three months ago. It is | understood the builders consider the tria satisfactory.
 Great quantities of pearls are being found in the Mississippi at Prairie-du-Chien. It is thought that Congress will assemble l in extra session before November-probably | October 20.
 The Y. M. c. A. Summer Institute at Lu bee, Me-, is in full and successful progress.
 Secretary Procter and Gen. Schotield are expected to visit the Vermont militia in theil | camp this week.
 A bloody fight between two politica factions has converted the Court House al Richmond, Tex, into mOrgue. A renewa of hostilities is expected, although military company has been ordered to the scene.
 M. Damala, the husband of Sarah Bern hardt, is dead.
 Congressman Lairl of Nebraska is dead.
 Eighteen people were injured in disaster l on the Burlington and Missouri River Rail- way in Lincoln, Neb., Sunday.
 Three murders in the Wilkesbarre mining district on Saturday. Pugilist Sullivan has been sentenced tt twelve months imprisonment. He appealed and gave bail.
 Walter Asburg (coloreD was lynched at Pooler, ten miles west of Savannah, las week, for assault upon Lula Kissmau a seventeen-year-old German gir She was terribly beaten in struggle with her assaiant, but sht successfully resisted him.
 At II o'clock Saturday night, as the fas mail train over the Pennsylvania was passing Effingham, Ill.,, the postal clerks discovered that the registered. through pouch for St Louis was missing. The pouch was iron Albany, N. Y., and contained heavy remit tances, covering some cattle transactions The authorities have not ascertained the amount of the loss, but estimate it all the wa! | from S1O. .OOO to S2O, ,OOO.