Connecticut western news., 1889-06-26
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 "A committee of citizens of Joliet, ILL, who yisited the locked-out miners at Braldwood, found many of them in extreme want. The committee has issued an appeal for ald TOT the miners.
 -Ex-Gov Hartranft of Pennsylvania, has bcrn appointed Q member of the CheroKee Commission and has signihed his Intention to the Secretary of the interior ot accepting the office This fills the Commission.
 --The storage shed of the Delaware River Chemical Works at Morris street wharf, Philadelphia, was consumed. The works were owned by the Baugh Sons Company, who estimate their loss ut $l2,OOO
 -Tbe meeting of the States-General 100 ycors ago was commemorated at Versailles byn gathering of Cabinet Ministers, Senators and members O the Chamber of Deputies. 2 Senator Layfayette delivered an oration. Tho meeting was followed by banquet. ,-Sta,s Attorney bisbe.. oi Barre. vt, was thrown from buggy at Wiliamstown Gulf, and. it is feared. tatully injured
 A lire started in the barn of the Hackett House at Balston Spa. and consumed P. X. ttAley s furniture store and barn, A. w Pad- docks paint store. l.. Garlich tobacco store, anu Grumiuatsr's fruit store. The loss is e2S. .0O0
 Prof William Hyde Appleton has been elected temporary President of Swathmore (ollpge. Swathmore. Pa.. to succeed Dr. Ncxill, who rendered his resignation recently olter term or eighteen years. Prof. Apple ton is a graduate of Harvard University. and has been professor of Greek in Swarth- more Tor seventeen years.
 "A small body of Presby byterians residing At snl nonr 'Hnrnnfn xwh0 halea ,v, tho doctrine of sinless perfection, were brought before the Hamilton Presbytery and .ound guilty oi holding tencnts opposed to the Scriptures and subvcrsive of the unity of the Church and Of teaching said doctrines. Tho cnse was appealed to the General Assem- oly, the appeal was dismissed by 0 vote of 12S to 2. This has the effect of expelling the appellants from the Presbyterian Church.
 The estate of the late John Amory Cod man (Boston) whose will was contested in the courts by his wife and daughter, hus been appraised nt $52l orr, of which $5l4,. 900 is in real estate.
 The Dearborn observatory. Q magnificent Structure just erected at tho Northwestern University at Evanston, to hold the great telescope of the Chicago University, was formally dedicated. E. B. MeCagg delivered the dedicatory orntion.
 -Selrv Johnson. a colo red citizen, has sued Eugene Robinson proprietor of river show,
 
 refusing to permit Johnson and party of friends to enter the show. The show people cay that they will sell no tickets to negroes.
 "A dispatch from winnepeg says: The report that Burke has made confession in connection with Dr. Cronin's murder is a eanord. He has made no statement what ever. excepting to deny all complicity
 "A deed was recorded at Baltimore where by te.e Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Con- pany conveys to the Western Union all its telegraph lines ard property of every kind. Inc consideration named is $1 and the entire disehnrgu of the Baltimore and Ohio Tele- graph Company from the obligation to issue Ghs SS. 900 ,OOO of bonds provided for in its contract with the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road Company.
 Whales are very numerous along the Boston coast just now. On the last day trip looked at one time as if the boat were about to run into a bed of rocks over which the sea was breaking. The rocks were whales. -zachariah McDaniel, the oldest citizen of Rockingham county, and n pensioncr of the var of 1912, died near Elkton, Va, aged 103
 The Board of Regents of the University at Madison, Wis, reelected George H. Paul, of Milwaukie, president; Herman Smith. vice president
 A fearful storm visited the southeastern
 
 . scope of country ten miles long and one mile wide. and ended in n regular cloudburst. The damage to property was great. fences and bridges being washed away and barns torn down. Growing crops in the storms path were destroyed, and whero turnpikcs were crossed the water cut them down to the hvel of the country on either side
 A dispatch from Rochester, MInn. says: Two desperate attempts at suicide were made at tho Olm.tcad county jail, by Bob Robin con, the 25 year old horse thief llo has already served terms at Joliet and at Still water, and swore he would never enter another penitcntiary alive. He first tried to hang himself with the rope from his cot, but slipped and sprn:ned an ankle so badly he conld not stand to try hanging again. He next tried out success. Whom hls cell was opened hs made n savage onslaught on the turnkey. and was secured after hard light.
 -Ars. Charles Cleaves and Miss Erdine Cols. young lady sixteen years old, were drowned while bathing at Springfield, Me- Nrs. Cleaves leaves g husband and four children in the West. The bodies were recov- sred.
 John Kincaid, of GunnIson, Col, isin Chi eaEo and he is imparting to the big iron men . story ofintereet. The syndicate of Chicago and Pennsylvania capitalists who went to Gunuiaon, Col, to inspect some lands suppos- d to contain anthracite coal found 0 richer discovery shan they anticipated. A huge mountain of almost chemically pure maR- ganeee ofiron was found. together with almost unlimited veins of anthracite. This mangan- ese 1. essentially the spiegel eisen of com msrce.
 Martin Burke is under arrest at Winni- peg, Man., charged by the Chicago police with the murder of Dr. Cronin.
 Seventeen more bodies were found in Johnstown.
 It is announced at San Francisco that $1. 900, 900 has been subscribed for the pro- posed cable between Honolulu and San Fran cisco, and that the work of laying the cable will be commenced within eighteen months.
 At the council between the different bands of Indians at Fine Ridge, D. T., it was decid- cd by them to hold another council among themselves and then break up their camps at that agency and scatter their homes.
 "A dispatch from Bismarck. D. T., says that Sitting Bull the notorious Sioux chief, is slowly growing stronger.
 Frank Sadler and Frank Ryan, the two young men who made two attempts about a month ago to wreck the limited vestibule train on the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad pleaded guilty at Canton, Ok 0, and were sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary and to pay fine of $500 zach.
 Maritime Conference.
 Tn the House of Commons Sir James Fer guson, Parliamentary Secretary to the For eign office, in reply to an inquiry, stated tha the Government were considering the pro granime for the proposed conference at Wash ington of representatives of maritime coun tries, but he did not think it desira ble to re
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