Connecticut western news., 1889-11-27
GENERAL NEWS.

ttN1hA1 NEWS,
 Fifty-niue men. prominent in cotton trade H. New Orleans. have made estimates on this seasons cotton crop hy bales with the follow ing result: Lowest, 200 ,0O0; highest, 7,s00,- OOU; average. I,oOO,OO0.
 The legislature of North Dakota elected G. X. Pierce as U. s. senator. There will be fight over the second senatorship. Ordway is gaining and it is believed will be elected.
 A bold burglary fin broad daylight was com mitted on Sixth ave-, New York, and the robbers got away with S5oO0 worth of dia- mond rings, gold watches and other jewelry from the store of E. Silberstein < Sons, 10 Sixth ave. The window-smashtng plan was adopted.
 Charles Montgomery. owner of the Amer ican Exchange Hotel, San Francisco. and well known through his charitable work, has made a statement showing that he has been swindled out of about SSo. 900 and forced to make an assignment. Over two years ago he met young man giving the name oI F.: GicncrOss Grant. who had identified himself With the Young Mems Christian Association, but who was an English confidence man. Montgomery took aa interest in Grant and finally formed partnership with him in the agricultural implement business, which Grant ruined by debts aud thefls.
 It is stated that the production of graphite of pure character is limited in the United States to Ticonderoga. N. r.. the total amount of which last year was 100000 lbs., possessing commercial value of SSS,OOO.
 The Federal Steel Co.,. of Cleveland, Ohio, the gigantic corporation formed for the pur- pose of combining all the wire, wire nail, and barbed wire manufacturing plants of the country, and controlling these three great industries, has heen formally organized.
 Gen. s. V. Benet, chief of ordnance, U. $. A., recently opened proposals for furnishing 20. .0OO metallic rifle blank cartridges, half inch calibre. to be delivered at tue Frankfort Ar received. The United States Cartridge Co.,, Lowell, Mass; the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.,, New Haven, Conn.,. and the Union Metallic Cartridge Co. of New York, time of delivery ranged from immediately" to eight days.
 The Illinois Farmers Alliance was organ ized at Decatur, s few days ago, and dele gates to the St. Louis national convention were appointed. Resolutions in the interest of reform, such as free coinage of silver with gold. favoriug the Australian system of vot- ing. in favor of governmental control of raiE roads and telegraphs, reduction of taxation, ea the U. s. senators direct by the people, and uniformity of the text books in the schools, were adoDted.
 
 their lands, three million acres. in Minnesota to the Government.
 All the Provinces of Brazil have accepted the new republic, and the right to vote has been extended to all citizens who can read and write.
 The sculptors of the United States will have chance to compete tor statue of Abraham Lincoln, to be erected in Chicago, Mr. John Crear having left s1OO, ,OO0 for this purpose.
 The late John H. Shoenberger, the Pitts burg ironmaster. leaves among other be quests $SOO,n ,nO0 for a Shoenberger Memo rial Hospital, to occupy eight acres of l'nd next to the Allegheny Cemetery; $1OO,- 900 to the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pittsburg, and $10O,0OO to Trinity Episcopal Church of that city.
 Several months ago the Iron Exchange Bank at Hurley, Wis, was robbed of $40 900, put into the vault by the American Express Company. On Sunday, Assistant Cashier Perrin, man named Baker, from Iron Wood, and a woman were arrested in connection with this robbery.
 A passenger train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas was held up recently at Pryor Greek near Perry Station, Ind. Territory. The express and mail cars were robbed. The passengers were not molested. The amount secured by the robbers is unknown.
 The profits on local postage throughout the country the past year was more than two and half millions. and it is recommended that the free delivery system be extended to all places having a population of 5000, and whose offices produce gross revenue of not less than $SOOO.
 Sir John Mcdonald has resigned the Presi- dency of the Ontario Council and has taken the portfolio of Railways and Canals, and Hon. c. c. Colby, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, has been chosen to sue ceed him.
 The mate of the barque Willie and Ida, -ol in, Inst week, charges that the captain was intoHi- cated and that he deliberately run the vessel ashore and refused to leave the wreck.
 The Treasurer of the Gamorgan Iron Com pany, of Philadelphia, acknowledges that he has negotiated $5O.000 worth of fraudulent ci6ed to allow all paper indorsed by them to go to protest in order to determine what notes arc genuine.
 Rev. Dr. Tslmage is in Athens. He has secured 8 cOrner stone for his new church from Mars Hill, where St. Paul preached to the Athenians.
 The Old Dominion steamer Manhattan col- !. Eaed with a schooner of the Maryland coast. The steamer was sunk and at least two lives were lost.
 X terrific snow storm ill Montana last week blockaded the Northern Pacific Road, and caused serious inconvenience.
 stephen l.. Pettus, Secretary and Treas urer of the Brooklyn Union Elevated Rail- way, was shot dead in the street by woman, who said he had wronged her. The Florida Orange Growers Union and The result will be to place nearly all of the orange crop in the lands of the Exchange, 1 which has already handled 60,000 boxes of oranges this season, an increase of 300 per cent. over the previous year.
 James J. Smith, New York, letter carrier, H. . ,<Ia | beth, and fatally wounded his eleven-months- I old child, Mary, in his rooms at 321 East 1 Ninth street, and slightly wounded himself in | an attempt to commit suicide. Smiths wife left him short time ago, taking the two children and nearly all the furniture away. It IS supposed that Smith stole the children back from his wife and took them to his rooms to kill them. He is a consumptive, and acts as if crazed by illness and trouble. He refused to make any statement when ar rested, and was locked up.
 The Bowers Paper Mill on the Brandywine | Pennsylvania, is again in active operation, with prospects of good business ahead: and at Lock Haven the Pennsylvania Pulp and Paper Co.'s increased business has necessi- tated additional facilities and machinery, in. cluding two more sets of friction cone pull leys.
 1 The Board of Directors of the Maritime | Association of New York, adopted resolu- | tiOns, urging Congress to establish Depart ment of Commerce, its Chief to have place l in the Cabinet, to foster our ocean carrying trade and our internal commerce by water 1 and rail.
 1 Foreign.
 The provisional government of Brazil has promised to respect the princess matrimonial contract and also the pensions conceded the poor by Emperor Dom Pedro. All Brazilians able to read and write are entitled | to vote at elections for government officers