Connecticut western news., 1889-10-30
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.


 ception at the White House last week, Mrs. Harrison for the first time carried into effect her oft-announced intention of not shaking hands. By the aid of large boquet held in both hands she warded of the most invet- crate hand-shakers.
 MT. Shame Fun, the new Chinese Consul in New York, has arrived, and attended a banquet in his honor at which he was re- quired to have an interpreter at each elbow. He required a Chinese interpreter to give him the substance of the Cantonese dialect spoken by the Chinamen in this country, as he is from another province.
 Mrs. Todd, the wife of the Amherst astron- omer who has gone to Africa to observe the eclipse, helped her husband wonderfully in his preparations. She read every book con- corning the coast to which the expedition is going, and read to him selected passages daily. She also worked up formulas and details of geography for him.
 The President has appointed O. F. Will Hams, of Rochester, N. Y., to be United States consul at Havre, France.
 A syndicate has offered $2,275, ,0OO for the car-wheel and locomotive works of John Bass, at Fort Wayne, St. Louis and Chicago, and bis extensive coal and iron mines in Ala bama. Mir. Bass is holding out for $3, ,0OO,- 900 and will probably get it.
 The American steamship Tonawanda is now nearly 10 days overdue from Darien, Ga. Several vessels have arrived and reported passing sunken 1umber-laden vessel off Body Island, and from the description given it is feared the craft is the Tonawanda, and that her officers and crew are drowned. The Tonawanda had full cargo of lumber for Brooklyn. She was 8 wooden vessel, built in Philadelphia in 1864.
 Gov. Foraker's condition is still a matter of serious apprehension to his friends, al- though he is reported as convalescing. 1m- provement is not so marked, and it is reason a rfofn hot ho twill of ho oh1 f. any of his appointments.
 Mary E., better known as Minnie Palmer, who was accidentally shot in New York city last May, and who recovered, shot herself at her parents home in Port Jarvis, N. Y. The shot will probably prove fatal, the bull signed for the act is that her mother had been scolding, and threatened to put bullet in her. Minnie said she would shoot herself and thus save the old lady the trouble.
 The citizens of Johnstown have raised $50OO to continue the search for the dead. James McMillen of the Cambria Iron Com pany, and A. J. Moxham of the Johnson company subscribed $10O0 each. The administrator of Lena Weinberg, W ho committed suicide last May, in Winona, ,Minn., has found in the false bottoms of four trunks belonging to her $12, ,116 in American gold and bank notes, English sovereigns and other foreign money. No heirs to the property are known.
 The account given by a correspondent of the reception accorded to Minister Phelps by Emperor Wilhelm at Potsdam is very pictur- esque. The Minister passed through 8 series of long halls until he came into a handsome room filled with smartly uniformed officers; and after waiting few minutes with them the door of an inner apartment opened, the officers suddenly disappeared and the Elm peror came forth. The conversation was principally on scientific and social matters, and lasted nearly an hour. The Emperor showed himself exceedingly well informed | about American affairs.
 The scarcity of railroad cars at Pittsburg, is causing an advance in coke. Furnace men through the Ohio valley are offering g per ton for it and cannot get full supply at that price. Three months ago it was $1. The lack of shipping facilities is not only forcing consumers to pay big price for coke, but 1t is also entailing direct loss to shippers.
 The proprietors of the Grant Locomotive Works at Paterson, N. J., intend to establish plant near Chicago, and subscriptions are now being taken in that city. The company proposes to invest $1 900 900 on condition cago. The works there will employ about 1 200 men. The plan is to purchase large tract Of land, using 8 portion Of 1t for the works and remainder for building lots. A town of 5000 or 6OOO people will be established in reasonably short time, if present plans are carried out.
 The report that the Prince of Wales has Bright's disease is confirmed by dispatch from London, which says that his physicians have informed him that there is no hope for him. His royal mother Is much alarmed by the intelligence.
 Prof. Englisch, the chess champion, lately played no less than thirty games of chess simultaneously at the Vienna Chess Club, against the most experienced members, and won them all in less than five hours. A strange atmospheric phenomenon was | observed at Pittsburg. The sun was sinking toward the horizon and the sky was hazy, when brilliant rainbow, a quarter circle, appeared in the zenith, being visible for an hour.
 Horace Phillips, formerly manager of the Pittsburg Base Ball Club, who has been con- fined in the insane asylum at Merchantville, | recovered his reason, and will be released | from the asylum at once. Dr. Foster, his physician, says his malady was not paresis, but acute mania.
 A report that Wilson Howard, with 100 men, is besieging County Judge Wilson Lewis In the court house at Harlantown, Ky., was brought to Louisville on Tuesday by two | men who just came in from that sec | tion. Lewis is said to have 50 men, and to | be fortified in the court house. Howard is | the man for whose arrest large rewards have been offered, both in this state and Missouri | Foreign.
 The second Egyptian cotton crop is being gathered. The yield is poor, and will not ex. ceed the estimates already made.
 The Berliner Nachrichten says the Bundles | rath will consider bill granting subven.