Connecticut western news., 1890-10-22
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 At Elmira the jury in the Mrs. Ellen berger murder case acquitted the woman.
 A Berlin dispatch states that universal labor congress will he held in Brussels on Aug. 16, 1891.
 William Taylor, on trial at Albany, N. Y., for tho killing of his mother last spring, was convicted of murder in the second degree.
 Capt. L. w. Cutler, editor and proprietor of The Field and Farm, of Denver, Colo, died suddenly at Salida, Colo, Oct. 1S He was born in Genesee county, N. Y., in 1898. He was at one time associate editor with Horace Greeley on The New York Tribune, and served in that capacity for several years. He was veteran of the Mexican war and went to Colorado in 166O
 The public schools at Oxford, Blooming Grove and other villages in Orange county, N. Y., have been closed owing to the pre- valence of malignant type of diphtheria
 Rev. Father Franciola, of St. Peters church, Brooklyn, is dead. He has been fifty years priest.
 Associate Justice Miller's remains were finally inferred at Keokuk, Ia., Oct. IS.
 Daniel H. Wilson, of Boston, shot and killed his wife while she was asleep, and then fatally wounded himself. He was insane.
 The Cincinnati Dessicating company at Trautman's Station, O., was destroyed by fire. Loss, s3O,O0O; insured.
 Nicholas Schubert, a wealthy real estate man of Newark N. J., committed suicide Oct. 18 It was his sixth attempt to kill himself.
 Augustus Case, 8 son of Admiral l.. Ludlow Case, U. S. N, was drowned off Pappoose Quash point, at Bristol, R. I. The coroner's inquest on the twelve vic tims of the Dupont powder explosion re- suited in verdict of death from an acci- dental explosion. The minority prepared resolution recommending the authori- ties to pass such laws as would prevent the storage of powder in dangerous quan- titles too near the limits of the city of Will mington.
 Rev. John Erich, pastor of the German Lutheran church, of Hoboken, who was deposed because he married a divorced woman, has taken steps to form new pastorate in Hoboken under 8 new classis Albert F. Vedder, formerly Presbyte- | rian clergyman, was sentenced to five years in state prison by Recorder Smyth, l at New York, for abducting 15-year-old Mary McCann.
 Messrs T. D. Sullivan, Timothy Har- rington and T. P. O'Connor will join l Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien in Paris and 1 sail with them for America on Oct. 25. The Association for the Advancement of | Women elected Julia Ward Howe, of | Rhode Island, president for the tenth con- | secutive year. Isabel Rowland, of Sher- l wood, N. Y., was elected secretary, and Henrietta l.. T.Wolcott, of Dedham, Mass, | treasurer.
 In the socialist congress at Halle a dele 1 gate from Hamburg dropped dead while l speaking.
 Thomas Mccoy was arrested in Danbury, l Conn.,, on suspicion of being implicated in the Walton murder.
 The New York Herald says that Presi- dent Harrison has resolved to call an ex- tra session of congress early in November. In panic among children in Chicago church one boy was killed and several little ones were fatally injured. The assignee says the assets of R. G. Peters, of Manitee, Mich., are over 5000, GOO, and will cover the liabilities. 1 The Barley Wringer Machine works, of Woonsocket, R. l., have been sold to an l English-American syndicate for SAFE, 900. The new concern is to be capitalized at S2500,0OO. The daily output is HOO.
 The Rev. J. H. Hector, of San Francisco, negro Prohibition orator, who recently went to Pittsfeld, Mass, to address the Prohibitionists of that city in company with his wife and little boy and Mime. Bayard, also colored, of Boston, were re- fused admission to two hotels there.
 The Canadian Locomotive and Engine company, of Kingston, Ont, is beginning work on two locomotives which, when completed, will be among the largest in the world. They will weigh more than LOG tons each, and are to be used on the Chig necto Marine Transport railway in Nova Scotia.
 Superintendent Porter, of the census is much improved in health by his trip to Europe. He has sailed for America.
 MT. Philip Carroll, of New York, consu at Palermo, Italy, and MT. H. c. Pugh, o1 Indiana, consul at Newcastle, England have been directed to exchange places.
 In Jersey City Mrs. Catherine Schwoerel died in great agony after partaking of souI supposed to have been poisoned by her son
 Mary Elizabeth Hynes, the beautiful an6 wealthy widow of late St. Louis million aire, died under the surgeons knife in tn, New York hospital.
 Gen. w. w. Belknap, Grants second secretary of war, was buried with military honors at Arlington Oct. 16
 The Peoples National bank of Waynes boro Pa., capital $50, 900, has been author ized to begin business.
 William Wilson has been sentenced tt five years and six months in Sing Sing
 prison for stoning 8 Central Hudson pas
 senger train.
 Harry B. Deputy, of the real estate ant
 insurance firm of Depuy & Westbrook, O
 Kingston, N. Y., has been missing sine l Monday, and it is rumored that he has ab
 seconded with several thousand dollars. l Harry M Crawford, of Newark, N. J. was held to await the action of the grant
 jury for bigamy at Rondout, N. Y., in tn
 sum of $2,0O0. He is said to have ha'
 three wives. He is about 35 years old The first wife died, it is alleged, of crue
 treatment. The second was Laura A Kane, of Newark, who caused his arrest and the last is Leona Dubois, of Por
 Ewen, N. Y.
 1 Col. William A. Booth, superintendent of construction of the new postofice il Brooklyn, was stricken with apoplexy His condition is precarious. The treasury department has been in
 formed officially by the United States con
 sul general at Ottawa, Canada, that tn Dominion government removed the expor duty on lumber Oct. 13
 , Murderer Birchall is writing sketch o his life. He will sell it to the highest bid der and give the proceeds to his wife. f Frank Larue, charged with the murde of Harry Mcbride, who died in a prz fight at the Golden Gate club, San Fran
 cisco, has been acquitted.
 A Baggagenan's Warning Cry Saves Man
 People from Death. BUFFALO, Oct 20.-"Jump to the othe : side quickT' was the startling cry of tn baggageman of the Lake Shore limite three miles east of Silver Creek Sunda morning The nassenpars iu1nnad A