Connecticut western news., 1890-09-03
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 John s. Clarkson, first assistant post master general, left the public service Sat- urday and has retired to private life.
 August Belmont's colt Potomac won the Futurity stakes at Sheepshead Bay Satur- day. His horse Washer came in second. The stakes were worth $75, 900.
 Miss Emily Ashton, a pretty young lady of Netherwood, Ind, eloped with her fath- CTS colored coachman.
 Burglars have been making midnight raids at Long Branch and Mays Landing, N. J., and in some cases have secured rich booty. The police have no clew to the raiders.
 Lady Wilton, 2:25, bay Ally, 3 years old, by Wilson, dam Lemonade, by Kentucky Prince, Jr., has been sold by D. Thomas, of North Middletown, Ky, to Bowerman Brothers, of Lexington. Price q, ,5OO
  New Jersey under the new census is as fol Elizabeth city, 87,67O; increase, SAL Har- rison, 8,52S; increase, 1880. Hoboken, 4s, ,581; increase, 12,5e2. Jersey City, 153,- 927; increase, 4S,2e5. Lambertville, 1,13s; decrease 45. New Brunswick, 18,450; in- crease, 1,293. Perth Amboy, 19, 9,476; in- crease, 4,66S Plainfeld, 11,25O; increase, 8,125. Railway, 7,090; increase, 635. Tren- ton, 58, ,48s; increase; 28, ,57s.
 Charles B. Meech, mayor of Mandan, Democratic candidatefor state auditor, and formerly with the Mercantile National bank of Hartford, Conn, died Aug. %.
 Thomas Sheldon, aged 7s, was struck and killed by wildcat engine near Lowville Aug. %. He was deaf and was walking on the track.
 At the Republican district convention held at Ballston, N. Y, Cornelius F. Shaef- fer was renominated for assembly.
 One of the Leary rafts has gone ashore at Lock Island, Me, and is said to be total loss.
 While Guatemalian officers were endeav- bring to take Gen. Barru ndid, the revolu- tionist, from an American steamer, . fight occurred, during which Gen. Barrundid was shot.
 At New York the board of walking dele gates raised their boycott from "associa- tion" brick, an action which the manu- lecturers consider sign of weakness.
 Cable cars ran amuck in Chicago, one man being killed and several persons bad, ly hurt.
 Capt. R. F. Bradford has been detached from command of the United States steam CT Philadelphia on account of i'll health and has been placed on waiting orders. Capt. Roderick Rogers, inspector of the third lighthouse district, succeeds him.
 Governor Brackett has nominated Judge Walbridge A. Field as chief justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts. to succeed Justice Morton, retired
 Congressman Joseph G. Cannon was re- nominated for congress by the Republicans of the Fifteenth district of Illinois.
 The New York state grand lodge, L O. G. T., has chosen the following delegates to the right worthy grand lodge session to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in May next: Dr. D. H. Mann, of Brooklyn; w. H. Crampton, of Lockport; Alden Chester, of Albany; Mrs. M. B. O'Donnell, of Low vile; Mrs. L. E. Dean, of syracuse; John N. stearns, of New York and w. Martin
 The Chicago News says that Senator Far we'll Is g hopeless invalid and will decline reelection. Congressman Mills, of Texas, has been unanimously renominated by the Democrats of his district.
 A protocol of peace was signed between San Salvador and Guatemala.
 It is said that Alexander Sullivan, of Chicago, is poor man owing to his alleged implication in the Cronin murder. He has transferred his residence to A. $. Trude, his attorney, to pay the expense of his de- fense.
 Otto Leuth, aged 17 years, was hanged at Columbus, O., Aug. g, for the murder of Maggie Thompson, an 6-year-old girl.
 The Peter Deal foundry at Gloversville, N. r., was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, s12,0OO.
 The house committee on military affairs have ordered favorable report on the bill introduced into the house by MT. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, for marking the lines of battle and dispositions of the army of northern Virginia at Gettysburg, Pa. The bill is reported with an amendment reduc- ing the appropriation from $31O, 900 to $125,- 900.
 A statement of the business of all lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad company east of Pittsburg and Erie for July shows . decrease in net earnings of 350O, ,191. The statement for all lines west of Pittsburg and Erie for the same period shows an in- crease in net earnings of $9 SIS.
 Horace c. Wilcox, aged 66, founder of the Meriden Conn., Brittania works, died at Cottage City, Mass, Aug. N.
 The skeleton of the woman found in a barrel at Newark, N. J., turns out to have been only a medical subject.
 hn oA <1,o T. congressional district of New York have renom1nated Serene E. Payne, of Auburn.
 George w. Peck, of Milwaukee, Wis. author of the famous Bad Boy" sketches, has been nominated for governor of Wis consin by the Democrats. The resolutions adopted by the convention demand the re peal of the Bennett law.
 Ex-Governor Milledge L. Bonham, of South Carolina, was found dead in bed at Waynesville, N. c.
 The Jamesburg Sunday school conven- tion was held at New Brunswick, N. J., Wednesday. Five thousand people were present.
 Elisha J. Potter, . we'll known farmer living near Medina, N. r., shot himself on Tuesday, and is in critical condition. He was Respondent because of the failure o1 his fruit crop.
 Two unknown men who asked Lorenzo Welles, of Paterson, N. J., to drink with them in the lAtter's saloon, drugged his beer and then robbed his place and took $150 from his pocket. They escaped.
 Joseph Mitchell and Frank Duffy, miners at Port Dram, N. J., were killed by falling ore. They had set on blast in the Hurd mine and entered it before tho earth had settled. The bodies were recovered.
 The survivors of Gen. Grants old com. mand, the Twenty-drst Illinois infantry, will hold their sixteenth annual reunion at Decatur, Ills, Oct. and 9. They will ask that the remains of their commander be removed either to Washington or tc Illinois