Connecticut western news., 1890-03-19
GENERAL NEWS.

The sensation on 'Change was the purchase of the Chicago, Burlington and Northern by tue Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.
 Louisiana Lottery bill was killed yesterday in the North Dakota Legislature.
 The Somerville Board of Aldermen gave hearing relative to granting license to the New England Dressed Meat and Wool Company for the erection of slaughter house in that city.
 A passenger train jumped the track near Pembroke, Ontario, going down 25-foot entertainment and injuring several people.
 The Maine Supreme Court has denied the motion for new trial in the case of Satin and Cromwell, convicted of the murder of Cashier Barron of Dexter.
 The raw rubber supply is greatly reduced.
 The steamship De Ruyter, which went ashore at Scituate, was lowed to Boston.
 There has been big snow blockade on the Rio Grande Railway.
 The streets of New Orleans are partially submerged by the Mississippi, which has in many places overt1owcd the levees.
 The Rhode Island Republican State Con- vention re-nominated the present State off cers, with the exception of Attorney-Gen- eral.
 The New York Supreme Court decides that pool selling on races is egal in that State.
 The Chicago vestibule train on the Balti- more & Ohio road ran into q big boulder, wrecking the train, killing one man and wounding several others.
 Boomers are rushing in upon the Cherokee lands.
 Sawtell is committed for trial on the charge of murder.
 The oldest living college graduate in the United States, 1t is stated, is Amos F. Par ker, who was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1913, and is now 98 years of age.
 In Georgetown, D. o.. in an humble cot only surviving grandc6ild of Thomas Jeffer- son, says the New York Sun. Her name is Mrs. Septimia Randolph Meikleham, widow of David s. Meikelham, long since dead. She is now in her 76th year. She IS support ed by her daughter, who has 8 cerkship in the Patent Office.
 The New York World is authority for tho statement that MT. Jay Gould is soon to marry again, this time the widow of Maurice B. Flynn. She is a tall, fne-looking woman, with flashing dark eyes and rather wavy hair, and is almost 26 years old. Her father, Theo- dore Moss, is we'll known in Wall street and in theatrical life. But the New York Tri- bune of to-day denies the report of Jay Gould's intended marriage win Mrs. Flynn.
 About twenty delegates to the Pan-A Ameri- can conference have thus far signffied their acceptance of the invitation sent them by
 
 as guests of the Government.
 A boy named Rankin, who was bitten by rabd animal some time ago, and who was subjected to course of anti-rabic cinoculations by Prof. Pasteur of Paris, has just died at Coleraine, Ireland, of hydrophobia.
 Mir. Charles A. Grinnell of the firm of J. F. Dane, Grinnell & Co.,, prominent busi- ness man of Boston observed the 50th anniver- sary of his marriage. MT. Grinnel was mar ried March 12, 1S4O, in Baltimore, where he resided formerly and where he has many friends. His celebration last evening was very quiet one, Mrs. Grinnell having been an invalid for many years.
 Gen. Sherman Is disgusted with the futile efforts of New York to raise enough money for the Grant monument He says: EThat won't happen to me; Pve bought my own monument and paid 5000 for 1t. The min- ute am buried it will be clapped on over me, and that will end the nonsense with mJ monument.
 Henry M. Flagler has just completed at the Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. Augustine, Fla, beautiful chapel costing $20O,000. 1t Is memorial to his daughter, Mrs. Benedict, ,who died year ago.
 George J. Tyson probably does the largest business in the allet space of any man in the world. He owns nine or ten hotel news stands and conducts them all from the head one in the Fifth Avenue Hotel i'll New York city where he has 8 stand only three feet wide by ten feet long. His business amounts to million and half annually.