Connecticut western news., 1890-11-12
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 The treasury department is issuing new one dollar notes at the rate of 4,O00 day. The issue will continue until the string ency in the market for small notes is over come.
 Robert Nelson Gere, member of as- sembly in 1862, and prominently connected with salt, banking and manufacturing in- terests, died at his home in Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 7.
 The Mutual Fire Insurance company, of Chicago, has filed general assignment. Liabilities, $57 ,604. S9: nominal assets, $751; eco. 60. Unusually large losses, conse- quent assessment, followed by loss of confidence and withdrawal of holders of premium notes caused the suspension.
 A boiler in Baker Brothers cotton gin at Dyersburg, Tenn, burst, killing two negroes and wrecking the gin.
 Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, who while presiding over the queens bench division of the high court of justice, was taken seri- ously ill with an attack of acute gastritis, is rapidly recovering. His physicians do not consider his ailment serious. The comptroller of the currency has de- clared a first dividend of 20 per cent. in favor of the creditors of the Gloucester City National bank, of Gloucester City, N. J., on claims proved amounting to $27, ; 4563 B. The bank failed May 1, 1890.
 H. s. Billings, for twenty-five years su- perintendent of the Pullman Palace Car company, died at Hornellsville, N. Y., Nov. z. ss s-.s .l George Halstead, a we'll known merchant of Ashford Junction, N. Y., was struck. by | passenger train on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad and instantly killed. Nehemiah Allen Leonard, president of the Connecticut River railroad and one of the leading lawyers of the Hampden county bar since 1850, died at Springfield, Mass, Nov. 7, aged 65 years.
 | Austin Gibbons, the Paterson (N. J.) special light weight, did up his Brooklyn rival in the same class, Mike Cushing, in l nineteen rounds, at Providence, R. I. Maj. Gen. Miles reports that most of the l western Indians expect Messiah, and | says the Mormons are at the bottom of it. | Three men were killed at duel on cleo. | tion day in Kentucky mountain town. | Thomas and Henry Harper have depart | ed from New York, leaving large indebt- edness. They claimed to have invented a machine which would duplicate automat l ically the work of a hand painter on china. l Arrests for election frauds are ordered in Philadelphia, and there is a fugacious in clination on the part of crooked politicians
 Politicians are divided on the New York senatorship. Shrewd reasoners argue that neither MT. Cleveland nor Governor Hill could take it, and some think 8 New York city man may get it, though there are be lievers in Smith M. Weeds chances. | Loris M. Nuttmin, of Jersey City, has been appointed cadet to West Point witt | Harold w. Armstrong, of Montclair, N. J., as alternate.
 The president has pardoned Henry H l Curtis, of New Jersey, convicted of deser tion from the United States army.
 Col Judson, Governor Hills military secretary, was married Nov. 6 to Miss Marion E. Lathrop. The governor attend ed the reception. His gift to the bride was a costly watch and chain. The watch chair is studded with diamonds.
 In the Vermont legislature a bill com polling corporations to pay their employe! weekly was killed by vote of 96 to 125 also bill exempting soldiers from thu payment of poll tax.
 Black diphtheria is prevailing in an epi demic form at Cygnet. O. The schools ar, all closed and business is practically sus l cured and many persons are leaving thu place.
 The annual report of Maj. Gen. Schofiele recommends large addition to our flee and shore batteries for coast defense.
 Three bodies have been taken from th' wrecks of tho Vizcaya and the Cornelius Hargraves and brought to New York
 The Getty house (Yonkers) suicide wa evidently a Boston tailor in hard luck Speculator Perrin H. Sumner has received remarkable letter signed "J. H. Edgar.
 Col. Thomas B. Price, president of tht Gazette Printing company, of Sedalia, Mo. was shot and mortally wounded by Judg' John Higgins, of Pitts county court. Al election quarrel caused the shooting. David H. Greever, we'll known cattl
 man, was shot and fatally wounded a Kansas City by Charles Clifford, an ex l puoilist from San Francisco