Connecticut western news., 1890-11-26
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 A rumor is current among London clubs that Lord Salisbury will take advantage of the Parnell- O. Shea scandal and dissolve parliament at an early day.
 Mir. Stanley replied to the latest charges made against him and will now publish all the facts concerning the conduct of the rear guard.
 Forty workmen were buried by 8 falling wall at Jersey City Saturday afternoon. George Barrett was instantly killed and six others were fatally hurt. Tho wall was portion of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s new building.
 James Tucker was killed by an electric light wire at New York Noy. a
 Richard F. Tobin, of Boston, died Nov. %. He was a prominent G. A. R. man.
 The United States Rolling Stock com ,pany, of Chicago, has failed. liabilities nearly $4, ,ooo, ,oOo
 Bamford Bros.' silk mills at Paterson, N. J., have been destroyed by fire Loss, $4o0, ,O00 s4z Ss.ts,
 The Knights of Labor convention in Denver, Colo, adjourned sine die without selecting the next place of meeting
 Another attempt is on foot to break A. T. Stewards will.
 xlAOAA0 OOuOJ AS OApICaSC0 All AAdACA0A VAAs cles that Jay Gould and the Rockefellers dave gained control of the Union Pacific, the reported object being to combine the Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the Atchison, the Missouri Pacific, the Texas and Pacific and the Southern Pacific in one gigantic corporation, with MT. Gould and his friends at it's head. It is believed rail- way rates will be advanced A meb attacked the Huntington CTenn.) jail where Murderer Widdis was con- fined, but retired after one of its num- ber was seriously wounded by one of the inmates.
 Mrs. Mackey, her son and four boarders were poisoned in Chicago by colored waiter, who in revenge for being dis charged put arsenic in the food.
 The National Sabbath Reform associa- tion, which has been in session in Pitts burg this week, believing that it can do so under the blue laws of 1794, will shortly attempt to suppress the circulation of the Sunday papers of Pittsburg, and after ward those of Philadelphia. a Mrs. Mark Ross, of Krew, Prussia, has arrived in New York in search of nurse named Sarah Grunberg, who stole her in- fant child, she being the discarded sweet heart of MT. Koss.
 Peter Clark was sentenced to i've years in the Eastern penitentiary, Philadelphia, for manslaughter in hitting Mary Schissler | with lighted lamp, which burned her to death.
 In the supreme court tho habeas corpus case of Jugiro, which involves the legality of the New York method of executing criminals by electricity. was argued, and the question was held under advisement by the court.
 The archbishop of Canterbury, in the fa- nous high church trial, has delivered l judgment against Rev. Dr. Edward King, bishop of Lincoln. for making use of rit- ! uaIistic practices at the church services. MT. Whitelaw Reid, United States min ister to France, accompanied by Mrs. Reid, has left on 8 two months tour of Turkey ! and Egypt. | Surgeon General Hamilton recommends legislation by congress to keep criminal, lunatic and pauper immigration out of tho United States.
 Queen Emma took the oath as regent of the kingdom of Holland, at the Hague. The route taken by the queen in going from the palace to the parliament house, where the ceremony took place, was lined l with spectators, and her majesty was cord
 ially greeted by the people. The International Law and Order socie- tvs meeting was opened in Pittsburg, with ! Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale and other
 distinguished men in attendance. .,E l Capt. Casey, president of the board su- ! perintending the trial of the new gunboat 1 Concord, autographed to Secretary Tracy
 that the test was unsuccessful.
 The national commission on the World s
 fair in Chicago definitely settled the ques- l tion of site by providing that the main ex- | 11o ;r 1oo& <hn art gallery, music hall and electric display
 on the lake front, and the overflow in
 Washington park.
 l The Brooklyn police have nearly com pleted the census of that city. Estimates
 show that it will increase the population
 by 4O,OO0 in excess of the federal count last
 June.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Siffel, of Brooklyn, is anxious to find her husband, who went to
 Pittsburg some twenty years ago, as he has
 been left fortune of $S50, 900 in Germany. 1 The New York and New Jersey Bridge
 company propose to bring all railroads
 centering at New York into great union
 station within the city. The bridge which
 is to accommodate this traffic is to cost be-
 tween $3o, ,O00, 900 and $40, 100000.
 In the trial of w. F. Pettit, an ex-Metho-
 dist minister at Charlottesville, Ind, charged with poisoning his wife, the jury
 returned verdict of guilty of murder in
 the first degree Pettit was sentenced to
 the penitentiary for life.
 I The statement was made in Dublin that
 MT. Parnell would resign his seat in par
 lament and stand for reelection. MT. l Parnell is also said to have written to
 friends saying he would not resign the
 leadership of the Nationalists.
 Dr. D. V. M. Johnson, for nearly forty | years rector of St. Mary's Protestant Epis-
 copal church, Brooklyn, died at his home
 in that city Nov. 20,;aged 7S yeara 8 f"steThe estate of the lase Frank S. Poase,
 thesoil manufacturer of Buffalo, is in the
 courts. The widow, who was his second 1 wife, presents bill of sale of the estate to
 her. It is contested by the sons, who
 threaten to let loose all the skeletons of
 the family. .,s No. Sl West street, Brooklyn, made an as-
 signment to Austin s. Clark. The house
 is one of the oldest in the lumber trade in I Brooklyn, having been in business over
 thirty years. The assignor was formerly park commissioner. l w. s. Wharton, of No. 162 Washington I street, Chicago, has been arrested in Phila- I ~delphia. Wharton fled from Chicago on Oct. 27, leaving behind debts estimated a1
 between $50,0oo and $1Oo. .oo0. l At the annual session of the New Jersey
 grand lodge of Odd Fellows in Trenton
 it was shown that the membership of the
 order in the state was 22, ,330. The Turkish authorities in Macedonia
 have arrested fourteen persons on suspi-
 cion of having been connected with the
 murder of the Greek pope, Stojan. Four l of the persons arrested diee4 under the I judicial examination and the torture | which attended it.