Connecticut western news., 1890-09-24
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 A colossal bronze statue of Horace Gree ley was unveiled Sept % in the entrance of The Tribune building, Printing House square, New York. MT. Greeley Is repre- sented as sitting in an old fashioned arm chair with copy of The Tribune in one hand. The statue weighs g, 900 pounds and rests upon 8 block. of polished granite. Miss Gabrielle Greeley, daughter of the distinguished editor, unveiled the statue, and Chauncey M. Depew, Bishop Potter dedicatory exercises.
 Richard P. Groat, of Wayne county; H. J. Tanner, of Ridgway, N. r., and Dr. An drew J. Long, of Whitehall, N. Y., have been nominated for the assembly of New York state.
 J. Baker Steward has been nominated for congress by the Prohibitionists of the Fifth district at Philadelphia.
 The national encampment of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows will be held st Syracuse, N. Y., during the second week of July next. It is stated that at least 30, 900 members will attend.
 Four men were killed by an explosion of gas at Wilkesbarre, Pa, Saturday.
 James Faulkner, indicted for wrecking the Dansville (N. Y.) National bank, plead ed guilty. Sentence was deferred.
 Meetings held In Ireland Sunday to de- nounce the arrests of Dillon and O'Brien .were watched by strong bodies of police and soldiery, but no arrests were made.
 An epidemic of diphtheris prevails at Bridgeton, N. J.
 Fire at South Haven, Mich, destroyed property valued at 60 1000.
 Judge Marr, of New Orleans, has in- structed the grand jury to investigate the Bowen-Carroll fight
 James Matthews, 10, of Union Hill, N. J., died of nicotine poisoning, resulting from cigarette smoking. Enumerators Sitsold, Tomlinson and Bolis have been indicted by a United States grand jury at Minneapolis. Benjamin Sweetzer, prominent citizen of Lynn, Mass. was killed there by Bos ton and Maine train.
 Ben Muldoon, an eighteen year man from Syracuse, escaped from Auburn prison by scaling tho walls with g ladder. Cholera has become epidemic in the vil- lage of Bergholx, O., and the people are leaving the place. The resident physician Is taxed to his utmost.
 
 orado nominated John L. Routt for gov tenant governor.
 The emperor of Austria has personally conferred upon Chancellor von Caprivi the decoration of the Grand Cross of St. Stephen. tF4 Cable dispatches from Hiogo, Japan, state that the Turkish man n-of-War Erto- groul has foundered at sea. Five hundred of her crew were drowned. Osman Pasha, whose success in holding back the Rus sians at Pleyna gave him high rank as fighting general, was on board and was lost. s
 The Labor World, Michael Davitt's new organ. has made its appearance in London. There Is great demand for 1t from all quarters.
 Henry Cassin and Oscar Matthews, bell boys at the Hotel vendome, New York, have been arrested for stealing tin box containing t17. 900 from the office safe. One of the boys is said to have confessed. A dispatch to The New York Herald states that Mira Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of Gen. Fremont, is in destitute cir cumstances in Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Fremont has absolutely no resources, her two sons, one in the army and the other in the navy, having large families to support, gre not able to render her much assistance. The Pioneer society will start relief fund
 John Dillon and William O'Brien, the Irish patriots, were arrested In Ireland charged with conspiracy in melting tenants not to pay rent. It is thought to be Q move on the governments part to break up the Nationalist party. The comptroller of the currency has aa- thorixed the National Bank of Cold Spring, 1 on the Hudson, N. r., to begin business with . capital of $50,0o0. The Metropolitan club, of New Orleans, has made an offer of 8 purse of $8, 900 for a | fight between Dempsey and Fitxsimmons. The house committee to whom were re. | ferred the two resolutions censuring Repre- | sentative Kennedy for his attack upon Senator Quay have decided to recommend 1 that Kennedy's speech be expunRed from l Th0 Congressional Record. The population of the state of Connecti. cut Is 745 s61, an increase of 12S, ,161, or 1o 7s per cent.
 Samuel Fowler has been nominated fo1 congress by the Democrats of the Fourth Now Jersey district.
 l The retail liquor dealers of New Yorl | state have elected the following officers fol the ensuing year: George G. Campbell Syracuse, president; Robert W, Oliver Brooklyn, first vice president; William w Barnard, Rochester, second vice president F. McCutchson, Brooklyn, secretary; B K. Murphy, New York, financial secretary A. Baetzhold. Buffalo, treasurer, and Will fam Clancy, New York, sergeant-at-arms. l The tin box stolen from the Hotel Ven dome safe, at New York, was discovered
 but the e17, 900 which 1t contained Is still
 missing. Y
 Charges of misappropriating funds and of concealing g marriage arc made Agains, tho Rev. c. Graham Adams, D. D.. lat< rector of Christ church, Lockport, N. Y.
 John Reeds confession as to how the Montreal express on the New York Central l road was wrecked last week is ready fol use as evidence. Reed says tho of1cials o1 the Knights of Labor knew nothing abou, the affair.
 Albert Possell, while standing in iron, of the altar of St Patrick's Roman Cath olic church, Jersey City Heights, with ths young lady he was about to marry, wae
 nred at by his father. The shot missed and the elder Poasell tried twice to com
 init suicide
 Gilbert M. Speir, Jr, arrived in New
 York from the ranch of the late Robert
 Ray Hamilton in Bingham county, Idaho
 He says: "There Is no shadow of doubt that Rays death was accidental"