Connecticut western news., 1890-11-05
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The public beqsests of Mrs. Lydia Rhodes, of Lynn, Mass, widow of Amos Rhodes, are as follows: Second Congrega- tional society, Lynn, 5000; Lynn Home for Aged Women, Lynn Public library and the Lynn hospital, 5000 each; $2O,000 for the erection of Rhodes memorial chapel in Pine Grove cemetery.
 Anthony Benson, treasurer of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad company since it's organization, died Oct. 30. aged "A years. He had been treasurer and secretary of the Rondout (N. Y.) Savings bank for twenty years and also vice president of the First National bank of Rondout.
 John Norton, senior member of the firm of John Norton 6 Co.,, ship and freight brokers at No. 90 Wall street, New York, died suddenly Oct. 30. He was we'll known in shipping circles, and had been engaged in the brokerage business for the last forty five years.
 A state board of trade has been formed by the business associations of Massachu- setts.
 J. L. Falk & Co.,, clothing manufacturers at No. 691 Broadway, New York, have failed, with liabilities of about $2SO, 900. Commenting on the Behring sea fishery question The London Times thinks the closed sea question, which MT. Blaine ap- pears to throw into the background, must be dealt with before any progress is possi- ble. When this question is settled Eng land is perfectly ready to cooperate with America.
 Franklin Nichols, president of the Thames National bank, died at Norwich, Conn.,, Oct 30. aged s5. He had been en- gagged in banking business for over half 8 century.
 Letters from the Emin Pasha expedition state that all are we'll and that the expedi- tion is maNing a steady advance. A serious defect has been discovered by experts in the new battleship Maine, at the Brooklyn navy yard. It can be reme- | died at great expense, and the vessel will | probably be launched Nov. 18 Morris Miller (colored) was sentenced to | imprisonment for life for the murder of James H. Miller, on the night of Feb. 16, | at New York.
 Secretary Windom has appointed J. K. Moore, of St. Paul, Minn., as chief ot the | appointment division, treasury depart ment, to succeed T. E. Byrnes, resigned. | MT. Moore was for many years editor and proprietor of The Tribune, of St. Paul, | Minn., and was more recently private secre- tary to Governor McGill, of the same state. Yale and Princeton have agreed to play their Thanksgiving day football game at Eastern park, Brooklyn, the management having guaranteed 8 proper handling of the crowd.
 A thousand weavers have been thrown | out of work in Silesia by the decrease of manufacture owing to the Mckinley bill. l Admiral Freemantle, of the British South African squadron, has captured Vitu and burned the town to the ground. | Only three men were wounded on the Brit | ish side.
 A high license, local option liquor bill, with provisions similar to those of the law now in force in Massachusetts, has been introduced in the Vermont legislature; also bill providing for the dedication of the Bennington battle monument and the centennial anniversary of Vermont's ad- mission into the Union, at Bennington, Aug. 16, 1891.
 A girl named Flanagan and her mother have been murdered by moonlighters in county Clare, Ireland.
 The Italian steamship Entella, from Palermo, has arrived at New Orleans with $40 Italian emigrants.
 PasQuelle Bouchette, who shot and killed Francisco Cicerello in July last in New Rochelle, was convicted of murder in the second degree at White Plains, NY.
 James Stafford, whose skull was fract- ured, it is charged, by James Enwright a week ago Sunday at Long Island City in a quarrel over Mayor Gleason's imprison | ment, died at St. Catherines hospital.
 Mrs. Virginia Simmons, aged Az years, of No. 2,U14 Oxford street, Philadelphia, committed suicide by jumping from third story window at her home Mrs. Simmons had been i'll for long time.
 Patrice Boucicault, daughter of the late Dion Boucicault. died in London Oct. 29.
 At New York Guggenheimer & Inter meyer have begun eight suits in the su- preme court, on behalf of English corpora tions and capitalists, against Dr. G. H. Wynkoop and T. M. Vail to recover about s25o, o,0OO, alleged to have been procured from them by misrepresentation. Among the plaintiffs is Sir John Fender, whose loss is placed at $5O,O0O.
 The Dutch parliament has deposed Will. jam III, king of the Netherlands. The k1ng is too ill to perform his duties. Gen. Elias A. Brown, one of the best known men in the Mohawk valley, died at Mineville. N. r., Oct. 2s, aged 79 years. Gen. Brown was brigadier general of the Xhi1teonth bRiGade for tou Yoa1s