Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
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 The fifty-second anniversary of Queen Victoria's coronation was celebrated June 2S
 Superintendent Porter says that the population of the United States is GA ,5O0,- OOO The complete official returns will all be in within thirty days. The population of the United States by the census of 1880 was 54, 155, 7S3.
 Unofficial figures put the population of places along the Hudson river as follows: Catskill, 4,9OO; Poughkeepsie, 2a,600; King ston, 22, 800; Newburg, 23,00O; Hudson, 1O,- 65O
 The Farm Hill mine at Dunbar, Pa, is in flames and all hope of rescuing the thirtytwo entombed miners has been abandoned.
 The Yale crew defeated Harvard at New London by over three lengths. The race was the fifteenth annual contest between the two universities.
 George Dixon defeated Nunc Wallace at the Pelican club, June 27. The fight was for e5OO and the bantam weight champion ship of the world.
 An English syndicate has purchased the shipyards of the late John Roach, at Chester, Pa.
 Treasurer Hemingway, of Mississippi, was found guilty of embezzlement by a jury. Counsel for defendant at once asked for time to file motion in arrest of judg- ment, which was granted.
 Edmund s. De Luce, chief engineer of the United States navy, died June 25 at New Brighton, s. l.. in the 62d year of his age. He was promoted to be chief engineer in 1861.
 P. Tecumseh Sherman, son of Gen. w. T. Sherman, was one of a class of twenty seven young lawyers admitted to the bar by the general term of the supreme court at New York.
 The North American Turner bund ad- journed to meet in Washington in June, 1892
 Hamilton Odell, as referee in the suit of Shipman, Barlow, Larocque & Choate to recover from the Bank of the State of New York the amount of the forgeries of James E. Bedell, has filed his report awarding the firm $198, ,045 with interest, or $218,510.
 The Rev. George F. Cushman, D. D., of Brooklyn, died June 26 of pneumonia. He was born at Pawtucket, R. l., in 1919 and graduated from Amherst college in 184O. He came to Brooklyn in 1879 and became one of the associate editors of The Church man.
 Rain-in- the-Face, the Sioux chief who played so prominent part in the Custer massacre, was fatally stabbed by his jeal- ous squaw.
 In the boat race at New London, Conn.,, Cornell defeated the University of Penn sylvania by six lengths. Cornells time was 14:33; Pennsylvania's, 15:O2
 The court of appeals of New York state in the sugar trust case declared all trusts illegal
 A loI New Mexico were ambushed and shot by Mexican troops.
 The Amalgamation association conven- William Weihe
 It is said that there is leakage in the New York state court of appeals and that Secretary of the Aqueduct Board Sheehan, of New York, offered the news of the sugar trust decision for sale in Wall street before the decision was formally made public.
 Sarah Bernhardt is coming to America in November.
 Victor de Bules, an expert chemist, com mitted suicide at Philadelphia. He was about 40 years old and had stated that his father was a German count. President Seelye, of Amherst college, has resigned, to take effect at the close of the college year, Aug. 31. Hugh w. Mckay, Jr., son of one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of Jersey City, is dying at his fathers home from pistol shot wound inflicted with suicidal intent. Lizzie M Bilby, aged 16, committed sui eide at Dover. N. J., by swallowing a dos e of stry chnine. The claims of Mrs. Katherine Frances Allen, a lunatic, upon the estate of Com modore Vanderbilt's grandson, William B. Allen, have been compromised for 5,0OO
 Four thousand men and women employed in the manufacture of cigars have struck for higher wages at New York
 The Cornell crew won the boat race at New London, Conn. Time, 11:1616. Yale came in second and Columbia third. Yale won the baseball intercollegiate championship, defeating Harvard by a score of to 1. John L. Sullivan was fined only $500 for prize fighting in Mississippi. Articles of consolidation and agreement of the Lehigh Valley RatlwAy company, 1 the Buffalo and Geneva Railway company and the Geneva and Van Ettenville Rail way company into the Lehigh Valley Rail way company have been filed at Albany, | N. Y. Capital stock, &, ,900, ,000 1 The HOmo cOrTeSpOnQenC or ne CaFuO- lie News cables that the pope has appoint ed the Rev. Charles E. Mcdonnell, D. D., Archbishop Corrigan's pfivate secretary, papal private chamberlain with the title of monsignor. 1 Whites ingrain carpet mills were dam aged to the extent of $35,000 by fire at Philadelphia.
 In the Seawanhaka- Cpripthiap Yacht club race Minerva won, beating Liris and Choctaw.
 l The fire in the Pennsylvania colliery at Mt Carmel, Pa, has been extinguished and work in the mine will be resumed
 Two hundred and fifty women and girls employed in the plug department of Loril lard's tobacco factory, at Jersey City, have struck for more wages, It is reported that | if the strikers demands are not granted all the hands in the factory, numbering 2,500 will join the strikers.
 The president has nominated H. C. Ma haffey, of Delaware, to be marshal of the United States for the district of Delaware and D. F. Stewart to be postmaster at Will mington.
 ] A disastrous fire in the Island of Mar unique has rendered homeless 5000 per sons, who appeal for aid.
 In the I.puse of commons the government has withdrew the objectionable clauses it l licensing bill.