Connecticut western news., 1890-10-01
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 The president has nominated Edgar B. Bailey to be collector of customs for the district of Hartford, Conn.
 Gen. Abram Duryea died Sept. 27 at New York of paralysis His wife and daughter were at his bedside when he expired. He was 76 years of age. Gen. Duryea had most distinguished military career. He was colonel of the famous Seventh regi- ment forty years ago. When the late war broke out he organized and took into ac- tion the Duryea zouaves, and served brill iantly at the great battles of Cedar Noun tain, Rappahannock Station, Thorough fare Gap, Antietam. Chantilly and South Mountain He was made brigadier gen. eral for his gallant services.
 The census office announces the popula- tion of the following Pennsylvania cities, with increases since 1880: Bradford, 10, ,478; increase, 1,281. Dubois, 6,137; increase, 3,419 Lockhaven, 1850; increase, 1,505. Williamsport, 27,1o7; increase, s,173.
 Edward F. Reilly, clerk of the county of New York, died at his residence Sept. 2s of pneumonia. He was 35 years of age and had served in the senate and assembly.
 Lieutenant Governor Jones says he is candidate for the governorship of New York state.
 James J. Madison, son of 8 Quaker Gap Pa) millionaire, after squandering a fort une in dissipation, shot himself a few min utes before he was to have been married to Miss Adela Winthrop.
 A Washington special says: The admin istration has, it is believed in official circles in Washington, decided to recall Minister Mizner for his action in the Bar rundia affair
 Rev. Dr. w. L. Phillips, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Wilkesbarre, Pa, has accepted a call to the First Congregational church in New Haven, Conn. He will be succeeded by Rev. Dr. Boyle, now pastor of the Park Avenue church of New York city. Ecuador and Nicaragua have signified their interest in the proposed inter-conti- mental railway
 Asa Dow, ex-president of the Chicago Board of Trade, is dead. He was in the sin y-seventh year of his age The Worlds fair site at Chicago as finally selected will be the lake front, Jackson and l Washington parks and the Midway plais- | ance. The plaisance is broad avenue GOO | feet wide and about a mile long, connect | ing the southeast corner of the Washington | park with the northern half of Jackson 1 park. > Crowley & Smith, proprietors of the | Hotel Carleton at Buffalo, have made a | general assignment to Edward J. Coles worth.
 The Russian prison department proposes to substitute deportation to Saghalien, and 1 solitary confinement in place of corporal l punishment in the case of women exiles l in Siberia
 Walter Swartz, 8 Delaware, Lackawanna l and Western brakeman, was found dead l on the track near Nicholson, Pa. Milford Woodruff, president of the Nor mon church, has issued an address to the l public in which he denies the recent report
 that the leaders of his church continue to encourage polygamous marriages. In con- 1 clusion he says: "And now pu blicly de- 1 clare that my advice to the Latter Day | Saints is to refrain from contracting any l marriage forbidden by the law of the land. " Vice President Morton has put stop to 1 the sale of wines and liquors at retail in Shoreham at Washington. The liabilities of the Potter-Lovell con- cern of Boston have been found to be $6, OOo, 900, of which &, 100000 is due directly | to the banks.
 Sister Rose Gertrude, who has been act 1 ing as matron at the receiving hospital for 1 lepers at Honolula, is to marry Dr. Lutz, l the teper specialist of Hawaii Gen. B. F. Butler will make an attempt to break the will of the late Millionaire A. T. Stewart for his client, Sarah Brough,
 an alleged blood relation of Stewart. United States revenue cutters have been | ordered to take active measures against
 seal poachers in Behring sea. l Thomas T. Collins, an American citizen, who, if report is true, has been prisoner
 in Manila, on the Philippine islands, for
 sixteen years, is missing, and his lawyer
 in New York believes that he has been
 murdered. Collins is 55 years old. He was born in New York, and went to the
 Manila islands in 1871. His story,of his l treatment, taken from an affidavit which
 was forwarded to the government author
 ities in 1880, is to the efset that he was robbed of his business, ruined and inn 1 prisoned without cause by the Spaniards.
 The house committee on public build. ings and grounds has authorized g favor
 able report on the senate bill providing
 for public building at Altoona, Pa., with
 an amendment reducing the appropriation
 from $150, ,0O0 to $so,0OO..
 Charles Cratzley, of Easton, Pa, driver I of the canal boat John Newport, was
 drowned at Spencerport, N. Y. 1 Two thousand miners at Tappan, Aus. tr1an Silesia, have gone on strike. Trouble
 is feared and troops have been dispatched
 to the scene to preserve order. 1 A commercial panic prevails at Lisbon.
 The leading banks are in 8 precari6us con. l dition, and the crisis is imminent. l Agnes Robertson, one of the late Dion
 Boucicault's wives, has sailed from Eng
 land for New York, where she will claim | Bouclcault's estate as against Louise l Thorndyke, the dramatist's second wife
 She will claim that Boucicault's second marriage was bigamous.
 l Iron and steel manufacturers from all
 parts of Europe and America have ar
 ranged for convention at New York and | in Pittsburg and general inspection o1
 the mines and manufactories of the coun
 try. One thousand delegates will partici pate.
 1 The controller of the currency has author
 ized the Union National bank, of Atlantic
 City, N. J., to begin business with cap
 ital of $1OO,O00.
 ". w. Pierce, of Westport Essex coun- l ty, N. Y., has been nominated for assem. ply by the Democrats
 l During August past 37,3s7 immigrants
 came to the United States, against 31 AIS in
 August, 1889. Germany during the past
 month furnished {, ,579: England and Wales 5.399; Russia, 3,S39; Ireland, 3,81S Sweden
 and Norway, 3,048 Italy, 2,897, and Poland
 1,s32.
 Franklin Voorhees,, cousin of Superin-
 tendent Theodore Voorhees,, of the Central
 Hudson railroad, died at Saratoga A very influential committee ha.
 been organized in New York, with Dr
 A. L. Loomis as president, to preserve
 the Adirondacks from further destruc
 tion by reckless tree cutting. It il
 hoped that the state may be induced
 to purchase all rights, and to convert
 this beautiful region, which is highly