Connecticut western news., 1890-04-09
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Worth Reading-The Wheat of the Worlds News winnowed from a Whole Weeks Thrashing.
 Rev. John Dougherty Wood, Methodist minister at Port Allegheny, Pa., has been arrested upon 8 charge of bigamy, pre- ferred by Mrs Alice Wood, of Phillipsb burg, NJ
 Gen. Boulanger has resolved to return to Paris at once. '-
 John l.. Sullivan has offered to fight J. M. Corbett, of San Francisco, four rounds for $1 900, with the proviso that he will not ac- cept cent unless he puts Corbett to sleep in that time. The Iowa legislature has voted to con- tinNe prohibition in Iowa for two years more.
 The house at Washington has passed the senate joint resolution for the removal of the powder magazine from Ellis island, N. Y., and for location of an emigrant station at that point.
 The Olympic football team, of Fall River, on Saturday defeated the Kearney Rovers, of Newark, N. J., in game for the Amer ican championship cup A to 3 at Pawtucket. Count di Montercole was again arrested at Philadelphia for distributing scurrilous
 
 $2O and held in $4OO bail.
 Murderer Kemmler, now in solitary con- finement in Auburn prison, claims to be converted, as the resnlt of miraculous visitation. His manner has greatly changed. Dom Pedro is seriously ill
 James H. Kellmeir and Max Schultz were killed by dynamite explosion at Bay chester, N. Y.
 Cable dispatches from London and St Petersburg indicate the existence of very serious trouble in Russia and confirm the reports of the czar's illness. '- ii
 "La Passion" mystic poem in six parts, by Edmond Haraucourt, was read at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris, by Sarah Bern hardt Philippe Garnier and M. Fremont. Bernhardt represented the Virgin Mary and Garnier and Fremont. Christ and Judas Iscariot, respectively. The audience cheered and hjssed, the hissers being finally ejected from the theatre.
 The police of Gatschina, Russia, have dis covered explosives on the grounds of the imperial palace. The czar has in copse- quence renounced the idea of going there to finish Lent.
 Senator Beck, of Kentucky, says the rt nor that he intends to resign is unfounded.
 The Republicans of Bridgeport, Conn. have nominated ex-Mayor Jones for mayor: John Carr, for city clerk; Frederick Rom mons, for collector, and Charles Wilmot for town clerk. The election. takes place April 2.
 Mayor Jacobs of Louisville, has appointeo Friday day of fasting, in view of the visj- tation of the tornado.
 Favorable reports have been ordered by the senate committee on claims on bills ,tc pay John Roach's assignees s3s, $40 for extra work done on the monitor Puritan, and $20,- 274 for care of the Roanoke. t
 Thomas Earle, late city treasurer of Jer. sey City, died April l, aged S2. aa
 c. W. Bogardus the we'll known photog- rapher, died at Nyack N. Y., April 8. s.
 General Passenger Agent Wood, of the Pennsylvania, has been made chairman of the trunk lines passenger committee pend ing the appointment of successor to Com. missioner Tuttle who recently resigned.
 Choat, The New York World reporter who was caught in the Flack jury room, has been indicted for criminal contempt. He is now in jail for contempt
 Julius Kaufman, an ex-deputy sheriff of New York city, has been indicted for grand larceny in stealing s1OO worth of dry goods from store he had levied on.
 During quarrel in front of South street New York; saloon William Aber- nethy, of Rondout a pilot, was knoQked down and his skull fractured by contac, with the pavement He died soon after. ward. His assailant was captured several hours later. His name is Fritz Sinuamon a tugboat engineer, and he has a bad record It is said he was employed by an enemy oi Abernethy's $ to thrash thelatter. Witnesses state that Abernethy had his hands in hii pockets when Sinnamon, without warning felled him with blow. The will of the late Thomas Cornell, ot Rondout, N. Y., gives 90 per cent. of the in come of the estate to the widow during hel life, the other 10 per cent to be added to tht estate At her death the income is to be di vided equally between the two married daughters, and after their death the estate is to go their children The estate is valued at about $5,000, GOO. Thirty thousand dol lars is set apart for a burial vault. Horace Loomis has resigned as commis sioner of street cleaning for New York city and ex-Surveyor H. s. Beattie has been ap pointed to succeed him. g... The condition of Mrs. James Roswell who was brutally assaulted at Eatontown l N. J., by two men has changed very mucl l for the worse, and there is very little hop, | of her recovery.
 
 | Reading, Pa, was burned April 3. Loss | $lO,000; partially insured.
 The senate committee which is investigat | ing the ballot frauds in Jersey City has as certained that the names of fifty or nor, | persons recorded on the list as living at cer l tain street numbers in the district and a having voted in it were unknown to them l In one case was the name of a man who hat l been dead two years according to the testi l mony of his widow.
 Henry Lincoln, alias James Wilson, ha been indicted for killing Ja;aes Fuller 1, East Hampton, Conn.,, last January -. l Dr. and Mrs. Norvin Green celebrated th' fiftieth anniversary of their marriage a Louisville, Ky, April l.
 Jerry Lynch, of Syracuse, N. Y., wa killed by cave-in of a sewer in process 0 construction in the Eleventh ward Anothe man was injured.
 Mrs. Phillip riley. aged 5s, committe, suicide at Silver Creek, N. Y., by hanginI in the cellar of her residence. She was tenn porarily insane from continued sickness
 At the coroner's inquest on the body o Jerome Baker, who was found with hi throat cut at Homer, N. Y., the jur, brought ill verdict to the effect that BaKg came to his death by his own hand by cut ting his throat with razor. F:
 w. T. Wardwell, Horace Waters, w. Groo, Clinton B. Fisk and other Prohibition ists, have formed the Prohibition Eus Fund association" corporation intended to receive and administer any funds or prol erty devoted to the prohibition cause.
 At the annual commencement of the Jef ferson Medical college the degree of doctor Q medicine vas conferred upon 220 graduates
 GEN. CROOKS SUCCESSOR.
 BriE. Gen. Nelson A. Miles the Man, | Other Appointments. | A y,ri1 Tho Io,t hoe