Connecticut western news., 1890-10-29

increase since 1880 of s29, ,5so. The popula- tion of Sioux Falls, s. D., is 10,154; in- crease 7,99o.
 At the annual convention of the Young Peoples Christian Union of the Univer- salist church, the following officefs were elected: President, Lee E. Joslyn, of Bay City, Mich.; secretary, James D. Filling hast, of Buffalo. N. Y.; treasurer, Miss N. Jenison, of Lynn, Mass; executive com mittee, Miss Mary Grace Webb, of Akron, O.; Miss Clara B. Adams, of Lynn, Mass; Miss Angie M. Brooks, of Portland, Me-; J. Thomas Moore, of Philadelphia.
 Bids were today opened at the treasury department for building the immigrant station at Ellis island, New York harbor, and for furnishing the plumbing at the public building at Bridgeport, Conn., Sheridan & Byrne, of New York, were the lowest bidders for the immigrant station at $115, 200, and Donahue Brothers, of New York, the lowest bidders for the Bridge port building at $2,943,
 Governor Goodell, of New Hampshire, l will be candidate for United States sena- | tor at the next session of the legislature | Mai. H. c. Seymour, United States army, | connected with the signal service de- partment, died at Galveston, Tex, aged 5S | years.
 l A bill has been introduced in the Yer | mont legislature incorporating the so l called Vermont Medical college at Rut- l land, which is characterized as fraud by | regular physicians.
 | Charles Wetherell Keim, secretary of the | Cumberland and Pennsylvania railroad, l died at Baltimore, Oct. 21. He was | brother-in-law of President Mayer, of the | Baltimore and Ohio railroad. William Taylor, on trial at Albany, | N. Y., for the killing of his mother last l spring, was convicted of murder in the l second degree. | Professor Galbraith, the prominent nat ! uralist, is dead.
 Pete Mccartney, one of the most famous counterfeiters in the United States, died at the Ohio penitentiary, Oct. 21. Nc Cartney once made $1, ,000 United States bond so perfect that it was actually re- deemed at the treasury, and the holder of l the genuine was later arrested and charged with counterfeiting.
 Count Herbert Bismarck became en- | gagged to the Countess Anne Conradine l Berthe Platen, aged 17, while he was visit ing at Riga lately. The count is Al. The 1 Countess Platen belongs to 8 Hanoverian l family of some renown.
 The Jews have been ordered to leave the | cities of Kishenef and Akerman, southern Russia.
 Patrick Gleason, mayor of Long Island | City. was locked up in Queens county jail for five days and sentenced to pay fine of $250 for an unprovoked assault upon George R. Crowley.
 Mrs. Annie Wilmarth, the daughter of wealthy parents, is voluntary prisoner T 1x. 14r1 -Dr~1 1Iz1v vI,0y>n | she was first committed for being drunk in
 the street. An unhappy marriage drove
 her to drink. Secretary Windom has called halt upon the national worlds fair committee on ac l count of it's too liberal plans for the dis posal of government funds, especially in
 the way of salaries.
 It is reported that some of the Italians
 suspected of the murder oHChief Hennessy
 at New Orleans, have confessed and i'm
 plicated others.
 The dock companies at London have
 issued notices that all agreements with the
 Dockers' union expiring on Nov. 3 will be
 cancelled. The companies will hereafter
 employ free men and ignore the unio1
 leaders, but will continue the present sys
 tenn of piece work.
 George M. Baker, the well known writer ! Ol pldyS dudU6uIS, 1OIu0I1y W1UA OAS
 publishing house of Lee & Shepard, Bos
 ton, died at his home in Barnstable, Mass
 He was 5S years of age.
 Charles Armstrong, aged 77, heretofore
 much respected at Harvard, Ills, IS charg
 ed with embedding $25,O00 of money be
 longing to his friends. 2 William Fisher, United States shipping
 commissioner for Bath, Me, dropped deae
 of heart disease. He was 58 years of age.
 Capt. Richard Burton, famous as sol
 dier, explorer, linguist and author, is deal
 at the age of GA years.
 l A suit has been brought in the United
 States circuit court by William Fleron, wht
 translated and dramatized Alexander Du
 mas work, known as '"The Clemenceal
 Case" against the Pollard Publishing com
 pany for infringement of copyright Fleror
 claims the firm is publishing the bool
 under the same name and selling it at hal
 price. The company will have to shov
 cause why it should not be enjoined iron
 publishing the work.
 Peter Lampman, aged s3 years, mai
 carrier and old soldier, stepped in front o light engine on the New York Centra
 road at St. Johnsville, N. Y., and was in
 stantly killed.
 Jacob Creps was nominated for congres
 by the Democrats of the Twenty frs
 Pennsylvania district. Ex-Sherif Guffe was nominated some time ago, but de
 clined to accept. At the twelfth annual reunion of tn veterans of the Fifth New York heavy al tillery the following named officers wer elected for the ensuing year: President Col. John H. Graham, of New York; vic presidents, Capt. Henry l.. Smith, of Ney York; w. w. Hanna, of Philadelphia, an | TE0v, or1o 0fP Poiy hvi1 1rro
 chaplain, Rev. w. A. Barnes, of Councils vile, Pa.; secretary and treasurer, Lieut. Joseph H. Barker.
 Isaiah s. Emery, of Rochester, N. Y
 labor candidate for congress, committee ], suicide by taking chloroform and openin 7 an artery in his wrist.