Connecticut western news., 1890-09-17
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 John Moore in jail at Rochester, N. Y. charged with assaulting his mother, has been held to await the inquest. Moore, it is claimed, quarreled with his mother and pulled her out of bed, infiicting injuries which caused her death.
 The rains since Aug. have made vast difference in the cotton crop, and the pres- ent outlook is that in Georgia it will be al least 25 per cent short
 Rev. Elwood Wooster, assistant pastor of St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal church, Brooklyn, has accepted the chair of psych. ology in Lehigh university at Bethlehem, Pa.
 The Republicans of the First district of Cattaraugus county, N. Y., have nominat. ed R. B. Lewis for the assembly.
 It is rumored that John S. Clarkson will soon succeed Senator Quay as chairman oi the national Republican committee.
 MT. Dillon has been subpoenaed as wit ness in the O'Shea divorce suit and this will pr event his coming to America.
 The speech of Representative Kennedy denouncing Senator Quay has been print ed in The Congressional Record, but many of the most abusive parts have been emas- culated.
 Eloquent and touching tributes to the memory of the late Samuel J. Randall were delivered in the senate Sept. IA. Among the most fervent speakers was Senator Quay.
 Bishop Wigger has consecrated the new parochial school attached to St. Bridget's church, Jersey City.
 A woman supposed to be Mrs. Shoe maker, of Irving, was struck and killed by Lake Shore train at Silver Greek, N. Y.
 The Brotherhood of Railroad Firemen's convention have indorsed a proposed clause in the constitution requiring the supreme council of the federation to pass upon all strikes before they are ordered.
 At meeting of the Buffalo Canal and Harbor Protection union resolutions were unanimously adopted requesting Governor Hill to order the closing of the tunnel which taps the Erie canal at Lock port and to summarily remove the men in charge of the water at Medina, Eagle Harbor and all other places where water is stolen from the state canals for milling and manufacturing purposes.
 The settlement in the celebrated case of Logan, Emery & Weaver vs. the Pennsyl- vania Railroad company agrees to pay each of the plaintiffs 5000, each side to pay its own expenses.
 The New Haven amusement company have made formal application for admis- sion into the American association.
 Four Italians were killed by lightning at White Plains, N. Y., Saturday.
 w. Brockie, president of the Philadel- phia Maritime Exchange and we'll known in shipping and mercantile circles, dropped dead on Chestnut street from heart disease.
 A strong sentiment prevails among 8 portion of the National Worlds fair com- mission that the double site is an unfort- unate selection, and the matter will un. doubtedly be subjected to further action.
 John Corners, charged with the murder of John Walker on June 23, 1887, at Water town, N. r., has been indicted for murder in the first degree.
 A committee of the grand jury at New York, after paying an unexpected visit to tho penitentiary and the hospital on Black wells Island, report that they are grossly mismanaged.
 Rains continue in New York state and have extended to other parts of the coun- try, doing great damage. Snow and cold weather in the northwest threaten great damage to wheat and corn.
 Gen. Ezeta has been regularly elected president of Salvador by the congress Archbishop Corrigan was officially vel comsd in St. Patrick's cathedral ct Now York by large congregation. of clergy and laity, to whom he made an address.
 Davis Dalton, the American swimmer, has bolstered up his alleged swim across the English channel by swimming twenty miles down the Thames.
 In response to the clamor of the press New York will have . recount of her popu- lation.
 L. c. Lyon, of Williamsport, Pa, has been appointed cadet at West Point. Edgar T. Collins, of Hepburn. Pa., is his alternate.
 August Frohman, wine merchant at Philadelphia, has assigned. Executions aggregating over s33,0 900 were issued against Frohman's property.
 The Grant monument general committee have approved the design of John H. Dun- can selected by the executive committee for the proposed monument in Riverside park.
 Capt. B. R. Tillman, the Farmers Ali ance man, has been nominated for governor of South Carolina by the Democrats.
 Charles F. Dunbar, of Buffalo, has pur- chased the famous pacer Johnston, with 8 record of 2:O01l, of K. c. Long. of St. Paul, for $s,OOO.
 T. M. Healy has written letter to the editor of The Philadelphia Freeman, in which he says he was not the author of a recent cable attack upon MT. Parnell.
 Pettitt, the court tennis champion of the world, has retired from the field perma- nently.
 New Jerseys state board of agriculture has issued circular, signed by President Burroughs, of Camden, and Secretary Franklin Dye, of Trenton, strongly oppos- ing the proposed constitutional amend ments legalizing special legislation.
 The Republicans of the Fourth congress sional district of Michigan renominated J. c. Burrows for congress by exclamation.
 The president has sent to the senate the nOmlnaClOn or Henry SnefWOOQ 10 DC post master at Washington, D. C.. vice John w. Ross, resigned.
 Francis Murphy, the temperance advo- cate, and Mrs. Rebecca Fischer, president of the Women's Christian Temperance union, ,lof Council Bluffs, have been married.
 Mrs. Ellen Bloomer, of Ellenville, Ulster county, N. r., has just celebrated the hundredth anniversary of her birth.
 A sea turtle weighing 100 pounds was captured in fish weir at Sandwich, Mass.
 Governor Bracket has nominated James M Morton of Fa1l Rivav Maaa ta ha .