Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
GENERAL NEWS.
Hon. T. c. Power has been elected US. Senator from Montana

SeuaIOT 1rOIu MOnCana.
 A bad "cave in" at Plymouth, Pa., recently. A scheme is projected for railway be- tween New York and Lake Ontario, there to connect with the Canadian Pacific Road The annual reports of the various officers of the Young Mems Christian Associations show the work to be in a prosperous condi- tion.
 Hon. George H. Baker of Philadelphia, ex- Minister of Russia and Turkey, died recently. The Edison Electric Illuminating Com pany's shops on Pearl street. New York, were damaged by fire Jan. ?, to the extent of l $125, ,000.
 gineer has mysteriously disappeared. | Another American ship has been seized off | the San Bias GUS. of Columbia) coast by the | Colombian gunboat l.. A. Popai
 The Mass. Republican State Committee for | 1890 has organized. Last years officers were | reelected.
 The New Years ball given by Ward Mo Allister proved decided social success in New York.
 | The four-masted Boston schooner Millie c. Browne, which sailed from Boston for Mon- tivideo December 12, was dismantled and | waterlOgged in gale on the 12th, and aban- doned on the 22d, the crew and two passen- | gers being taken off and landed at Norfolk, Va.
 l luC CdpGdlu Ol DTlLlSu SIcdlllcI WulCu UT. l rived in New York, recently, reports the toughest weather of his experience. One | wave rose to the top of the engine funnel, l 56 feet high, and nearly eXtinguished the fires.
 Five persons are known to have been killed Jan. 3, at Sierra City, Cal, bya snow slide.
 Mir. John E. Bowen, one of the editors of the New York Independent and a son of the proprietor, died recently. I The Superintendent of the Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., contradicts the assertion that from 30 to 70 per cent. of educated Indian children die within four years after return ing to savage life.
 The Federal authorities have adopted quar- antine regulations for the keeping out of this country cases of leprosy, which otherwise might come from Europe.
 The man who ferried J. Wilkes Booth across the Potomac after the assassination of Lincoln and concealed Booth and Harold for a week, has been dismissed from an office in the Washington Navy Yard, which he held | since 1887.
 Willis Gaylord, heavy manipulator of railway securities, has committed suicide at Philadelphia.
 Three men were fatally injured, and a half dozen seriously, by rear-end collision on the Rock Island Road near Malcolm, Iowa, lately. Both trains were freight trains. | It IS qulte pOsslDle that the cOmnlsslon which has been looking for new site for Sing Sing Prison may select one at Jonesburg, N. Y., mile outside the city of Hudson There is an inexhaustible vein of marble at that place. which it is proposed to have the prisoners quarry and thus do away with their competition with outside labor.
 One of the worst snow blockades ever known on the Sierra Nevada Mountains has just been raised.
 The town of Wardner in Washington State nearly destroyed by fire Jan. 4. The water supply was frozen up.
 Rev. Ebenezer Dodge, D. D., L.L. D.. President of Madison University, died al Hamilton, N. Y., Jan. 3.
 Foreign.
 The American colony in London has held g meeting of representatives and decided tc present Henry M. Stanley with handsome testimonial upon his arrival. The testimonial will take the form of a superb electro silver shield, bearing in it's centre the coat-of-arms of the United States, and emblazoned on panels around the centrepiece are representa- tions of the chief incidents in his career.
 The proposed imperial cable from Bermuda to Halifax will be completed by the middle o1 June.
 The London Times's Lisbon correspondent says commerce with Rio JaDeirO is paralyZed The Chamber of Commerce has protested against the proposed per cent. port duty or coffee.
 Cholera is said to be raging in some parts Persia.
 Reports have been received of great suffer ing among the fishermen of Flowers Cove Newfoundland.
 The King of Portugal made brave speecf Thursday about upholding Portuguese claims and the question of immediate interest is how far he is prepared to back up his royal worc by deeds. If he goes onlya little way fur ther, there will be an Anglo-Portuguese wal within a week or two.
 Private letters from Rio Janeiro say tha intensely hot weather prevails there and tha yellow fever of the most malignant type ha! appeared in the city.
 An anonymous donor has given $500, ,OOt to establish & convalescent home for the ben eft of the London poor.