Connecticut western news., 1890-05-28
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 The Presbyterian assembly selected . committee of nineteen ministers and ten elders who are to choose committee con sisting of fifteen ministers and ten elders, which shall be called "the assembly's com mittee on revision of the confession o1 faith" which committee, when constituted by the general assembly, shall report tc the general assembly of 1891 such altera> tions and amendments to the confession o1 faith as in their Judgment may be deemed desirable. This committee is instructed that they shall not propose any alterations or amendments that will in any way impair the integrity of the reformed or Calvinistis system of doctrine taught in the confession of faith.
 In the boat race between the Yale and Atalanta boat crews Yale won by eight lengths. Time, 20 min., 17 sec.
 The New Jersey Postal Telegraph com, pany has been incorporated. Over 100 miles of lines will at once be built, con. meeting many of the large towns of New Jersey.
 Joe Ellingsworth, of New York, knocked out Denny Kelleher, of Boston, in thu forty-ninth round at San Francisco.
 Governor Abbett has appointed Hon. Thomas H. Smith, of Newark, and William J. Sewe1 as World fair commissioner from New Jersey.
 A shocking death befel Miss Marion Wagner Taylor, the daughter of James D. Taylor, secretary and treasurer of the WaR. ner Sleeping Car company, almost within stones throw of her fathers office at the Grand Central depot, New York. She waa knocked down and crushed by heavy mail wagon at Forty-second street and Madison avenue. The horses had become uncomfortable. Miss Taylor was 16 yeara old.
 Herman Kempinski, a. Polish Jew, but 6 citizen of the United States, while on 6 visit to Russia was thrown into jail and i'm. prisoned some time upon no grounds what. ever. He has just been released upon de mand of the United States and returned to his home in Bridgeport, Conn. He paid SIC, 900 to the Russian jailers in bribes dur. ing his Imprisonment that he might be supplied with palatable food. The discovery of can containing ten pounds of dynamite at the base of the pedestal in Haymarket square has revived in the minds of Chicago people the series of remarkable happenings arising from the great Anarchist scare of four years ago. The belief is now general that the present sensation is the result of plan on the part of an insufficient police force to compel the city to provide for an adequate | patrol.
 Congressman Lodge, of Massachusetts, strongly criticises Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson's attack on civil service reform.
 The steamer Aurania, of the Cunard line, ran down the yacht Yeada near Bed. loe's island, drowning Charles and Henry Biel, brothers, who were on the yacht. John Sheldon's jewelry store in Burlipg- ton, N. J., was entered by thieves Saturday night and goods to the value of $1 800 were taken. They blew open the safe.
 The Rev. M. V. McDuffie, of the Remsen Avenue Baptist church, New Brunswick | N. J., who claims that Roman Catholics stoned his house because of his sermon against their attitude on the school Ques- tion, continued the series Sunday and said that he meant to fight it out on this line, no matter what was the cost. The church was packed and the sermon created an. | other sensation.
 While celebrating the establishment of a night, Nathan Bennett and Philip Ken drick were terribly injured by the prema- ture discharge of 8 cannon. George Francis Train has arrived at Tacoma, Wash, completing the fastest triI ever made around the world. He was gone 67 days, IS hours and minutes, but hfi actual travelling time was more than 9e hours better, he having stopped that length | of time in New York. He was in terrible rage because some one robbed him al Huntington, Ore, Friday morning of 36oo and because the Tacoma people did not f furnish 8 special train from Portland t< Tacoma