Connecticut western news., 1891-03-04
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TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME. The Developments of Each Day During the Week Past Caught Fresh from the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Condensed for Our Readers. Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Lo- comosive Engineers, has gone to Denver to try and settle the differences of the brother hood men with the officers of the Rio Grande Western. Judge Charles H. Phelps. Brother of ex- Minister to England Edward J. Phelps, died March at Burlington, Ia., aged 67. He was the first man to readthe telegraph instrument by sound.
 The stable and storehouse of E. w. Rouke & Co.,, hay dealers, of Philadelphia, was burned Saturday night. Loss, $2O,OOO.
 John Alexander Shriver, president of the Ericsson line of steamers and also of the New York and Baltimore Transportation line and a leading citizen of Baltimore, IS dead, aged 70 years.
 Sadler, the alleged murderer of Carrot ty Nell," is to go free, the government hay ing decided that he is not "Jack the Rip per-"
 The Berlin Kreuz Zeitung regards war between France and Germany as probable, and urges the German government to maintain a firm attitude.
 The decision of the general term that the city of Brooklyn had no right to purchase the Long Island Water Works company's plant virtually ends the fight against Tax payer Ziegler's suit. TT
 The parents of Ella Tice, who married the cQlored coachman, are brokenhearted, and She couple are talking of going to Richmond, where, it is said, they may be arrested.
 Brooklyn police are making special ef- forts to trace out the frebugs who have created a big scare among the tenement house inhabitants in the lower part of the city during the past two months.
 State Senator McNaughton is said to be in the field as rival to Lieutenant Gov ernor Jones for the suffrages of the farm CTS in the New York gubernatorial race.
 Inspector Byrnes, of New York, has very courteously refused the decoration pre- sented to him by the king of Italy. He prefers to be plain American citizen.
 The senate has agreed to the house amendment to the direct tax bill It now goes to the president.
 The copyright bill is probably dead for the present session of congress. The house has refused to agree to the senate amend ments.
 miral Porter's widow pension of s. 800 per year.
 Secretary Rusk has designated Morris town N Y, and Island Pond, Vt., animal quarantine stations for the inspection of meat, cattle, etc., which may be imported from Canada.
 At Washington the senate committee on commerce has agreed to postpone indefi- nitely the bill for a second bridge across the North river between New York and New Jersey.
 The executive committee of the Republic an League of the United States has issued the official call for the fourth annual con- vention of the league. The convention is to be held in Cincinnati on April 21.
 George C. Ingham, one of the most brill iant of the younger members of the Chi cago bar, is dead. MT. Ingham was one of the lawyers for the prosecution in the Cronin trial
 Four deaths from smallpox have oc- cured at Johnstown, Pa. People are flee ing from the town.
 M. Fortune du Boisgobey, the French novelist, is dead.
 William Watson, accused by Miss Flor ence Birch of having set fire to her millin- cry store in Islip, l.. l., has been arrested. He denies the charge
 In the case of the baccarat scandal in London, Sir William Gordon Cumming in- sists upon having trial by jury. Railroad travel in the Mohawk and Hud- son valleys, New York state, is almost completely paralyzed by flofIs Yuma, a town on the border of Arizona and Cali |>fornia, is reported completely submerged | and destroyed. | There is possibility that decree of divorce may not be granted to Mrs Burke Roche.
 Ella Tice, a pretty white woman, was married at Williamsbridge, N. Y., to James Randolph, negro coachman.
 The New York grand jury, in it's pre-. sentiment to Judge Cowing, recommended that either the sale of liquor in club houses be stopped on Sunday or that the saloons be allowed to keep open on that day.
 Cossacks have killed many Jewish immi l grants, who were endeavoring to get over the Russian border and escape to America | Nomination day in Canada resulted in the election of six Conservatives and two Liberals by exclamation. All the other ! seats are contested.
 | Excitement in Paris concerning the con. tinued presence in that city of Empress Frederick increases, and angry feeling has been awakened in Berlin because of the nature of the Parisian outbreak.
 Queen Victoria, at Portsmouth, christ ened the two new war vessels, the Roya Arthur and Royal Sovereign, which were successfully launched. I fho Tel; r was discharged from custody. On her com plaint, charging her lover, William Wat son, with firing the store, warrant was issued for his arrest.
 Louis E. Pfeiffer, president of the de funct Bank of America, created sensa tion at Philadelphia by withdrawing his plea of not guilty and entering plea o guilty as indicted. Pfeitfer was indicted jointly with James s. Dungan, cashier o the bank, and George F. Work, on tn, charge of rehypothecatirg and converting to their own use securities deposited q: collateral with the bank.
 The death is announced of Sir Richard Sutton the owner of the English cutter yacht Genesta, which raced with the Bos ton centerboard sloop Puritan in 1885 fol | the American cup.
 Inspector Byrnes has been dubbed "chev alier'' by King Humbert of Italy for court esy to Italians.
 Harry Wright will manage the Phila delphia League club during the three sea sons following
 Secretary Tracy has dismissed Edso1 Brace, chief clerk of the bureau of equip ment, navy department. MT. Brace wa appointed by Secretary Whitney.
 At Boston, Right Rev. Benjamin II Paddock, bishop of the Episcopal church is i'll critical condition.
 The president has approved the bil granting pension to Gen Nathan F