Connecticut western news., 1891-07-23
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 Jersey Streitt, the boy sleeper of Colum- bus, Ind, awoke after continuous nap of 109 hours.
 Rev. Charles S. St. John, of the North ampton (Mass.) Unitarian church, has ac cepted call to Pittsburg.
 Judge Rumsey, at Rochester, has dis missed the indictments against the cloth ing manufacturers for conspiracy.
 There is strong prospect of a strike of conductors all over the Illinois Central system on account of the recent wholesale discharges.
 Broker Samuel w. Lewis was convicted at New York of swindling Mrs. Bostwick out of $5O, 900 on the plea of investing the money in stocks. He squandered the money and when it was all gone he mar ried his victim.
 The New York Press states that Recor- der Smyth, of New York, is on Inspector Byrnes' bond, and that despite this fact the recorder presided over the trial of "Frenchy," whose conviction of murder in the second degree was greatly desired by Inspector Byrnes.
 The customers of Hop Sing, the New York laundryman who has leprosy, have deserted him and he is in danger of being left without means of support.
 Frank Sherman, who declares he Is an American citizen, was ordered to be i'm prisoned and sent back to England by General O'Beirne at New York, because he came here as 8 stowaway.
 Mrs. J. c. Carson, an aged widow, worth q, ,00O, 900, has been induced to give large amounts to Mrs. Mamie Darling, spirit ualistic medium, who has since confessed to shoplifting.
 Mrs Lochridge, of Spring Hill, Tenn, killed herself and her three children.
 There arc fears in London that other failures will follow that of the English River Plate bank.
 At Bayreuth "Parsifal" was given un- der the management of Frau Wagner.
 Four of tho Chilian insurgents war ships are outside Coquimbo, and an out break is expected. Intense excitement rules in the town, many of whose residents ars fleeing to the interior.
 Seventy millions of dollars in gold and any amount of valuable gold ornaments and precious stones have been found in an old castle in Rio Janeiro, according to South American newspaper. The castle was 1Ofmefly mOnaStefy.
 Byron W. Cohen, one of the conspira- tors in the Robertson bogus widow case, has lied to Canada.
 The Itata has paid the $500 fine imposed for evading the customs laws. She will shortly give bonds for $160, ,00O and will sail for San Francisco for repairs.
 The national educational convention has adjourned, to meet next at Helena, Mon.
 Henry Smith, truckman at the Erie depot, Suspension Bridge, was killed by 8 passenger train while wheeling 8 truck across the tracks. He was sixty years old.
 A syndicate has purchased all the lead ing mines of tin in Colorado. The price paid is $500, ,0OO.
 Articles of incorporation of the Ameri- can Master Mechanics association have been filed. Its purpose is for the advance ment of knowledge concerning the princi- ples, construction, repair and service of the rolling stock of railroads.
 Bart Houghton, 8 we'll known resident of Victor, N. Y., committed suicide by hanging.
 MT. Balfour proposes to increase the grant for the relief of distress in Ireland during the coming financial year by e1OO,- o0O
 Santiago, CAili, was swept by two million dollar fire.
 Mrs. Jefferson Davis has written a letter to Governor Buckner giving her reasons for selecting Virginia as the final resting place of her husbands body. Five,sixths of the stock of the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette has been sold to John Dunlap, 8 wealthy tin importer and free trader, for $5OO,0oo. The New York Herald prints what it calls an exposure of George w. Dunn's Standard Chemical company" organiz- ing with a capital of q, ,OOO, 900, which The Herald claims is nearly all wind" | It is proposed at New York to erect a monument to General John A. Dix, who filled successively the offices of postmaster at New York, secretary of the treasury, major general of volunteers in the war of the rebellion and governor of the state of New York.
 Hon. John G. Carlisle says, ''Some of the Kentucky papers have been throwing dirt at me, saying that I had been presented with house and lot by the Frankfort lot tery on account of my opposition to the adoption of 8 new constitution; but will survive their islanders and attend to bust ness at the old stand"
 In the French chamber of deputies July l7 M. Ribot demanded 8 vote of confidence in the government and got 1t by 8 vote o1 B19 to 103.
 MT. Parnell has not yet paid the costs ir the O'Shea divorce case, and an ordeS ir Bankruptcy has been issued against him.
 An Italian riot is feared at Dobbs Ferry N. Y.
 For some mysterious reason tho water 1T Lake Hopatceng has been gradually fall Ing during the last three weeks. The fal has averaged ono and half inches 8 day making total of three feet.
 George Parker, formerly of Brooklyn was found in his boarding house in Lon Ion shot through the heart under circum stances that leave it uncertain whether h. committed suicide or was murdered. A resolution in favor of unrestrictet reciprocity between the United States ant Canada has been adopted by the provincia , legislature of Prince Edward Island.
 The resignation of President Melvill Dewey, of the American Library associa ton, has been accepted. s. s. Green, o Worcester, Mass, succeeds MT. Dewey 8 president. F. P. Hill, of Newark, N. J. was chosen secretary.
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