Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
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 Frank Kaumel, while locked up in the Hoboken police station for intoxication, made two attempts oh his life, once by hanging himself by his suspenders and an other by severing an artery in his throat with brass pin.
 The American sealers are getting i'm patient over the delay in settling the question of closed season in Behring sea. Bronson Towards 1.-The Henrietta has proved total failure at the Avenue thea ter in London and has been withdrawn. . The Czarewitch's wound has healed. Further details of the assault are to the effect that he was struck because he and Prince George entered temple with their boots on. a ... John c. Gault, one of Chicago's oldest residents, has had a stroke of paralysis. He has been general manager of several large railroads, among which were the Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and the Wabash. Mrs. Angelina ". Burnham has been awarded $7 800 damages against the New l York, Providence and Boston railroad for the killing of her husband, an engineer. F: Hon. Charles G. Ellis, president of the | Schenectady Locomotive works, is dead. . | Justice Brewer, of the. United States SUI preme court, has allowed a writ of error to | issue in the case of the contested governor | ship of Nebraska. The Portuguese ministers have rendered their resignations to King Charles. Mrs. Nat Goodwin has brought suit for 1 separation and alimony against her hus l band, the comedian, on the ground of l abandonment.
 1 A number of clergymen and seminarists have come out in defense of the Rev. Dr. Briggs. l R. C. Duncan, who killed his wife on Mount Snowden, Wales, is we'll known at l-Georgetown, D. C., where his family occu | py prominent position in society. His mind is said to have been unsettled by study. The general term of the supreme court has sustained the action of the jury before Judge Ingraham in January, 1890, in | dWdEuluS MISS NStTOIuC C NdlAACASi, oI Philadelphia verdict of $12, 900 damages in her suit for breach of promise of mar | riage against old Clemens Muller.
 Mime. Blavatsky's ghost is already on its travels if any confidence is to be placed in | the statement of the Paris Liberte that it | appeared to the Duchess Pomar in the | presence of Mime. Adam on Friday, the | news of the death coming some time after ward. T
 MT. Bradford Merrill, for ten years past ] connected with the Philadelphia Press, and for about five years past it's managing editor, will on June take editorial charge of the New York Press.
 From Madrid comes rumor to the effect that Charles I, king of Portugal, contenl- I plates abdication if his ministers consider the step necessary. -.;
 Charles Edward Riley has just been re- stored to his mother, Mrs. Hattie Prescott, of 65 East One Hundred and Sixth street. New York, after a separation of twenty two years.
 Speaker Sheehan, of the New York as- sembly, is reported as having said he will soon retire from politics to private life for the reason that there's no money in poli- tics for him.
 China, Brazil and Colombia have signi. fled their intention of being we'll repre- sented at the Worlds fair.
 A. P. Spitz, who sued the Boston Globe for $100,OOO for libel, was awarded s ,00C by Chief Justice Mason.
 : The trouble between the Ohio coal miners and operators is finally settled. The opera. tors succeeded in convincing the miners representatives that they were not in a position to grant the demands. The min CTS conceded all their demands, except that with regard to the price of turning rooms, which remains the same as entry work, or seventy dollars to eighty dollars per room.
 Serious anti-Semitic trouble has again broken out in Corfu, and British and French gunboats have been ordered to the scene
 The New York Central railroad has begun to build a road on the proposed site for the state park in the Adirondacks
 The liabilities of the defunct wholesale clothing firm of Levy Bros. & Co.,, of New York, are believed to be nearly $1, COG, ,000 Their assets outside of assigned account. are less than $20O,00 Fraud is charged
 Pool Seller Savarine Jacobs, of Hobo ken, was convicted yesterday before Judge Dixon in Paterson, N. J.
 There is possibility of the disruption of the Order of Railway Conductors owing to differences with the Brotherhood.
 Belgium has threatened to expel Boulan ger unless he will be silent on the subject of politics.
 Governor Hill has signed an act com polling railroads to put up barb wire fences along roads instead of board. H.
 4;, Many British newspapers of Conserva tive and Liberal Union politics do not re
 ceive kindly the proposition to subscribe
 to reimburse The Times for it's expenses ir
 the Parnell controversy, and the Carleton
 club has made a. vehement appeal to th'
 country on the subject. h.&'
 Owing to the disgrace of Captain Verney
 who has been expelled from parliament
 Liberal candidate for Norwich. T Ex-Senator Cattell, of New Jersey, ha' ; sold to an English syndicate 2,C00 acres O y swamp land, known as the Green swami lftract, in North Carolina.
 The Boston aldermen have passed an or
 dinance prohibiting the posting of inde
 cent theatrical bills. .. A dynamite bomb was exploded at tn
 ministry of the interior at Lisbon, causinl
 the greatest alarm.
 By a vote of A to 30 the New York pres
 bytery decided to try Dr. Briggs for heres, , contained in his inaugural address, and !. committee was appointed to prefer charge against him. ; Fires are still raging in the forests Q
 Michigan and Pennsylvania, entailing
 heavy loss to lumbermen and entirely wiz
 ing out several small townships.