Connecticut western news., 1891-04-22
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 A fund of s1OO, 900 is to be raised at New York for Misses Rachel and Elizabeth Sherman by the intimate friends of their father.
 The large dry goods house of Gus Blaes & Co.,, on Main street, Little Rock, Ark, and two adjoining buildings were de- stroyed by fire Saturday night Total loss, $500, 1000.
 Three men were killed instantly and two seriously injured yesterday at the Ar getum silver mine near Aspen, Colo, by the premature explosion of blast It is rumored in Berlin that the czar gave the French government a rebuke for the manner in which Empress Frederick was treated in Paris
 Father Ignatius has expressed the opinion that if Dr. Heber Newton disbelieved in the resurrection Bishop Potter should ex- pei him from the church. The Rhode Island representatives on the Columbian Fair commission, Messrs. Golf and Sims, oppose state appropriation for state exhibit and say that the industries of the state may be depended upon to make fitting exhibit.
 The prospect is that at least 5000 men will strike in New York on May 1 for the eight hour workday.
 During a thunderstorm last night the residence of Professor R. M. James at | Haverford College station, three miles | from Philadelphia, was struck by light ming and set on fire. The house and con- ! tents, with the exception of a valuable l library of classical works, was totally de- stroyed. Professor James is head master of the William Penn Charter school
 Charles Matteson has been elected to the supreme court chief justiceship by the legislature of Rhode Island. The vote was 87 to 23. He is the senior member of the supreme bench, and is in the eighty first year of his age.
 The Rev. Charles Bennett, DID,, ILL. D., professor of historical theology in the Gar rett Biblical institute, Evanston, died April 17 from Bright's disease. Professor Bennett was born in East Bethany, N. Y., on July IS, 1928, and was one of the fore most Methodist educators in the country.
 Bids were opened at the treasury depart ment for the excavating and furnishing the iron work, etc., for the first floor of the public building at Newark, N. J. l.. L.. Leach & Son, of Chicago, Ills, were the lowest bidders at $40, ,996.
 Advices from Santiago, Chili, tell of a bloody victory won by the rebels at Poze de Almonte, and of the complete demorali- zation of the government troops.
 James McCreery, the dry goods man, has purchased the site of the old Booths theater at Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue, New York, for $1, 100000. I~ William A. Dawson, a young man em- ployed in the department of public works at New York, was found dead under the window of Sadie Traphagen, who was a prominent witness in the trial of Dr. Nc Donegal for malpractice on Annie Good win. Dawson's skull was fractured, but his death is supposed to have been acci- dental.
 A granddaughter of Commodore Van derbilt has been sued by Tarrytown (N Y.) grocer for nearly 5000 worth of gro ceries.
 The draft of the new commercial treaty between Spain and the United States looking toward partial reciprocity of trade with Cuba, has been concluded. It is said that several members of the Keweah colony in Tulare county, Cal have been found guilty of cutting govern ment timber and that the famous cooper ative enterprise has become swindling institution. Editor Joseph R. Buchanan of New York, one of the nonresident members of the colony, says that the Cali fornia lumber trust is responsible for tn, trouble and that the charges of dishonesty are false.
 The executors of the will of the lat' Prince Napoleon have presented forma request to the French government for per | %os sv~%o <1,o, of at Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica, wher, Napoleon was born. Ex-Minister Foster is said to have con cluded a treaty with Spain on the basis o the reciprocity clauses of the McKinle. tariff bill.
 Winners Investment company, of Kan sas City, has made an assignment. It president was a financial meteor. Enos V. Garrett, wealthy retired mer chant of West Chester, Pa, while labor ing under a fit of temporary insanity, sho and killed himself.
 As foreshadowed in Secretary Tracy
 speech at Boston, an order has been issuet from the navy department which, in effect ! places all navy yard employees under tn civil service regulations The Western Commercial Congress di, not end tremendously. The Republican claimed that the convention was too par
 tisan and left the hall.
 Dr. John H. Ward, of Brooklyn, one o oldest and most widely known of the phy sicians of the homeopathic school, die
 April 15, aged sixty-six years.
 Ex-State Senator John Birdsall, of Ney
 York, was found dead in bed at the Unite ', States hotel. The gas was turned on, bu ', not lighted. The case is one of suicide o x accident.
 ' The long expected report of the Fasset [ Investigating committee on cities of tn 5 New York state legislature has been pre sented. It recommends the adoption c 1 eleven new bills, mainly aimed at the II : form of the municipal government of Ne, . York city.
 Governor Hill gave his annual receptio
 to the members of the legislature at A
 bany, April 15.
 Governor Abbett, of New Jersey, ha B vetoed the bill increasing the opportunitie s of national loan and building association -e to do business in the state. Captain George H. Mackenzie, the f. | nous chess player, died Tuesday in Ne, o York.
 The presbyteries of Allegheny and Ca
 lisle, Pa., and of New Brunswick, N.
 have adopted resolutions criticising th g. utterances of Dr. Briggs. e The grand jury of Atlantic City hs ] found bills of indictment for false entr and embezzlement against ex-Police Ju te tice Irving.
 K The Presbytery of New York appointe y a committee of five to determine whethe
 the views of the Rev. Charles A. Brigg o1 D. D., as expressed in his inaugural a. ,d dress before the Union Theological sem Is nary were heretical
 
 Drawing an Inference. j. "You have been so long about u