Connecticut western news., 1891-10-08
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 The revenue cutter Rush has been or dered back to Bchring sea.
 A movement is on foot to buy up all the rice mills of the south by a syndicate com posed, it is said, of Standard Oil people and English capitalists.
 Timothy Hopkins, the contestant in the will of Mrs. Searles, arrived in Boston with his counsel, Judge Holt. The will contest is to be resumed Oct. IA.
 Twenty-Five laborers of tho Natural Gas company, at Anderson, Ind, were arrested for trespassing. While they were at court, farmers with horses dragged the gas pipes from the trenches and broke the pipes to bits.
 A call has been issued for the twenty. third annual convention ot the New York State Woman Suffrage association, to be held at Auburn on Tuesday and Wednes- day, Nov. 10 and Il.
 John G. Devereux, vice president of the Hibernia National Bank of New Orleans, has died of pneumonia at Helmetta, N. J. Captain Eli Foster, one of the 109 officers
 
 the famous tunnel, is dead.
 Plans are on foot for a new line Of freight steamers between Bridgeport and New York.
 William Ziegler, of Brooklyn, writes 8 letter indicating his willingness to accept the Republican nomination for mayor of Brooklyn if Chapin runs for the Demo crats.
 Hngh o. Pentecost, the former clergy man and single tax agitator, will practise law.
 At Richmond, Ind, Monbars made a successful attempt to beat his own 2-year- old stallion record He was driven a very even mile in 2:1Ss4.
 The liabilities of James S. Kelley, of Milford, Mass, manufacturer of shoes, are $21 O00; assets 4,600.
 Bolivia and Uruguay have decided to take part in the Worlds Fair. The Genesee Methodist conference de- cided to admit women as delegates to the general conference by 8 vote of 11e against 87.
 At the Rockland county Prohibition | convention at Haverstraw, N. Y., Duane F. Knapp, of Thiells, was nominated fol assembly.
 At the Syracuse Republican judicial convention the 136th ballot gave Maurice L. Wright twenty-three votes, and his nomination was made unanimous. Candidate Fassett delivered nonpoliti cal address at the Wayne county fair New York. The conflagration which ragged at Hali | fax all night Thursday was got under | control at il q. m. yesterday. The loss will probably aggregate $400,OO0. The Farmers Voice, at Chicago, in its next issue will urge all farmers to hol6 | their corn for higher prices | A movement is on foot at Vancouver B. O., to have building at the World! Fair composed of all woods found in Brit ] ish Columbia forests | George Heller formerly clerk in tht International Packing company's office al Chicago, has been arrested charged witt 5000 and s1OO0O.
 The adhesion of the Australasian colonies to the universal postal union, which ha! been for years anxiously sought by th' commercial nations of the world, became operative Oct. 1.
 There is pest of fieas overrunning Mid | dletown, Conn.,, and much annoyance ha. been caused.
 | ADEdH l uUClo, S1SuCy-CWO, u pAOAocI II | the antislavery movement, died at Bris tol, Conn.
 It is hinted in Vienna that Russia ma, have had hand in the attempt to blow up Emperor Francis Joseph.
 Superintendent William Murray has re turned to his duties at police headquarter in New York.
 ~'2The game law is off in Connecticut, ant hunting has begun. There is an unusua abundance of game.
 Business is at standstil in Savannah Ga., owing to the spreading of the whar laborers' strike.
 The stockholders of the Fitchburg Rail road company reelected the old board o directors.
 McCartney's Exchange bank, of For | Howard, Wis, was robbed of $3, 900 il money and $4,OOO in government bonds.
 At the meeting of the National Civi Service Reform league at Buffalo Georg William Curtis was reelected president. An epidemic of typhoid fever exists il the western part of Oswego, N. Y., due t. the sewage and low water in the outle which flows through the city.
 Henry Dissenback, aged fifty eight years a German, of Erie, Pa, tried to kill him self in Central park, New York, by sever ing an artery He will recover.
 J. F. Russell, of Chicago, was the loves bidder for the erection of the governmen l Worlds fair building. His bid was $338, ,669
 Hon. c. Hubbell, one of the most promi nent merchants of Lockport, N. Y., i