Connecticut western news., 1891-04-01
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
Happenings of the World from
 Pole to Pole.
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.
 The Rochester clothing strike is over. Many of the men will be taken back.
 Charles Francis Chickering, the well known piano manufacturers, is dead
 Editor N. P. Reed, of the Pittsburg Com mercial- Gazette, is dead.
 Andrew Walker, Fred Myers and John Oaks were killed in wreck at Gordon, Pa.
 It is said five arrests will be made in the Robertson case in New York.
 Senator-elect John M. Palmer is confined to his bed by sickness and his friends fear the result
 At New York the rapid transit commis- sioners, as a result of their deliberations have, it is said, adopted three systems, one being the Greathead underground plan, the others giving largely increased facil- ities to the elevated and New York Gen. tral railroads
 Cahle dispatches from London refer to apprehensions felt in high diplomatic cir cles that the long talked of general Euro pean war is not far off.
 Vice President Levi F. Morton and George Bliss, his partner, have sold sixteen blocks on Tenth avenue and Kingsbridge road. north of One Hundred and Seven teenth street, New York, 400 lots in all, for q ,OO0, GOO to Henry Morgenthau and others.
 Bank Examiner Hepburn has completed his examination of the Washington Ma tional bank at New York and reports that the impairment amounts to about one-han of the capital.
 A force of fifty men was employed by q sharper at New York. to work all Tuesday night sending out green goods circulars.
 The Anti-Kidnaplng League and Lun- acy Reform union has taken up the case of Mrs. Besch, of Hoboken, N. J., who says she was imprisoned in an asylum while sane, and has demanded the indictments of the doctors who signed the certificates in her case.
 Dr. Sherman Follansbee has been con- victed at Boston of malpractice on Ida c. Stewart.
 Eighteen of the leading druggists of Lynn, Mass, have been arrested for violat- ing their liquor licenses.
 Robbers raided an Ozark (Mon.) saloon and forced the bartender to open the safe and give them S1, 100.
 Sixteen druggists and drug clerks ot Providence, R. l., were convicted of violat. ing their liquor licenses.
 Captain w. D. Dowell, state treasurer o1 the Farmers Alliance of Arkansas, has been buncoed out of 8 600 by three sharp CTS at the old card game. Colonel Brown, of Aspen, Colo, has de dded to abandon the proposed mine at the Worlds fair, because owing to the chang ing of the site from the lake front to Jack. son park it cannot be made proftably per manent.
 Leading Massachusetts farmers discour age the attempt of Senator Kyle and Con gressman Simpson to establish the Ali ance in New England.
 Gottlieb Rehm, of Reading, Pa. ,died from blood poisoning, caused by a pet parrot biting him in the finger. The Spanish government has notified the state department that it will participate in the Worlds fair at Chicago. Senator Edmunds denies that he is to re sign from the senate and accept United States judgeship.
 There is much interest manifested iI Port Jervis over the disappearance o1 John F. Kilgour, the so called "Bluestone King" who is reported to have failed for { million. MT. Kilgour was a prominent bluestone quarry owner and had dealings with Boss" Tweed and Jim Fisk, of New York. He was once quarryman, but be came 8 wealthy man. He made and lost several fortunes.
 cided to send delegation of five to Eng land to protest against the coercion of thu British government in the matter of treaty rights. The whole island is aroused, anC much excitement is manifested at al popular meetings.
 The sheriff has put extra guards around | the Somerset Pa.) jail. as it is feared tha an attempt will be made to rescue thu l Nicely boys. Two rough looking men de | manded admission to the jail, and wher refused rode away muttering threats. Theodore E. Bishop, of Newport, R. I. who is being sued for divorce at Whit, | Plains by one of his wives, has confessed that he married wife No. while Mo- wa living.
 ] A new element is to enter into tho Chi cago municipal contest, the Democrati national committee deeming it necessar, to take hand.
 l The proposition for state printing of | flee was killed in the New York state sen ate and cannot come up again this session
 Mrs. Letitia Bradley testified in tn Gaines will case before Surrogate Abbott of Brooklyn, that the photographic will purporting to have been made by Mrs Myra Clark Gaines is fraud.
 The pension commissioner has ordere' all attorneys to submit their circulars t. him before distribution.
 E. D. Beldon was convicted yesterday a Wichita, Kan, of the murder of Charli Grant, young Canadian.
 The seamen of the great lakes will de mand 6 day upon the opening of navi gation, and will strike if it is refused.
 The Warren Lumber company, of Beau mont, Tex, has been placed in the hand of a receiver. Liabilities, about $500, 900.
 James Keeley, one of Parnelps envoys is the guest of President Fitzgerald, of tn Irish National league, at Lincoln, Neb.
 ''Liz' Carter, the colored woman wh was convicted of poisoning her husband was sentenced at Cincinnati yesterday t life imprisonment.
 The morocco finishers of Lynn, Mass who struck seven months ago. have deci6 cd to continue the strike. Five hundre of the l, 100 who went out are still unen loved.
 The Burlington "Flyer," double header crashed into the end of the Denver fas freight three miles from Sutton, Net Engineer John G. Roberts, of the pa. senger was crushed to death under hi engine.
 Latest census bulletins show that tn whites are increasing faster than th blacks in the southern states.
 William Etherton, 8 young man who ot tained S10O on forged check at the Earn CTS and Mechanics bank at Fort Plain, Y., killed himself on his fraud being di. covered. Etherton spent his money in prs sentin2 iewelry to young women