Connecticut western news., 1891-02-25

by Mrs Ella Nelson in her flat at 100 West Twenty eighth street, New York, is dead. His wife, who was Miss Allen, and with whom he had not lived for years, was at the deathbed.
 Bad Hand, the Brule who shot Lieut.. Casey, and the son of No Water, who killed Herder Miller, have been captured and are now prisoners at Fort Meade.
 The Servian ministry has resigned.
 The New York World says: ''Transito Aurtarte, widow of Gen. G. M Barrundia who was killed by the Guatemalan officials on board the American steamer Acapulco, and whose death resulted in the recall of Minister Mizner, has officially announced her intention of asking the United States government for $1 ,OOO GOO indemnity for the killing of her husband. Papers in the suit have been served on Secretary of State Blaine"
 Sir John Macdonald, the Canadian pre- mier is said to I've contemplating a pro posal for an i'n.,ei,! fiscal union.
 Riverside, a suburb of Parkersburg, w. Va, was practically wiped out by the Ohio river floods.
 Rumors, which are discredited, have ap- peared on the Continental Bourses to the effect that Emperor William has been or dered to Italy for four months on account of his health.
 Two Armenian street pedlers. suffering from smallpox, were taken to the Recep- tion hospital at New York.
 The reciprocity treaty with Brazil ruins the market for Cuban sugar in the United States, unless the island should be an, nexed. It is charged that such was MT. Blaine's object.
 Jacob Schenck, baggage master at Mel lenville, N. Y., station on the Boston and Albany railroad, is a defaulter and has fled. His shortage is $l 200 r-.s
 The New York state Y. M. c. A. chose the following officers: President, T. H. Brooks, of Syracuse; first vice president, Frank E. Sickles, of Buffalo; second vice president, William Nicholson, of Corning third vice president, F. k. Crumbie, of New York; secretary, H. l.. Simmons, of Brooklyn; assistant secretary G. B. Swim merton, of Hamilton, Ont Alexander D. Anderson, of Washington has been appointed by Director General Davis special commissioner in charge of the eastern department of the Worlds Fair with headquarters in New York and Wash ington. Mr. Anderson will give immedi ate attention to the proposed great inter- | national naval reviews ill New York har bor and Hampton Roads, which is to take place in April, 1893.
 George Cunnuff, the wealthy Brooklyn grocer who shot himself in the mouth at ,, his room at the St. George hotel, is dead. Jackson park is to be the site of the i Worlds Fair, the lake front having been l abandoned.
 Ex-Senator James F. Pierce of Brooklyn, has qualified as superintendent of insur- | ance for the state of New York Prof. Alexander Winchell is dead, aged l 67 years. l Fire at Rochester, N. Y., burned the l Grand Opera house and damaged the | Windsor hotel.
 | H. H. Enos, the president of the Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas railroad, is dead. | Dr. Harris has been arrested at Newburg, N. Y., for causing the death of Carrie Ge- rard. The girls father and mother have been arrested as accessories.
 Mrs. Mary Henry and four children were 1 fatally burned in Williamsburg (N. Y. l tenement. The mother was startled by the i fire alarm and insisted upon dressing her | children before she left the room Supervisor of the Census Murray has
 been ordered by the Albany legislative l committee to produce his official letters and other documents.
 The Sioux chiefs who have recently been l at Washington are disgusted with their reception and talk of going on the war path.
 The floods in Pennsylvania and along the Ohio river are subsiding slowly Canadian Liberal leaders deny the charges of treason brought against them
 by Sir John Macdonald, the premier. .4 | A train was thrown into ditch on the
 Illinois Central railroad and burned Sev- 1 erai passengers were injured, one fatally. 1 Mike Kelly, white man, and Tom
 Champion, negro, were lynched at Gaines
 vile, Fla., for shooting a storekeeper
 named McPherson.
 Mike Kelly has signed to play with the
 Boston Association Baseball club for the
 coming season. ..-'- ] The Postmaster Lost His Whiskers. l NoRwALK, Feb. 20.-Wilton, small
 town about six miles north of this city, is enjoying White Cap sensation. Richard
 H. Fitch, the village postmaster, who
 wore long and flowing beard, was noti,
 fled few days ago by a letter embellisheG with skull crossbones and collins in blood that he must sacrifice the beard or suffer
 the penalty He paid no attention to the
 warning, thinking it joke, but his whisk. | CTS have been reduced to a stubby beard 1 MT. Fitch refuses to explain when and where the outrage occurred, but it is saiG | that it took place while he was returning home through the woods last night ! Died in Agony from Cat Bite. ] ROCKVILLE, Feb. d. Mrs. Annette ! Louch, aged AS years, housekeeper for { Henry Kimball, of Ellington, died Friday 1 morning of hydrophobia, the result of the bite of cat on the forefnger of the right 1 hand last November She was taken witt ! spasms Feb 10, and has suffered terribly /! since. , A Trustee Appointed. HARTFORD, Feb. 21.-Mr. Louis B. Haas
 has been appointed trustee by the probate court for the assigned estate of J. Mandel. l baum & Sons. The firm liabilities are $51 ;, ! S5s.44 The assets are $49, ,378.99. t Struck by a Train and Killed. | NORWICH, Feb. 2O.-William West, B ! years old, single, of Jewett City, was strucl by a southbound train on the Norwich ant | Worcester road last evening and instantl.