Connecticut western news., 1891-03-25


 Mike Kelly's offer to play with the Gin cinnati American association team.
 Advices from Honolulu state that Queen has reappointed H. A. P. Car ter minister to the United States
 The German war office has been startled by the discovery that hundreds of kilo- grammes of cartridges charged with smokeless powder have been stolen from the ordnance shops of Spandau by sub officer of the German army. The cartridges were conveyed to Berlin, where they were sold for s. 50 per hundred.
 Edward P. Shuneman and John Kelly were sentenced at Utica for stealing letters from the United States mail boxes. As result of the crime of these men it is said the locks on all letter boxes throughout the country will have to be changed.
 Eva Mann declares that the heirs of Ray Hamilton have offered her S6O, 900 to settle the claims against his estate, but she de- mands SIS, ,OOO
 Captain Frank D. Baldwin, of the Fifth infantry, United States army, who has been making tour among the Sioux, de- clares there is no danger of an outbreak in the spring.
 The Brandonville Powder mill, at Potts vile, Pa, caught fire and blew up. Jere- miah Zimmerman, Charles Faust and Ed ward Muth were all badly burned.
 Mrs. Quigley, the sister of Arthur Hoyt Day, of Rochester, Pa., who was hanged at Welland, Ont, on Dec IT, for mur- dering his wife, has confessed that she assisted him in pushing the woman over the brink at Niagara Falls to her death. Mrs. Quigley died after making her con- feesion. Us
 It is denied that the president intends to call an extra session of the senate.
 It is said that the efforts to reconcile the kaiser and Bismarck have collapsed, as the latter refused to give up letters written by the present emperor during his fathers SO journ at San Remo. The Hamburger Nachtrichten has resumed it's attack on the government.
 At an investigation of the clothing cut ters' lockout at Rochester, N. Y., by the state board of arbitration, the scheme by which money is extorted from firms by the Clothing Cutters National union was shown. James A. Wright, district organ izer of the Knights of Labor, of Philadel phia, together with John G. Theim and Frederick A. Archer, of Rochester, were arrested on the charge of conspiracy. Wal ter S. Westerbrook, secretary of the union, has been arrested in New York; President Hughes, of the union, is under arrest in Philadelphia, and James McGuire is in GUS tody in Chicago on the charge of extortion.
 The total appropriations made by the Fifty first congress were $9SS, 40, 129, an ex- cess of $17O, ,446 369 over those of the Fiftieth congress.
 The works of the Elizabethport Cordage company, at Elizabethport, N. J., were de stroyed by fire at 8 loss of $7OO,OOO.
 Louis Armand, who thirteen years ago was the language teacher of Mrs. c. B. Alexander, daughter of MT. Crocker, the California millionaire, and who has since annoyed the lady by writing love letters to her, was declared sane by jury in New York. He had been in lunatic asylum for five weeks. Z. master in the United States, died at Du was appointed in 1888 by President Frank lin Pierce, and held the office continuously
 Armstrong Bros. & Co.,, cork manu lecturers, Pittsburg, locked out their 1,OO( employees and will take back none who do not leave the Knights of Labor.
 The body of Prince Napoleon is lying in state in the mortuary chapel improvised in the house in which he died at Rome. Il has been officially ordered Hy King Hum bert that the interm-nt shall take place ir royal crypt, in the Church of La Luperga in Turin.
 Ex-Senator Ingalls, predicts political sue cess for the Farmers Alliance movement unless the existing parties make such con sessions to it's demands as to cause the members to return to their former partisan allegiance.
 Mike Bocka, an Austrian miner, of Hum bolt, Pa, shot his landlady twice for re fusing to get supper for him. When h, was pursued by officers he jumped down { deserted airhole, but instead of being killed was found the next day sleeping il the shaft. .
 It is believed the United States steam ship Triana, ashore at Cuttyhunk, will be total loss, but the Nina, ashore at Gay Head, may be foated Mariners at New Bedford, Mass, lay the loss of the vessels to the ignorance of the government pilots Several members of the California legis lature, it is alleged, have agreed to accep $2,OOO apiece to cast their votes for ex- Con gressman Charles N. Felton for United States senator. All the evidence and pa pers relating to the matter are in tn, hands of Attorney General Hart. F MT. Gladstone was received with roya
 
 don and on his arrival at Hastings. IT his speech he said the Liberal party wa still the party of home rule, but that i had given up MT. Parnell. At the inquest on the second lot of dead bodies taken from the wrecked steamer Utopia at Gibralta Captain McKeague and his officers testified, and the jury found a | verdict that the disaster was wholly acci- dental Inspector Byrnes does not believe that the Astor House suicide was Wright, and | is said to have some information from which he thinks Wright is still alive and | in the country.
 Hugh Mcdonnell, carpenter, was crushed to death by an engine at the One | Hundred and Sixth street station of the Third Avenue Elevated railroad at New York
 | Four attempts at incendiarism in New York tenement houses, one of a particu larly atrocious nature in which the inside knobs of the doors had been removed tC prevent the escape of the tenants, were reported to the police. In one case three men discovered in the act of throwing kerosene about were arrested.
 The Rev. T. w. l.. Roundtree (colored) pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal congregation at Englewood, N. J., has been shut out of Dwight chapel because o1 a controversy with the Presbyterians who manage it.
 MT. E. Berry Wall. the 'King of Dudes, has been suspended for three years from membership privileges in the New York club. The action was based on charges o1 frequent intoxication.
 I Great gaps have been made in the bluff at Long Branch, N. J., and some property destroyed by the high seas.
 | A five hundred thousand dollar building l Is to be erected at South Yonkers, N. Y. for . new Catholic seminary.