Connecticut western news., 1891-11-05
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TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME Tn. Developments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Con- den.ed for Our Readers.
 At Georgiana, Ala, Tom Shepherd, aged eighty, and his wife were found in their bed brained with an ax. This is the fifth murder there in ninety days.
 Burglar Charles Schmidt, sentenced to state prison for fifteen years at San Fran cisco, committed suicide with morphine few hours after being placed in his cell.
 Word has reached San Francisco that three German missionaries have been murdered bynatives at New Guinea, and that Alexander Gundersen, a white trader, has also been killed on the north coast of New Ireland.
 It is said that George A. Armour, of Chicago, wealthy relative of Phil Ar mour, who recently left the Presbyterian for the Episcopal church, has donated several hundred thousand dollars to the latter denomination, and will return to his old fold.
 Arguments on the application for re- count of the votes cast in the Newark charter elections will be held on Nov. Il.
 Colonel Daniel David Campbell died at his home in Rotterdam, N. Y. He was eighty-eight years old.
 Officer Frederick Jelly, while trying to make an arrest in Nashua, N. H., fired his revolver several times at the man he was pursuing and shot twelve-year-old girl named Tobbetis, inflictinga severe wound
 The cabin in which Sitting Bull spent the last years of his life, and in which he was killed, has been purchased at Mandan, N. D., and will be exhibited at the big fair in Chicago. The price paid is said to have been Sl GOO, a two-year-old steer and two silk dress patterns
 The wife of Alexander Scott, colored, of Broad Ripple, Ind., filed him by shoot ing, alter ne had split two inch board over her head -s
 Tine Methodsts of Marhlehead, Mass, are celebrating the tooth anniversary of the founding of Methodism in that town.
 The postoffice in Clayton, N. Y., was en- tered by burglars. The safe was blown open and about S7OO in cash and stamps was s: olen.
 During drunken row at West Overton, Pa, between Italian and Hungarian coke workers, two unknown Italians were fa- tally shot.
 Alice Nelson shot an instantly killed her husband in Leadville, Colo. It was case of jealousy. .
 A violent clubbing of Anastasios Colon bety, a Creek by policeman, aroused so much indignation among the Grecian colony at New York that $1, 900 was raised to bring suit A fire in Lorillard's tobacco factory in %1l $50, 900 damages.
 Walter Crisp, second son of Congress man Charles F. Crisp, is dead.
 The iron rolling mill at Cambridge Mass, with four other mills of the same kind in New England will soon be perma nently closed
 The rapid development of the wine in dustry in southern Brazil is being fostered by the government of that country. The fastest run on record from Chicago to Detroit was made on the Michigan Cen tral road, the train consisting of foul Wagner vestibule cars covering the PA miles in less than six hours. The average rate was forty weight miles an hour. It is stated that Sunol is to be one o1 | Budd Doble's stable next season. MT Bonner intends to trot Sunol next season
 Theodore Doerflinger was brought back | to Pittsburg from Omaha to answer | charges of embezzlement of school funds | and assets of the Dexter Spring company l His shortage is close to $1OO, O,00O. 1 Frederick Wilson, railroad fireman 1 was killed by highwaymen, to whom. h. refused to surrender his money, in Toad-a Loup, Mo.
 William Duncan, who, while resisting arrest, killed Officer James Brady, of St l Louis, has been convicted of murder in tn, first degree.
 The war department believes that wher' 8 college has an army officer detailed to i to instruct students no flag but the United States flag should float over the institu tion.
 Nicholas P. Apollonio, Boston's city reg 1strar since 1854, is dead.
 Fire at Clinton, N. J., destroyed nine teen buildings and caused a loss of $10O, ,00O
 Fires in the Illinois peatbeds threate1 their total destruction.
 c. D. Petherick is under arrest in low, for bigamy and embezzlement. l The Vendome theater at Nashville wa destroyed by fire.
 The reported massacre of the crew of tn whaler Grampus proves to be untrue.
 Prairie fires are causing serious damag in Nebraska,
 The business portion of the town o Lodi, Ills, has been destroyed by fire causing loss of $75,00O.
 The postmaster at Elkton, N. C., wa shot dead in his office by unknown persons without any motive.
 Isador A. Janson, secretary of the Colder Shield order, is under arrest at Fall River Mass, for forgery.
 The Advance elevator at Peoria, Ills, ha been completely destroyed by fire, wit 100, 900 bushels of grain, causing a tota loss of s12O,ooo
 New York lawyers are to fight for tn Cape Breton (N. S.) heirs of Timothy In graham to an English estate valued a $100, 0,00O,0 900.
 R. M. Hoffman, a leading clothier o Nyack, N. Y, has failed, confessing juda ments for about $10,000.
 Lewis Brewster, aged seventy-one, wa convicted of manslaughter at Bel fast, Me for killing tramp.
 Mrs. Sarah Deering, of Denison, Tex left her child in the front yard few mo ments. On her return she found larg snake coiled around the child's neck. Upo killing the snake the child was found t be dead from strangulation.
 The street railway employees of Nev York have organized benevolent bene | ficial association of their own and desert ed the Knights of Labor.
 There is an epidemic of typhoid fever il the Rhode Island state prison.
 At Colfax, Wash, state Farmers Al liance was organized
 At Richmond, Va, a statue of Genera William Garter Wickham, a Confederat general, was unveiled
 James F. Lynn, of Pawtucket, R. L who murdered his wife last August, wa srrtenced to state prison for life. | A Rejected Lovers Suicide. NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 3.-Henry Balle stone cutter working for J. Spurr ( Nnu.n,.l chat hi,a,calf at Nailrin4x las