Connecticut western news., 1891-09-17
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pieces of property in Chicago. It is rumored at Burlington, Ia., that ex-Governor Geer has been rendered Judge Cooley's place on the interstate com merce commission. William Hessler, of Chicago, was stabbed ten times while trying to stop quarrel between Daniel David and his wife and Charles Meyer Mrs. David did the stab ping.
 w. w. Johnson. formerly we'll known business man at Stony Point, N. Y., com mitted suicide by hanging.
 The navy department has made 8 very satisfactory trial of smokeless powder for small arms of American manufacture.
 Ex-Friar Francis Dent has invoked the aid of the civil courts to annul the decree which expelled him from the Order or Franciscan Monks.
 The Examiner, of San Francisco, says that Albertson, the cashier of the Tacoma Fidelity Trust company, absconded with $20, 900 cash and nearly $1, ,OOO, 600 in bonds, instead of e9, ,000 as reported. '-. Senator John B. McPherson, of New Jer- sey, has accepted an invitation to make number of speeches for Governor Camp bell in the Ohio campaign. -,.. -ss.@ Sheriff John McCargue, of Somerset, Ky, was shot dead in his stable by Joseph and John Gilland.
 Ninety of the no destitute Jewish refu- gees who arrived at Montreal on the steam ship Oregon recently, were sent to the United States and western Canada r. The physicians of John Fitzgerald, pres ident of the International League of America, say that he will never be him. self again mentally.
 The New Haven Grays on Sept. 13 cele- brated their seventy-ffth anniversary.
 Mrs. Allen G. Thurman is reported, at Columbus, O., as being much improved.
 Sheriff John H. McCargue, of Rockcas- tie county, Ky, was killed by an unknown assassin. '*
 Sixteen-year-oldP Percy Carr accidentally shot and killed his six-year-old cousin, Harry Price, at Northeast, Md, while ex- amining pistol.
 Assembly nominations in New York state have been made as follows: Peter D. Muller, Democrat, Cortland county; G. P. H. Gould, Democrat, Lewis county. L. l.. Polk, president of the National Farmers Alliance, believes Cleveland will be nominated in 1892
 Investigation proves the report to be incorrect that Prince Bismarck had suf- fered slight stroke of apoplexy.
 Archbishop Corrigan laid the corner stone of the new church of St. Joachim and St. Anne, at Mount Loretto, s. l., Sept A.
 It is reported that Tascott, the murderer | of Millionaire Shell, of Chicago. has been | caught at Charleston, s. c. | Major Edmund l.. Smith, formerly of the United States army and member of ] the law firm of Wells, Smith & Mason, of Denver, died at Reading, Pa, Sept. H.. The proposed reproduction of "Lohen- | grin" in Paris caused so much excitement that it had to be postponed. >,. The Lake Erie and Western railroad strike in Ohio is at an end. The Consumers Merchandise Clothing and Provision company at Philadelphia has suspended | The Junto de Gobierno recognized the validity of the paper money issued by Ball maceda in Chilli, and the banks have re- opened. g.
 John H. B. Latrobe, leading lawyer of Maryland, died at Baltimore.
 The fishing schooner Georgiana, of Tar mouth, was upset in making Halifax har- bor and her captain and crew of fifteen men were drowned. l H. M. Robinson, Atlanta, Ga, has bee elected president of the National Associa- |
 The resignation of Sir Hector Langevin, minister of public works, Ottawa, due to the recent disclosures of crookedness in his department, has been accepted.
 The appointment of Mrs. Virginia c. Meredith, one of the Indiapa lady mana gers, is being urged as chief of the depart ment of live stock of the Worlds fair. Mrs. Meredith owns stock farm.
 A general election will be held in Chill on Oct. IS. The new president will be in sugurated on Dec. 26. Eighteen refugees have been landed by the Baltimore at Mol. lendo, Peru.
 John Barnard, while riding with 8 young woman in Hancock county, Pa., was mortally wounded by Tilman Sutton who was in turn killed by a younger brother of Barnard. The shooting was the result of feud.
 The trial at Denver of T. Thatcher Graves for the alleged murder of Mrs Josephine Barnaby, of Providence, R. l.. has been set for Nov. A
 Socialist Aigner broke Daniel O'Con nor's arm during fight at Guttenburg N. J., and shot and seriously injured Con stable Kern and 8 citizen named Jehr Gerstrom when they tried to arrest him.
 Terrorite was tested in buried shells al
 
 blowing holes of from thirteen to fifteer feet in the earth.
 Judge Lorenzo Sawyer died suddenly o bronchitis in San Francisco, Cal. Judge Sawyer was born in Jefferson county N. Y., in 1920. In 1863 he was elected jus tice of the supreme court in California and in the last two years he was chic justice. ....
 The railway postal clerks will hold thei1 next convention at Washington.
 A Chicagoan suggests to Secretary Rusl that his rain producing apparatus be uset to create fogs, which will prevent injur. from frost.
 At Grace English Lutheran) church Chicago. Colonel Elliott F. Shepard prophesied the financial ruin of the Chi cago fair if opened Sundays
 Reilly Dean and Bill Dalton were ar rested near Travers, Cal, Sunday night on suspicion of having taken part in tn ) train robbery at Ceres. Friday night }, Mrs. Lippincott Not Guilty.
 MAYS LANDING, N. J., Sept. 15.-Mrs Julia c. Lippincott, of Atlantic City, wa acquitted in the county. court here flo forging note for $425 on the Second Ne tional bank of Atlantic City. She was ae quilted in the Camden county court o the same charge. It was claimed by tn defense that Mrs. Lippincott was autho, ized to sign the names to the note. - General Markets. NEW YORK, Sept. A-COTTON-Spot lot. dull; middling uplands, 834c.; futures, quiet September, $S48; October, $8.6O; Novembe, $878; December, $802
 , FLOUR-Dun and prices steady; city mi extras, $5.2505.35 for West Indies; Minnesot extra, $3.65@4.aO; fine, $30365; superane
 $34O@4.
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