Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
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 Enos Frisbee died in Harwinton, Conn.,, aged 100 years and months.
 $ottsville Pa) doctors say that Katie Cole, colored girl of eighteen, who dropped dead in the street, died from the effects of tight lacing
 Secretary Tracy has decided to name cruiser No. 10, being built by the Colum bia Iron works of Baltimore, the Detroit.
 The cruiser San Francisco has been or dered from Callao to San Francisco fol repairs.
 A small fire which started in the base ment of the pension office building was easily extinguished.
 Lady Henry Somerset, the English phi. lanthropist and temperance worker, and Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith are the guests of Miss Frances Willard of Chicago.
 The Chicago grand jury has returned several indictments against parties con cerned in the poorhorsse and insane asy- lum poodle scandal.
 Charles F. Mattlage, who owns the prem. ises 266 Greenwich street, New York, has been granted $16, ,425 damages to fee and rental loss against the elevated roads.
 Shocks of earthquake were felt at Charleston and throughout South Caro- lima.
 Seven bridges on the Georgia Central road between Macon and Savannah were fired and destroyed by train robbers.
 It is said Chicago trades unions want the Worlds fair managers to stop adver Using and boasting It is now proposed tc carry the contest to the house of repre- sentatives and defeat, if possible, any further appropriations from that source.
 South Australia declines to take any part officially in the Chicago Worlds ,fail unless Amer can duties on wool are abol ished.
 All the employees of the Gould railway system will attempt to form a federation.
 William F. Harrity may succeed Calvin S. Brice as chairman of the National Dem ocratic committee.
 A dispatch from Queen City, Tex, says that the negro, Lee Green, who murdered the family of Farmer Lowe. seven miles west of Queen City, was burned to deatE by a crowd of negroes who tied him to a tree and built a fire around him. James Gordon Bennett has arrived al New York.
 Frederick Spaulding, editor of the Nor folk Tower and we'll known in Connect cut, is dead. Superintendent Beals, of the Omaha Street Railway company, and two assist ants were confronted by robbers, who pre-. sented revolvers, made them throw uI their hands, drilled hole in the safe, filled it with quantity of giant powder, set it off and robbed the safe of $l, 200.
 A murder which occurred in Berlin beart all the horrible evidences of having been committed by Jack the Ripper or by some one who closely initiated his bloody work There ia no clew to the perpetrator. Austin Gibbons, lightweight pugilist, took out his second papers in Passaie county, N. J., and is now an American citizen.
 Attorney General Miller has completed an argument upholding the constitution. ality of the Mckinley tariff bill which he will file with the supreme court of the United States in the suits brought to test the legality of that act. John McGowan, twenty-one years old was arrested by the Brooklyn police just after he had set fire to tenement house in Phillips alley and a stable at 82 John | street. At the station house McGowan confessed, and he is thought to be the in. | cendiary who has caused many fires among | the big tenements in Brooklyn the last | three months.
 Secretary Blaine has gone to Washing | ton and his friends say he is surely a can F didate for the presidential .nomination next year, ..-. Mayor Gleason, of Long Island City | caused the arrest of George F. Spaeth on | the charge of illegally acting as election inspector. County Judge Garretson or dered the release of Spaeth. who says he il a lawful inspector. B.
 The report that Queen Victoria was dead l was canard.
 | Commander Palmer, of the G. A. R. will issue an order against G. A. R. me1 parading in processions where Confederat, 1 flags are carried after election. 1 Mrs. Lucy Fitzsimmons, who was found guilty of murder in the second degree fol the killing of Detective Gilkinson, wa. sentenced to eight years in the peniten 1 tiary at PittsburR.
 Every liquor dealer at Bar Harbor, Me. has been indicted for violation of tn, liquor law.
 Archibald Goheen, the murderer of Ro setta Bray, was hanged at Fergus Falls Minn.
 At Hot Springs, S. D., the Minnehah, hotel was burned. Loss, $52, ,OOO.
 The famous horse, Blue Vein, valued al ,000, was lost by fire at Nashville, Ind
 Work was resumed at the Anacond, mines by direction of John B. Haggin, ,wh, telegraphed Marcus Daily that he hat agreed with the railroad company.
 At New Bedford, Mass, the jury in th, case of Charles J. Tighe, of Boston, charged | with the murder of Peter Johnson brought in verdict of manslaughter.
 Suit has been begun in Boston by Pow CTS & Co.,, grain dealers, against the Bos ton ahd Maine railroad for $10O, 900 dam ages under the interstate commerce lav for unjust discrimination.
 A letter has been found from Jame Bently, lover of Annie Warner, who com mitted suicide at Bushkill, Pa., instruct ing the young girl how to take a dose O poison. Bently had refused to marry her
 Arrangements have been made for joint debate at Boston between Sam Smal and Rev. Hugh Montgomery, of woburn on 1.-The Relations of the Republican an, the Prohibition Parties to the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic"
 William Scott, an engineer, was scalde, to death in collision between two freiph trains on the Pittsbure and McKeespor railway.
 Governor Northen, of Georgia, has vetoe, the school bill involving an appropriatio, of $1 200, ,0OO.
 Dr. Isaac Lea Nicholson, of Philadelphia will be consecrated bishop of Milwauke next Wednesday.
 Hon. John J. Ingalls, was unable to lee ture at Haverhill, Mass, Wednesday night on account of illness.
 Il Oelriclls Huys the Bancroft House.
 NEWPORT, R. l., Oct. 27.-Herman Gel richs, of New York, has purchased sum