Connecticut western news., 1891-12-03
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 At Rochester, N Y, Gabriel Kuhn, con- victed of assault in the first degree upon his wife, Anna C. Kuhn, was sentenced to five years imprisonment in Auburn jail.
 Thomas Busch a veteran lake captain, committed suicide while insane at Buffalo by taking "Rough on Rats"
 The census office declares that the popu lation of Alaska is 31, 795.
 Caleb Alexander Parker, a well known re- tired builder and contractor, died at New Orleans, aged eighty-five years
 William Stephen, father of Lord Mount Stephen, died at Montreal, aged ninety-one years.
 The navy department has authorized the thirteenth payment, amounting to $11, ,25O, to be made on the practice vessel being built by Samuel Moore 6 Sons, of Elizabethport, N. J.
 At La Grange, Ind, after twenty hours deliberation, a jury found Martin Hall guilty of murder and fixed the punishment at i'm prisonment in the penitentiary for life. Hall was charged with poisoning Sheridan Hugh eson on Sept. 15. The evidence was wholly circumstantial.
 Dr. G. D. Durham, leading physician of Plattsburg, N Y., is dead from heart disease'
 Mayor Van Cleef, of New Brunswick, N. J., has started movement to canvass the city for contributions to complets the sol diers monument.
 The First National bank of Damariscotta Me-, which has been closed since the sus- pension of the Maverick bank in Boston, has resumed business.
 A parsonage has been presented to the Congregational church at Fairhaven, Mass. by Mrs. H. H. Rogers, of New York city
 It is reported that the royal commission in the Baie de Chaleurs matter are unani nous in acquitting Premier Mercier of all blame. John Springer, a heavyweight, and Will liam Noble, a lightweight, sat on rail fence on bet for an oyster supper for forty eight hours, in an Ohio town, when Springer fell off. 3t
 Commander in Chief John Palmer, of the Grand Army of the Republic, is in receipt of many communications favoring the pur- chase of Mount McGregor, where General Grant died, for home for consumptive soldiers.
 Mrs. B. S. West, the former principal of Rutgers Female college, charged with en- bezzlement, is quite confident of proving her innocence.
 Mrs. Annie Lyons was burned to death ID sight of crowd at New York. Major Thomas Harvard died at his home in Brooklyn, aged 1O3.
 Fire in the Chicago Arc Light and Power company's plant caused a loss of $5OO,OOO The miners strike in Paris is at an end. | The rebels in China are sail to be march | ing unchecked on the capital. Sf Archduke Henry of Austria is dead. He | only survived his wife one day. The Yorktown has arrived at Valparaiso l Chii. The intendente of that city has asked | for the Baltimore surgeons evidence as to | the nature of Boatswain's Mate Riggin's l wounds.
 The brig Tahiti was found bottom up of the coast of Mexico, and it is believed that passengers and crew to the number of 3O( were drowned
 Mrs. Jefferson Davis has brought suit against the Belford Publishing company o1 New York to recover royalties on the sale of her book, Jefferson Davis, Ex-president of the Confederate States; Memoir by His Wife"
 | Secretary of the Interior Noble has made his annual report. It says the general land office is nearly abreast of it's work; the In dian bureau is accomplishing the rapid dis l severance of tribal relations and the educa tion of the Indian youth. The pension of flee is rapidly completing the allowances o1 all pensions legally possible under the laws moving at the rate of about 30, 900 a month l the census has been taken and it's publlca l tions rapidly going on, and the geological survey is keeping up its admirable work. | There is much excitement in Atlantic county, N. J., oyer the increase of the ta1 assessments from $4, 100000 to $11, ,0O0,0OO | Farmers and beach front owners are vio lently protesting.
 Duke Gunther, of Schleswig-H -Holstein, ha' incurred the displeasure of his brother-in i law, the German emperor, owing to his in fatuation for a Spanish dancer named Otero
 Chancellor Von Caprivi denied in thu reichstag the rumor that he had resigned.
 Yale defeated Princeton in the champion ship football game at New York. The scors was: Yale, 19; Princeton, O.
 James Hanley stabbed his brother Patricl at Thomaston, Conn.,, during quarrel, Pat rick will die,
 George Kenman, lecturer and writer, is il at San Francisco from nervous prostration due to overwork.
 John Malcolm, sailor of New York, wa found dead on tho schooner Childe Harold at Boston.
 P. Alexande" Johnstone, the mind reader is dangerously ill at Peoria, Ills, with hem orrhage of the lungs.
 Milwaukee citizens have called mas meeting to take action to bring the Demo cratic national convention to that city.
 George L. Prince, Emma Juchs advance agent, was arrested at Richmond as fugi tive from Maryland justice.
 John A. Pizzini, an old newspaper man died at Richmond. He was f1fty-nine year old, and was at one time vice consul to Italy
 Mrs. Mouk, of Metamora, Ills, left he two children aged three and four alon while she went to church Thursday. The, played with fire and both were burned t. death.
 The Canadian government has granted warrant for the axtradition of Hong Yuen Chinaman now in Victoria, B. C., who wanted in San Francisco for the embezzle ment of ,O00.
 M. Christianberd leader of the Radioa party in Denmark, died of heart disease.
 The funeral of Earl Lytton, British epl bassador to France, was held at Paris. Tn body was buried in England.
 The British steamer Baltimore and tn White Star Liner Tauric collided at Liver pool. Both were somewhat damaged.
 The crew of the American ship Kappa hammock Liverpool for San Francisco, hay been landed at Valparaiso. The vessel wa burned at sea 400 miles off the Chilian coast