Connecticut western news., 1891-04-01

which recently passed the house, was de- feated in the Ohio senate.
 The appointment by the president of Ivory G. Kimball as judge of the police court of the District of Columbia indicates that he feels legally authorized to fill the new circuit court judgeships and other offices created by congress during the re cess.
 Mrs. Maud E. Jenks has been granted a divorce from Amer F. Jenks, corporation counsel of Brooklyn.
 Thomas H. Haskell, of Portland, Me, has been reappointed associate justice of the supreme court by Governor Burleigh.
 Anderson, Green 6, Co.,, one of the largest dry goods houses in the south, doing busi- ness at Nashville, have assigned. The assets are about $2OO, O,0OO, with liabilities about S13O,00O.
 The double life of Captain Theodore R. Bishop, of Newport, R. l., who supported two wives and two families there for years, is disclosed by action for divorce brought by one of his wives.
 The participants in the six days walk at the Madison Square Garden were paid s6, 7s2 of the s10O0o they worked so hard to win.
 Hugh c. Miller, the Brooklyn nrebug, " see the engines run." His counsel and friends say he is insane.
 The brig Joseph Banigan went ashore at Long Branch in a dense fog All of her crew were saved except Thomas Laurence, seaman, who jumped into the sea and was drowned
 New York and Chicago spectators are credited with having made profit of S4,- 5OO GOO in wheat deals
 Bank Examiner Hepburn reports that, as far as he can see now, the impairment to the capital of the Washington National bank of New York is about $l4S, ,0O0
 The national committee of the Afro American Press association called on the president and read an address which re- quested, among other things, that the president appoint a negro to the federal bench. The president asked them to point out good man and said he would consider the matter.
 Anthon Schusky, the insane man ar rested in Scranton, Pa., while trying to commit suicide, succeeded in killing him. self while confined in the Scranton jail by choking himself with a cord. Commissioner of Public Works Gilroy, of New York, received letter offering him a bribe of twenty five cents ton if he would secure a contract to supply the city of New York with the finest white gravel sand at three dollars a ton for B. H. Dea kyne, of Gladstone, N. J.
 Fitzsimmons, the murderer of Detective Gilkinson, was taken from Homestead and lodged in the Pittsburg jail. MT. and Mrs. Clark, at whose residence in Home stead the murderer was discovered, to- sether with Miss Wyatt, sister of Mrs. a n1- plices. A large quantity of missing plum der has been found in the Clark residence. When the detectives searched Fitzsim- mons' house they found papers showing that Frederick c. Fitzsimmons had re- gently fallen heir to property in Brock l vile.
 Newfoundland is much agitated oveE | the proposed action of the British parlla- ment in regard to French rights, and will send delegation of protest to England. 1 Should they be unheeded the colony will seek annexation to the United States. Through the bursting of an oil pipe at | the Tidewater company's refneries at Con- stable Hook, N. J., two men were instantly killed and three others seriously inj ured. The men were drenched with burning oil Bismarck's exposure of the fact that in | 1885 Minister von Botticher obtained $87 ; l 500 from the old Emperor William, haA aroused deep indignation in Germany. The legislative council of the British col ony of Barbadoes has taken action looking to commercial reciprocity with the United | States.
 Henry Martin, who indulged in window | smashing at the White House, has written a letter of apology to the president. He | will probably escape with slight fine L 1 of Sen ator Jones, of Arkansas. Jockey Decker, who has been one of the foremost handlers of race horses this win ter at the Guttenburg track, was instantly killed while alighting from moving train on the branch road of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad at West | chester, N. Y. He was nineteen years oi age, unmarried, and had been a jockey since he was twelve years old. l Surgeon General Hamilton thinks it [ shame that Philadelphia has nc naval hos l pital and that sick sailors are 'tarmed out by the government.
 | The auditors of Berks county, Pa, hay, refused to pass bills amounting to severa thousand dollars, much of which was ex pended by the commissioners, prison in ] spectors and directors of the poor fo liquor and cigars.
 Dr. John Ege, of Reading, Pa, who en grafted a white mans skin on a coloret man, and colored mans skin on whit man, with the result that the black skin became white, while the white skin re tained its original color, has announced his belief in white being the primeval hu of mans epidern,is. E t
 iT WILL HELP THE FARMERS.
 Tho Good Effects of tho Animal Fss4
 Products Inspection Bill.
 WASHINGTON, March 3O.-An applicatios has been received by Secretary Rusk iron Nelson Morris, of Chicago, for inspection under the law of March 4, 1891, of hogs ant hog products designed by him for expor abroad. The regulations for such inspec tion are already drawn up so far as is nee essary for compliance with the require ments of the law. In some details thes regulations may be modified as experience indicates to be necessary, so as to minimiz as much as possible any inconvenience O expense entailed upon the trade, keepinl in view, however, the secretary's determin ation to carry out to the full the power given him under the law to secure such al inspection as will absolutely forbid on tn
 part of any foreign government suspicion or accusation regarding the healthfulnes of our animal food products. So far q
 Mr. Morris is concerned he expresses tn
 utmost confidence in the good results 0 the law and every willingness to co-operat
 in fully carrying it out.
 Referring to this law and to that whicl
 provides for the regulation by the secre
 tary of agriculture of the condition o
 cattle carrying vessels, he declares his con
 viction that the law will help the farm
 ing and cattle raising interests beyond
 anything it is now possible to estimate
 Foreign countries, he says, will not talk