Connecticut western news., 1891-07-30
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings of the World from
 Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME.

The Developments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
 Wires and Carefully Edited and Con- dsnssd for Our Readers. Theodore D. Lorich, of Jersey City, was drowned at Sharon, Mass.
 The anti-pool selling law at St. Louis has been declared unconstitutional.
 Captain William w. Bair, of Clarion, Pa, has been appointed president judge Theophilus Wilson.
 Eighty motor men and conductors of the Newark (N. J) Passenger Railway com pany have struck for reduction of hours and an increase of wages.
 The Massachusetts Democratic state con- vention will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Worcester.
 The First National Bank of Kansas City Kan., is insolvent. A receiver will be ap- pointed.
 B. H. Morris, of the Republican state sentral committee of Illinois, has been offered the position of minister to Liberia by the president.
 Mrs. Samuels, the mother of Jesse James, the outlaw, has received an offer to exhibit the James log house near Kearny, Mo, at the Worlds fair.
 The lobster factories at Bay of Islands, N. F., with the exception of those operated by the French, have been closed by the commander of the British ship Pelican.
 A conscience stricken unfortunate has sent thirty-eight one dollar lottery tickets, sone of which drew 8 prize, to the dead letter office, with the comment that the lottery Is humbug
 Treasury officials are said to be greatly worried over the letter written by MT. Owen, superintendent of immigration, in which he said tin plate workers might be brought into this country in spite of the contract labor law.
 The total loss by fire at Dallas, Tex, will foot up nearly $500, 900, with an insurance sf about $20O, 900.
 During heavy thunder storm at Green ville, Pa, the tall steeple of the United Presbyterian church was demolished by lightning. Rev. scouller was just finish Ing his sermon and about 20O people were n the building The greatest excitement prevailed for while, but no one was in- iured. .s. While Edward Dwyer was walking near Washington Park Lake, Albany, N. Y., As was taken with 8 fit and rolled in the water. Before assistance could reach him ae drowned. His body was recovered later.
 W. 0, Tnany's picture store, 2S3 Seneca ytrest, Buffalo, N. r., was damaged by fire 70 the extent of $4O 1000. Insurance un- known.
 Charles Curtis, we'll known thief, matched . pocketbook from Miss Bessie Mead, of IS East Thirty-second street, New York, while she was walking on Madison avenue, near Fifty-frst street. Curtis vas captured after something of chase.
 Christie Hughes, saloon keeper, of Stone ytreet, Newark, N. J., who took prom hent part in the Clark Thread works strike, has disappeared, owing many debts. George Gasser, of Newark, N. J., whose two sons and son-in-law were drowned rs- gently, is to be admitted to the Krueger home. He is seventy-two years old and aearly blind.
 Major Grover shot his brother Henry at Lexington, Tenn. Both men were drunk. The Pokegama Athletic association, of Brand Rapids, Mich, has decided to offer with or without gloves. The United States steamship Benning- Son will be docked and painted at the New York yard in few days for her final srial
 Syracuse is out of the Eastern associa- lion and President White is trying to get she club into Toronto.
 Passengers on the steamer Drew, which sollided with an excursion barge on the Hudson river, near Albany, believe at least two persons were drowned.
 Harvey J. Sserles has been appointed postmaster at Liberty, N. F.; Clement Russell, postmaster at Massillon, O. Levi Gaines, of Illinois, serving 8 sen tence of one year in the Chester (Pa9 pen ltentiary for violating the pension laws, has besn pardoned.
 Josephine Sicksngen, 2 beautiful and well to do German girl who left home to escape from Q marriage she could not en- | dure, was burned to death at New York. President Ignatius Donnelly, of the Minnesota State Farmers Alliance, has published an open letter to members in opposition to the scheme for withholding the wheat crop. MT. Donnelly says the market would eventually bs glutted with wheat, and prices would drop to ruinoua | 6gures.
 The tower of church in the process of erection at SEalatina, Hungary, fell, kill. ing sixteen workmen.
 S. Gerber, who lived in Omaha, Neb. for five years, has, it is said, been s4ilsd to Siberia by the Russian authorities.
 "As You Like It" was presented at Pitts burg in the rain.
 The Columbia Oil company, of Chicago has failed.
 At Paterson, N J., Mrs. Annie Kauf man, young bride, ended her existence with dose of paris green. She was very jealous. .
 Richard Cumming, Nicolas Politeo and Pic Sepulveda were shot to death in Chill for plotting against Balmaceda.
 A new phase has developed in the biz railway deal going on between the Cana Han Pacific and Grand Trunk railways t< she effect that the Boston and Maine rail
 pad is also to be included in the dea which, if consummated, will form one o the biggest railroad combinations on thu continent.
 The pope, it is reported, will lend his in auence to support the republic of France
 It was decided at the New York stat, camp at Peekskill to form an athletic as sociation, the members of which shall be long to the national guard of the state
 Count and Countess Won Butcher wh,
 were married in Milwaukee week ago
 have arrived in Brooklyn. The count wen
 10 Asbury Park, N. J., to placate the girl
 father.
 One-6fth of the capital stock which Nev
 Jersey is to contribute toward the build . Ing of the North river bridge has bee1 raised. Wealthy brewers arc the princi | oxo rLolI Al