Connecticut western news., 1891-06-17
BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS
Happenings of the World from
 Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME

o The Developments of Each Day During
 the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy
 Wires and Carefully Edited and Con-
 densed for Our Readers-
 Hon. J. J. c. Abbott has been chosen premier of Canada to succeed the late Sir John A. Macdonald. It is believed that Sir John Thompson is to lead the Conser- vatives in the house of commons.
 John Van Cott, an odd character of Oyster Bay, L. l., committed suicide.
 The Japanese authorities have decided to stop the emigration of low Japanese women to America by refusing to issue passports to them.
 The "Rickisha" men who saved the life of the czarewitch in Japan were sent for by the prince and presented with a gold medal and $2,5O0 in coin each and were promised a pension of $1 ,000.
 Prince Bismarck is suffering from lum- bago.
 J. F. Albrecht, clerk of the Camp Spring Milling company, of St. Louis, is behind the bars. He bet on "cinches." and em- bezzled g, 800 of the firms money.
 Tanner, the United States consul at 1 IN. grand jury of that place for indecent as- sault. Tanner has fled, forfeiting his bail.
 Billy O'Brien knocked out Jack King at Hammond, Ind, in fight for the middle weight championship of the state He finished his man in the twentieth round.
 The Montgomery county O. Republican convention has elected a solid delegation of twenty three for Mckinley for governor.
 The sixth annual convention of the Order of Railway Photographers takes place at St. Lous today. Over 800 delegates are in at tendance.
 Attorney General Miller was at Dams vile, N. Y., June IA, where he attended the funeral of his sister, MT. Peck, who died there Friday.
 It Is reported at Butte City, Mon, that the Anaconda copper mines have been sold through August Belmont to a syndicate of which the Rothschilds are the head, the consideration being between 90 00O, 900 and $25, ,0O0, 900.
 The rabbis of New York have inaug- urated a strong movement for the better observance of the Hebrew day of rest.
 Balmaceda's warships shelled the port of Tocopilla, held by the Chilian in- surgents, landed force of men, pillaged the town and carried away all the money they could get.
 Sixty-four cadets of the West Point Mill tary academy graduated A daring highway robber who attacked Miss Jennie Lessburger in Madison ave nue, New York, in broad daylight, wal captured after an exciting chase. The Pennsylvania railroad has named the new fast train to Chicago, which be- gan running last Sunday, the "Columbia express" in honor of the Worlds fair. The president has appointed Frank R. Utter postmaster at Friendship, N. Y.. vice Robert A. Scott, resigned. The National Bank of North America, New York city, capital $700, 900, has been authorized to begin business. Stanwood Dodge, a brother of Gail Hamilton" died at Beverly, Mass, aged sixty-five years
 Major John H. Walker, who was beaten by Alfred Hall because of the latter's jeal. ousy of Walkers attentions to Mrs. Hall died of his injuries in Brooklyn.
 Colonel John Albert Monroe, veteran of the civil war, died June Il of hemor. rhage caused by cancer in the jaw. He was prominently identified with the artil. lery service during the war. It is said that on account of Hippolyte's perfdy all relations between the United States and Hayu arc broken off. Special correspondents at IQuiQue say the Chilian insurgents have refused to ac cept Balmaceda's overtures for negotia- tions and that Admiral McCann has taken measures to protect the Itata from an at tack by torpedoes.
 The New York Law school, which will | be 8 rival to Columbia, in which the SC called Dwight system of instruction will be eperpetuated, has been chartered. Miss Wilhelmina Tunstall, young | woman of seeming refinement, insists tha her cousins husband, William P. Crary was too intimate with her. She is Mrs Crary's chief witness in her suit for di vorce. Mrs. Crary is a daughter of ex Mayor Howell, of Brooklyn.
 Charles Fisher, the famous actor, died a New York, of general debility, June Il. Lord Londonderry has evidently con cluded that the days of landlordism il to sell his Irish estates to the tenants ol terms to be agreed upon by parties selecte' by both.
 The Central New York diocese has con sented to the conservation of Phillip Brooks as bishop.
 G. E. Ressigue, editor of The Dali Transcript of Susquehanna, Pa, is dead He was prominent as a politician.
 There was an epidemic of suicide at Ne,
 York June 10- Six persons killed them selves on that day.
 Rumors are ripe in Philadelphia tha moro arrests are to be made in connectio
 with the city treasury scandal.
 The cat hospital of Dr. Wilder at Corne
 university was burned, and a number (
 felines destined for the knife were roasted
 The New York Central hotel, togethe
 with two barns. an ice house and about 1(
 square feet of cattle sheds, at West Albs
 ny, N. Y., were burned. Loss, $5O, 900. Tn
 property was all owned by the Centrs
 Railroad company.
 Lester l.. Bristoll, the demented supe
 intendent of the Delaware, Lackawann
 and Western railroad, who wandered ava Saturday from his home in Jersey Cit,
 taking his four young boys with him, hs
 been found at Sparkhill, N. Y. They wei
 on a fishing trip.
 At New York Jacob c. Michaels, of Il West Tenth street, has been arreste charged with poisoning his pretty wifi
 Elizabeth.
 Misses Ellen and Anna Yeomans, niec
 of ex-President Cleveland, were marie at Walwcrth, N. Y. MT. Cleveland W, present.
 William Kennedy, who was serving