Connecticut western news., 1891-09-24
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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- densed for Our Readers. Colonel w. w. Clapp, president of the New England Associated press, has re- signed. He is succeeded bv J. L. Shipley of the Springfield, (Mass.) Union. Washington Cowen, aged eighty, a prominent citizen of Mansfield, O., is dead. Mrs. Elizabeth Borden Riddle died at Philadelphia aged ninety-two. Her father was Judge Hopkinson, author of "Hail Columbia"
 lThe Republican convention of the Eigh teenth New York senatorial district nomi- mated John H. Derby, of Sandy Hill, for state senator.
 David Barry, letter carrier, was ar rested for stealing letters containing money at New Haven. He admits his guilt.
 Italians at New York, Boston and other cities celebrated the twenty-frst anniver- sary of Garibaldi's entry into Rome Sept. 21.
 Miah J. Blake, a talented young musi- clan, who wrote most of the musical score for "The Khedive," the comic opera re- gently produced in New York, is dead.
 Marie Jansen says she will not be mar ried this year. It was claimed that she would wed rich Englishman named Bass. Edward Kennell, a barber, hanged him. self from ventilating pipe on the roof of house in Roxbury, Mass.
 Bishop Henry McNeil Turner (colored), of Boston, advocates the migration of 5O,OOO of his race to Africa, as there is lit tie hope for his race in this country.
 Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, has telegraphed Mrs. w. L. Scott his sym pathy in her bereavement. Ex-President Cleveland will attend the funeral.
 The reported assassination of President Bogran, of Honduras, was "fake.'
 The original draft of the state constitu- tion of Wisconsin is missing from the archives of the secretary of state's office.
 A syndicate of Boston capitalists Satur- day purchased controlling interest in the Nebraska Stock Yard company at Lin coin.
 Southport, Conn.,, is greatly excited over the appointment of Miss Keely, a Roman Catholic, as teacher in the public school.
 A man named Vanderbilt, who claims to be related to the New York family, has been arrested at Springfield, O., for burg lary at Dennison.
 William O'Connell and Carlos E. Stev- ems, of New Haven, who married sisters, quarreled over Stevens attentions to O'Connell's wife, and the latter was stabbed in the neck by Stevens.
 Ira Berry, grand secretary of the Masons of Maine, died at Portland, aged ninety. In 1S44 he went to Boston and assisted in building the first telegraph line to New York, and was the first operator and man ager of the Boston office At Rochester, N Y., Assemblyman F. M. Jones was renominated in the First district of Monroe county by the Repub. licans.
 The Lyons Qa) paper mill was burned. Loss, 5000; insurance, $3O,OOO.
 At Sheffield, Ala, the Cleveland Hotel and ten business houses were burned. Loss, $11O,OOO.
 The Atlantic transport line of steamers between London and Baltimore has ar ranged to start a line between London and New York.
 In speech in Ohio Roger Q. Mills told the farmers that free silver coinage would not help them.
 General Grubb, of New Jersey, will soon marry Miss Violet, daughter of Hon. T. Sopwith, of Lismore, Scotland. Miss Gertrude Whiting Potter, the ec- centric daughter of the Chicago million aire, from whom the boy Rust obtained a | divorce last week, was remarked to MT. l J. C. Daniels, of New York, whom she welded a year ago under an assumed name.
 1 Secretary Tracy has awarded the con- tract for building torpedo boat No. to the Iowa Iron works, of Dubuque, Ia., foi $113,5OO
 Rev. Dr. J. B. Helwig, president of Wit. tenberg college. O., and late Prohibition candidate for governor of that state, has left the Lutheran church and gone over td | the Presbyterians. The reason given is the alleged tendency of the Lutheran ices.
 The steamship Mondego, from Montreal for Dundee, is a total wreck on the coast of Newfoundland. Loss, $120,000.
 A. M. Haines & Co.,, apothecaries, Bos ton, have offered ten cents on the dollar td their creditors.
 General Isaac F. Quimby died at Roches. ter, N. Y., Sept. IS, aged seventy years He was born in Morris county N. J. He was classmate of General Grant.
 Ex-Mayor Atwood, the secretary of the Landers, Fray and Clark company, died Sept. IS in New Britain, Conn.,, aged fifty four years. He went to New Britain iu 1872 He was three times chosen alderman and once mayor.
 | Lorenz Brentano, ex-congressman from Illinois and ex-consul to Dresden, died al Chicago from paralysis, Sept. IS. He was born in Baden, Germany, in 1913, and iu 184S was the leader of the Liberal party al Frankfort. He was president and later director of the provisional government o1 Baden in the crisis of 184S.
 The funeral of Dr. Loring, formerly minister to Portugal and commissioners of agriculture, took place at Boston, Mass Sept. 17.
 General Franklin Foster Flint, veteran of more than forty years service in the regular army of the United States, died suddenly at Chicago.
 At New York Thomas s. Brennan was appointed a commissioner of street clean ing in place of Hans s. Beattie, removed
 The Memphis theater, the oldest ir Memphis, Tenn, was destroyed by fire Loss $50, O,OOO, with $24 ,OOO insurance
 Fred Harvey, who has a number of eat ing houses along the line of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, was granted 8 perpetual injunction at Chicago yester day, restraining the company from run ming dining room cars over it's line.
 Attorney General Miller has filed in tht supreme court of the United States his re ply to briefs filed by counsel for J. L.. Ra