Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
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 As Mrs. F. A. Kuntz was entering her house, D. ,548 Dearborn street, Chicago, an unknown man dashed nitric acid in her face and fled. She will lose her eyesight.
 United States marshals captured eleven { nugglers at Seattle, Wash, on 8 sloop filled with contraband whisky.
 Captain Philip, commanding the Allan ta, has, in his report to Washington, given high testimony to the seaworthy qualities of his vessel and to the bravery of his ex- ecutive officer, Lieutenant Mason, and Carpenter Craig Master at Arms Moran, John Kronbery and Charles Gross, gun ners in connection with the recent fatal explc sion on board.
 Joel Benedict Harris, president of the Harris Manufacturing company, of Rut- company, of Springfield, Mass, is dead. The Gondolo Tanning Company works at Grapeville, Pa., were partially destroy ed by fire. Loss, $50,O 900.
 Ex-United States Senator Wade Hamp- ton says he is out of politics, and that the Alliance is disintegrating in the south.
 Addison Arnold, of Seymour, Ind, com mitted suicide by shooting himself be- cause of bitter quarrel with his wife. She has become insane.
 The report of the illness of the poet Whittier is denied at his house.
 Stephens, Cunning & Co.,, hat manufac- turers of South Norwalk, Conn.,, have failed. There are no assets. Failure to make collections caused the suspension.
 In the will of the late Judge Edwin Flint, of Mason City, Ia., among other lib eral educational bequests is one for $50, ,OOo to the State university of Vermont
 Dr. M. L. Mahaffey, the leading physi- cian of Gwinett county, Ga., has eloped with his wife's fifteen -year-old cousin.
 It is stated at the navy department that the government will lose nothing by the failure of Harrison Loring & Co.,, the Bos- ton shipbuilding firm which is engaged in building a cruiser aud half dozen tugs for the new navy.
 The Widow of William Henry Smith, 1t is said, will be honored with peerage.
 It is said that all the members of the Canadian cabinet have placed their resig- nations in the hands of Premier Abbott, for his acceptance or declination according to his views of the exigencies of the situa- tion.
 Elk, Attorney General Garland, as coun- sel for James F. Boyd, plaintiff in error, made motion in the supreme court of the United States to advance for argument the case of Boyd versus John M. Thayer, known as the Nebraska gubernatorialo case. The court took the matter under advise ment
 The Tecumseh National bank at Tecum- sch, Neb., aud the Columbia Banking company and the Bank of Columbia, ot Columbia, Tenn, have failed.
 Julia Ward Howe was chosen president of the congress of the Association for the Advancement of Women.
 Professor John L. Lincoln, of Brown university, is dead.
 M. z. Sweeney, consul general to Tur. key, has sent his resignation to the presi dent.
 Edward F. Searles is to present to the town of Methuen, Mass, fine statue d George Washington.
 William w. Windle, of Springfield, Mass, lowered the worlds record for one mile on bicycle by making the distance in 2:15. Henry George has written reply to the pope's encyclical.
 President Harrison attended the session of the Ecumenical council and made g speech in which he hoped for the uniflca. tion of the church and said that America was for peace with all the world. The sarcophagus of the Emperor Fred erick was placed on his tomb at Berlin Oct. IS with considerable ceremony, it be- ing the birthday of the late emperor. The 5000 bookbinders of London have won their eight hour fight, and the London | chamber of commerce will put the eight hour day in practice on New Years day. The new protected steel cruiser Scylil was successfully launched. She is one ot | the vessels authorized under Lord Georg, Hamilten's naval defense scheme Minnie Scannell, an intermediate pas | senger on the Aurania from New York | disembarked at Queenstown and was i'm mediately placed under arrest for having l concealed about her 8 seven chambered TO volver, fully loaded.
 | In tenement house fire in the dock dis | trict, London, known as Millwall, an olt woman of seventy, young woman ant ] three children were burned to death.
 Sylvester Franklin Wilson, the femal baseball manager, was convicted in Nev | York of abducting the sixteen-year-olt girl, Libbie Sunderland, after a trial occu pying seven days.
 1 An investigation made into the finding of a dynamite bomb on the Reichenbe railroad bridge, in Bohemia, resulted il the discovery of an iron vessel which con tained quantity of loose dynamite, som dynamite cartridges some gunpowder ant some fuses. In addition to this anothe bomb, with fuses attached, was found il the framework of the bridge. | During the convention of the Women | Christian Temperance union at Bradford Pa., 100 of the members were taken sud denly ill, and for a time there was grea consternation among the ladies. The phy sicians attributed the sickness to poison il white grapes.
 An explosion of gas occurred at the Mel riam colliery, at Ashland, resulting in tn death of Louis Schodt and the serious in jury of John Young and Michael Farley The top of Schodt's head was blown off.
 The commission appointed by tho secre tary of the interior to negotiate with tn
 Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians of Wye | ming for cession of part of Wind Rive | reservation, has effected an arrangemen | by which the government will get 1, 1OO, ,OO
 acres at a cost of $500, ,0OO.
 Commodore Nathaniel Duncan Ingra
 ham, who left the Union service and joine
 the Confederacy, died at Charleston.
 Two men were killed and five injured a
 Port Townsend, Wash, by boiler explc
 sion on the steamer Evangel, which wa
 originally built for a missionary boat b
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