Connecticut western news., 1891-08-13
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TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME

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 Wires and Carefully Edited and Con-
 dsnsed for Our Readers.
 The attachment of the Bennington bat ae monument by the Hartford Security company is now denied.
 David King, farmer of Fort Dodge, Ia., who was buncoed out of $2,OOO by two men, claims that they hypnotized him.
 The Peoples party in Kansas will put Ex-Congressman Kelly, 1t Is said, against Plumb for senator, and wants to retire Jerry Simpson and his followers Edward McGovern ran into 8 runaway milk team while making home run in game of baseball at Glen Haven, near Rochester, N. Y. He has since died. Tho contract for the 100 high power Yuns to be given to the Bethlehem Iron company, of South Bethlehem, Pa, has been approved by Acting Secretary Prout. Df the war department. The amount of he contract is 6, 5sO, ,s7Ss5. Richard Cotts Shannon, of New York, has been appointed United States minister l to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador, the new Central American mission. The International Congress of Hygiene vas opened in London by the Prince of Wales.
 William McMahon has sued James M Waterbury for 11, ,OOO, 900, which he claims . due him for working the interests of rapid transit scheme.
 Grasshoppers are doing great damage throughout Ohio. They have destroyed the clover seed crop, are running the wheat Bnd corn dslds and eating up the pasture Fruit trees are also being damaged by them.
 Mrs. Leila Robinson Sawtelle, Massa- ehusetts' first woman lawyer, died at Am hsrst, N. H., where she was stopping, of an overdose of medicine she had accident ally taken.
 Major W. W. Carter, one of Indiana's noted politicians and lawyers, is dead. The Salvadorian government has con- asoatsd the Pacific Mail steamship City of Panama at La Libertad for leaving La Union without permit from the captain | sf tho port.
 The son of Mrs. Hettie Green proposes le have . big newspaper in Chicago with Dastern editors.
 A monument to the heroes of the revo- unveiled with the most imposing cere- monies 1t that place.
 | Ex-Governor Henry Lloyd, of Maryland, pays that the story of his son being swim | liar is falsehood. He was not married antil 1856, and his children are very roung.
 William F. Round, secretary of tho l Prison association, has received permis- | Non from Superintendent Lathrop to in- vostiRate Clinton prison, and has gone to Dannemora, N. Y., for that purpose. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union | Df America has concluded it's annual ses- hon. Indianapolis was selected as the place tor holding the next annual convention. Bishop Cotter was reelected president. Herbert Kenny, an insurance agent of Pittsburg, has been arrested at Toronto, charged with embezzlement and forgery. It has been decided that MT. Parnell will visit the United States during the autumn snd conduct campaign throughout the bntire country. Mrs. Parnell will accom- pany her husband, making her public debut as politician.
 Tho body of Jennie Van Horn, an at tsndant ct tho Harrisburg Insane asylum, was found in the canal. It is supposed to be . case of suicide on account of unre- luited love. . ..>. The Russian council of state has decided to prohibit the exportation of corn, owing 10 the bad harvest. >
 Ten prisoners, with fine saw, escaped from the county jail at Lacrosse, Wis. Governor Buchanan has issued a procla- nation calling an extra session of the legislature of Tennessee. George Theodore von Moltke, nephew of the great German field marshal, was mar gied at Tacoma, Wash, Wednesday to Miss Jane Smith.
 A clerk in the clothing store of Abra- ham G Co.,, at West Superior, Wis.,, hid half smoked cigar from one of his employ srs in pile of clothing. Loss, s4o,0oo. | Thomas w. Bocock, for fourteen years member of congress from Virginia, and ppeaker of the Confederate congress for four years, died at his home in Appomat- tox county, Va.
 An officer of the United States steam ship Pensacola says that Balmaceda is 1ooding Chilli with paper money. Pill box l covers, redeemable by firm of druggists, l are used for small change in Santiago.
 United States Commissioner Hirshbeck rsndsred decision at Buffolo to the effect that Chinamen smuggled from Canada Into the United States must be sent back to China and not to Canada, as heretofore.
 Chicago Democrats have agreed to final peace.
 Parliament was prorogued to October A The queens speech contained nothing of grave importance.
 Admiral Walker and the officers of his command were breakfasted by the cham Der of commerce at the Lawyers Down town club at New York.
 Captain Thomas Martin, for many years . prominent vessel owner, dropped dead 1t Oswego, N. Y.
 Herman Guiterback, city editor of the New York Staatz Zeitung has been indict-
 d by the grand jury for publishing an ac-
 count of the electrocutions at Sing Sing.
 A receiver has been appointed to take
 charge of the property of O'Brien &
 Clark of New York aqueduct fame. Two
 Judgments wore filed against the firm, one
 tor q, Al. % and the other for A, ,491.87
 The White Star steamship Majestic ha.
 broken the record from Queenstown tc
 New York Her time was 5 days IS hours
 minutes.
 An Unknowu Man Murdered.
 BELv1DERE, N. J., Aug. 11.-Hope town
 ship Is one of the oldest in the county o1
 Warren, N. J., and it is now excited over
 the first murder that was ever committed
 within its bounds. An unknown man has | hnnv ro,,rdoro1 roar tho Roovar Rro0l