Connecticut western news., 1891-03-18
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
Happenings of the World from
 Pole to Pole.
TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME.

TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME. The Developments of Each Day During
 the Week Past Caught Fresh from the
 Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and
 Condensed for Our Readers.
 Mrs. Jennie Hiles of Pennsgrove, while suffering from melancholia committed sui eide by setting her clothing on fire.
 James A. Simmons, who has been con- victed in the United States circuit court ill New York of complicity in embedding $622, 900 of the Sixth National banks funds, will take an appeal to higher court. Simmons may be sentenced to not more than ten years imprisonment.
 A case of hereditary criminality has been discovered in St. Petersburg in the case of grandfather father and son, each one having severally poisoned their two wives, whom they married for money.
 It is said that the seat of Governor Hill in the senate may be contested on the ground that he is illegally occupying a state and federal office at the same time.
 Jesse Seligman, ot New York, drew on Baron Hirsch by cable for $2, 400, 900, the in- W Hebrew immigrants.
 George Godfrey was knocked out in the forty-fourth round by Jake kilrain at San Francisco March 13
 Secretary Tracy made quiet inspection of the new cruiser Newark and expressed himself as satisfied with the new ship.
 Henry Watterson, who is laid up with the grip, refused to be interviewed on the Hill letter, saying: II said nearly month ago all have to say and although spoke fully and frankly the newspapers have been making mares nest of it ever since. The Hill matter got into the newspapers in a garbled shape without my knowledge or consent. I merely consented that the truth be printed. By that, and that alone, l stand"
 General Count von Waldersee, who has been restored to the kaiser's favor, paid 8 visit to Bismarck, and it is believed the kaiser seeks cordial relations with the ex- chancellor.
 The will of the late John F. Swift, United States minister to Japan, was filed for probate ill San Francisco. The estate which is valued at $2OO,OOO, is left to his widow.
 Private dispatches from Chilli to Ham burg (Germany) merchants are to the effect that President Balmaceda has been murdered.
 John Freeman, clerk IS years old. was instantly killed by touching an electric dynamo at 5 East Thirteenth street, New York
 Buffalo Bill has received from Secretary Noble the formal consent of the govern ment to his taking the Indians confined at Fort Sheridan to Europe with his Wild West show if they desired to go. The In dians are anxious to go.
 Lyman B. Golf has declined the Repub- lican nomination for the lieutenant gov ernorship of Rhode Island.
 Miss c. M Kinne, of Saratoga, has re- ceived news of the murder of her brother, Samuel Whitney Kinne, near Lima, Peru. MT. kinne was an engineer. He was stab bed by native and soon afterward died. The Amateur Athletic union has rein stated MaIcom w. Ford. who was sus- pended some time ago upon the charge Ot professionalism.
 Premier Mercier, of Quebec in an inter view in New York; says Sir John Mac donald must shortly resign and that the people of Canada are bound to have rec iprocity with the United States. The New York Continent says that Min isters Whitelaw Reid and Charles Emory Smith are coming home, and will resume editorial charge of their respective news papers, The Tribune and The Press, oi Philadelphia, for the purpose of urging MT. Blaine's claims for the presidency ill 1892
 Ex-Senator Ingalls says Cleveland and Harrison will be the opposing presidential candidates in 1892; the west will demand free coinage of silver, and the Farmers Alliance will be an important factor. n -1: :. under arrest at New York for forging the name of his employer, Arthur Kenny, te several thousand dollars worth of notes and checks.
 1 A financial fermont occurred in Paris | owing to the straits of q great banking l house, which was at length assisted to St | cure itself by a large loan from the Bank | of France.
 John Freeman was killed by shock from an electric motor, supplied with power by the East River Electric Light company at New York.
 An autopsy on the body of the murdered man found in Arthur Kill, near New York showed that he died of strangulation be fore being put into the water. A passport on the body seemed to identify the man d. Carl Emanuel Ruttinger, a merchant O ] Dresden, Germany.
 Father Brady, of Lake Hopatcong, N. J. denies having married Miss May Bigelou and George Carl last summer Carl say. he will claim his wife through the courts.
 At New York Miss Margaret Gibney re covered S2,50O for breach of promise o marriage from William H. Mackenzie Hi, lawyer, Franklin J. Bischotf, is said tt have offered a reporter money to keep tn, story out of the newspapers. l Rhode Island Democrats.
 l General John w. Fuller, of Toledo, O.. is dead, aged GA years He was d notet soldier, and held many important com mands during the late war. The celebrated German author, Her Gustav Freytag, was married at Vienna tt Mime. Strakosch, who is separated from her former husband. Herr Freytag i about seventy-fve years of age.
 The Canadian government has decided to inform Secretary Blaine that it is read! to enter into negotiations for reciprocity.
 The judiciary committee of the Massa chusetts senate have reported against thu petition for a law to prevent fraud II spiritualistic manifestations.
 Defeated Senatorial Candidate Streete
 and Farmer Legislator Taubeneck, of Il
 linois, have issued a long address u'
 farmers and other independent industria organizations denouncing the course 0
 Farmers Moore and Cockrell in voting fo
 General Palmer, and accusing them 0
 treachery. A syndicate of New York capitalists ha!
 purchased the Globe Street railway a
 Fall River, Mass, for $500, ,OOO. The syndi
 cate is said to control about 5000, ,OO
 worth of street railway stock throughou
 the country.
 At New Orleans the grand jury indicte.
 John Cooney and Thomas McCristol fo
 attempting to fix the jury in the Hennesse.