Connecticut western news., 1892-11-17
Thursday, Nov. 10.


 The Rev Edward Everett Hale. D. D., preached in the Unitarian church in Ser lin, Mass, yesterday afternoon to a large congregation. It was the fiftieth anni- versary of his first sermon in that church. Twenty-four Chinamen are in jail in De- troit under sentence of deportation. They tried to evade the Chinese exclusion act. The general committee on missions of the Methodist Episcopal church met in Baltimore, yesterday, and appropriated H, ,275, 900 for missions.
 The steamer Ohio. from Baltimore, is ashore near Rotterdam.
 Alexander Robertson tried to have Mrs Maybrick's case reopened in London, but was elected from court
 The military bill has not passed the bundesrath because of the opposition of Bavaria and two or three other states.
 A proposal to hold Catholic congress in Leipsic has met with the widest opposition from anti-Catholic organizations.
 Of the 200 cattle on board the steamer Draemia, from Montreal to Aberdeen, 175 were swept into the sea during heavy gale.
 Friday, Nov. II.
 Asa B. Porter is to have a rehearing in the Maverick bank affair.
 The cabinet renewed it's usual semiweek- ly session at the White House yesterday.
 The International and the Chicago Pack ing and Provision companies are about to consolidate.
 A syndicate Is negotiating for the pur- chase of the street railroads in Herkimer Tllion and Frankfort.
 John F. Mover, of Baldwinsville, was ar rested at Syracuse, charged with robbing the Phoenix bank on Oct 2S.
 Superior and Duluth capitalists have bought from Proctor Knott's syndicate $50 acres of coal land in Kentucky.
 The old Sherman homestead in St. Louis has been sold to F. A. Drew, the plate glass manufacturer, for sl50, 1000.
 The Detroit board of education has rescinded the resolutions requiring anti Catholic qualifications of applicants for positions as teachers in the public schools. The eighth day of the Lingo trial at Cam den yesterday resulted in no material new testimony.
 Saturday, Nov. 12.
 Miss Mary Cox, of Chicago, when about to retire, discovered man under her bed, end quietly left the house and gave an Alarm. Police officers found the man still beneath the bed and arrested him.
 The General Anzeiger, newspaper of
  the Emperor William contained in criti- cism on the comedy ''Pessimus."
 It is semiofficially announced that the committee of the bundesrath on the Ger man military bill has reported in favor of the bill without any modification.
 A dispatch from Shanghai, China, an- nounces the safe termination of the jour ney of two American college students who set out some months ago to cross Asia on bicycles.
 James Ellington was struck by falling rocket during the parade in Jersey City Thurday night. The shock caused concus- sion of the brain.
 Corporal James Tanner, of Brooklyn, has been appointed judge advocate general of the G. A. R. by Commander in Chief Weissert.
 Monday, Nov. IA.
 The president has appointed Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, of the University of Pennsyl- vania, commissioner to the Columbian exposition in Madrid.
 It is said that the men who want to de- feat Edward Murphy, Jr., for United States senator hope to induce Mr. Cleve- land and MT. Whitney to withhold their approval of Mir Murphy's candidacy.
 Emery H. Wilson, prominent Repub- lican in the east, says the restriction of i'm migration will come before congress early in December. MT. Wilson says that Sena- tor Chandler has prepared a bill with that end in. view, providing that emigrants make three months application to the United States consuls abroad. A. $. Merriman, chief justice of the su- preme court of North Carolina, is not ex- pected to live
 A series of demonstrations is being ar ranged in Ireland to celebrate the anniver- sary of the hanging of the so called Man chester martyrs on Nov. 27 s. Senator Sherman denies that he will re- sign. Fss. Tuesday, Nov. 15. The Duchess of Marlborough will receive $1 900 900 insurance on the dukes life. He had taken out policies as recognition of the immens, sums the duchess had ex- pended in beautifying Blenheim palace. At meeting of the Society of Engineers in Vienna Herr Kostter described his in- vention of an electric railway, with loco motor, to travel 123 miles an hour. At Albany Judge Clute dismissed the case against Labor Commissioner Peck and his stenographer.
 Rev Paul c. Curnick, in a sermon at Springfield, O., said that city is the worst in the Union.
 The demand of the telegraphers of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pa cific railway for more pay has been re- fused.
 Jesse Sykes, an old farmer of Newport, Ind, fell in an epileptic fit while feeding his hogs and was torn to pieces by the ami mals
 The late election cost Detroit $40, 900.
 News has reached Kiu-Kiang, China, that during the uprising 150 miles inland native Christians have been killed and mission property destroyed.