Connecticut western news., 1886-11-17
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Notes. Rtc.. Etc. | An explosion of natural gas in dwelling ! house at Latrobe, Pa., caused loss of S1O,- : GOO.
 Three fishermen were drowned off Mantou- lin Island, Lake Huron, by the loss of their boat in gale.
 I A moonlight fight between rangers and fence cutters in Texas resulted in the death of i two of the latter.
 | A man sixty years old was arrested in Portsmouth, N. H., charged with trying to kill hispwife by drenching her with kerosene and then setting fire her. i By fire in cigar factory at Philadelphia one hundred lives were inperilled. Several men and women were badly burned and bruis- ed before they could be rescued. 1 The two men, Patton and Hallman, arrest ed at Dalton, Ga., charged with murdering an unknown woman near that place, have cor | fessed to the commission of the crime. Fears are entertained that they will be lynched by a ' mob.
 | Collector Magone of New York has dis ! covered an ancient law providing that every vessel leaving port must file at the Custom House manifest containing the name weight and value of every article in her cargo He intends to carry 1t out, and the steamship men are in ferment.
 ]. A fisherman in Galveston Bay found in an ] anchored sloop the body Of its murdered navi- gator hanged in the cabin. | An energetic pursuit after the slayers of the two game wardens, killed at Hemenway, i Me-, is being made by the people of that vi citity.
 New York agent of Fowler Brothers, the Chicago pork packers, engaged 213 men in that city and sent them to Chicago to take the places of the strikers. i A party of nine gypses and some perform 1 ing animals arrived from Havana and were stopped by the Emigration Commissioners | pending investigation.
 The New York Board of Trade passed resolutions asking Congress if 1t is going to tinker at the tariff, to please do so as soon as | the session begins so as to have 1t over.
 .-The coroner's jury in the case of the East Rio, Wis, railroad accident, have found that the disaster was due to the negligence of E. H. Wells, an employee of the company. For ten years hermit whose name even could not be learned dwelt in log cabin it the Catskllls. A few days ago the cabin was found in ashes and the recluse had disappeared, leaving no trace.
 A newspaper office in Peterborough Mass, has been broken into and robbed four times ! recently. It has been discovered that the criminals are three small boys, well connected, who attend one of the primary schools.
 The burning ship that appeared off St. Pierre proved to be the British bark Caspar, of Swansea, Captain Roberts. The captain and his crew had very narrow escape from death. They reached the island in safety after great sufferings.
 James D. Fish, ex-president of the Marine Bank, of New York, was examined in prison by his physician, who will report to Prt sident Cleveland that he is mental and physical wreck who ought to be released on the ground of humanity.
 General John G. Gordon was inaugurated as Governor of Georgia.
 Woman suffrage was defeated in the Yer l mont Senate, the vote being IS to 10. 1 A Boston broker named Tabroham was arrested ill NY. city on charge of embezzle- 1 ment.
 In Lake Superior the propeller Bessemer has been lost with all on board. She was in the iron ore trade.
 Three policemen of Decatur, H., had 8 lively fight with couple of burglars and suc- ceeded ln capturing one of them.
 -Geysers in the Yellowstone Park are in a disturbed condition, the earth in the vicinity quakes and an eruption is expected.
 Cashier George M. BaiHy indicted for.nais= appropriation of funds of the Exchange Bank, of Norfolk, Va., was found not guilty.
 The schooner Detroit was wrecked near a place with the suggestive name of Deaths Do T. She had been wrecked once before.
 The Governor General of Canada has returned from England, and it is expected that tue new elections will soon be ordered.
 In New Haven an effort is being made to enforce law over 8 century old prohibiting all concerts and entertainments on Sunday. ! II. c. Mccormick, a cotton broker, twenty six years old committed suicide at his home in Hawkinsville, Ga., on the eve of his marriage. A registered mail pouch stolen last sum- mer between Nep York, Pittsburg and Indian apolis is stil missin. '. It contained over $100, 900.
 A man who was killed by accident ir Ottawa told friend few hours before the accident that he would die within twenty hours.
 The strike of the journeymen plumbers of New York city has cost them nearly S50,OOO and they decided to make no concessions tc the bosses.
 The officers of Monmouth county, N. J. refuse to pay certain expenses incidental to the Mingo Jack" lynching affair, and the matter ! Is in court
 Connecticut Congregationalists, at thei, annual Council, are considering an application ! to the Legislature for law to stop Sunday , railway traffic.
 A Texan steer charged crowd of hood lums, who were pursuing Pinkerton specia in Chicago, creating diversion, during whicl the deputy escaped.
 An explosion occurred at the works O. the American Forcite Powder Company a Lake Hopatcoag. One man was killed ani four seriously injured.
 Messenger Fotheringham of the Adam Express Company, whose car was recently robbed of large amount of money, is unde arrest on suspicion of complicity in the rob bery.
 The extreme closeness of the New Jerse, Legislature incites both parties to efforts tt i secure Ii, and recounts are sought wherever tn l slightest ground exists. Several have beel ] ordered.
 Mrs. Madden was found lying dead in he l. home in Boston, Mass, with marks of violenc upon her person. Her husband Thomas Mad den, was arrested on charge of having cause ?. her death.
 Judge Wales, of the United States Court decides that the State of New Jersey has juris diction over case of homicide on board
 Belgian ship at Jersey City as against tn claims of Belgium.
 The physicians have pronounced Surveyo J Beattie, of New York, out of danger save tn remote danger of blood poisoning. He is abl to move the muscles of the wounded hand, bu the bullet wound in his hip is still very sens tive.
 General sDelgado, the filibuster who wa shot with three of his companions at Comaya qua for leading an expedition against Hondu ras r, fused President Bograns offer of elem ency based on condition that he would nc again take up arms. !. A fire, supposed to be the work of an il
 cendiary, devastated the town of Calagar,
 Manitoba, destroying property to the extent C . S10O, 900. The town had no fire brigade or al pliances to extingui, h fires, so that the wor of destruction went on till the fire burned itse
 out.
 Lyman A. Hill and Charles Niles were she
 dead near the Fletcher Brook House, Heme1
 way township, on the Machias River by partie
 unknown. Teachers had been dogging dee
 and Deputies Hill and Niles were about to cal ture their dogs, when one of the two men wit l a double-barrelled shotgun shot Niles an 1at ,al 1io