Connecticut western news., 1886-12-29
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WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE OLD
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 The less of life on the Panama Canal, and
 the i'll treatment of the workmcn employed is
 said to be worse now than itever has been.
 A young man named Rowell shot and
 killed Mrs. Ella Lynch at Newtown, Conn.,,
 and few hours later entered the house where
 her body lay and committed suicide.
 The residence of w. c. Russel, short dis.
 tance from Ashtabula, Ohio., was burned. Rus
 sel and his wife, aged people, and a middle
 aged son, perished in the flames. The origin
 of the fire Is a mystery.
 A passenger train of the Asheville and
 Spartansburg Railroad was thrown from the
 track by the spreading of rails near Fletchers.
 Unc of the passenger coaches turned con-
 pietely over, injuring ten or twelve passen-
 gers, two very seriously.
 The body of William F. Wilmington was
 found about four miles from Round Bay, in
 the Severn River, Md. He had procured a
 boat and broke the ice to the point in the
 river where the body was found. A jury ot
 inquest rendered verdict of suicide.
 When the ticket agent of Albaugh's Thea
 Ire opened his office in Washington he found
 the safe blown open, part of its contents strewn around the floor, and Si10 in money and about $500 worth of jewelry missing. Dynamite, 1t is thought, was used to force the safe.
 --deOISe M lllSeN, Ol fOWHell, Nt., utS Coil
 fessed on his dying bed that he and John Bull ton killed Hland Walker at Williamstown five years ago. and put the body on railroad
 track to be run over by the cars. Button IS now in the Massachusetts State prison for car robbery.
 The strike on the eleven lines of the Brooklyn City Railroad Company, which be-
 gan at 4.S0 o'clock Thursday morning, closed at night at o'clock and the first car reached Fulton Ferry from Greenwood, by way of | Court street, at S.55 o'clock. The men claim | to have won a victory.
 R. F. Simpson, farmer of Lincoln couu- | ty, Ark. while playing with his three-year-old boy, was bitten on the thumb by the lad. The
 wound bled profusely, but the blood was check cd and no importance was attached to the in- cident. Simpsons hand began swelling, and | he died in great agony from the effects of the wound.
 Captain J. C.. Jamison, of the Antwerp steamship Rhynland, reports remarkable | meteor which almost struck his vessel on the | Sth of December during fearful gale at sea. | When, near midnight the storm was at it's full height a large meteor burst with loud report between the fore and main masts about twenty | feet above the bridge, emitting strong sul- | phurous smell and covering the ship with a shower of sparks. Over $50, 900 worth of diamonds were | stolen from the show windows of J. R. Eliott's | jewelry store, in Minneapolis, -Minn. The | store was brilliantly lighted when couple of | masked men quietly alighted from a double | cutter, slipped quickly to the window, and hay | ing placed heavy bevelled piece into the out | side handle efectually barred the double doors | and prevented the exit of the proprietor or
 clerk, while they stole the diamonds from the
 window and departed.
 A few days since James Lynn, jr., prom ! inent farmer of Warbash, Ind, was stricken
 with peculiar disease which rapidly devel | oped into an appearance of trichino is and | every member of the family of five was in | turn taken with the strange malady. Their
 limbs swelled to frightful proportions and | their agony was intense The physician in charge of the case has decided that the disease
 was caused by breathing the poisonous gasses arising from the flames which consumed sev-
 errl hundred hogs that had died of hog chol- era on Mir, Lynn's farm.
 Negro emigrants from South Carolina are Aoeking into Arkansas and taking up home B.eads of 160 acres for each family. A farmer, while taking supper with his wife end children near Blair, Neb., was assassnated by some one who shot him through the win dow.
 In New York Mr. James M. Seymour re. covered verdict of 5,9oO damages against NIT. Pierce Lorillard growing out of the sale of the steam yacht Radlia.
 -Grottkau, the Milwaukee anarchist editor,
 hes been sentenced to thirty days' imprison- ment for contempt of court. He had abused
 the prosecuting officers and judge in his paper. An unprinciplel sharper has swindled the | negroes living near Fort Mill, s. C., by selling
 them tickets to Liberia, which were worthless. Three hundred of the poor creatures are wait
 ing at the station pennilcss.
 In New York General Tracy obtained & temporary stay for McQuade, pending mo-
 ton for stay of proceedings during an appeal. If not postponed District Attorney Nicolf will T,1.1S lyn.
 Governor Hill, of New York, has declined
 to interfere between Mrs. Druse ard the gal lcWs He has. however, granted her rcprieve until February 2S, when she will be hanged if the Legislature does not meanwhile alter the | law about the execution of women. Obey E. Owens, receiving teller of the Third National Bank of St. Louis, who, in 1882 enlbezzled S200, GOO from the bank. and who has been serving sentence in the Ches- | ter, H., penita ntiary, was pardoned by the President Owens had served one-half of tho term of five years. The President pardoned | him on account of the statements in petitions | sent from St. Louis and Louisville. -Erastus Benman, farmer 69 years old, of | Potter, Pa, was riding his horse through a l laEe on his farm, when the horse stumbled and
 threw Bennan against a barbed wire fence. ! The farmer struck the sharp wires with his | neck and two of the large arteries were sey-
 cred by the barbs. Remnants son witnessed the accident, and ran to his fathers assistance.
 but the injrued man bled to death before he i could be got to his house.
 l WASHINGTON. | In the Senate MT. Edmunds reported | bill from the Committee on Foreign Relation, | to enforce the opium clause in the treaty witt | China. The Senate then adjourned to Januar, | {. In the House the Oklahoma bill was de bated, but without action on it the House ad | journed to January 4.
 The annual report of Secretary McCook oi the United States Senate shows that the salaries
 and mileage of Senators for the last fisca | year amounted to $384, ,637, and the salaries o
 officers and employees to S334 200. Over S-5
 0OO was expended for newspapers and station.
 cry, 600 for miscellaneous items, and S24,
 eco for special select committees. | The report of the Board of Managers of tho National Home for Disabled Volunteer Sol
 diers, which was laid before the House to-day
 says that the average number of inmates dur ing the last fiscal year was 8,946 against S,05t
 for the preceding year-an increase of III: | per cent. This ratio of increase is said to b< likely to continue for decade to come. Int
 survivors of the war are growing ola. | In the House hIr. Townshend, of Illinois | asked the Secretary of the Treasury to ascer | tain whether the New York banks had beer
 illegally fostering speculation. Mir. Taulbee
 of Kentucky, also asked by what authority the T-