Connecticut western news., 1886-09-15
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Henry Bergh has prohibited the trick horse Blondin from crossing the gorge at Mi agara on cable.
 The validity of the Rhode Island Liquor Prohibition law is in issue in the Supreme Court of that State.
 Most of the iron moulders in the eastern part of Pennsylvania went on strike. Some three thousand men are out.
 A man at Tonganoxie, Kan, during fam lily quarrel over a trivial matter, shot his father-in-law dead and fatally wounded his wife.
 A wedding party at Decatur, Ill.,, was poi soned by chicken salad cooked in unclean cop per vessels. Many of them were severely sick, but none of the cases were fatal.
 Examinations of damaged property in Charleston developed 8 much greater loss in several instances than was expected. The esti- mate of five millions as the total loss is now thought to be rather low.
 Captain W. E. Hummer, of the steamer Mary D. Hume, which arrived at San Fran northwest of Point Reyes nine distinct shocks of earthquake were felt. The vibrations were from north of east to south. of west. They were not felt in San Francisco.
 A large increase of the corn crops of In diana is reported.
 Several lads are held at East St. Louis for setting fires in the buildings of the stock yards
 The revolution in Mexico is daily gaining strength in Tamaulipas, Neuvo Leon and Goa huila.
 A child of thirteen years, affected with hereditary mania, committed suicide near Trenton.
 Col Glider left Winnipeg, with his sledges, for the North Pole, via York Factory and Hud. sons Bay.
 A young women while dying from hemorr- haze in Worcester, Mass, was married to her betrothed.
 Floods resulting from heavy rains did con- siderable damage to mills in the vicinity of Raleigh, N. O.
 put into Norfolk, Va., suffering from scurvy. One of them died in the hospital.
 A farmer and his two sons were severely injured near Coatesville, Pa., by the collapse and fall of their overloaded barn.
 The daughter of trackman on the Hud- son River Railroad leapcd from moving train and was instantly killed, her neck being broken.
 The clerk of the Spanish Consul at Hong Kong forged his superior's name to bill of exchange for S30, ,0o0, obtained the money and made his escape.
 The steamer Milton D. Ward had colli- sion with the stone laden steam barge Norma on Lake St. Clair and was badly damaged. The Wards passengers were panic stricken, but | The St. Louis Industrial Exhibition was opened with due ceremony. The black and white miners in the coal re- gions of Ohio are engaged in 8 bloody war of races.
 A reform inebriate in Youngstown, Ohio, committed suicide because he had broken his pledge.
 Fred Douglass is in Boston, the guest of the Wendell Phillips Club. He leaves for Eu- rope on the 18th inst. A farmer near Pekin, H., was cruelty tortured by robbers until he revealed and sur | rendered his savings of $500. tThe liquor dealers of Chicago will ig- nore party politics and support candidates only who win favor the liquor interest. A newly married couple, who had just started housekeeping, were smothered by coal gas from their little stove in Chicago. -Trichinoe has been discovered as the cause of death of many hogs in Indiana and Hi nois heretofore supposed to have died of cholera.
 The efforts of the Valley Railroad Con- pany to cross the leading street of Akron, Ohio, on the grade has led to free fight, and may cause serious collision, as the citizens generally oppose the invasion.
 A private banker in Chicago wound up long season of dissipation by 8 quarrel with his wife and suicide.
 The voting on the question of local option In Daleyvllle, Texas, led to an affray in which three men were killed and seven woun- ded.
 Frank Ross, farmer, residing near Joliet, Illinois, shot and killed Frank Kruger, whom he discovered among others rading his vineyard.
 An autopsy revealed the fact that Frank Golden, in New York, the fireman of an ocean steamer who died on Monday night, had gen. uine yellow fever. A tier of flooring joints on building at Indianapolis. Ind, gave way, burying twenty one workmen in debris twenty feet below. Four were fatally and three severely in- jured.
 -"El Coyote" has issued a revolutionary pronunciamento in Tamaulipas, Mexico, and the revolutionists seem to be concentrating in the Cohauia Mountains. New Laredo is still under great apprehension of an attack.