Connecticut western news., 1886-11-17

William A. Green, aged forty-fve years, stood in front of an approaching train on the Providence and Worcester railroad, near Providence, and was struck by an engine and killed.
 Larry Donovan is fast recovering from the slight injuries he sustained from his leap into the Niagara river. He is opposed to ex- hibiting himself in dime museum.
 William Coffman, prominent merchant of Knoxville, Tenn, committed suicide by cut ting his throat with razor at his home in that city.
 -Bertram Bodway, discouraged by his fail ure in business and his wife's desertion, and frenzied with drink and fits, shot her twice and tried to kill himself in Central Park, Nex York. Neither is seriously injured.
 A Manitoba settler sold his wife and five children for $7O, and a regular agreement to that effect was drawn up.
 Water foot deep suficed to drown wo- man in Worcester, Mass, who fell face down. ward into the edge of 8 lake.
 Mary Waters was burned to death by her clothes taking fire from 8 stove at her home in Havre de Grace, Md.
 A liberty pole 15O feet high fell in New Haven, giving churchgoers in the vicinity narrow escape from injury.
 Snow fell in various parts of the country on Sunday, depths of five, six, seven and even eleven inches being reported.
 President Cleveland intimated to the au. thorities of Havard University his unwilling. ness to receive the degree of L.L.D.
 The schooner City of Sheboygan struck rock during 8 furious storm off Detour, Lake Michigan, and sank in deep water. The cook was drowned.
 A German lunatic near Reading, Pa., set fire to his household effects and danced around the blazing pile, brandishing an axe and elud- ing capture.
 Charles O'Brien, young man attending fat in R1ff V was shot with probably fatal effect by stran. ger, with no apparent motive.
 The plant of the Merchants and Bankers and Board of Trade Telegraph Companies at Chicago is ordered by Court to be delivered to the United Lines Company.
 The steam yacht which was being built for Ferdinand Ward at the time of his collapse has been purchased for service as Panama Canal despatch boat.
 Philadelphia will soon have a labor party. The preliminary steps toward its organization have been taken and an effort will be made to capture the Mayoralty.
 The majority of the French delegates sailed from New York on Saturday for Havre on board La Gascogne. The scenes at parting were interesting.
 Columbia, s. o., and adjacent towns suf- fered rather severe shock of earthquake on Sunday. There was little damage done, but much terror resulted from tho shake.J
 Dr. McMurray, prominent physician oi Montreal and brother of Lord Rossmore, turned up in Troy, N. Y., suffering from mania apostu, and was placed in an infirmary there.
 A seaman named Brown, with 9 boy pas senger, was picked up from the wreck of the New York schooner Azelda and Laura, the cap- tain of which and three men and passenger are believed to be lost.
 At Lacrosse, Wis, the Law and Order League has compelled the authorities to en- force in their entirety the Sunday laws of the | State. Great inconvenience to the citizens fol- lowed as 8 matter of course. Edward Kelly, an employee of an electric light company, was instantly killed at the Grand Central Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio, while adjusting an electric lamp. His body came in contact with the wires and the shock caused death. The captain of the bark Amelia Camp ar | rived at Charleston, s. c. from Valencia, Spain. He reported that when Southward of Charleston, in thirteen fathoms of water, he felt shock sensibly. No shocks were felt to- day, and everything has quieted down again. -Ex-Surrogate Gideon J. Tucker, of New York, has addressed letter to President Cleveland, declining an appointment as gov ernment inspectar of section of new railway | in Oregon. He says he cannot afford to accept | unless the railroad company pays his expenses, | and that would be bribery.