Connecticut western news., 1888-06-13
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns

A frightfui tragedy occnrred on postal car at Bangor, Me. One postal clerk was fright fully butchered, and his two fellow clerks are arrested for the crime. They claim that the to steal the registered mail pouch.
 The Central Labor Union has suspended the Metal Trade section for refusing to obey orders. The organization is determined to prosecute violations of the law relating to for eign labor under contract.
 Fire in Fresno, Cal, destroyed over 8 block of wooden business houses. Loss, $75,OO0.
 Prof. Edward Danforth of Elmira, known throughout New York State in connection with Sunday-school work, is dangerously ill witE Bright's disease, having been for two days years he has been Secretary of the State Sum- day School Association, and was at one time Deputy State Superintendent of Public h. struction.
 The body of Edward Mccullough, Super intendent of the gas furnaces of the Pottsville Iron and Steel Company, was found in one of the gas fues with lamp still burning beside it. It is supposed that he entered the fue to clean 1t and was overcome by the gas.
 The bodies of Miss Sue wixson, aged IS years, and her three months old babe were found drowned in the Schuylkill River at Reading, Pa Miss Wixson disappeared from homo in Mulenbu g township two weeks ago. She had tied her child about her body with . rope ssfore plnnsing into the river.
 A fire Tn LainSsburgh, Mich., swept both sides Of Main street for over block. Loss over $l00, 900.
 The Daily Telegram, an evening newspa- per published in Salem, Mass, suspended, be- ing the second daily to suspend there in 6 week.
 The whole line of the Nicaragua Canal will be located by June 10, including complete and thorough surveys of the two possible To- cations on the east end known as !'the lower route" and ''the upper route." All problems have been successfully solved, so that, on re- turn of the engineers sent home to plot the work, the company will be in possession of the data necessary to prepare for construction. Tho Park Flour Mills in St. Louis were burned. Loss, S6O, 900.
 Four pool sellers in Troy, NY, have been held to the Grand Jury for violating the gamb- ling laws.
 The St. Louis Bakers Protective Associa tion has refused to recognize the union, and 200 bakers are on a strike.
 The County Commissioners at Central City, Neb., have discovered 8 shortage of S35,- 0Oein the accounts of the Treasurer, Col w. H. Webster.
 From Jan to June 1, 1888, 2,3T1 miles of railroad track were laid in the United States. This indicates that the total for 1888 will ex- ceed S, 900 miles.
 While ont riding at Saratoga Springs, l. was dragged from his horse by telegraph wire and greatly bruised by the fall. He is confined in his room.
 At Yale University meeting officers fof the foot ball association were elected as fol- lows: c. L. Hing, President; w. c. Wurten- tsry; Evarts Tracy, Treasurer.
 Five men wore horribly burned by the overturning of ladle at the Bessemer mill of the Pennsylvania Steel Works at Steelton, Pa. Mayor Shakespeare of New Orleans has discovered, as the result of & single days in lawyers, &c.-are doing business without pay ing license fees, while the city has not money in its treasury to pay current expenses.
 The Bell Telephone Company threatens to quit business in St. Louis, because an ordi- nance has been passed reducing the annual instruments have been removed, and the Mayor has ordered that in all sucA cases the wires and poles be taken down.
 Cotton worth s6o, ,0co belonging to Jones, Robertson Co. was burned in warehouse ir Columbia, s. C..
 Fire at Chester, Vt, destroyed the Central Hotel, the adjoining drug store of F. w.. Pierce, and the block owned by H. M. Arm strong. Loss $25, 900.
 The Connecticut Board of Pardons has re- fused to interfere in the case of Phillip Pali- doni, the Italian convicted at Bridgeport in
 
 sentenced to be hanged Oct. 5, 1888.
 The steam tug Nellie left New Bedford, Mass, for Woods Holl to lay subma- rine cable from Woods Holl to Naushon, which is to be part of the Government cable to be laid from Pasqua to Gay Head. Tho connection across Robinson's Hole will be laid later.
 Mary Donovan, aged 70, was locked up at Bridgeport for drunkenness. She hanged her. self three times in the course of the night, first with her apron, then with her stockings, and finally with her petticoat. Each. attempt was frustrated by the timely efforts of the jailer. After the third, a watch was set over her.
 A fire at Burlington, Vt., in Taft & Nor gan's sash and door factory, spread to the Baldwin Refrigerator Company's office and to the Shepard & Mol Sc lumber yards, and later to the blaming mill. Tho flames swept over two blocks, burning half dozen tenement houses. Loss, 5000
 About ten feet of the Battle monument at schuylerville, N. Y., was knocked of by lightning.
 The repair shops of the New York and New England Railroad at Norwood, Mass, were burned. Loss, 0,00O.
 Tho wages Of the employees of the Reading Iron Works are to be reduced 10 per cent. on June 1S on account of dull trade and want of orders. It is not known whether the men will sccSpt.