Connecticut western news., 1888-10-24
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

 Two soldiers at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, under arrest for desertion escaped after making deadly assault on sentries Kennedy. and Welch. The deserters were Thos. Lynch and recruit named McCurdy. Sentry Kennedy was cut down with an axe in the hands of Lynch, while McCurdy beat Welch into insensibility with the butt end of Q revol- yer be had taken away from the sentry. The men will die.
 The transcontfnental freight tariff, against which Chicago merchants recently made so much complaint, has been declared illegal by the interstate Commerce Commission. All points between the Atlantic seaboard and the Missouri River will now obtain the same rates on Pacific coast business as shall be made from New York.
 MT. Robertson has been appointed Lord Advocate of Scotland.
 The British Company has been success fully started at Zanzibar, and has conciliated all classes of natives. DrS. Meyer and Bau- mann have arrived safely at Pangani, where they were chained, stripped and logged, and made to work as slaves till British Indians ransomed them.
 Tine Spanish Cabinet has decided to sum- mon the Cortes to meet about the middle of November and to submit to the Cortes the question of army reform.
 The negotiations between the Rothschild syndicate and Premier Tisza concerning the conversion of Hungarian loans have been con. cluded. The operation affects milliard of horins.
 The Masons of Buffalo will build fine temple for the use of the order. It has been decided to buy site in the business centre of the city for about S35, GOO. building to cost Sl5O 900 will be erected on it, 8 portion of 1t to be given up to stores and offices.
 Captain Brickley, of the steamship Tona- wanda, which arrived in New York from Oar fen, Ga., reported that when near Absecom Light he passed brig badly dismantled and with her sails in ribbons. Two steamers were with her, and he thinks the brig had been run into by one of them.
 The schooner Sallie Morton, Captain Thos. Shaw, from Mlllville to New York with glass sand, sprang leak of Cape May and sank m five fathoms of water. The Cape May Point life saving crew rescued the men from the rig ging and they are now at the station. They lost everything.
 An excursion train on the Elmira and Nor thern railroad with about forty gentlemen on board was wrecked near Breeseport, New York, by an open switch that some person had mali ciously opened. The engine went down the bank of . creek and turned upon its side Tn the bed of stream. The baggage car suffered similar fate. Happily few persons were injured and none seriously.
 -Dr- Orlanuo ". Wright, an eminent san itarisn, formerly health officer of Milwaukee, died at Detroit.
 Treasurer Fitz, of the Hermantown, Minn. school district was robbed of 1000 by four highwaymen.
 A new railroad to run from Summit County, Utah, to Wyoming Territory, with capital stock of Si, ,000, 0J0 has been chartered at Salt Lake.
 St. Paurs winter carnival will be held from January 2S to February 1.
 The Schutzenplatz, Fairmount Hall, Gin cinnati, was burned. Loss S25, 900.
 The Atlantic Cigar Company of West6eld, Mass, has failed. Liabilities S6o, 900; assets, $4o,otO.
 -Twenty-one prisoners, including two mur- derers, escaped from the jail at Spokane Falls, WIT
 Peter McGeachy received S1 ,2OO, 900 for the Milwaukee street railway, which he sold to an Eastern syndicate.
 -Fifty-one Chinamen, who arrived at San Francist1, were examined as to their claim of being merchants and found to be frauds. They were refused admission.
 The business of George A. Denham, Bos- tons missing shoe dealer, will be settled in the Insolvency Court. The estimated liabilities arc S17a, 900 and assets S55, 900. Nothing has been heard of Denham.
 -The estimated strength of the Brotherhood of Brakemen IS 140 900 members. It's cash re- ceipts for the year were Sl45, 405, of which SIPS, O06 was paid out for benefits. There have been 2O6 new lodges instituted during the year.
 The first earthquake experienced in Colo rado in twenty years awoke people on the other side of the ''Divide" the other morning. There was much damage to window glass.
 It IS stated that Dr. Duncan, the famous missionary, who removed from Metlakahtla to Alaska, taking with him large number of British Columbia Indians, will institute suit for damages against the British Columbia Government for the loss through the seizure of property at Metlakahtla.
 -rne eoa, mIne. strike wlll probably end without further bloodshed. The operators and miners committee met at Summit, Mo-, and the operators offered slight advance, about one-third of the demand made by the miners. The committee reported the result to mass meeting of the miners and there was long discussion, and the meeting adjourned without action. The indications are that the proposition will be accepted.
 Two boys named Butler and Flewellyn were arrested in Kankakee H., for trying to wreck Kankakee line passenger train at Aro- ma station by throwing the switches where the track runs on bridge over Kankakee river A watchman discovered the plot, or the train would have dashed of the bridge and into the river.
 William l.. Davis, private soldier sta toned at Fort Russell, Wyo-, was accidentally shot and killed while duck shooting, by con- panion named Warden.
 The Hon. John Wentworth better known as ssLong John" died in Chicago, H., more of old age than anything else. He began to get weak about & month ago, and has been failing ever since.
 The Universal Railroad & Mining Com pany's Carmon colliery buildings were burned to the ground. Three hundred slate pickers in the breaker were rescued unlnJured. Five miners were severely but not dangerously ln- jured by falling machinery and timbers- The loss is estimated at sS5, 900; insurance, $40, ,OOO
 The boiler of one of the mills of the Ypsi- lanti (Mich) Parer Company exploded. Fire man John Slawson was instantly killed and another fireman, named Frank Sinkler, was severely hurt. It will cost S25, 900 to repair the damage to the building.
 "A freight train on the Baltimore & OhiC Railroad ran into the rear of a milk train neal Union Mills. In the caboose of the latter Aere two men and two women. The mer jumped as the engine struck the caboose anC were but slightly hurt The women received injuries which will probably result fatally.
 Oyster pirates and police had lively skirmish in Chester River, Maryland.
 Judge White, in the County Court a Pittsburg Pa. rendered a decision restraining the Ohio Valley and Alleghsny Heating com panies from collecting the increased rates the had imposed for supplies of natural gas. Tn president of one of the companies stated tha if an appeal is made and the decision sus taiued the companies will be obliged to qui business owing to the increased cost or produc ton.
 The New England Cremation Society o Boston was legally dissolved.
 Patrick Mansfield, Of Springfield, Mass was kicked to death by horse.
 Timothy Cronin. of Corning, was run ove and killed by train at Painted Post, N- '.
 The Pottsvile (Pa.) iron and steel work started up, after suspension of sewers months.
 The Standard Oil Complny's warehouse a Duluth, Minn., was destroyed by fire with large quant ty of oil
 A traction engine Soiler at Highland, III exploded, killing the engineer, Chris Radel man. and seriously injurins four others.
 The Fort Wayne, Jenny and Thompson Houston electric light companies have consoli dated. IL is intended to absorb all the electri lighting companies in the country.