Connecticut western news., 1888-05-16
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns

The total value of'the exports of cotton from the United States for the month of April was SIS, ,O97, O4O and for the eight months ended April 30, S193, 45S, ,532.
 The Union Labor party of the Third Con- gress district of Arkansas nominated the Hon. John A. Ansley for Congress, and appointed the Hon. 0. M Norwood their candidate for Governor, as delegate to the National Conven- tion.
 Mir Gillig says he will devote his life to paying off the creditors of the American Ex- change in Europe.
 The London Economist publishes caustic article on Jay Gould and MT. Huntington.
 The jail in Peru, Ind, was the scene of a horrible murder, through the culpability of the officers putting two drunken men in one cell.
 The Tennessee Democratic State Conven. ton took thirty ballots for candidate for Governor without etfccting nomination.
 Senator Beck's bill gives Washingtonians new hope concerning the establishment of the projected geological garden.
 The steamer Eureka, which was in collision with the steamer BenisoD, sank at sea, but the officers and crew all escaped.
 Robert G. Hall and David Vincent were hanged in Philadelphia for murder.
 The State pensions granted by the South Carolina Legislature will probably cease, as the State Treasury cannot stand the drain.
 The bill for the execution of criminals by electricity has passed both houses of the New York Legislature.
 William Showers, murderer of his grand children, escaped from the jail at Lebanon, Pa., by digging an opening through the stone wall of his cell.
 The Methodist General Conference exclud- ed several male delegates one of them an ex- Governor of Pennsylvania.
 Chairman Jones, of the National Republi- can Committee, declares that the campaign will be fought on the tariff issue and no other.
 Nathaniel w. T. Hatch, a prominent mem- Der of the New York Stock Exchange, was killed by afall from tree while endcavoring to escape from house and to avoid an angry husband.
 -Dr. Laurens P. Hickok, ex-President of Union College, and widely known as a meta physician, is dead, aged S9 years months. He from Union College in 1920. His best known works are "Moral Philosophy" "Rational Psychology" Rational Cosmology" "Moral Science" and ''Creator and Creation" He leaves widow.
 The Hon. Alvin Currier died at Farming ton, Me-, aged 82 He represented the town in the Legislature of 1853, and the county in the Senate of 1855.
 Secretary of the Navy Wm. o. Whitney, Senators Don Cameron W. B. Allison, and M. o. Butler, with party of ladies, arrived at Luray Inn, Va., from Washington in special train for two days visit to the cavern.
 At Carthage, N. O., young man named Me- Neil called to see Miss Ida Poe, and finding that she was entertaining another gentleman in the parl or, asked her to come to the door and then shot her. He then fed. The girl is seriously wounded.
 A long and bitter railroad war between the Lake Shore and the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio tefminated by the Lake Shore steal- ing march on it's rival and effecting con- tested crossing over it's tracks west of Sharon, Pa. It gives the Lake Shore access to num- Der of large iron plants.
 James Colsto and Leonard Duplisa were drowned at Point Wolf, N B., whie driving logs.
 Sons of Veterans of Ohio held their annual encampment at Dayton. There are in the State 2S7 camps, with 7,774 members.
 Conditions for cotton planting in Ge orgia have proved unfavorable, not more than one- half the crop having been in the ground on the 1st inst
 pr. William F. G. Young was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for bigamy in Baltimore, and his second marriage was an- nulled.
 The stockholders of the Davol Mills, at Fall River, Mass, resolved to reduce the capital from S4OO, 1000 to $3OO,O GOO. They have lost dur ing the last year $84,O0O.
 -Dr. Henry M. COX, or Fort Murray, IN. J., convicted at Easton, Pa., of causing the death of Jennie Osborne by malpractice, was sen- fenced to three years imprisonment and fined $500.
 The United States Circuit Court at Syra- cuse continued the injunction granted to James Wick, of Rochester, requiring the Postmaster at Suspension Bridge, N. Y., to forward in the mails to their respective addresses ip the United States packages of seeds, bulbs, and plants sent by Wick from Canada and prepaid at the rate of one cent for four ounces
 The faculty of Cornell University has made some new rules that are calculated to restrict the alleged fun of students.
 The recently performed operation in Phila- delphia of transplanting the cornca from & rabbits eye to that of a woman has proved 8 success.
 Bishop Hood, of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, has beon reported as saying that Southern planters should have been paid for their slaves, and the colored men demand to know what the Bishop meant byit.
 The Morgan line steamer Eureka, en route to New Orleans from New York was in collision off Hatteras with tho British steamship Beni- son. The latter, greatly damaged, reached down.
 The Methodist General Conference voted to adopt the majority report of the special committee on the admission of female delegates, amended to exclude women from membership in the present Conference and to refer the question of their eligibility as delegates of