Connecticut western news., 1888-02-29
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

interesting Paragraphs Conuehseu
 from Many Redundant Columns
 James Redpatn has been gaining in strength the past few days, and there is now some hope of his recovery. He was able to use his voice on Washington's Birthday. It was the first time he had spoken for weeks.
 -Andrew Kinney and his son of Renowse, N. F., started a fire in their cellar to smoke out the rats which infested the place. Soon afterward both were found dead, having been suffocated by the smoke.
 "A Spokane Falls, Wyoming, Judge Turner sentenced to death John Henry Zimmerman, found guilty of murder in Kickitat county year ago. This will be the first legal hanging m the history of the Territory.
 -E. c. Wright was seriously and three oth- CTS slightly injured in a co lision on the Read ing road, near Philadelphia
 Israel Lucas, the defaulting treasurer of Anglaize county, Ohio, who arrested in Canada, has compromised with the county for $l2,OOO. He stole SS1 ,0OO.
 V. Rogers Maxwell has been elected Presi- dent of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Con- pany, to succeed W. R. Tillinghast, who has been President for nearly quarter of 8 cen tury.
 An attempt was made to burn the Sprague Moving Machine block in Providence, R. I. A panic occurred among the 200 operatives, but the hre was soon extinguished and no one was injured.
 Charles Martindale, who was buried five years ago while in trance, taken out of the grave by body snatchers, and who went West at that time, surprised his father and mother by walking into the house at Toledo, Ohio.
 The omission of any reference to Manito- bs's anti-disallowance movement in the speech from the throne st the opening of the Domin- ion Parliament, has tended to greatly embitter the sentiment with which the Federal authori- ties action in tho matter is regarded by 8 ma jority of the people in Winnipeg.
 The State Prohibitionists have decided to run full ticket in Connecticut.
 Speaker Carlisle and his wife have gone to Wichita, Kan., where their son is ill.
 Tt is proposed to construct ship canal from the head of Big Bay de Noe, in Lake Michigan, to South Bay in Lake Superior.
 Two hundred farmers from Kansas have arrived at Memphis with the avowed intention of buying homes in Tennessee and Mississippi. They cannot stand the blizzards.
 A gang of forty-seven men arrived in Bos- ton to take the places of the striking cigar makers. The Executive Committee of the strikers induced forty five of the forty seven to leave the city.
 Still No. II at the Atlas Oil Refinery in Buff falo, containing $500 barrels of oil, exploded, doing damage to the extent of $2, 800 and in- stantlv killing an employee, Charles Swanson. Superintendent MeGrady was severely injured by the shock
 Col Henry L. Higginson of Boston, who is reported to be the gentleman who offered to the purpose of enabling him to complete his musical education, denies the report, saying that he never offered the boys father, or any one else, anything for that purpose. He does not know MT: Hofmann, and cannot tell how the rumor originated. MT. Hofmann strongly denies that any American ever offered such an amount.
 The City Council of Chicago passed an ordinance fixing the price of gas at S1 per ,OO0 feet.
 The Rev. J. c. Price (colored) of Sails bury, N. C., has been appointed Minister Resi- dent of the United States in Liberia.
 One of the largest iron firms of Pittsburg made an assignment. with liabilities between S1 ,0OO, 900 and S1, ,50O,0oO.
 Joseph M Whipple, President of the Penn broke Knitting Mills at Battle Creek, Mich., is missing ard defaulter to the extent of $2O,0
 Deputy Sheriff Dobson, of Madison county, Va, near the top of the Blue Ridge, was in- stantly killed while attempting to arrest four desperadoes.
 A desperate attempt was made to wreck freight train on the Louisville and Texas road. Seven cars were knocked to splinters, but the engineer and firemen saved their lives by jump ing.
 Gen. Joseph Bates died at his home at BtaZOr1a. Ie4as, aged OS years ne seIVeo with distinction in the Seminole war.
 The Lebanon Mill, situated in the village of Lebanon, R. l., about two and one-half miles from the centre of Pawtucket, was burned. The insurance on mill property was elS5, ,000, all in mutual companies, and the Loss, s125, 900.
 The Bishop of Georgia presided at . grand service held in Pere Hyacinthes church in Paris. Hyacinthe preached an eloquent sermon.
 Capt William F. Whitehouse of the oyster schooner Albert Nickel was killed in fight with Capt. Geo. W. Clarke's sloop Folly of the Chesapeake oyster navy.
 An engineer named Charles Carler on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Road went crazy at night and ran his engine up and down the road for eighteen miles until his fuel ran out, when he was captured.
 Capt. James Watts of the lost ship John s. Berry, with one passenger and thirteen of her crew, arrived 8. San Francisco. The ship was burned on the night of Jan. 10.
 A meeting at Vorweartz Turner Hall at Milwaukee, Wis, the object of which was to organize the beer brewers who left their union into, an independent union, after an hours wrangle broke up in disorder.