Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 INA FEW BRIEF WORDS

 DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 INA FEW BRIEF WORDS Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns William D. Forbes, for twenty-five years president of the National Bank of Redemp- tion, of Boston, assigned. The bank does not suffer.
 -Leander Stiles, of Valparaiso, Ind, put lighted lantern in crude oil tank to find out the quantity of oil therein. An explosion fol- lowed, hurling Stiles, who was severely burn ed, but not otherwise injured, about two rods away from the scene of his experiment. George Brashears, a notorious lawbreak- from Indian Territory, was convicted at Fort Smith, Ark. of murder in the first de- gree for the killing of Jake Faulk a railroad brakeman.
 A Central train was held up at Candelaria, Mexico, the express safe forced and S3,00O taken. The passengers were not molested by the robbers, who escaped into Texas. The special train of Chauneey M- Depew ran over and killed two Hungarian track walkers near Stroudsburg, Pa.
 The City of Sydney, the first steamer to leave Hong Kong after the signing of the eX- clusion treaty, arrived at San Francisco with but five Chinese passengers.
 The Paymaster-G General of the Navy has submitted his annual report to Secretary Whitney. This is the first report from the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing since it took charge of the purchases and accounts of the entire Navy. Despite adverse circum- stances the consolidation system has dsvel- oped excellent results.
 The report of the Lighthouse Board re- comments an appropriation of $3,1O1 ,31O for new aids to navigation and of $2, 292 50 for the lighthouse establishment.
 
 Copper Mines product for October was 214 tons The Calumet and Hecla, for October, beat the record, with 3,9O1 tons. The Calu- met and Hecla has just bought of the Matta- line Land Company 40 acres of land for $500,O00. This adjoins their present prop erty and, it is anticipated, carries their won- derfully rich producing vein.
 HI. c. Bryans was stabbed fatally by his son Neely, IT years old, in Bonham, Tex. The difficulty was occasioned by the father asking the son to come home and go to work or get his clothes and leave for good.
 Thomas Savers, one of the negro high waymen who murdered and robbed two pedders in Mercer county, w. Va., was caught.
 Detectives arrested Ellison Mounts and a man named Chambers, mem bers of the Hat field Mccoy gang, near Charleston, W. Va. After sharp struggle. Chambers was shot in the hand, but afterward escaped and shot one of the detectives in the arm. Mounts was clubbed into submission.
 The wife of John Haag of Bethlehem, committed suicide by hanging.
 In saloon row at EIlenville, Va, two men were killed one fatally and several others seriously injured.
 Arthur J. Lefty, treasurer of the Nono- tuck Silk Compahy, Florence, Mass. has given $12, ,OOO Tor library building for the town.
 -Higginbotham's spinning and weaving mills at Glasgow were burned. Loss S22o,- O0O
 John Ganno-. aged 25 years, a mason, fell from the third story of White, Corbin & Co.'s new mill in Rockville, Conn.,, distance of thirty five feet, and was fatally injured. While taking boat in on the Constella- ton at Fortress Monroe, an apprentice named Cooksie, from Greenpoint, l.. l., fell overheard. A companion, w A. Smith of New York, jumped into the water to rescue him, and both were drowned.
 Cowboys gathering beeves on Sweet Water River, Fremont county, Wyo., ran upon herd of twenty wild buffaloes. They followed the bunch ten miles, and captured calves by lariating them. Two of the calves were choked to death.
 In Mercer county, W. Va, four white travellers on highway were attacked by band of negroes and shot and their bodies robbed of $500. The other two men escaped and went to Bramwell, where they gave the alarm.
 An Escanaba, Michigan, dispatch says: The passenger steamer Cny of Ludington went ashore on the point at Gladstone. The Goodrich people do not think she is in any danger. She had only Q few passengers on board.
 Moore, Hardness & Co.,, of Cincinnati, stoves, assigned. Liabilities, $50, 900; assets, S4O,O0O.
 The proposed combination ofsmaler coke producers has been effected, and officers will be elected.
 Miss Bolton, of Raleigh, N. G., an elderly -m maiden, fell in 0 fire in her house and was burned to death.
 Louis H. Slonmaker, Gho embedded f4 900 from the Chicago and Northwestern railway, has been arrested in Toronto, Ont, on a charge of forgery.
 William H. Blake nominee for Governor of the Union Labor party of Missouri, has withdrawn. An inhabtant of Chicago named Taylor attempted to commit suicide near Marseiles. General Fisk, the prohibition candidate for President, was the recipient of letter from Pomona. Cal, similar to the Sackville letter.
 The President, through Secretary Bay ard, has notified Lord Sackville-W West, the British Minister at Washington that for req sons which had been fully stated to his home Government his continuance in his present official position was no longer acceptable to this Government.
 Mrs. Sarah Kellogg, 93 years of age, died of old age at Greenfield, Mass. Her husband Asa, of the same age, kissed the body and re marked that he should soon follow. In two hours he was dead, They had been married sixty-eight years, and theirs were the irs deaths in the family.
 Mrs Martin, the bride at whose wedding in Minneapolis an entire party save hersel was poisoned, has been arrested on suspicion of giving the deadly dose to those who were affected. She was actuated by jealousy be cause her husband paid too much attention to her cousin.
 An explosion of natural gas in the tan nery of John Sehultners, Lima, O., wrecked the building. The occupants of the building three in number, were buried in the ruins anC killed
 A peculiar death occurred at Hoopeston III. Dr. I. N. Bishop extracted a tooth fo his wife, and her father thought to relieve tn pain by exercising his mesmeric powers owe her. He made a few movements over her face when she uttered a scream and died in tn chair.
 STILL SEEKING REVENGE. The Chicago Anarchists Attempt t
 Murder an Informant.
 AS Dr. Arthur Von Werder was walkin home late at night in Chicago, three me sprang out at him from behind pile of boxe One of them remarked in a tragic whisp, ''Take that fcom Caspar and his seer | q I l. |.