Connecticut western news., 1888-04-25
N EWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

About two inches of snow fell at Adrian, Minn., the other day.
 Jones s. Hamilton, who was accused of assassinating R. D. Gambrill, a political op. ponent, in Jackson, Miss, has been acquitted
 Archbishop Ryan has written letter ask ing Governor Beaver to commute the death sentence of David Vincent, the Philadelphia murderer, doomed to be hanged on May S. to imprisonment for lifo. He says Vincent is re- presented as having weak mind, and there should Do time to investigate.
 Mrs Emily Harlow, on trial in Princess Ann, Md, for tho murder of her husband, Jonathan J. Harlow, by administering strych- nine, was found guilty of manslaughter. The maximum punishment is ten years imprison- ment. She is 19 years old and her husband was an aged man.
 An epidemic of pinkeye is prevailing among tho horses in Philadelphia.
 In drunken row among soldiers at Fort Maginnis, Mont, Private Fremont Johnson, goth lInfantry, was killed by Private August Mohler.
 The largo cigar factory of c. P. Wise, at Seven Valleys, York County, Pa, was de- stroyed by fire. At one time the whole town was in danger.
 John Ryan, coachman at Newport, R. l., having become hilarious. threw bricks at officer Tozier. The latter shot MT. Ryan.
 A. J. Lucas head of detective firm at Los Angeles, Cal, has been arrested charged with having in his employ burglars, with whom he divided the proceeds of frequent recent burglaries.
 -J. NJ. Sections largo two-story brick build ing on tho public square, Kokomo Ind, col lapsed, the accident being caused by excavations adjoining for new building. The wreck, which was total, took fire.
 A committee from Smiths Fourth Now York Battery located the position for the Get tysburg monument to that command at the Devils Don, to the west of Round Top.
 William Henry, veteran of the late war, aged 52 years entered Q saloon in Rochester, N. Y., sat down in chair, and without saying word, threw back his head and expired.
 Sparks from Wabash locomotive set fire to a barn at the storage depot of the Standard Oil Company in Fort Wayne The flames spread to large pile of oil barrels and thence to six large oil tanks, which successively ex- ploded releasing tho burning oil, and destroy ing all the company's property. The loss is about S20 0OO.
 The Chinese Minister at Washington and four of his suite will leave for Peru on May 21.
 -Arnheim < Co., s stables at Pittsburg were destroyed by fire and twenty-two mules cre- mated.
 John J. Hazard, teller of the Fort Pitt National Bank, Pittsburg, has gone to Cana da and is reported to have taken S4o,O00.
 Cardinal Gibbons will attend the meeting to be held at Ashevile, N. C., on the 23th inst, to promote immigration to the Southern States.
 Two barns of Calvin Whitney in Maynard, Mass were burned with ten head of cattle, 0 pair of oxen, four horses, and farming tools.
 Horticulturists say the strawberry crop will be the lightest ill ten years.
 The City Manufacturing Company, for the manufacture of cotton yarn, was organized Ill palf ito1 of 0OO
 --Benjamin E. Hopkins, the convicted as- sistant cashier of the Cincinnati Fidelity Ma tianal Bank, was sent to the penitentiary at Columbus.
 The prize of S1OO, gold medal, and life membership, offered by the United States Naval Institute for the best essay on ''Torpedoes, has been awarded to Lieut.. Commander w. w. Reisinger.
 Frederick Hayes, aged 12 years son of the Hon. A. l.. Hayes of Boonville, N. Y., com mitted suicide by hanging himself from beam in barn with chain. No cause whatever can be found for the act.
 Tho jury in the caso of Charles Beal of Clinton, Me, who was charged with the mur- der of his father by placing poison in the lat ters whiskey, returned verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree.
 F. G. Perry, one of the new Burlington engineers. set upon by crowd of roughs. He drew his revolver and fired, seriously wounding Chris Bester, one of the strikers. Perry was arrested. The Burlington Company complain that sufficient police protection is not given.
 -E. George Squier, an antiquarian and a writer on American antiquities, is dead, aged 67. In early life he school teacher and engineer, and in 1S40 he became the editor of the Mechanic, published in Albany. Subse quently he edited the Hartford Journal and the Scotia (Ohio) Gazette. On retiring from journalism he devoted himself to antiquarian researches, in which he became eminent. In 1S49 he was sent to the Central American States by President Taylor, and negotiated the pre- liminary arrangements which led to the Clay ton-Bulwer treaty.
 Tho citizens of Wabash, Ind. some time ago gave the railroad company lot of ground on which to erect substantial depot. No steps having been taken toward furnishing tho needed accommodation, the old wooden depot was blown up with dynamite the other evening by parties unknown. A Magnolia, Ark, man, bitten by a dog, has started for Paris to be treated by Pasteur. The sudden rising of the Mississippi caused considerable damage at Alma, Wis, Lake City, Minn., and Greenville, Miss At the annual meeting of the Chicago | Presbytery resolutions were passed against the establishment of a separate African branch.