Connecticut western news., 1888-08-08
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER,
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

-The President has nominated Capt Win field Scott Schley to be Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting with the rank of Commodore.
 The Pittsburgh Steel Casting Company has produced a cast steel shell, the first ever made. The shells are conical in shape six Inches ln diameter at the largest, tapering to 2sl inches and weigh 100 pounds. Fifty pounds of owder will throw it six and one-half miles at the rate of 2,000 feet per second.
 -Rev. Dr. Samuel s. Harris, Bishop of the E iscopal diocese of Eastern Michigan since 1873, who sailed about six weeks ago in compa- ny with his daughter for Europe, has been stricken down with paralysis in London.
 Blair, Seward snd Mattimore give Bobby Matthews great deal of credit for the instruc- tions in pitching hc las given them. Blair says he never knew how to control his drop ball until Bob showed him. The veteran has more than earned bis salary this season.
 The fagpole on the Palmer House, Chi cago, was struck by lightning and many guests were badly frightened.
 ". J. Shipman. a wealthy resident of Pen sacola, was nominated for Governor by the Republicans.
 Rudolph Sevic, the gunmaker and alleged leader in the recent Anarchist dynamite plot in Chicago, was released on bail.
 Kansas City, Mo-. reports a temperature of 1O2 and several fatal cases of sunstroke.
 A locomotive was blown to pieces near Scranton, Pa. The fireman WAS killed and en- gineer fatally hurt.
 The West Virginia prohibitionists met in convention and nominated State and eleotor- al ticket.
 A number of skeletons have been found by gang of laborers who were making excava- tions at East Dubuque, Ia.
 A number of Southern capitalists met at Washington, Monday, and decided to hold an international mineral and metallic exposition there in 1890. Federal and State aid will be asked.
 The natural gas experts, of Pittsburg, sent to examine the alleged discovery at Otta- wa, have made an unfavorable report, tho wells being shallow and not capable of more than twenty pounds pressure.
 A cyclone struck Newmarket, Ia., with high winds and rain. Large trees were pulled up by the roots, immense buildings moved from their foundations and others totally de- molished.
 A boy struck by lightning at Lake View, a Chicago suburb, was killed.
 Mrs. Mclaughlin and her two sons were killed by lightning in their house at Hazle- wood, Minn.
 Henry M. yimont, of Millersburg. Ky, 8 young man of high promise, has lost his reason through cigarette smoking.
 Corporal Bird, Third infantry, from Fort Smelling, attempting to board moving cable car in St. Paul, fell and being run over was killed.
 -F. A. Parker, principal of the Dubuque Uowa) High School, shot himself fatally at Yosemite Valley, Cal, while suffering from fever.
 Two young sons of George Harrington and Harrison Looms, of West Springfield, Mass, were drowned while bathing near their home.
 Very valuable beds of phosphates have been discovered at Parham, Ont, where Cap tain Boyd Smith, of Washington, D. o., IS mining one hundred tons per day.
 ,, Nc of fo yer has been discovered at Plant City, Fla.
 -Twenty-f five Poles were badly injured by 8 logging train jumping the track near Otsego, N. \.
 w. H. Houdley, who killed J. B. Norman, the deputy sheriff of Carthage. Tenn., on Sep tember, IT, 1884, has been lynched.
 A terrible wind storm struck the northern part of Dixon Co.,, H., destroying buildings and laying the corn flat in its path.
 George Harris, aged II, of Cincinnati, was practicing with a rifle when he playfully dis charged the weapon, instantly killing his little sister.