Connecticut western news., 1888-05-09
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

A car of Dupont powder exploded at a point on the Philadelphia and Reading line between Mount Carmel and Locust Gap, at about II o'clock at night. Eight persons were killed, thirty more or less seriously in- Jurcd and property was destroyed to the value of S15, 900. The names of the killed are: John Quinn, burned to death; two little girls, daughters of Joln Quinn, also burned to death; Daniel Berwick, aged years, Alice Berwick, aged years, Mary Cavanagh, aged s yesrs, Willie Cavanagh, aged 14 years, and one infant child of Simon Berwick.
 A recent rain storm was worth millions of dollars to California, as it came in time to save the late sown grain.
 Bessie Cronin, 19-year-old emigrant who arrived on the steamer Britannia recently, is missing. She was taken to the Boston and Lowell Railroad station, her destination be- ing Montpelier. She has not arrived at Mont pelier and no trace of her can be found-
 John K. McWilliams aged 19, a trusted clerk of Samuel w. Wray, an insurance sgent. of Philadelphia, has absconded, taking with him S, 200 of his employers cash.
 The Canadian Cabinet has appointed Chief Justice Ritchie of the Supreme Court to act as Administrator during the interregnum to arise between the departure of Lord Lans- downe and the arrival of the new Governor General.
 The failure of E. c. Maltby and the Stan dard Publishing Company of Shelton, Conn.,, was announced. both making assignment to ex-Mayor A. E. Hewitt of shelton.
 James Carroll, 8 prominent cattleman, shot and killed Napoleon Farr, another stockman, near Hampstead, Tex, in a stock dispute.
 It is reported in Washington that it is pos sible Mir. Fuller will not accept the position of Chief Justice of the United States.
 John Messenger was arrested at Brainerd. Minn., for embezzling $500 from the United States Express Go.
 Gen. Paine, the owner of the Volunteer, has laid her mp for the season. In answer to the question if he wuuld sell her provided prorer parties came forward, Inc said that he would, though the Volunteer would not be dis posed of hastily, nor at a sacrifice.
 -Metcalf Brothers & Co.,, dry goods, of Detroit, Mich,, filed schedules showing S265,- 900 assets, with liabilities of S20S, 160.
 Customs officers at Montreal have seized S73.OO0 worth of Chinese goods, consigned to the King Tsi Ching Company, for undervalua- ton.
 Mrs. Corner, Christian scientist, was ar- raigned at Maiden, Mass, on charge of man. slaughter for causing the death of her daugh- ter by neglecting to provide for physician for her in childbirth, but owing to the prosecution not being prepared her case was continued in S5, GOO bonds.
 A Scandinavian female evangelist, who has been exborting at Menominee, Mich., for the past month, has driven eight persons to the in- sane asylum.
 The Saginaw Mine at Ishpeming, Mich, which has been idle for four years, has been leased by syndicate of Detroit capitalists, and will be actively worked during the season.
 The colored churches of South Carolina will not consent to the resolution passed in the Episcopal Convention providing for the separ- ation of the races into two organizations, and trouble is brewing.
 n al, Of olo in, Ybo Maryland Comptroller's office, cut his throat at Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore. Ill health is assigned as the cause.
 Joseph Pongor, sawyer in yanDusen's saw mill at Dorchester, Wis, fell on the carriage and the saw sliced him lengthwise from head to foot. Before the carriage could be stopped he was divided into twenty pieces
 The Memorial Association of Lexington, Va., has concluded it's arrangements to erect 8 colossal statue of Stonewall Jackson in that city.
 Prof. Charles Gross, Ph. D., of Troy, has accepted the Chair in history at Harvard Col lege. Dr. Gross is now in London.
 A despatch from Buenos Ayres says the reports of the suspension of banking houses in that city are without foundation.
 At Bristol, Tenn, was celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first establish ment of Presbyterian church in East Ten nessee.
 Prof. G. F. Stanley Hall, of Johns Hopkins University, has formally accepted the Presi- dency of Clark University, lately founded in Worcester by Jonas G. Clark.
 A storm blew down several houses in the new town of Berring on the Santa Fe Railroad. James Myers, of Memphis, Mo-, was killed out r ght in falling building.
 The Los Angeles, Cal, Cracker Company's block and the residence of H. Weber were burned. John Schuler, who slept in the fac tory, is supposed to have perished.
 The new theatre in Colon, Panama. has been lnaugurated by Spanish company. Seats, scenery, decorations, and otber things came from New York. Hitherto theatrical companies have had to exhibit in storehouses or halls.
 In the interminable Sharon case in Cali fornia, Judge Sullivan awarded Sarah Althea alimony, down to the date of Sharon's death $5,5 She wanted it down to the date of application, about a month ago, which would have amounted to S21 ,00O.
 A disastrous collision occurred on the Jack sonville Southeastern Railroad near Sorrento, between the north bound passenger train and the south bound freight. Two men, names un- known, were killed, and several badly injured.
 Prof. Matthew Schmalz, welI-known music teacher of Philadelphia, hanged him. self to his bedpost and was dead when dis covered. He was 6S years of age and in con- fortable circumstances.
 John H. Atkins, ex-Chief of Police, was fatally shot in Hot Springs, Ark, saloon. Atkins and Joseph Sample, a hveryman, had had two fist fights during the afternoon in the same saloon. After the last one Atkins armed himself and returned, and the shooting began.
 Major Rogers, the discoverer of the Canadian Pacific pass through the Rockies, IS to go to Alaska to report to an American syndicate the feasibility of a scheme to build railway from some point on the Northern Pacific to Alaska via Calgary, Edmonton, and tho Peace River country.
 A member of the Press Committee of the Burlington strikers says that the strike is still on.. I he runor that it has been declared off, he says, IS true only so far as concerns the Chicago, Burlington, and Northern line. Chiefs Arthur and Sargent practically declared the strike off on this road about three weeks ago.
 Thomas G. Woolford. chief clerk in the office of the Comptroller of the State of Mary land, cut his throat in his room at Barnum's Hotel and died soon afterward. MT. Woolford had been in the Comptroller's office for nearly twenty years, and on his way home in Somerset county for a rest when he took his life.
 MT. Iglesias has declined to run as candidate for the Presidency in Mexico.
 The Conneciicu River at Hartford was apparently stationary at 23 feet 11ss inches, the highest point reached since Dec. Is, 1878.
 ID. H. Fitzgerald, proprietor of the Man battan Hardware Works of Reading, Pa., was arrested charged with forgery by several local merchants, and in default of bail was sent to prison. Fitzgerald's hardware works were re- gently seized by the Sheriff. His troubles are due to financial reverses.
 William Andrews was convicted in the United States Circuit Court of Baltimore of participating in the robbery of the Post Office at Salisbury, Md, on the night of Feb. IA, and was sentenced to ten years Imprisonment and to pay fine of S1 ,000. This was Andrews's second trial, the jury in the first having failed to agree.
 Boom for Vestibule Trains. . The vcstibule train craze has broken out in 5 the West with vengeance. The announce