Connecticut western news., 1888-09-26
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN X FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

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 JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 8, 1SSS.-How yellow fever is caught, or rather how It catches its victims, seems rather hard matter to un- ravel. Those who seem to take the most caro of themselves appear to be reported first while those who seem careless and indifferent, and as times perhaps imprudent in exposing them selves, seem to hold out wonderfully we'll 1t was just week ago that newspaper cores pondent visited the Sand Hills hospital and in spected it thoroughly, going within few feet of the ok in all stages of the disease. So far he has felt no i'll effects from 1t.
 President Neal Mitchell issues the following official bulletin for hetwenty-four hours end- ing at six p. m., September 23:-New cases, l3S; deaths, 10; total number of cases to date, SIS; total number of deaths to date, 2l2.
 Captain Henry E. Jones, the guardian of the oyster interests, of Warwick county, Na., captured the schooners Merry Light and Brit on, of Norfolk, with their crews, while they were engaged 'roughing" oysters on Thames Rock, in Jsmes River, contrary to law.
 The general Committee of Arrangements for the late Grand Army Encampment at 3 meeting in Columbus, Ohio, find shortage of 5000, caused by the extensive preparations which were made. The amount will be raised by subscription.
 The stables of the Consolidated Street Railway at Columbus, Ohio, were burned. N-Ouo horses ana mules, seventeen and two charlots were consumed.
 A negro named Pinckney Shell, in Ander- son county, s. O., beat his two-year-old step child so cruelty that it died fifteen minutes later.
 The jury in the historic Jones county Ind. ) calf case, alter remaining out thirty-six hours returned verdict last night for Plaintiff Johnson, awarding him sl, GOO damages and ordering defendants-a half dozen old men, who alone are left of the fifty-eight original members of the Jones county Anti-Horse Thief Association-to pay court costs. It is under stood that the defence will not again appeal, and that this case, which for fourteen years has occupied the attention of the Supreme and minor courts, is finally settled.
 The two Chinese Mandarins. F. L. Foo and H. K. Foo, who, with their Japanese in terpreter, H. B. Sanamissa, reached Ottawa in box car and were treated by the Canadian custom officials as "bonded packages" have accepted the explanation offered by tho author ities, and now laugh at the matter as being rather an amusing affair, after all.
 Four Italians arrived at Norfolk, Va, on the Washington steamer, and later in the day were arrested in Portsmouth for passing we'll executed five-dollar silver certificates. They pretended not to be able to speak English and their names could not be obtained. Lver $1O0 in spurious certificates were found on the pris- oners, and S60 in good money.
 Sir George stephen and Sir Donald A. Smith have donated SS0, 900 for the purchase of sight for the Royal Victoria Hospital, at Montreal, for the erection of which they had donated S1, 900, 900.
 The river coal operators above Pistsburg are trying to reduce miners wages to basis of twenty-two and three quarter cents. The miners will not accept reduction.
 -C. H. Crosswaithe, miner at Ouray, Cal, shot and killed Johnson, his partner, because the litter had given some strangers the privil- ege of entering Crosswaithe's cabin.
 The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Eel lows has decided to hold the next encampment at Columbus, Ohio.
 The Marquis de Mores is now in Colorado interesting capitalists in scheme for building railroads in China
 Captain Richard Dawson, one of the best known navigators on ihe lakes, commi tied suicide at Toledo by hanging.
 The cranberry warehouse of George Sack- ett at Berlin, Wis, with 20, 0.0 barrels 6fbor- ries. was burned.
 The body of 8 man has been found in the boiler of the engine room of an ice house near Kingston Point, N. I. A pair of handeuffs encircled the wrists. He Is supposed to have been one Thomas Lasher, who was arrested by officer Maloy, of Tivoli, for stealing, last win ter. Lasher was placed in 8 room at the Tivoh Hotel from which he made his escape. He had not been seen since. The body Is proba- ply that of Lasher, as officer Maloy's key fits the handcuffs.
 A Doiler ln the Schamllton sawmu, as Blair, Neb., exploded, killing Engineer Henry Morell and Fireman Henry Alexander.
 A kerosene can, with which two children, Victoria Butts and her brother George, were kindling fire at Norfolk, Va, exploded, fat ally burning both-
 Two freight trsSs collided near Gales burg. Ill.,, killing Engineer Charles Chase, of Streator. The wreck then caught fire, and 1t was found that two unknown tramps in one of the cars had been roasted to death.
 MT. Perreault and his son, farmers at Ste. Anne, Que, MT. Boisyert, miller in Ros- seaus mills, with 1Ir. Morrin, the station agent at Ste. Anne de Ia Perade, and MT. Goodwin, of the same place, were drowned while crossing in boat from St. Jean d Es- chaillons to Ste. Anne.
 The Roanoke Erening Teleyram, the only paper in southwestern Virginia, has started with William Taylor Thorn as editor.
 -Busseys bank at Urbana, H., has been swindled out of about s5,oO0 by clver forger, who is supposed to hail from New York.
 The steamer E. B. Ward, Jr., now twelve days overdue from the port of New Orleans to New York; Is believed to have been lost. The crew consisted of nineteen men and officers.
 The people of Troy, N. r., have become fir ghtened at rumored case of yellow fever in West Troy.
 The switchmen and cleaners of the Wa bash syster, west of St tLouis, threaten to strike because certain track t3CllleleS are aCCOrQeO Dy the road to the Burlington.
 The Brockton, Mass, Aldermen have been served with 8 mandamus to issue licenses to druggists according to the vote of the city. The Mayor and Aldermen are prohibition. It is thought the druggists will win.
 Anthony H. Newell, the heaviest man in Allegheny City, weighing 364 pounds, died of lency. due to overindulgence in buttermilk. He was AZ years of age and a native of Massachu- setts.
 Speaker John G. Carlisle was renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Sixth Kentucky district with great enthusiasm.
 The W. Wallace Ward, the first four-masted schooner ever launched in New Haven, was slid into the water. She is 1931I feet in length, of 800 tons burthan, and cost $50, 900.
 The Germania Hotel, Chicago. has been attached for debts aggregating SIS, 900.
 The Republicans of the Fifth Massachu- setts District nominated General N P. Blanks for Congress.
 Colonel Austin c. Wellington, coal mer- chant of Boston and veteran of the war, died at his home, aged, AS.
 It is reported that Red Cloud and Young Man Not Afraid of Ais Horses, two chiefs of the Sioux band, are determined in their oppo- sition to the treaty.
 Great excitement prevails in Montana over ore discovery at Castle, where claims have just been sold for ten times what they could have been bought for a week before.
 At Devine Station, Texas, Cullie Smith, II years old, to start fire poured kerosene upon the coals. The can exploded, burning her, with her two sisters and brother, all ycun- ger, to death The mother, in trying to save her children, was terribly burned.
 Annie Mcintyre, kitchen girl at the Temple House, Boston, was scalped, her hair having caught in the shafting.
 The steamer Mariposa will be held at San Francisco, to permit the return of United States Consul Sewen at Samoa, who is now in this country.
 Secretary Villas has confirmed the tile of John s. Waldrou to the town site of Winona