Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS

NEWS IN SHORI ORDER. DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 INA FEW BRIEF WORDS Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redundant Columns
 JACKSONVILLE. Sept. l6.-The heavy list of new cases yesterday reported this morning has many doctors here now, however, that every case IS rigidly and promptly reported, and that in . great measure explains the increase. The weather Is better to-day and is somewhat cooler, and it is earnestly hoped that the rainy season is nearly over. It Is the moist, un- favorable weather that fills the people with alarm, for then the death rate increases.
 The official bulletin of the Bosrd of Health for the twenty-four hours ending at P. m. reports: New cases, 1I; deaths. g. as follows: Louis Nelson, Harry Kimbsll, Abram My chird, Harry Hines, Edward Carr, Harris Couthorn, Kate Morant, Henry Licceuring. Mrs. James NJ. Mathews. Total cases to date, sao; total deaths, la6.
 Calvert Bros, of Halifax, woolen factors, have failed. Their liabilities amount to tl2o,- 900.
 All the workmen prostrated by coal gas in the Hoosac tunnel are doing we'll It IS now thought that no deaths will occur.
 The Cliff Cottage estate, on the cliffs at Newport, comprising good sized hotel, eight pretty cottages, and l0O, ,0CO square feet of land has been purchased by Samuel E. Shipley, President of the Provident Life and Loan Company of Philadelphia, who will erect . large hotel. The price paid was about $10,- GOO
 The first train over the Red River rad was run on the lith inst.
 A verdict of not guilty has been rendered in the Knights of the Golden Circle murder case at Shoals, Ind.
 -C. B. Sands. a hotel beat, who has worked hotels all over the country, was arrested in Providence, R. I.
 The stock of Shotwell, Clerihew X Lap ham. the bankrupt Minneapolis clothiers, has been soll for SS25. GOO, which will net the creditors about thirty-two cents on the dollar.
 Garter Harrison Is 8 candidate for Mayor of Chicago again.
 Jennie M. Sweetland, Kalamazoo, Mich., 8 very smart young woman, has been swindllng farmers and merchants by forging mortgages. She has raised some SIC, 900 in this way. She Is now in jail, and & rich relative dlcldes to leave her there to stand trial like sny other criminal
 Two special trains of fat cattle in palace stock cars, in which they are fed and watered in transit. arrived in gden, U. T., on the Central Pacific Railroad destined for Chicago. They belong 10 Messrs. Crocker and Taylor, and if the shipment proves success much stock will be sent East from Nevada and Ore gon for a market.
 The steam whaler William Lewis, 145 fee long and 46O tons gross, built at Bath, Me-. for Captain William Lewis, of New Bedford, and others, arrived at New Bedford and will fit out for the Arctic Ocean. She will go north next season under command of Captain Sherman, now of the steam whaler Belvidere-
 Mrs. Henrietta Shell, of Chicago. widow of the late Amos J. Shell, has doubled the amount of the reward offered for the capture of her husbands murderer. She now offers S2o,OOo.
 Sam Brown, deeperado, who boasted of having killed four men, was shot and killed at Hartville Mining Camp by Frank Williams, cowboy. They met in . saloon, and st onoe commenced firing. Brown was hit twice Tn tho bo1y and died within half an hour. Williams was uninjured, and left town immediately. There is little prospect of his capture, as he is we'll mounted.
 A fire in the lumber district on albany street, Boston. caused . loss of about Sso, QUO The heaviest loss occurred on the wharf Of Andrew F. Leatherbee. Their extensive lum- Der sheds, containing large quantities Of rough and finished lunlb Der, were destroyed, entailing loss of s70, 900. The stables and some other buildings of the firm were partly burned, causing an additional loss of $5,0OO or S6, QUO. Their insurance Is $52, 900.
 Fire in Washburn, Wis, wiped out the business part of the place destroying about thirty buildings and causing loss of nearly S150-0O0.
 Floods havo badly damaged the city of Augusta, Ga Nine persons were drowned dur ing the inundation.
 A fire at Harper, Iowa. destroyed the en- tiro business portion of the town.
 -Profe- sor Brooks says that the new comet discovered by himself and Professor Barnard is apparently moving almost directly toward the earth.
 In Boston both sexes may vots for the School Committees, and long string of wo- men may be seen every morning waiting ln front of the Assessors office. The school ques- ton is being aSitated so much that hundreds of women arc being enrolled as voters.
 Cattle raisers and feeders in the United States will meet in convention at St. Lt ujs November 20.
 A new Mexican railroad, to connect the trunk lines and tap the Sierra Majada mines, Is contemplated.
 -But six delegates attended the first session of the National Greenback party, which met at Cincinnati.
 Tho onion crop of Massachusetts is fully equal to the great yield of 1886, and the grow CTS are corrcspondingly elated-
 The Kansas City Exposition, to run for seven weeks, was opened.
 J. Calby Drew, the Lynn forger, who sur rendered himself has been held in S2O, QUO bonds for trial in October.
 William E. Sill, prominent lawyer of Geneva, N. Y., and for thirty years president of the Bank of Geneva, is dead.
 The telephone and electric light wires at Columbus, Ga, became entangled and the tele- phone wires were burned out.
 Spotted Horse, one of the leaders of the Sioux made 8 speech at the council urging his brethren to sign tbe treaty opening the reser- yation-
 Train robbers stopped the west bound ex- press at Parker's Mills, Ariz, but did not get anything. reward of Sl, 800 has been offer ed for their capture.
 W. A. Currier, attorney for the Kanawha and Ohio railroad and s leading member of the Bar of West Virginia, died suddenly at his home in Charleston on Monday of heart dis ease.
 Wesley Sauer, dressed as an Indian and armed with 8 revolver, shotgun and loaded cane. held possession of his house at Decatur, H., pretty nearly a whole day. He is a ravinS overpowered him and took him to an asylum.
 Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's condition remains unchanged.
 Two cable street cars in St. Louis, crashed together, Ri ling lady named Collins and in turing several other persons.
 The thirty-seyenth annual meeting of the Homeopathic Medical Society, of New York State, began at Syracuse Dr. Wm- Todd Hcl- muth presided.
 Tribal War Imminent.
 Senator Paul, a member of the Chicka asaw Legislature, arrived in Gainesville, Tex, from IishominSo, and reports that tribal war is imminent at the capital. The tr, uble is about the election of chief. Guy was reelected, according to tho official count by IA majority over Byrd. The friends of the latter at ha1