Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS
Interesting ParaEraphS Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

interesting FofoRr8puo SOuucuScu from Many Redundant Columns
 -Iohn Keeland was run over by O Boston Maine Railroad train. at Lawrence, Mass, aud killed.
 "A stone was thrown through the window of Simon Lewis, pawnbroker in Boston, and immediately a man from outside reached through the hole thus made and grasped tray containing the diamond rings. In his flight the thief dropped all but two of the rings Those which he dropped have been recovered.
 The Interstate Oklahoma Convention, held in Wichita, Kans, was the largest dem- onstration ever known in the West for the purpose of securing the opening of the Terri tory, 5000 delegates being present.
 "A wreck occurred on the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad near Bloomsburg, Pa. A passenger car jumped the track and rolled over, going down an embahkment of several feet. No one was seriously injured.
 The annual convention of the League of Base Ball Clubs is being held in New York. The championship was formally awarded to New York. Cleveland was admitted to the League to take the place of Detroit.
 A costly wreck occurred on the un:ol Pacific at Rock Creek station, Wyo. work train returning to Laramie eollided with q freight train pulled by two engines. An engineer and n fireman were fatally injured, and ten or twelve laborers on the work train slightly hurt The three engines were de- molished. The wreck completely blocked travel.
 The Harrison accommodation of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis. St. Louis, and Chicago road was turning curve near Gin rinnati when an outer rail broke, overturn- ing hvr cars in the old canal bed The rear r;i: hsutl l fire in 1t, and the wreck caught fire. The engine ran back and soon put out the flames. There wece about forty passengers aboard, nearly all of whom were injured.
 -Gcorge H. Fobel,a a forty-year-old Chicago brukcr, shot and killed himself at his resi- dence. No reason is assigned for the act.
 John Armstrong, an engineer in the Grape Creek mines, near Danville, Fla, and his wife had quarrel. Joseph Glasgow, n boarder at the house, undertook to interfere, when Armstrong drew a revolver and shot him through the heart. Armstrong took to the woods, and officers are now in pursuit.
 William Hawk was arrested at Hutchin- son, Kans., for moonshining within 0 stone's throw of the City Marshal's residence. Hawk had an old thrashing machine engine, which he kept fired up all the time, and he was sup posed to be making a chop mixture for feed ing hogs. This he had kept mp for nearly Q year until it was discovered that he m,ts making poor grade of wh;sl,cy. He was sent to jail.
 Mrs. John Broadman, of Sundusky, O., left her two children alone in the house while she went out in tho yard to milk the COW. While gone, the children, who were playing near the grate, were burned to death, their clothing catching fire.
 While an experiment with patent pro- cess for using oil as fuel was being made at the Beaver Falls (Pa.I Iron Works, the oil tank exploded, terribly burning six men. Tine inventor, Richard Vaughn, is reported fatally injured The mill was ablaze immediately, and was damaged by fire and water about $2O,00O.
 Tt is reported at Ottawa that a full meas ure of responsible government in the North west will be granted next year.
 -G.w.Leeser, of Pottsville, o. who has been at the Cincinnati Exposition received s3,- 900 in money He carried it on his person. and during the night exhibited it at q drink ing-place. Some time after midnight as he was going home he was sandbagged and robbed of $2,5O0
 Mrs. Anthony Newell, of Pittsburgh Pa., committed suicide by shooting herself through the heart Despondency over the death of her husband, and fear that the estate was heavily involved aro the causes assigned for the tieed
 Judge Blodgett, in Chicago, denied the petition of the American Cushman Telephone Company for a re-hearing of it's case against the American Bell Telephone Company. The case will now go to the United States Su- preme Court on appeal.
 Mrs Thomas Fitzpatrick, of Bridgeport, attempted to light fire with parlor match The head of the match fell of and set fire to her clothing She ran down stairs enveloped in flames. Her father and son tried to smother the flames, and both were badly burned. Another son threw water over them and quenched the flames. Mrs. Fitzpatrick and her father were fatally burned.
 Two inches of snow fell in Cumberland, Md
 At Greene, N. Y, George F. Matthews, whileAemporarily insane, committed suicide by cutting his throat with razor. He was n native of Savannah Ga. and was AS years old
 The schooner Nautilus, of and from Rockland for New York, with l, 100 barrels of lime, took fire of Thatchers Island and was beached. Her cargo will be total loss, but it is probable that the vessel will be saved.
 -S. R. W. Heath, of New York for many years Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Trustees of Rutgers College, has resigned on account of i'll health. He has given the college SIG, ,OOO toward the endowment fund.
 The public school building of Carrollton, Ill. was burned. Loss, S50,Oe0.
 The first heavy snow in Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan of the season has fallen.
 Major Henry ]. Farnsworth, Assistant Inspector General United States Army, died aL Fortress Monroe, where he had gone for his health.
 -Silas Jeffries and Abe Davis of Little Rock Ark, were murdered by friends oi William Durant, who suspected them ol having killed Durant.
 The last of the mackerel feet arrived in Gloucester Mass The catch was P, 900 bar rels, the smallest known for fifty years. The entch lust year amounted to A 900 barrels. The result of the light catch will be shown in the increased prices during the season.
 Pilot Evans and his boats crew of four cd off hp ho af NnSSon N P, by the capsizing of their boat during a squ;ill. They were attempting to speak the steamer Clenfuegos, from New York.
 First Mate G. G. Tibbetts of the schooner W. Jewctt, of Portland. Me, and Swedish snilor, were drowned at Cambridge, Md, by the sinking of a small boat.
 Alabama is proving a profitable field for the Mormon missionary just now. Thirty converts in charge of d Mormon elder passed through Montgomery the other day, all com ing from that neighborhood. Most of them were womcn ali tickctcd for Utah. A carload went from North Alabama a few days be- fore.
 A San Francisco despatch says that fears are enteri aimed that the whaling bark Ohio wns lost on October 3, off Cape Lisburne while preparing to start on her homewaro voyage. She had thirty-two hands aboard Steps arc alrcady being taken to have tht government send out relief ship.
 Three Danes and an American went out rowing in a small boat on Jamaica Bay Long Island. When but a short distance from the shore the boat sank, and as none O the men could swIm they went down with it.
 A special from Summerfeld, Ala, says the family of William Morgan, a farmer, were poisoned and all are very sick. Some of them may die. They ate food for dinner prepared by a negro servant. and immediately all fell ill The food has not yet been analysed. The negro was arrested and confessed.
 A fire in Pocomoke City, Md, destroyed the entire business portion of the town, only two stores remaining. Loss estimated at $5OO,0OO.