Connecticut western news., 1888-01-11
NEWS IN SHORT ORD ER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns

Elisha A. Wadsworth of Lee, Oneida coun- y, N. Y., has filed . claim against the State for $l ,0O1 damages, caused by the breaking of a State dam in the Mohawk River.
 The Board of Trade of Wichita, Kan., has investigated the alleged stories of persons atarving and freezing to death in Wes' 'ern Kansas- Not one such case has been found.
 W. ). McMaster < Co.,, wholesale dry goods dealers of Toronto, have suspended payment. Liabilities are stated at $S5o,oO
 A great snow storm is reported in the Northwest, and freight trains on the Northern Pacific are abandoned and all passenger trains delayed.
 their switching engine into crowd of ladies In Chicago, severely injuring one. Many others had miraculous escapes.
 In suits instituted by the Knights of La bor against the Bay State Brick Company, At Boston, for violating the law prohibiting inn Portation of foreign labor, the defendants con- fessed judgment. The penalty is $1 900 in each of five suits.
 The Banner Flour Mills were burned in BufYAlo. Loss, $50, 900; insured.
 Mark Burch, the fourth victim of the naph- tha explosion of Dec. B, at Rochester, N. l., is dead.
 Benjamin Burton, . fireman of Atlanta, Ga, was arrested on . charge of bigamy, hay ing married four girls-
 -rT1nk r nOlmau, IOrmerly cOnuueDtlal man for A. T. Stewart died penniless in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, of blood poisoning.
 The New York State Agricultural Society will meet in Albany on Jan. IS and the Farm CTS Institute will convene at the same time.
 The latest national association organized Is that of the thrashing machine manufacturers, which wet in Chicago, Ill.
 During the year just closed there were built in Maine Al vessels as against 42 vessels in 1SS6.
 Gen Bragg of Wisconsin is reported to have accepted the post of Minister to Mexico to fill the vacancy caused by the dea,h of Minister Manning.
 Richard woodman and his wife, who have been confined for thirteen years in the Insane Asylum at Concord, N. H., have been released, the commission deciding that they had never been insane.
 The Rev. Eli Fay, D. D., of Los Angeles, Cal, has signifed his intention of giving $4OO, 900 for the endowment of college for women, to be located in Massachusetts, as memorial of his deceased wife.
 The question of the constitutionality of tho new prohibition law will be argued before tho Supreme Court at Lansing. Mich. Several eases have been consolidated in one and will then be brought up on appeal.
 It is denied that the President ignored Judge Stallo, our Minister at Rome, when he Svailed himself of the services of Cardinal Gibbons to present his jubilee gift to the Pope. Judge Stallo is simply accredited as Minister to Italy, and has no more to do with the Pope than any person outside of the diplomatic ser vice.
 Seven new cases of smallpox were discov- cred in San Francisco, Cal The disease is spreading in Chinatown.
 s-Cyb Bassett was sentenced to eighteen years in the Penitentiary, at Shelbyville, Ind., for the murder of his brother Albert.
 -Dr. Edward Bert and family were chloro- formed in Chicago, H., and burglars ran- sacked the house, carrying on e1 800 worth oi jewelry.
 The plant of the Seymour Manufacturing Company It Seymour, Conn.,, comprising seven buildings, was burned. The loss is heavy.
 An orchestra of 125 artists, chorus of 3,OO( male voices, and eminent soloists, will partic. ipate in the National Songfrest at St. Louis in Juno.
 The most impressive funeral procession ever seen in New Orleans escorted the remains of Police Commissioner Patrick Mealy to tho tomb.
 The employees of the Gould Southwestern Railroad system are excited over the order tc reduce the working force 10 per cent, as |, ,4O( men will be thrown out of work.