Connecticut western news., 1888-07-25
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

ing banker for whom 8 reward of S1 900 was offered, has been arrested in Kingston, Ont. John Camden, son of Senator Camden of West Virginia, is soon to wed Miss Susan Hart, wealthy young woman of, that place.
 The Baltimore < Ohio, Lake Shore and Pittsburg & Lake Erie roads have met the re- duction in white lead rates from Pittsburg east made by the Pennsylvania road. The rate to New York has been reduced from eigh- teen to fourteen cents.
 Mrs. Della Stewart Parnell has accepted an invitation to attend the Universal Peace Union at Mystic. Conn.,, Aug. 15, 16 and 17.
 All the property of John E. Burton, the examining king, of Wisconsin, has been adver- tised for sale under foreclosure. Burton will De left penniless.
 Three citizens Of Chicago have agreed to purchase old Fort Dearborn, the ancient relic of the city and present it to the city if the municipal authorities will remove it to a rNrk and have it properly cared for.
 --The Mills Tariff Reduction bill passed the House of Representatives by 8 majority of thir- teen yotes
 The Andover (Mass ) Theological Seminary son of Manchester, N. H.
 A decision in the Cushman-Bell telephone litigation was rendered at Chicago, and was in favor of the Bell Company.
 William Lyon. of Willsborough, N. T., has discovered plumbago mine about mile and half from that village. The deposit is nearly pure.
 The ,:state Gazetee'- for 1885," just issued, glves California population at the present time of over million and half, nearly twice the population of 1880.
 Yellow fever is epidemic in Tampa and Manatee, Florida, and the Government has as- sented to request from the Governor of Flor Ida to help suppress 1t.
 North Carolina's State Guard is in annual eQcamDment Wilmi cfor being present.
 Thomas W. Hall wool dealer, in Chicago, made an assignment yesterday. Liabilities, Sl5O,OOO.
 The schooner Jennie Edouard was sunk at anchor on the Grand Banks by an unknown steamer. in fog, July 14th.
 Three girls, from eleven to thirteen years old were drowned while bathing, at Jefferson, Iowa.
 z William Houston, colored, was hanged at Winston, N. O., for he murder of Kate Crosby absolute woman, May 2l.
 William Pray and Margaret Dooly were drowned in Crystal Lake, Newton Centre, Mass, their boat being upset.
 General W. H. Forney was renominated for Consress at Gadsden, Ala, by the Demo- crats of the Seventh district. He was first elected in 1874.
 -Patrolman Flaherty, of Boston, while talk ing his summer vacation at home assaulted two peaceable citizens and was locked up.
 --The fines of S4o0 each upon the American fishing vessels Annia W. Hodgson and Arthur D. Story for alleged violation of the Canadian customs have been remitted.
 The Wickford, R. l., summer residence of H. B. Aymar, of East Warren, N, J., was en- tered by burglars, who secured large amount of silver ware and s15, 900 worth of stock.
 two-year-old son of Richard Stolte, German actor, of Cincinnati, initiated his fathers make-nD. Instead of ha rubbed carboic acid over his face and into bis eyes. If he lives he is likely to be blind.
 Fred and Charles Saunders were held for trial at Port Huron, Mich, for smuggling opium. Charles Label, of Indianapolis, the chief witness, subsequently, escaped into Cana ds by jumping from the train on the way to Detroit.
 While working on the new soldiers monu- ment at Indianapolis two men, Abraham Jones, white, and Elijah Middleton, colored, were usage, broke, crushing them.
 Judge Knowlton in Boston granted an in. junction restraining the city of Boston from paying the bills incurred by members of the Common Council for hack hire on Decoration Day and June 3. The injunction was granted on motion of couns el for the Citizens Associa- ton.
 The Kansas Prohibition State Convention has nominated for Governor the Rev. J. D. Botkin; enant-Governor, R. J. Freely; Sec retary of State, L. M. McIntyre; State Treas urer, R. NJ. Slonaker; Auditor, the Rev. Gabriel Burdett (colored); Attorney-General Stanton A Hyer; Superintendent Public Instruction, Miss $. A. Brown; Asso. Justice Supreme Court, J. O. Pickering.
 The society of the United Order of Honor, which has its headquarters in Indianapolis, is tn bad shape. Frank c. Macbeth, President of the order, says that the number of death claims has largely exceeded the ability of the order to pay, and that the liabilities are ESQ., G'O, which will involve per capita liability on the membership of 12 to 20. Many of the claimants live in New York and New Jersey. The Prison Congress finished its annual meeting at Boston. The next Convention will be at Nashville, Tenn, in October, 1889.
 Mrs. William Bliss, wife of the President of the Boston and Albany Railroad, had a se- were stroke of apoplexy and her recovery IS deemed impossible.
 The first bale of cotton of this ye1r's crop was receiyel at Houston from De Witt County It came exactly two weeks later than the first bale last year.
 The Industrial Home and School of St. Francis de Sales, which was founded by the Misses Drexel, daughters of the late Francis A. Drexel, near Bristol, Pa., was formally opened.
 -Chleboun, one of the Bohemian dynami- ters, has confessed that the plot of Hronek was to blow up Inspector Bonfield and the judges hostile to the Chicago anarchists.
 
 and Steel Workers which commenced on June has terminated in the unconditional surren- der Of the manufacturers.
 A political organization of cigarmakers, to be known as the ''Anti-Chinese Club, was or ganized at Indianapolis. The promoters of the scheme say the movement will become Ma tional.
 On the farm of Jackson Pope Joy, four miles from Washington Court House. O.. men were engaged threshins wheat, when terrific wind struck tue separator, tearing it to pieces. A regular water spout accompanied :he storm. In order to exterminate the chinchbug the farmers Of Crawford county, H., have agreed to plant no wheat, rye or barley for three years.
 Judge J. H. H. Underwood, ex-member of Congress and a member of the Tariff Con- mission appointed by President Arthur, dropped dead yesterday at his home in Rome, Ga., aged seventy-two years.
 A waterspout burst at Bald Hill, near Pur cell station, on the Evansville & Terra Haute railway. A train there was derailed by wash out, but no one was hurt.
 A fatal railroad collision occurred on the Central Pacific near Pineola, in Contra Costa county, Cal, resulting in the death of Fireman Fish.
 Peter Robbins, lime burner, fell into the kiln at Phiiipsburg N. J., and met horrible death. The body was charred beyond recogni- tion.
 A wind storm struck Berklema, Neb., and twenty frame buildings and the Presby- terian church were wrecked.
 Two deaths from hydrophobia occurred in Chicago. The first victim was Elsie Kelly. a year old girl, who was bitten by small dog few days ago. She suffered greatly, but her death was rendered comparatively painless by the free use of morphine. The other case was that of Daniel hIoriarity, laboring man, bit ten nine months ago, who died at the County Hospital after suffering terrible agony.
 Congress has at last indemni6ed the Choc- taw nation for lands which were taken fifty