Connecticut western news., 1888-04-18
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN \ FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns

Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns | The old United States war ship Ticonderoga was lowed to Boston Harbor, where she will be burnt for her old metal. | J. S. Simon, defaulting Treasurer of Darke | county, Ohio, has been sentenced to six years | in the penitentiary, and to pay fine amount ing to about SIS, 900 and costs.
 The Old Colony Railroad Company having | leased and taken possession of the Boston and Providence road, assumed the operation of the same.
 The Massachusetts Humane Society has | awarded handsome gold medal to Editor Ed ward A. Hill of the Springfield Union for the courage displayed and brave efforts to save life made by him at the burning of the Union office.
 The Kentucky State Prohibition Conven- | ton met in Louisville. The meeting is the largest ever held by Prohibitionists in the State
 The three Monroe Brothers-Eben, George | and Lemuel-wcre killed in Wirt county, w. Va. The fight was the result of an old feud.
 Detroit detectives are looking for Wilber J. Brown, who has a record of twenty wives, of whom one is at Pontiac. one at Kalamazoo, ono at Grand Rapids, two at Detroit, and one at Niagara Falls.
 At the present there is squirt in Panama canal work, and great activity obtains all along the Hne The American Contracting and Dredging Company are doing excellent work on the Atlantic side. Seven huge dredges are cutting their way toward the interior.
 Mrs. John A. Logan has written in reply to the inquiry of the Arbor Day committee of Springfield, Ill.,, that the Generals preference for shade tree was hard maple, and Stephen A. Douglass informs the committee that his fathers taste was the same. The State officers thoro will n,,lo nf hot io{p memorials to these distinguished sons of 1li- nois.
 The jury in the United States Circuit Court in Philadelphia awarded Adam Fore paugn S2, ,040 damages against the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company for delay, in September, 1886, in getting his show trains to MeadYille in time to give an after noon performance. Tho amount represented injury to property, loss of Sl, 800 expected re- ceipts, and interest.
 Four men were killed by a dynamite mill explosion at Miller's Station, Ind.
 The Navy Department is informed that the dynamite cruiser and the gunboat Yorktown, building at Cramps yard, Philadelphia, will be launched on the 18th inst.
 The Labelle Glass Company failed at Bridgeport, O., for S55,Oo6.
 -Ex-Mayor James Dougall, one of the pio- neers of Windsor, Ont, is dead.
 The steamboat Bucker was burned at Point Pleasant, O. No lives lost.
 Tho anniversary of the foundation of the Grand Army of the Republic, April G. 1866, was celebrated at Decatur, Ill.
 The report is current that the Grand Trunk Railway Company has signed five years contract with the Allan line of steam ships.
 The Rev. Asa Bullard of Cambridge, Mass, widely known as Sunday school worker of the Congregational church, Is dead, aged S4
 A freight train ran into tho rear end of 8 passenger train at Boardnan, Wis.,, telescop- ing sleeper and passenger coach. A Norwe- gian had an arm torn from his body.
 While dancing at a ball in Odd Fellows Han Cambridgeport, Mass, John W. Bate- man. aged al, exclaimed: ''I feel very dizzy" and fell dead of heart disease. Up to that moment he had apparently been in the best of health and spirits.
 The Delaware and Hudson Canal was opened.
 The paper mills of William H. Hoffman, near Ashland, Baltimore county, Md, were burned. Damage about S25,000.
 John and David Bowmans, farmers, aged S2 and 84 years, living alone 8 few miles from Barrie, Ont, were burned to death in their house.
 A cottage house in Warren, R. l., be- longing to the Stevens brothers, was burned. Mrs. Stevens, the mother, was burned to death.
 During trihing quarrel at Campbellville, Ky, Charles Ramsey instantly killed Rodeford Jetcr.
 The entire south wing of the Buell. Woollen Mills at St. Joseph, Mo-, burned. Loss on building and machinery Sl0,0O0, and on w,ol S100,00O.
 Tho Hon. T. G. Clemson, son-in-law of John c. Calhoun, died at Fort Mill, S. O. MT. Clemson was once Charge d'Affaires at Brus- sells. He was 9l years old.
 Fire at Sheboygan Falls, Wis.,, destroyed the Rock Mills, owned by Gus Henry of Kan sas City and operated by Henry Ryson. Loss, S20,000.
 Benjamin Rhodes, farmer near Vine Grove, Ky, was murdered in the house of his sister. A bloody axe found in the woodpile is the only clew.
 Five colored sailors on the Yarmouth ship Vancouver attempted to kill the mate at Part ridge Island. The mutineers were quelled by the liberal use of belaying pins.
 The Hon. Thomas F. Fitzgerald died in Boston, aged 30 years. He served four terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and one i'll Its Senate.
 A negro named Abe Clay of Somerset, Ky, attempted to break into the residence of Miss Jasper, wealthy old maid. The lady put a load of buckshot into him and he will die.
 It is thought that no formal steps will be taken in the movement to raise among the law yers fund for the benefit of Chief Justice Waite's widow until the annual meeting of the National Bar Association, which is generally held in June at Saratoga. Corporal OBrien and Ganner Hardy oi the Royal Artillery were drowned off Sam. bro Island, N. S., by the upsetting of their boat.
 George Bauria, a IS year old boy of Jeffer sonvile, Ind, an incorrigble truant, was forced | to go to school. After school he hanged him | self.
 Delegates from ten States, representing | 0000 textile workers, met in Philadelphia an( 1 organized national trade district of Knights | of Labor.
 | At the funeral of John s. Brown of Shaw neetown, H., at the family residence, floo | gave way, throwing the coffin and all the ar ticles of furniture along with forty men women and children, into a deep cellar. number were hurt, but none dangerously. Mrs. A. Douglas. tho oldest woman in Ne braska, is dead. She was 10! years old, ant had lived in this State for a long time The | cause of her death was old age. Four genera tons of her descendants live in Omaha.
 Peter Bergo, while in fit of jealousy, cu bis wife's throat from ear to ear and then at | tempted suicide at Omaha, Neb.
 Mort Duggan, first Marshal of Lcadvillc | Col, was shot anl instantly killed by some un known political enemy. | A confirmed opium eater died in Chicag
 from an overdose He is supposed to be pr | E. l.. O'Hara, of New York.
 A large flow of petroleum has been strucl
 at Leavenworth, Kan., at a depth of 1,So( l feet.
 | Frank Ashton, fireman, and John Bell
 brakeman, were killed in collision at CarriSo i AriZ.
 The Calumet X Hecla mine will be opened | soon, as the management is convinced that tn | fire is out.
 The Michigan Greenback State Conven
 ton has been called 10 meet at Lansing ol
 May 8 to meet delegates to the National Con
 yention.
 The President has nominated Henry B