Connecticut western news., 1888-05-23
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS. Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.
 An cd lady and her three grandchildren were suffocated at fire in dwelling at Cleve- land, Ohio.
 A negro named Johnson, whose wife died ip Philadelphia hospital from fits, found her body on the dissecting table of the Pennsyl- vania University.
 John Holland, one of the proprietors of tho Four-mile House, was drowned in Owasco Lake.
 The passenger and freight stations at South Sudbury, Mass, used jointly by the Old Colony and Central Massachusetts roads, were burned by an incendiary fire, with the contents and 6 car loaded with rags.
 In fight over 6 girl at Curtis Bay, pleasure resort near Baltimore, George Rielly, a carpenter, was shot and killed. The persons concerned in the affair attempted to escape in sailboat, but were captured by the harbor police.
 In deference to the wishes of exhibitors the dates for holding the New York State Fair have been changed. It will open at Elmira on Monday, September l7, and close at noon on Saturday, September p.
 The Grand Jury at Fort Smith, Ark, found an indictment of murder in the second degree against B. c. Bouidinot, Jr., Clerk of the Cherokee Senate for killing B. H. Stone, editor of the Telephone, st Tahlequah, l. T., last winter.
 The Meigs Elevated Railroad bill, which has passed the Massachusetts Legislature, was signed by the Governor.
 Nero, an old negro of Jonesboro, Ga., who belonged, in slavery times to the Koonce family of HenIy county, asserts that he is l0s years old, has been married nine times, and is the father of IF children. He has been preaching eighty-six years, and still has all his senses, and moves about as active as 8 boy. His last wife is living 67 years old. Major Price has known the old negro for forty years, and says that he was an old man when he first met him.
 The works of L. Richardson, manufacturer of iutSrior decorations at Cleveland, were burned. Loss $60, coo.
 w. H. Tallmadge of Stamford, Conn.,, has been appointed special Indian agent, vice Wm. Parsons, resigned.
 -Peremptory orders have been issued for the sale of the unfinished ship New York at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the 31st inst, to the highest bidder.
 -Dr. James Orr, Pittsburgh dentist, com mitted suicide by inhaling gas through tube. Drink and domestic troubles prompted the deed. The deceased was 64 years old.
 -The Brazilian Legation in Washington has received information from Roderigo Silva, Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the Brazilian Parliament has approved the Government bill e mpletely abolishing slavery, and that 1t had been sanctioned by the Regent on the 18th inst. The Minister said that this action met with extraordinary manifestations of joy. The Department of State received similar telegram from Senhor Da Silva, which was im- mediately sent to the President Soon after would the following reply was sent to Minister Da Silva; ''The President directs me to convey to your Government his congratulations upon the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and to ex- press his personal hopo and expectation that the freedom thus extended will result in the increased happiness and prosperity of your country"
 Fire in Blackville s. O., destroyed twenty four stores and residences.
 The Yale Divinity School graduated class of twenty-nine men. All of them have offers of churches, some dozen or 50.
 Mrs. Weider, the fasting inmate of the county hospital in Lancaster, Pa, partook of food after 8 fast of ffty-four days. She ate the food unobserved, and still refuses to eat in the presence of others.
 For the fist time in twenty years the vet erans of the Forty-second Regiment, Pennsyl- vanla Volunteers met in reunion in Wilkes barre. Of the S55 members who went to the war only 15S are now living, and of this num- Der 1S3 were in attendance. Ex-Gov. Hoyt of Philadelphia, who was the Colonel of the reg iment, presided.
 In the construction of his palatial home on his island in the St. Lawrence River, near Alexandria Bay, George M. Pullman of Chica-
 
 the room, in rough structure of the early days, in which Gen. Grant slept while MT. Pullman's guest. The cottage is to be built around the room, but the dead soldiers old quarters will remain unchanged In every parsicular, includ- ing the furniture.
 issues circular offering stock holders the right to subscribe at par for 2, ,OOO, 900 seven per cent. ten-year bonds; issued for the con- structlon of the ongdistance telephone sys- tenn.
 Another coal strike is imminent among the many large mines near Evansville. The operators have served notice upon the men that the scale of wages Is to be reduced to the prices prevailing elsewhere. The miners refuse to submit to the reduction, and the Miners Fed eratlon of this district are now in session try ing to adjust the difficulty. About 4,O0O laborers are involved.
 John Madden of Bethlehem, Pa, has sold to S. A. Browne & Co. of Kalamazoo the bay horse Warlock, years, by Belmont, dam warlock is intended to filled Refl Boys place. He is the horse that Madden bought in Eng land some months ago. He is full brother to Viking, 2:20A, and was sold by Robert Steele of Philadelphia as 6 three-year-old for S6,OOO to James D. Platt of Cheshire Eng land.
 Chicago felt nervous over the discovery of adynamite bomb of improved construction.
 Governor Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee, was finally renominated by the Democrats of that State after prolonged struggle in the Convection.
 Fire destroyed the candle factory of Fitz- gerald Co. in Chicago. Loss s106, 900.
 -Lindley T. Brown, an old farmer, was Pa. N " ~A " . OuN A 'ne oAp 0'A''0n' The annual meetings of the Baptist Mis- sionary Association began in Washington, DC.
 -J. M. Trout, white man, shot and killed Harrison Fleetwood in the Chickasaw Nation in dispute about fences.
 Dave Sonnthsll, colored, arrested in Baton Rouge, La; for attempt to murder Mir. Girnet, was hanged by mob.
 A Hungarian, named Pokatzky, was ar rested at Mauch Chunk, Pa.. for the murder of two women near New Philadelphia, and con- fessed his guilt.
 President Agassiz, Manager Whiting and Superintendent Wright, of the Calumet and Hecla copper mines, had narrow escape from death when they were being hoisted out of 8 shaft.
 The candle and glycerine manufactory of the Dearborn Manufacturing Company, Chi sago, was burned. Loss, S10O,OOO.
 A fire in Charlottetown, F. E. l., destroyed the Excelsior rink, eight dwellings, the Bap- tist Church, and other buildings
 The Rev. William Gleason, Vicar-General of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, was invested with bis robes Domestic Prelate to Pope Leo XIII, with the title of Monsignor.
 A Doubtful Decision.
 Vice. Chancellor Bird, of Trenton, N. J., de- cid-d the case of the Hutchings heirs against Henry George. The clause in the will leaving Henry George 8 bequest for the purpose of aiding him in the circulation of his land theories among the people was declared void. Hutchings was 8 wealthy Gloucester county man and an early convert to Georgeism. His heirs contested the will, and George applied to the Court of Chancery for 8 construction of the instrument The point made by the con-