Connecticut western news., 1888-12-26
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
"ORs ESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
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 tS 8 FEIg BEI EF yyOISIz- Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns A dynamite bomb was thrown into the ear works of the Litchfield foundery. It ex- ploded seriously injuring three persons
 The boiler in Emmells' factory, North Vernon, Ind exploded, killing James Lett and wounding four others.
 The Iowa Supreme Court has thrown out the suit of the State Railroad Commissioners, declaring it has no standing in court, as it had been withdrawn in the lower court. -Freights will be restored after January 1 by the Western Association.
 Missouris Supreme Court has decided that St. Louis has no right to fix the maximum rate of telphone tolls.
 Susie Monroe King a 16-year-old school girl of New York, committed suicide because of disappointment in love.
 The test of the new gunboat Yorktown at Philat el lhiis was satisfactory.
 Thomas Mcl'onnelly. a school teacher at Audale, Kansas. was struck on the head with poker by one of his pupils. He will die. The Canadian farIuers supposad to have been lost i'll the blizzard have been found. The fire in the Calumet and Hecla mnne in Michigan is out.
 The corner stone of the Good Samaritan Hospital for colored people was laid in Char leston, S. (.
 Three men, named Johnson, Oakes md Dickey, of Iroquois, Ont, were drowned while crossing to the American side of the river.
 White Caps in Aurora. III, have threat n N Alderman .IunfrhS- ton, of the Express, and all the coal dealers in the city
 Tho Augusta Ga. National Exposition was closed after a successful run of forty-ivc days. Over 100000 people visited the Ex- position.
 The proposed consolidation of the brewery interests in Syracuse, N. r.. IS about to be eonsummated. Anewincorporated company is being formed. with 8 capital stock of more than S3, 3,o0O,OO0.
 Fire destroyed block in the heart of Iron Mountain, Mich. Total loss, S7O,OOO. The Philadelphia and Reading Railrond Company has giveU two months extra pay to the women whose husbands made up the -rrw of the companys steam collier Allen town. which was lost, with all on board, of the Massachusetts coast last month.
 A delegation of Philadelphia and Camden capit alists appeared before Gov. Green. oi New Jersey, to urge the co operation Of New Jersey with Pennsylvania in the purchase oi the small islands in the Delaware River be tween Philadelphia and Camden, in order to have them removed to facilitate navigation. Another large quantity of smuggled opium seized by the revenue officers us Bloomfield, Mich.
 -l3ids were opened in Wilmington, Del, for cutting a canal between Assawoman and ln- dian River bays the four mile link of inland navigation from Delaware Bay southward ts the mouth of the Chesapeake.
 A through train on the Erie road broke in two while passing Friendship, N I. About three miles below the town the second section overlook the first, causing serious wreck. No one was hurt, however.
 Willie Allen, age 9, was drowned at Hale's Pond South Groreland, Mass, by skating into a hole in the ice. He was drawing two children on sled at the time, and when he saw he must enter the hole he turned the sled away, thus saving the children.
 Samuel Guenther, foreman of the frame room in Lockhart & Powers frame factory, Rochester, N. r.. fell three stories down an elevator well and died soon after. The ele vator was not guarded by gates, and it is supposed he became dizzy and lost his balance
 James De Lomater Of New York, was sansibagged and robbed near his home in that city There Is 10 cius. to the highway men.
 -in attempt was made to poison the fam ily of Frank l.. Sweetscr. of Newburyport, Mass, by putting arsenic ln some potatoes. The family detected q bitter taste, and soon 1 after eating aiI gere taken violently sick. A doctor was called, and antidotes were admin isteTe,i iu time to save the;r lives. IL Is sus- Fectei that someone whoIs bitter aga5nsbthe family spriHkied arsenic over the potatoes "A collision occurred between passenger train nud il freight nU the Delaware and Hud son Railroad, near " Waterford, \. I. Theen- gines and scme oE the freight cars were de- moiished Tue sNEress rsasSze0gsr vas jam med between the safe and the sides of the car, and was injured about the legs.
 The dead body of Frank Fenton, 37 years old, who disappeared from his home, near Sandy Hi N. r., was found frozen in the ice on the bank of small stream which empties into the Hudson River, at the foot of preci- pice over which he had evidently fallen. The last seen of Fenton he in a saloon drunk.
 Waiter Abbott a near-sighted South Woods guide, aged 30 years, while skating on the Racket River at Pottsdam, N. Y., mis- took open water for solid ice. plunged into the current of the river and was drowned.