Connecticut western news., 1888-05-02
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed tom Many Redundant Columns

Chicago bricslyers are said to contemplate strike on May because the bosses demand n-ore work or less pay.
 An international movement for the protec ti'n of the fur seal by establishing close sea- soE IS proposed by Secretary Bayard
 An investigation of the Alaska Company which etses the Alaska seal fisheries from the Unltel States government, is to be asked for
 The jaw against Sunday liquor selling wen, into effect in Cincinnati, many dispensers of beer. however, adopting various means tc dodge it.
 The experiment. of transplauting portion of a rabbits evc to the eye of human being was tired in Philadelphia.
 One of the constables of Cloverdale Cal, was killed by stage robbsr whom he was pur- suing.
 ~-Frcshe;s arc reported as commencing in New England.
 Virginia is prosecuting every citizen who presents State coupons in payment of taxes.
 A mail train on the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad was wrecked about a mile west of Clean, by spread rails, and many pc~sons were seriously injured.
 Another wife murder in New York City. This Is the nintli since the beginning of the year.
 -Ignatus Donnelly's long-expected book on Shakespeare vas published simultaneously in England and America.
 
 tho penisentiary at Chester, Ill. The keepers marched the 125 oonvicts out of the buildinr and locked them in their cells They barely escaped, SO quickly did the fire spread
 Tho Gstling Gun Company, with a capital of fSOO, 0C0, subscribed in London, has been fcimed with tho object of transacting the busi. ness of the gun trust in the eastern hemisphere. Earl De Groy has been elected Chairman of the company.
 The Court at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, over rnied the motion for new trial in the Billings murder case and sentenced Billings to the Penitentiary for life. Billings has asked for a stay of proceedings till the matter can be car rled to the Supreme Court, but it will not be granted.
 Robert Duran and Lawrence McEyoy. IA years of age, were arrested in Lawrence, Mass, for highway robbery. The boys met two young rierks crossing the Merrimac River bridge and "held them up with revolvers, relieving them of smsll amount of property, McEyoy fired hls revolver. but he says it was only done in fun.
 Clans Spreckels will remove with his fam -Ex-Congressman Frederick E. Wood. bridge died at Yiegeinses, Yt.. aged seventy years.
 Jacob Shindle was instantly killed by tho Columbia accommodation train at Lancaster Pa.
 Anton wildvogel and Emil Shuler were sufocated by foul air while cleaning & cistern in St. Louis.
 J. l.. Dorsey, Jr., the well-known trottinp horse breeder, fell dead on his farm near Louis vile, aged 69
 Ben s. Robbins, United States District At- torney for Colorado, cut his throat with pen knife. He may recover.
 Damon G. kigore, we'll known lawyer of Philadelphia. is dead. aged 61. He was . prominent Woman's Fighter.
 The Nevada Bank of San Francisco is to be reorganized. and 5000 shares of new stock at SlOO each are to Do taken by outside parties.
 Charles F. Knign. and W. E. Vance were arrested at Toronto, charged with counterfeit ing fve-dollar notes on the Bank of British North America.
 When tho landlord called to collect the rent from Ernest Eichfeld, in Philadelphia, he found the lifeless bodies of the tenant and his wife hung up by pieces of clothesline. A passing engine set fire to the snow sheds near Mu' Ian Tunnel in the main rango ciic- Over ,000 feet were burned
 The Fort Madison, la, Lumber Company's | saw mills caught fire, supposedly from 8 spark 1 from passing Chicago, Burlington and Ouin | cy locomotive and were totally destroyed Loss S45, ,0CO.
 J. B. Whiting, Genersl Superintendent of the 6eadlne Coal and Iron Company, has ten
  elected General Manager of tho Calumet and Hecla copper mines iE Michigan.
 Surveyors have departed from Duluth for Fort Tatten. Dakota, where tho work of laying ont the Devils Lake Indian reservation into forty-acre tracts for allotment to the Indians will be begun at once.
 The Rev. L1. Courtney. late or Boston, vas consecrated Protestant Episcopal Bishop 'f Nova Scotia
 The former Burlington road engineers and irelnen insist that the strike is in progress. i md say that they will fight it out if it takes all summer.
 An extensive forest fire stsrted in the vi. unity of North Triangle Poud, Mass, and swept ,ortherly and southerly over large tract of pine and oak woodland.
 Tho High School building in Concord. N. T was burned. The fire started in the labora ors and spread rapidly, but the 800 pupils were gotten cut without any disaster or con fusion. The fire spread to the Unitarian Church adjoining, which was gutted and it's contents destroyed. The loss on school and is s5o.ooo; on the church s2O, ,OOO Prof. Brooks. formerly of the Rcd House at Phelps, N. T., which he found- d, has just established himself in Geneva. gal work.
 -Navagation on Lake Champlain has been resumed.
 New Haven, Conn.,, celebrated her two huudredth and fiftieth anniversary by grand parade, speechec. banquets, ste. -Phlladelphia's two female lepers have escaped to Brazil, much to the gratifcati of fhe Quaker citizens.
 The Massachusetts Republicans pro- emphatically for protectica, and elected deleSates-at-large uninstructed. bnt believed to be In favor of the Maine statesman. The government reservation at West Point Is to be extended by purchase for some 1istaiee southward.
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