Connecticut western news., 1888-07-04
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.

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 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS. Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns
 Reuben Essensa, aged 20 years, attempted to swim across the Magaguadavic River, at Lee Settlement, New Brunswick. Me-, with a child named Willie Beney on his back. About midway in the stream both sank and did not rise again. It is supposed that Essensa was taken with cramps. The bodies were recov- cred.
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 The bark Chattanooga, ashore near Scitu- ate, Mass, is total wreck with her cargo.
 Governor Warehouse of Missouri has re- fused sixty days respite to Maxwell, the murderer of Preller.
 -Adelbert Brown, 16 year old lad, bravely rescued three persons from drowning at Bos- ton. One of the party was drowned before young Brown could reach her. Wendell Whitcomb was killing rats at his barn in Knoxville, Tenn, when charge he hred at one of the yermin went wide of the mark toward the porch of his house. where his two daughters were sitting. The shot struck both, killing one instantly and fatally wound ing the other.
 Lizzie Hartman was washing dishes dur ing thunder storm in Reading, Pa., the other day. bolt of lightning struck the tree close to the house and, following the tree to the ground, passed to the kitchen and struck the girl. since which time Lizzie is blind, deaf, and dumb.
 The Duke of Marlborough was married to Mrs. Lily Warren Hamersley by the Mayor of New York.
 A singular accident happened to Christian Spankins at Lancaster, Pa. As he was jumping into wagon a chisel which he had in his pocket struck the wagon and was driven into hls throat, inhlcting fatal wound.
 Professor s. A. Forbes, State Entomologist of Illinois, has discovered new corn pest which he terms "Snout beetles," or "Bill bugs.n So far they had been supposed to feed on reeds and rushes alone, but it appears they also take to corn.
 The first Transatlantic vessel to arrive at Chicago steamed into the river few days ago and tied up at a pier of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. She is the Rosedale which left Sunderland, England, one month ago, brand-new from the shipbuilders' yard. The vessel will be kept on the lakes to run be- tween Toronto and Port Arthur.
 The State Convention of the Union Labor party of Iowa met at Marshalltown and nomi- mated State ticket.
 At the annual varsity boat race between the iale,Haryard crews Yale won, crossing the line in 2Om. los, being I'm. 14s. ahead of Harvard The best mile time on record. Cotton worms have appeared in five coun- ties of Kansas.
 The President has signed the Indian Ap- propriation bill.
 The bark Loyal, of Quebec, is total wreck on the Canadian coast.
 -Grasshoppers now threaten the total anni- hilation of all crops in Minnesota. -Threo blasting furnaces costing S.9O,- 900, will soon be erected at Birmingham, Ala. Professor E. E. Taussig, of Harvard. has married Miss Edith Gould, of Exeter, N. H.
 Vicar General Conway, of Chicago, one of the best known of American prelates, is dy- ing.
 Mrs James McFinnegan, of New York, threw herself under the wheels of locomotive at Reading, Pa., and met instant death. The Florida orange crop is estimated at 2,0OO, 900 boxes, and the fruit promises to be of extra fine quality.
 -Waa.e going from kngs.ey Mlcn., the other night, after selling team of horses, Theodore Caster, farmer, was attacked by three brothers named Droster. He shot one dead, fatally injured another, and thinks he got some lead into the third, who escaped. Dartmouth College has conferred the de- gree of IL. D. on Gen. Benjamin F. Butler Of Lowell, Mass. story building of the New York Life Insurance Company in St. Louis, Mo-, gave way and precipitated three bricklayers to the sidewalk beneath. Gus Clifford and William Tremlin
 
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 Horton James and Horace Ratclif were killed at Jasper, Ark, by boiler explosion in Wilson < Burton's mill.
 J. K Basinman, of Chicago, fell from a train while crossing Eighteen Milo Creek at Newfane, N. Y., aud was killed
 Mary Wynkoop, colored, eighty years old, died in Newburg, N. Y., from burns Her clothes caught fire from her pipe.
 George Shaw, nine years old, was shot and killed by his brother Eddie, two years younger, at Tacoma w. T. The fathers revolver, laid away on a shelf, tempted the child to the fatal expci iment.
 Two farmers, named Startman and Foster, were killed by lightning about milo from Fullerton, Neb., while on their way home during rain storm.
 A mine which runs 115 to the ton in clear silver has been discovered at Albuquerque, N. M., causing great excitement.
 Ten thousand acres of growing corn are under water in Tuscola County, Ill. The floods are doing great damage.
 News has been received of the destruction of Wilson's mill near Jasper, Ark. The eng1- neer, Houston James, not knowing the boiler had run dry, started fire, when the boiler eA- rlodc;l, tearing the mill to pieces. James him. self was blown l00 yards and killed instantly. Horace Ratcliff, an employees, was fatally wouudcd, dying in two hours. Other en- ployecs escaped serious injury.
 A young girl named Lizzie IIaZelton was found dead in the woods near Woburn, Mass, with bullet wound in her head, and the community is divided on theories of murder and suicide.
 Snow was reported falling at Ellsworth, Minn
 James Parsley was murdered for his money on the banks of the Red River, Choc- taw Nation, his helpless wife witnessing the assassin tion.
 The Lebanon Shakers are being sued by 8 woman, who claims that they defrauded her of property when under the influence of re- lgious fears.
 Four hundred physicians were in attend ance at a session of the American Institute of Homeopathy at Niagara Falls.
 The seventeenth Convention of the French Canadian Societies of tho United States and Canada began at Nashua, N. H. Seven hun dred delegates were present. N. l.. J. Wartel, of Lewiston, was elected President.
 Gustav Frank, Pinkerton detective, was employed by tho Town Council of Anderson, $. O., 10 discover the incendaries who some time ago attempted to burn the village. His investigations resulted in the arrest of Mrs. M. E. Reese, prominent lady of Anderson. Frank himself has been arrested, charged with trying to suborn witnesses.
 Fire at Brainerd, Minn.
 The most disastrous fire which ever visited Braineri was subdued only after three hours of ,remenfluous efforts to stay it. The best part of two whole blocks in the heart of the city