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

DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redunda ant Columns The rumor that Judge Lambert Tree Minister to Belgium, is about to resign is de, nj d.
 The body of Peter Brugler, who was lost in . snow storm at Columbia, N. J., on Dec. 17, has only just been recovered.
 The Connecticut Republican State Con- mittee decided to call the State Convention Haven on the 14th or 18th of May, tho date to be contingent on the engagements of the hall where the Convention will meet.
 The steamer Canonbury, which was wrecked At Nantucket, WAS valued at $156, 900, and is total lcss.
 The ice in the Hudson at Troy broke uP and moved south to Pleasure Island, above AL bany. No damage was reported.
 The impeachment proceedings against Treasurer Tate of Kentucky closed with ver- dict of guilty and his removal from said office. The amount of the dedication is now placed At saO4, ,OOO.
 Capt & Livingston Breese, U. 8. N., was placed on the retired list on his own applica- tion, under the provision of law allowing the retirement of officers who have been in the service over forty years.
 August Hetzke, who was recently sen- fenced to death in Chicago for having whipped his son to death with . strap, was granted . and he was sentenced to imprisonment for life.
 The Springfield, Mass, Printing Company filed 8 petition in insolvency, with the state- ment of its liabilities and assets. The com pany owes S10l ,774. It's assets consist of the plant, covered by $50, 900 mortgage, supplies, s6 900 in accounts, and about $35O in cash.
 A Are in the buildings of the Coburn Shuttle Company, in Aver City, Mass, destroy ed the wooden mill, and gutted the four-story occupants of the building were the Coburn Shuttle Company, John Batchellor, the Crite- rion Knitting Company, the Pickering Knit ting Company, and Howarth Watson. About 500 persons are thrown out of work.
 Dennis Jacobs of Elkton, Dak., owns a hog buried by snow on or before Dec. 18, 18S7 After the storm MT. Jacobs supposing the hog to be dead, made no effort to get 1t out. On March 20, after nety-threo days, being in need of dog feed, Mir. Jacobs commenced dig ging, and soon extricated very lively and savage hog. The porker had lost fifty pounds of fat.
 The wife of a Brooklyn (N: Y.) policeman gave birth to triplets, weighing thirty-one pounds, two boys and girl. The Commits sioners recorded new rule that hereafter similar occurrences shall entitle the lucky father to one days leave of absence. Several Maryland legislator were hurt in an accident on the Annapolis Short Line Rail- road.
 A shocking murder is reported from . farming district near Curwinsville, Pa. A young teacher was outraged, her tongue cut out, and left in . dying condition by two men. She recovered sufficiently to write the par ticulars of the assault, but she was quite dead when discovered by neighbors.
 East St. Louis is surrounded by water, and there is every indication that the great flood of 1SS2 in the Mississippi will be repeated this spring.
 and killed Bertha Wiso, . cook, in Pittsburg. Liddell surrendered at once.
 Two boys were crushed to death and three others seriously injured by the caving in of . bank of earth at yicksburg, Miss.
 By the burning of the house occupied by Thomas Bull, storekeeper and postmaster at Orillia, Ont, his three children lost their lives.
 Flora Samuels, the Utica jewelry robber, who fed to Canada some time ago, was formal ly discharged by the Court of Queens Bench, Montreal.
 Mrs Sapp, a comedy matroa of 30, has eloped with Charles Precht, youth of 19, from Baltimore. Sapp started after them with . shotgun, but changed his mind and let the wife go.
 Commander Scott of the Canadian fish cries cruisers has received instructions to resume the patrol of the fishery grounds on May 1. Three steamboats and seven cruisers will be employed in that task this season.
 -One workman was fatally and four others seriously hurt by falling from . scAffold in the new Auditorium Building in Chicago.
 Major-Gen. Alfred H. Terry, commanding the Division of the Missouri, will make appli- cation to be placed on the retired list on the ground of ill health.
 Diplomatic correspondence is being had between Great Britain and tho United States relative to the appointment of a commission to Columbia and Alaska,
 "A convention will be held in Jackson, Miss, on May 24 for the purpose of organizing State Immigration Association, with view to securing from Mississippi share of the inn migration now moving Southward.
 John D. Gillette, an Illinois cattle king and millionaire, and the father-in-law of Gov. Oglesby, is dying at his home near Elkhart, Ill.
 Gov Ames of Massachusetts has appointed the Hon. Robert R. Bishop of Newton to suc- ceed the late Judge Bacon on the Superior Court bench.
 John Mayer of Richmond, Va, was killed
 
 stealing ride from Dalton, Ga, to Chatta- nooga.
 The License Suffrage bill permitting Aomen to vote on the license question which passed the Massachusetts House, was killed in the Senate by & vote of IA to 13, with six pairs. The President of the Senate didn ot vote.
 -Barnum's City Hotel in Baltimore, one of the oldest hostelries of the country, was offered for sale at auction and withdrawn at . bid of S340, ,0O0 The object of the sale was to effect . settlement of the estate between the numer- ous heirs.
 Col. E. Hurlburt, we'll known in railroad circles, died in Atlanta, Ga.
 The steamboat City of Cleveland opened navigation at Detroit, making trip to Cleve- land.
 Gen. Charles A. Stetson, formerly proprie- tor of the Astor House, New York. died in Reading.
 A movement is on foot to displace Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers and elect radical in his place.
 The private banking house of Thomas P. Miller Go. failed at Mobile. Liabilities S2SO, 900; assets less than i30,000.
 A Sash and Blind Trust.
 At 8 secret meeting in the Quincy House Boston, of number of New England and New York door, sash and blind manufacturers, combination was formed which includes nearly all the large manufacturers in New England New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Price lists will be revised and prices will be ad vanced about ten per cent, but the scheme vii not go into effect until after the spring trade Production will also be regulated. Esch es