Connecticut western news., 1888-07-18
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

From the 18th of June to the 18th of July S5,650 Italian immigrants were landed st Cas- tie Garden, New York.
 A still further advance toward recovery is reported in the case of Gov. Ames, of Massachu- setts. His strength is materially increasing, as is also his appetite, indications which are hailed with satisfaction. The cool weather is said to be doing much for him, and his remov- hislooked forward to in few days.
 Within day or two four convicts escap"d were pursued with bloodhounds, but only one of the poor wretches was captured and he re- telved fifty lashes on the bare back.
 An amicable adjustment has been reached by the parties to the recent action in which several arrests of net fishermen were made at Cape Vincent recently. The fishermen have signed an agreement not to fish with nets uu- til after Sept. Is. and have taken up their pets.
 Burglars ransacked the house of Philo H. Backus, bookkeeper in the State Treas urers office in Albany. To better accomplish their work they turned the gas on without lighting it in the room occupied by Mir. and Mrs. Backus, Mrs. Bsckus was found lying on the floor early this morning nearly asphyx- iated, her husband having been awakened by her groans.
 Inventor Edison's photograph cylinders contain the stored voices of Gladstone and Patti.
 Robert Garrett, ex-president of the Balti- more and Ohio railroad, has just returned from trip round the world.
 Six persons three men and three wo men were drowned while crossing the Arkansas River. near Fort Smith. The party had been attending . dance and were on their way home. When in the middle of the stream the boat upset. All leave families.
 A battery of eight gas tanks in Ludlow, Ky, exploded, injuring fifteen men, four of ktSnrHH f>tn ltx~ It,n ya tad from Naphtha for lighting the railroad shops and for use in the Mann Boudoir cars. The stock room of the Mann Boudoir Company was wrecked.
 Opium smuggling is rampant on the ex- treme frontier.
 A cowboy, with his pistol, robbed the Ma tional Bank at Hutchinern, Kan, with ease and comfort.
 A negro was taken from jail at Asheville, and hanged to a tree for dastardly crime. It was the first case of lynching in Western North Carolina
 Fire destroyed the shops in the Erie CPa. ) penitentiary yard, and the convicts will remain idle for some time in consequence.
 The Western Amateur Press Association, tn session at Cincinnati, voted to meet at Denver next year.
 destroyed by fife.
 Three distinct earthquake vibrations, last ing several seconds, were felt at Frederick, Md.
 Walter Stilsoa Hutchins retired from the editorial control of the Washington Post, and the new management took charge.
 One hundred employees of the Mississippi Mill at Weston have been discharged by the managers because they are members of the Farmers Alliance at Beauregard.
 John Zacher, the Racine (wis.) faster, has completed the dfty-first day of his alleged fast. He has grown perceptibly weaker in the last three days, but still has sufficient strength to walk from the house.
 George Guttermuth, son of Councilman Guttermuth of Louisville shot himself through the heart on account of disappoint- ment in love.
 -. s. Seth Mooring, hotel proprietors at Navasofa, Tex, shot to death NJ. Camp, rival hotel man. The murderers surrendered.
 John George Ryan of Chicago has sent petition to Congress, praying to be indemnified for false arrest and resting under the suspicion of being John H. Surratt, one of the alleged assassins of President Lincoln.
 The Morning Netns of Chicago announces the reduction of the price of it's morning issue from cents to 1 cent. The reduction is no doubt made to meet the reduction of the Times and Tribune from cents to cents.
 The International Assembly of Decorative Painters and Paper Hangers is in session in Boston.