Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.

NEWSlN SHORT ORDER. DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 INA FEW BRIEF WORDS. Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redundant Columns. The old Grant homestead, located four miles from tho city limits of St. Louis; Mo-, was sold by Chauncey M Depew to satisfy mo tgagc held by W. H. Vanderbilt The farm consisted of 750 acres, and was mortsagod to Vanderbilt at the time of the Grant x Ward failure. It was bought by L. H. Conn, of St. Louis, for S70,000.
 Thomas Williams and Manuel Roso, of Gloucester, Mass, belonging to tho schooner Margaret, of tho samo place, parted company with their vessel while setting traw.s twelve miles southeast of Bankaty Head on the cvon- ing of June 15. They were picked up twenty six hours later by the schooner Mary Louise, of Stonington.
 -Prothonotary James M. Morris, of Wilkes barre, Pa, has been missing for three weeks. His friends fear that Inc may have met with foul play. He has held his office for two terms, and is under S40,0 0o0 bonds.
 A Montreal Court granted MT, Fortier cgarmaker, $l50 damages from the Cdnadidn Workman, which paper advised psoplo not to buy cigars made by Q schild beater' or two man spanker."-
 A shifting engine on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Keyser, w. Va, exploded, killing Engineer Jos. Bell of Grafton and in turing fatally John McNabb of Winchester, the conductor, and William Baylisi of Keyscr, the fireman.
 Near Schuylkill Haven, Pcnn., freight and a coal train on the Pennsylvania Railroad colided while the coal train was pulling intoa siding. Engineer John Smith of Philadelphia l-.I .Il11 nrln nf Pottsvillo fatally scalded. Frank Hershey, tramp who was stealing ride, had both legs cut off and died in few hours.
 Fire at Alexandria Bay destroyed the ser wants quarters of the Thousand Islands Hotel. Loss Si5,OOO The business of the hotel will not be interfered with.
 A tornado which swept over part of Sedg- wick county, Kan., fatally injured MT. and Mrs. Frank Watt.
 Frank James. the ex-bandit, acknowledges that he is frequently mistaken for Senator Ingalls,. Frank still retains his remarkable pluck.
 Tho town Marshal of Lake Myantia, que, was murdered by man whom he was trying to arrest
 Pour young boys, Willie Crosby, aged l3, his brother Arthur, aged 12, Frank Wright, age 14, and John r. Edmunds, aged 10, who live in Peterborough, a su burb of Philadelphia, went bathing in the canal at that place. After
 
 climbed upon log which was lying close to the bank at the foot of Domino lane. The log rolled over and threw the four boys into the stream. Before assistance could reach them all were drowned.
 A gale that caused great loss of life and property has been raging at Grand River, Quo. Boats fishing on tho Miscon Banks were swept away and as far as can be ascertained six men were drowned. Tho Government cruiser Brydges found a boat overturned, in which. when righted, the dead body of Simon Lancup of Grand River was found entagled in trawl line.
 The case of cholera reported in St. Louis was sporadic and not infectious. A church was dedicated near Washington to the memory of the first Archbishop of Baltimore.
 A storm in Boston harbor overturned the sloop yacht Millie, in the cabin of which were John J. Cannon. Mrs. Catherine T. Tripp, aged 65, and her little neice, Katie T. Tripp. Cannon when taken from the water was alive. The body of Mrs. Tripp was found near the yacht. The b dy of the little one is supposed to be still in the cabin of tho overturned boat.
 An explosion of fireworks in the variety store of A. Rice in Rondout. N. I., besides de- stroying the building and stock and damaging tho contents of the stores adjoining, caused | the death by suffocation of Mrs. Rebecca Rice, mother of MT. Rice.
 Tho stage of Salisbury S Co.,, carrying United States mail and express, was held up, near Blackfoot, Idaho, by masked highway men. They rifled the mail-pouch and took bar silver bullion worth S2, 5Oo Willie Radwick and Ernest Cate, agod II and Is years respectively, were drowned at Strsfford, N. II.
 -The steamer Henry Russell Chase, New Bedford, for Bar Harbor, was sunk near the railroad wharf at Hyannis, Mass. Adrian College, the leading theological school of tho Methodist Protestant Church of America, hold its thirtieth annual commence | ment exercises at Adrian, Mich. Ten young | ladies took the degree of Bachelor of Music. An Fl Paso, Tex, despatch says: A malig. | nant form of Dphtheria has become epidemic in Paso del Norte, Mexico, and the Mayor oi Fl Paso to-day proclaimed quarantine against all children under sixteen years of age coming | from the Mexican town" | Michael Roach of Staatsburg, N. Y, shot at his wife the other night. The ball missed her and struck his daughter and broke hel leg. Roach then shot himself in the breast and will die.
 An extra freight train on the New York Cen. | tral Raj road was wrecked at Amsterdam, N | Y., by the breaking of the air-brake connec ton. Six empty cattle cars were demolished The loss is 1000.
 A man in Warren county, N. J., while cur- voying tract of timber land in Pahaquarry township few days ago, came upon den o | rattlesnakes. He destroyed a large numDer ol them by the use of dynamite cartridges. The two largest measured three feet six inches, and | had ten rattes each.
 The new Queen Victoria Niagara Fall' Park has been thrown open to the public. Tht formal opening will take place later.
 The boys in Ansonia, Conn.,, havo c fret electric bath. Electricity is in some manner conveyed from the electric railway in tha town into the Naugatuck River, in which the, bathe; tho boys rather like it.
 Charles Giblin, who killed Mrs. Madeline Goetz in New York last February, has beer convicted of murder in the first degree
 This morning at Webster, Mass, three Indians connected with Forepaugh's circus wer knocked from the top of a car One was killed and the other two were seriously injured. The. were on their way to Southbridge.
 There has been trouble between the ont hundred and fifty Italians employed on thu water works in Dover, N. H., and the con tractors boss for some days. Yesterday ar Italian boss was discharged and this culmi- mated in riot in which several persons wer injured, including boy, who will probabl. die. The Italians swear they will kill tn bosses. The two bosses who did the shooting arc in jail