Connecticut western news., 1888-11-14
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.


 part of Brandon. Wis, were swept away by fire. The total loss is somewhere between SAC, 900 and $50, 900. The fire was of incen- diary origin and the third of the kind this year.
 There was an explosion of iredamp in the coal mines owned by w. Fl. Brown & Sons near Boston, Pa, in which four miners were severely burned. They were "settng out, on the main entry when the roof of an old room near by fell in, driving the fire damp out. Coming in contact with the lamps the damp exploded.
 "A negro in Raleigh, NC, was blown out of bed by a gas pipe bomb exploding along sidc his cottage. Astronomers at the Yale Observatory, Dudley Observatory, Warner Observatory, Columbia college and Washington expect in tercsting results from the observations of the total eclipse of the sun January 1st 1889. if the sky is clear in California when the total ity occurs.
 A collision occurred between the Cunard steamer Umbria and the French steamer Iberia, in Il fog twenty miles from Sandy Hook. The Iberia had her stern torn of, and the umbria's bow plates were smashed necessitating her return tor repairs. No lives were lost.
 The bottom of the Roanoke, (Va.) Water Works Company's reservoir fell out. The reservoir is located on Mill Mountain about two miles south of the city. It is supposed thut cave-in in the mountain side is the cause.
 Later accounts of the fire at Rochester N. T., say that no less than twcnt y-threc per- sons are still missing, all of whom are doubt less still in the ruins. Three bodies have been So far recovered
 Moran and Healy's packing house at the stock yards, Chicago, was burned loss $3O,- OOO
 The Birmingham, Ala, Age has been bought by tho Herald Co, and the paper will now appear as the Age-Herald.
 The Yale corporation elected Wm. w. Farnham treasurer of the University in place of Henry C. Kingsley, deceased.
 The upper story of the wholesale grocery house of Jacob Wellauer, Milwaukee, was de- stroyed yesterday. The loss, caused mainly by water, is 5000
 -Herschel Haines, while attempting to drive across the New York Central tracks at Macedon, was struck by flyer and instantly killed, with both horses.
 The Augusta( Ga )National Exposition has opened. The exhibition building has a floor space of seven acres. Besides space for ex- hibits, it accommodates Is, 900 visitors, and has over two miles of frontage on aisles. The Chief of Police of Chicago has notified the friends of the executed anarchists that they cannot hold a parade.
 A freight and local passenger train on the Milwaukee and St. Paul road werein collision near Cragin, Iowa. Both engines were wrecked and one passenger was fatally in jured.
 The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church began their semi-annual session in Boston. The Episcopal Board is made up of eighteen members. The bishops in council represent more than two millions of commu- niconts.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has in- structed the Collector at San Francisco that Chinese merchants are not affected by the Exclusion act, and that those now resident in the United States who visit foreign countries may be admitted on their return upon any evidence of identity satisfactory to the Col lector.
 Michael Dinwoodie, who disappeared from Toronto thirty years ago under circumstan- ces which led to the belief that he had been murdered has turned up and is looking for his relatives. He has been among the mines of Central America and has made large for tune.
 Mrs Scott, of Dawn Township, Ont, driven insane by her husband, who habitual- ly came home drunk and abused her, beat him to death while he lay on bed in a drunken stupor.
 J. Robinson, of Buffers Mills, Pa., hide buyer, SfXuy-6lX years O1 age, WdS cnOkeu to death while eating Q ham sandwich.
 Prof James w Robertson, of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph Ont, has been appointed nonresident Professor of Dairy Husbandry in Cornell University.
 The gasometer in the Welsh Church at Edwardsville, Pa., exploded, setting fire to the building All efforts to save it were una vailing, and the edihce became total loss.
 Steve Brodie the famous bridge,jumper has beaten all former records by jumping from the new Poughkeepsie bridge over the Hudson River. The drop was PIP feet.
 The ship Trojan, at Boston, from Monte vidco, reports that while seventy miles from Cape Ann, one of the crew, named Michae McGonnigal, of New York, while furling tho jib fell overheard and was drowned.
 Archibald Pelon, who was in jail in Gray ling, Mich, was taken from the jail by masked men and hanged to tree.
 A train wrecked on the Americus Preston and Lumpkin Railroad at Reed. Crossing, Ga. The car, with two coaches Jeff the track, the cars turning over. A large ex cursion was on the train, on route to MacoI State fair.
 "A nest of four boilers at the Lancaste Chemical Works Lancaster, Pa., exploded killing John Reidel, an employe, and injurin, Alonzo Hambright, Michael Borr and Georg Smith. The cause of the explosion is un known. The boilers were all new and of tn best make. The plant furnished power to tn electric light company lighting the city.
 A special train of six passenger coache and sleeper passed through Huntsville, Ala the other night filled with converts to Mor monism.
 -Gov. Beaver, of Penn. mas granted re spite to George Clarke, the Greene Count murderer. He was sentenced to be hanged His ease has been taken to the Suprem Court.
 Henry Arthur Blake, the Governor an, COmmanderin-Chief of Newfoundland, ha been promoted to a Knight Commander O the order of St. Michael and St. George.
 Herman Rumann, a teamster, was foun in a shed at Manchester, N. H. He came t. his death from revolver fired by Fran Brown, aged Is, who, with three companions were foohng with the pistol. Brown fled i terror and has not been seen since
 A fire started in the City Hall building C Haverhill, Mass, and com pletely gutted tn place. The fire spread to adjacent buildings and the Centre Congregational Church wa also damaged.
 Three of the largest stores in Gary, Ds kota, were burned. The losses aggregat $25,OOO. Several families who occupie rooms over the stores are left destitute.
 Arthur Haywood, aged 19, while drivin milk wagon across the New York Centre tracks at Schenectady, became excited by tn approach Of freight train and jumped fror the wagon. His foot caught in one of tn wheels, and he was thrown under the ears an killed
 Harry Koehler, while suffering from dc hrium tremens, in Chicago, threw himself int the North Branch of the river. His wife Caroline, tried to drag him out and was hel self dragged into the river. Before help cam both were drowned
 A widow named Brewer, in Columbus Wis. fastened her young son outdoors Ia down on her bed and set it on fire Her SO called the neighbors who broke open tn house and saved the woman, who was uu conscious but little injured.