Connecticut western news., 1888-09-05
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.
 John Fillhart, of Dnpanyills, N. T., aged ei, committed suicide by hanging. No cause is assigned for the deed.
 A four-story building at Norwalk, Ohio, fell, burying 6 man named Shephard in the ruins. The financial loss will reach $10,OOo.
 The examination of three persons suspected has been adjourned to September Il to procure the te timony of the Indian guide.
 Mary Moore, of New Lexington, Ohio, completed the purchase of her wedding outfit and then died suddenly at dinner.
 A new railroad, to run from Selma, Ala, to Birmingham, through the richest mineral fields in Alabama, is to be built in that State O0O.
 Disastrous prairie fires are raging in Mon. tapa.
 -Chevreul, the chemist is 103 years old. Col. Lamat, on behalf of the Washington Ma tional Institute, presented him with an address formed Chevreul that Keely of Philadelphia, had invented an aerihl motor.
 Ten thousand busnels of grain were destroyed by an accidental fire st Racine, Wis.
 Martin Wier. Chicago laboref, was crush. cd to death in an elevator in which he was @ passenger.
 Cotton planters of Louisiana complain that the crops have been seriously damaged by worms and rain.
 John Gregory, another Pennsylvania coun. tcrfciter, has been arrested and lodged in the Wilkesbarre jail.
 At Shamokin, two Philadelphia and Read ing locomotives came into collision, were both thrown over an embankmeht nud completely ruined. the Democratic Greenback Convention at Port Huron, Mich.
 Pat Riland, one of the characters in vest ern Colorado, was fatally shot st his ranch near Denver.
 -Ignatius Donnelly has been nominated for Governor of Minnesota by the farmers and labor organizations of that State.
 Dr. J. c. Deroe, of Philadelphia, has been appointed Government Inspector of Cattle in place of Professor J. Law, resigncd.
 John Hill, of Meriden, Conn.,, was ground to pieces by New Haven train. He became dazcd with fright when he saw the train ap- proach, and could not leave the track.
 Over one hundred cases of typhoid fever have occurred recently at Caldwell, Ohio, with twenty-five deaths
 Negroes and whites at Wabassa, Ark. are in deadly antagonism on local politics, and bloodshed is expected.
 A bronze statue of Robert Burns was placed on it's pedestal in Albany, N. Y., gift to the city from Miss Mary McPherson.
 The one hundredth birthday of Mrs, Lu- cinda Fletcher was celebrated at North Spring field, Vt., by reception in the church, which was attended by all the townspeople.
 The annual convention of the deaf mutes of Pennsylvania had three days session at Reading. All the speeches were made in tee sign language, but an interpreter spoke them for the benefit of those who could hear.
 -'.Doc" NIsou. wno atralned widespread notoriety in his suit against Millionaire Moen, of Worcester, Mass, recently appeared in Den- yer, Col, and proposed to erect an immense wooden mill. He organized company, coll iected sls, 900 from the capitalists composing 1t, and fled.
 The southerT part of Indiana has been visited by the severest rains of the year and the farmers have suffered greatly.
 Numerous veins of gold, ,silver, copper and lead have recently been discovered in Monroe, Fayette and Kanawha counties, W est Virginia. On account of the retaliation message of President Cleveland orders have been issued to stop all work on the Duluth, South Shore and is owned by the Canadian Pacific. The North ern Pacific will be leased for use in running trains in lieu of the Ashland extention.
 The trouble on the Maxwell land grant has subsided and the settlers have returned to their homes.
 William Lloyd Garrison, son of the old abolitionist, publicly announced Tn New York his indebtedness to Henry George, and his in tention of helping the reform outlined in Progress and Poverty"
 Herman Klein & Sons stocking factory at Cincinnati was burned. Loss, Sl0o,0OO.
 The Navy Department has awarded con tracts fir the machine finishing of twelve six inch guns for the cruiS IS Baltimore and Charleston to the West Point Foundry Com pany and the South Boston Iron Works, each company to finish six guns at the rate of fS, 400 for each gun.
 The first of new line of steamships be- tween Chilian ports and Panama arrived at tho latter place on July 24. The South American Steamship Company will run fortnightly service between Panama and Chilli. The ven- ture is nader Columbian colors, but owned by an English resident at Equador.
 -Ex-Marshal William II. Leggett, of Princeton, N. J., who was successful two years ago in breeding quails in captivity, has just had lot of ten matched Ut of 8 setting of six cen eggs. MT. Leggett last fall, while out cunning, brought male and female bird home alive that were wounded by stray shots. Ike Duncan, colorcd, while in court at Bir- mineham Ala, being tried for an attempt to murder, dropped dead.
 It is reported at CheboyGan, Mich, that tho cholera is ragi. E in PreSque Isle county, that nine persons had died in one day, and there were no doctors in the vicinity.
 A party of seven persons sailing in the harbor of Hyannis Mass, were thrown into the water i'y their boat capsizing. and three children, about twelve years old, were drowned
 Stone, Lytle and Cumsky, of Ogdensburg, charged with stealing opium from the Custom House, were held in S20, ,0O) bail each to appear at the Sept mber term of the United States Court in Buffalo.
 At the instance of Mrs Helen Warner, who lost S3OO00 in tho GoScbecic mines, 1T. s. Bc ,jamin and F. A. Bates, members of the bankrupt irIil of Moore. Benjamin X Co.,, were arrested at Milwaukee, on & charge of conspiracy, and were released in Sl0,0OJ bail
 The corner stone of Longfellov statue was laid at Portland, Me.
 The steel ram for the new cruiser San Francisco was cast at San Francisco.
 Over ,OOO car loads of coke were shipped from the Connellsvillo region the other day.
 WILL HE MARRY?
 Curious Will of an old Bachelor