Connecticut western news., 1888-04-11
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 Redundant Columns.
 At the present there is . spurt in Panama canal work, and great activity obtains all along the line. The American Contracting and Dredging Company are doing excellent work on the Atlantic side. Seven huge dredges are cutting their way toward the interior.
 Mrs John A. Logan has written in reply to the inquiry of the Arbor Day committee of Springfield Ill.,, that the Generals preference for shade tree was hard maple, and Stephen A. Douglass informs the committee that his fathers taste was the same. The State officers, therefore, will plant treeo of that variety as memorials to these distinguished sons of Hi nois.
 -Ths jury in the United States Circuit Court in Philadelphia awarded Adam Fore paugn ., 040 damages against the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company for delay, in September, 1SS6 in getting his show trains to Meadyille in time to give an after noon performance. The amount represented injury to property, loss of Sl 800 expected re- ceipts, and interest.
 Four men were killed by a dynamite mill explosion at Miller's Station, Ind.
 The Navy Department is informed that the dynamite cruiser and the gunboat Yorktown, building at Cramps yard, Philadelphia, will be launched on the 2Sth inst.
 The Labelle Glass Company failed a, Bridgeport, O., for S55, COG.
 -Ex-Mayor James Dougsll, one of the pio- neers of Windsor, Ont, is dead.
 The steamboat Bucker was burned at Point Pleasant, O. No lives lost.
 The anniversary of the foundation of the Grand Army of the Republic, April 6, 1866, was celebrated at Decatur, Ill.
 The report is current that the Grand Trunk Railway Company has signed five years contract with the Allan line of steam ships.
 The Rev. Asa Bullard of Cambridge, Mass, widely known as 8 Sunday school worker of the Congregational church, is dead, aged S4.
 A freight train ran into the rear end of 8 passenger train at Bolrdman, Wis, telescop- ing 8 sleeper and passenger coach. A Norwe- gian had an arm torn from his body.
 While dancing at a ball in Odd Fellows Hal, Cambridgeport, Mass, John W. Bate man, aged 2l, exclaimed: ''I feel very dizzy" and fell dead of heart disease. Up to that health and spirits.
 St. Andrews Church, Presbyterian, in Kingston, Ont., was burned. Loss about S16,- coo Insured for S1O,OOo.
 Thomas C. Buff, Treasurer of the Balti- more County School Board, is missing from home in Townson Md. An examination of his books was made and some irregularities were discovered. No one knows his where abouts. He had been Treasurer for fourteen years.
 Francis W. Pittman, convicted in New York for the murder of his daughter in the heat of passion, and sentenced to long term of imprisonment. committed suicide with the ald of opium furnished by person unknown.
 It is understood at Ottawa that the fisher ies treaty will be taken up as soon as a iivis- lon on the reciprocity issue has been reached. week.
 Fire in Rockville, Conn, started in the basement of the Second Congregational church m the beart of the village and destroyed the church and the Fitch block adjoining. The loss on the church is s25, GOO, insurance Sls,- surance SEQ, 800. Losses of storekeepers ag- gregate s35,cOo, partially insured.
 Vermont is elcc.ing delegates to the Chi cago Convention, and Blaine appears to be the favorlte candidate with Republicans in that State.
 -folkavitch, the Pole, who murdered his countryman Bioski on the railroad track near WIlkesbarre, Pa., last August, was hanged.
 The late Mrs. Colton, wife of Joseph Col ton, of New Haven, has made bcquest of s4O,0O0 to the Yale Divinity School. Her will provides that at her husbands death the bulk of her property shall go to Yale. The Divinity School will also receive, under the will of Mrs. slo,0OO after the termination of 8 life inter- est.
 Navigation of Lake Ontario between Co., bourg, Ont, and Rochester, is open.
 Charles E. Cross and Samuel c. White, the absconding Raleigh (N. O. bank officers, were arraigned at Toronto, Ont, for bringing stolen money into the province.
 William Edwards, seventy -year-old bach elor, was found dead in Logansport, Ind. He was worth SlOO,0O0 and has no known rela- lives. Over g., 900 was found sewed in his un- derclothes-
 The two sons of Rev. G. N. Ballentine, Baptist, and Rev. A. Mcleod, Congregational ist, of Groton, Conn.,. each about fourteen years old. quarrcled, when young Mcleod was shot in the head by the Ballentine boy.
 Two tramps, who had been fed by Rev. Father Fennesscy, of the Church of the Imma- culate Conception, Marlboro, Mass, robbed the safe in the parsopzge of S1 200, being the Faster collection and money contributed to the Irish National Lcagre.
 Fire destroyed the Mcfarland Hotel and fourteen other buildings at Harrisburg, Ill.,, causing loss of about S20, 1000. There were several narrow escapes from death
 The U. s. steamer Despatch has blown up the steamer F. c. Knight, derelict wreck of Barnegat.
 Capt. W. F. Phillips, commander of an oyster dredging vessel on trial for cruelty to his crew. was convicted i'll the United States District Court in Baltimore. He was sent to jail for sixty days and fined $1OO. This is only one of many cases in which strangers have been induced to go on dredging vessels, and then subjected to the most cruel treatment.
 Mrs. John Gray, wife of one of the victims of the Rich Hill disaster, died of broken heart. ->s
 A National Convention of bookbinders will be held in Philadelphia on the first Tuesday in May. The convention will be held under the auspices of National Assembly No. 23O, Knights of Labor.
 Columbus, Ohio, in its local election went Republican, reversing it's decision of one year 800 majority.
 The schooners Rachel Ann Collins Caro- line and Nellie Porter overdue at Philadelphia are believed to bS lost
 The recent Aeavy rains have caused the rear walls of the iStste Capitol building in Jackson Miss. .~tosFk, and great fears arc en- tertained for it's safdy. The capitol was built . fifty years ago.
 John Brown Field, the oldest dry goods merchant of South Bend, Ind, has failed Liabilities, S1l1, 900; assets, S5S, 900.
 John Smyth, the type manufacturer of Philadelphia has contributed S25, 900 for the construction of steamboat to carry babies and their mothers to the new sanita4 .um at Red Bank.
 An organized gang of juvenile thieves;