Connecticut western news., 1888-01-18
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS

A'O's
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS. Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redundant Columns.
 The schooner William Parsons. which sail on from Gloucester for the Georges Banks on Peter D. Smith, which sailed on Nov. IS with 8 crew of twelve, have been given up for lost. It IS thought they were wrecked in the heavy gales month ago.
 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will build an elevated railroad to run from the Union Station in Pittsburgh to the outer depot in Allegheny, about two miles.
 Thomas Ward, 62 years of age, WAS found guilty of arson st St. Johnsburg, Vt, the principal witness being young married wo- man with whom he was infatuated, and whose parents house he had burned,
 Capt John Tobin, an old-time scout and guide, has begun suit for eighty acres in the heart of Salt Lake City, valued at s1 .OOo. 900.
 John Daley, indicted for the murder of Joseph O. G. Kennedy at Washington, was acquitted by the jury on the ground of insan- ity.
 A bill has been introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates to allow pension of $50 8 year to all soldiers, marines and sailors from Virginia who were disabled on either side dur ing the late war.
 There is strong probability that the bodies of the five dssd Anarchists will be taken from Waldheim Cemetery and eremated
 The report that yellow fever exists in Tampa and Plant efsy, Fla, is without found- ation.
 Des Moines, Ia.
 pPrssidsn' pa5Tn c Garhel4s.sed mother is dying
 Two men named Buau and Hines attempt cd to thaw out 8 can of dynamite at Kingston, Ont. Both men were terribly mangled, Buell. losing . leg and Hines foot.
 Capt Hall of the bark D. Chopin and sev- ment of the bark. The mate and balance of of tbe crew have arrived at Sagua la Grande.
 Horace Bemis, well-known lawyer of western New York, had 6 stroke of apoplexy at his home in Hornellsville.
 Passenger train No. on the Northern Pa- cigc Railroad, bound east, while making regu- sr time, was derailed by snow drifts near Gray Chn, Mont, the entire train running free from the track upon the prairie.
 The Fall River slnners are moving to se- wages.
 Two men broke into the city prison at Sanlt Ste. Marie and stole the contents of the policeman's locker.
 Utah wool growers representing over . million sheep met in Salt Lake City and pro- test against the reductions,of the tariff on wool.
 The sixty-fourth Ss< of the Cheroke Coun- oil hss passed, and fhe two parties are still Hengling, nothing being accomplished. ..-Secretary and the Misses Bayard gave a dinner to the President and Mrs. Cleveland Covers were laid for eighteen.
 The Hon. Mir. Foster, Canadian Minister of Marine, arrived in Washington to attend the sessions of the Fisheries Commission.
 The widow of Rear-Admiral. Samuel F. Dupont died at her home, on the banks of the Brandywine, above Wilmington, aged 76 years.
 While Jesse Athison, wealthy man of Wyoming, Ky, lay dead an unknown thief en- tered the house and stole S1 200 in cash. Tn re IS not the slightest clue to the robber. ..1 The Del csmne Steamship line, which Pacific Mails new e6nApany at San Francisco, has decided to cease okerations.
 NThe President has appointed Emile M. 3RanL of New York, honorary delegate from the United States to the Spanish International Exhibition to be opened in Barcelona on April 6th.
 The Pittsburg Dispatch opened new pub hshlnS house fitted with new presses and all modern improvements. It retains duplicate of the whole plant on its old premises.
 The Macon county (Mo.) court decided that it had no jurisdiction in the suit brought by the hi ense men to set aside the results of the election in which prohibition carried the day.
 The St John, N: B., Presbytery, after a sharp debate. adopted the proposition of the GeeeEA Assembly thas this clause be struck o~AS& nc confession of faith, "The man may Het hrry any of his wife's kindred nearer in < hlood than he may of his own, nor the woman of her husbands kindred nearer in blood than her own.
 The two Houses of the Kentucky Leeisla- ture in joint session elected MT. Beck for a third successive term in the United States Senate.
 Eight armed men stopped Mexican Gen. tral passenger train % miles south of Fl Paso, and robbed the express car- Nobody was hnrt- The Corean Legation, eleven in all, have arrived in Washington.
 Sir Thomas Esmonde lectured on Ireland's grievances at Quebec.
 Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia will preach jubilee sermon at Rome.
 More than 20, 900 people were present at the great bull fight in the City of Mexico.
 Flora Samuels, who has been playing 8 confidence game on American jewellers, was arrested at Montreal.
 -G. B, Vests Son k Co.,, dealers in hard ware in New Orleans. have made an assign ment. Liabilities, S44,0O0; assets $4l 900.
 Two batteries exploded ina ro'l ling mill at Brazil, Ind, and Matt Mortimer, a puddler, was burned to crisp and six others seriously injured,
 Joe Logan, who was in the employment of the American Fur Company when John Jacob Astor was at tho head of that notable enter prise, died on Mackinac Island, near Detroit, aged T2.