Connecticut western news., 1888-08-01
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

William Valentine Hutchings, one of the most successful underwriters of Boston died at Auburndale, Mass, of erysipelas. He was 63 years of age.
 The summer theatre at Schneider's Gar den, St. Louis, was destroyed by fire. The company, composed of summer opera artists, lose all their wardrobes.
 William Mckinley, Jr., Congressman from Ohio, and Ph.D. on W. A. Duncan of Syracuse, N. Y., by Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio.
 A terrific natural gas explosion occurred at Bonlin Hashelrs heading factory, Tipton, Ind. The fireman, Jake Baughman, was seri- ously burned. The factory was completely destroyed.
 -Haber & Grahams sash factory, Chicago, ILL, was burned. Loss, S20.0O0.
 Encouraging reports have been received regarding the crop prospects In Southern Min nesota.
 Tho sidewheel steamer, Puritan has left Philadelphia for New York, where she will be finished.
 Eleven hundred thousand dozens is the es- timated output of canned peaches for Balti- more this season.
 A reduction of three eighths of cent a pound in refined sugars was announced in San Francisco.
 A package containing s1O,00O was stolen from a steamer en route from Portland to As toria, Ore. There is no clew to the thieves.
 Garter < White, proprietors of the Con- monwealth Hotel, Boston, have failed. Lia- bilities heavy. The majority of creditors are Boston merchants.
 M D. Tackett of Greensburg, Ind, has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans in opposition to w. s. Holman, the Democratic candidate.
 Increase Sumner Kimball. the Nestor of York County bar, died at his home, Sanford, Me-, aged S7.
 Henry w. Mason, secretary of the Ameri- can Metallic Cartridge Company, Willimantic, Conn.,, is dead.
 In quarrel over money matters at St. Paul, Minn., Jack Lacey Q railroad man, was shot and killed by George Jones.
 Charles McCloud, under sentence of five years in State prison, committed suicide in his cell at Concord, N. H., by hanging.
 The Westinghouse Brake Company, of St. Louis, hae practically absorbed the Amer ican Brake Company. The American manufactures steam driving wheel brake for engines, with revere action to that of the Westinghouse. The American company also holds a patented improvement of the air brake to facilitate the exhaust of air and has ten the departure of trains. The American Is capitalized at F, 900, 900.
 A reduction of 1211s cents per day has been made in the wages of brickmakers in the vii cinity of Rondout, N. '.
 A QumDeI OI OduaulalS, ftSiueut Ol tue United States, have volunteered to join the forces to suppress the Skeena River rebellion.
 General NJ. R. Patrick governor of the Sol diers' Home at Dayton Ohio. died there of in- hammation of the bowels. He was IT years of age.
 Two Chinamen who were detained at Plattsburg, N. r., returned to Canada recent ly and paid the $50 per capita tax necessary for them to remain lp the Dominion.
 Joshua Hirst, the aged janitor of Cornell University, was found dead in bed. His will gives his body to the University to be dissected, his skeleton to be mounted and preserved.
 Edward Stewart fireman of the Old Do minion steamer Wyanoke, slipped from plank leading to the wharf at Richmond, Va., and was drowned. He was ? years old and resi- dent of Brooklyn, N. '.
 Near Bentonia. Miss, the daughter of Dolph Miles, coIored poisoned her father and three brothers. Two brothers died, and the third brother and the father arc not expected to recover. The mother was at church, and thus missed her portion of the poison. Family troubles was the cause.
 At 8 conference of glass bottle blowtrs and manufacturers ut Pittsburgh, the wage scale for the ensuing year was amlcably ar ranged, and the 5000 workers will resume op- erations when the fires are started in the fur naces Sept. 1. The scale slightly advances wages on novelties, but otherwise is the same as last year.
 The engine of the Pennsylvania limited express coming East, jumped. the tracks near Canton, O., and upset. Engineer Morgan jumped, and escaped with slight injuries. The baggage and dining cars left the track, but were not wrecked. None of the passengers were injured.