Connecticut western news., 1888-10-17

The passenger packet John M. Gilbert sank in the Mississippi near Chester, III. No lives were lost.
 Pres: dent Carter of Williams College has received Q gift of $2O,0OO to found library fund Tn honor of James Ruthven Adriance of the class of 1878, who died year after gradu- ation.
 George M. Bradt prominent young busi- ness man of Chattanooga, Tenn, was indicted for arson. The Caldwell Griffis block was burned on the night of Ang g. entailing loss of five lives and nearly half million dollars. Bradt is charged with having caused the fire
 Peter Mersch, a son of Nicholas Mersch, one of the wealthiest men in South Evanston H., killed Peter Koouse, the son of 8 well-to- do farmer, of Crosse Pointe. Mersch and some relatives were gathering nuts in Koouse's woods, and were driven away by two of Koouse's sons. A fight resulted, and Mersch shot Peter koouse.
 Four New York Chinamen, returning in bond through Canada from points in the Vest ern States, where they had been visiting, were refused readmission into the States at the part of the Suspension Bridge in New York. The refusal was based on the recent law eX- ,,uding Chinese from the States They will now have to pay Canadian tax of $50 or leave Canada.
 Representative Wheeler of Alabama re- ported favorably to the House from the Con- mittae on Expenditures in the Treasury Dc partment g bill appropriating s5O0,0O3 to establish camps for yellow fever refugees. The bill authorizes the President to establish camps of refugees in designated localities; to furnish supplies to the camp, and to destroy the camp equipage after the disappearance of the ep!- demic.
 Matthias Bechtold, of Pekin, H., while out bunting with & party of friends was accident GMy shot and killed by one of smother party of hunters.
 William Lahey, aged s1 years escaped xl-C kaAa Ar1I, M hu digging through four feet of solid masonry composing the roof of his cell and then saving through the roof proper. The escape IS one of the most laborious and difficult ever accom- plished in Auburn prison. A reward of IS offered for his capture. He had only two years to serve.
 There was bad accident on the Balti- more and Ohio road, near Dickerson Station. Two postal clerks and brakeman were killed and six brakemen injured by collision. The passengers were unhurt. The family of Farmer Richter, consisting | of seven persons were burned to death at their | home in Nebraska | The Herreshoffs have launched & new | yacht called the Ballymena, which IS expected { to be the fastest afoat. Jerome 0. Borden has been elected treas urer of the Fall River Savings Bank. He will | prepare 6 statement on the condition of the bank. | barn at Rondout, New York, having fallen from the hay mo.. Mary Griffin, 55 years old, died at the almshouse in Meriden, Conn.,, after 55 days of voluntary starvation. She took nothing put | water during that time and could not be | forced to do otherwise. She was insane on the | subject.
 | -C. NJ. Cole of Jackson, Miss, has been ar rested at Winnipeg, Man.. for passing forged check for S10,0O0 on the National bank of | Greenville
 Indictments have been found against twenty-seyen liquor dealers of Rockford, H., for selling liquor since the No License law went into effect. | A San Francisco jury estimates mans legs as worth S30 900, at least that IS the yer | dict given George Smith, whose legs were par alyzed by an injury.
 The factory of the Wheeling Match Com pany has been closed down by the Match | Trust for an indefinite time, and all the em- | ployes discharged. Five thousand people in attendance at a big celebration in Quincy, Ill.,, were gathered | in the amphitheater. Before the exercises be, | gan tn, immense structure collapsed with its | human freight. Five hundred people were in | 1ured, half of them seriously. aud many fatally. | A Bismarck, Dak., dispatch says: Huge | prairie fires many miles away brilliantly lit up this town. The flames were raging in portions | of the country in which no serious destruction
 
 | two Indians from the reservation were over- | taken by the fires fled to the Missouri River, | attempted t swim across, but were caught in the whirlpool and were drowned. The House has granted an appropriation of 5O00O for carrying out the Chinese Exclu- sion act. Frank Buntcher, of Medina, N. Y. had ono arm blown off, his eyesight destroyed and | probably fatally injured by the premature | firing of a cannon before parade. Another Buffalo man was injured, but not so badly. Barney Fair and Eli Barnes were playing game or cards in Sparta, Ga. dispu @ | arose, Barnes fired three shots into Fairs ab- | domen, from which the wounded man died. The criminal was pursued as far as Sanders vile, where all trace of him was lost. Later man giving his name as Lewis was arrested | there, charged with clock stealing, and at once was identified as the Sparta murderer. Barnes belongs to rough family. brother was | lynched in Hancock year ago. There is now no lumber in the Ottawa market. All of next seasons cut has been sold.
 A shortage of $40, 900 has been found in the office of the Public Administrator of New | Orleans.
 -F. J. Rees. chief of police of Milwaukee,
 was removed from office on charges of iucom- potency.
 The Montreal Carnival Committee has
 collected $1S,OOO of the S25, 900 required to in- | augurate the carn1Val tnlS season.
 Two hundred carriage builders from all
 parts of the country were present at their an
 nual convention in Columbus, O.
 The bark Mary K Campbell, Capt. Tenn
 pie, from New York for Montreal, has been
 wrecked at the mouth of the St. Lawrence. It
 is reported that three of the crew were drown
 ed.
 George E. Leavenworth, formerly city editor of tho Bridgeport Farmer. and lately night editor of the Morning Ne,os, died after taking laudapum with suicidal intent. He left letter to his mother saying that he was tired of life.
 The men of the West Side division of the Chicago street railway went on strike and there were two small riots in which the police
 used their clubs freely.
 -Wilmington's (Del.) first agricultural fair was opened. Secretary Bayard was the orator of the occasion.
 An explosion in grist mill at Charity Neck Va., killed George W. Dawley, the pro- prietor of the mill.
 MORMON CHURCH PROPERTY.
 The Court Orders It Confiscated for | the State.