Connecticut western news., 1888-02-01
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 James Redpath, the journalist and Irish patriot, was stricken with paralysis, and lies dangerously ill at his, ,fesidence in New York City.
 -Nmblehe.d, As.., is afflicted with se- ns,,s 1isas ,,ia spiasmisefs sph'heri. and mem'r.- The second section of passenger train on the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad ran into the first section near Screyen, Ga, killing Engineer Devins and seriously injuring his fireman. Four sleeping cars were burned. At Ire in Norwich, Conn, Fred w. Spi- Ger, aged 29, . fireman, fell at hydrant, striking on his nose with such force that his neck was broken.
 The extensive granite quarries belonging ID the State of Virginis, located in Dinwidde county, about two miles from Petersburg, have Co. of New York.
 --1he residence of Charles Hazard, editor of tho ElmirA Sunday Telegram, was burned while MT. Hazard was engaged on his paper. Mrs Hazard, with her seven-year-old daugh- building in her night clothes. Her face was badly burned, and the child was rendered in- sensible. he residence was new, elegantly furnished, and contained MT. Hazards fine hhrary. The loss is estimated at $35, 900. Mr. Peckham of California, representing the Central Pacific bond-holders made fur ther argument in support of the proposition to extend the debt for eighty years before the House Committee on Pacific Railways.
 The Board x> Aldermen of Boston, which has . Republican >p6jority, has rejected all Mayor O'Brien's nelSipations.
 William s. HsafAd others of Troy, N. T., have purchased Ind in Oakwood cemetery. and will erect a crematory in the spring.
 Judge Waterman, of Chicago, in the case of Alice A. CrQcker against her husband, de eided that woApan cannot sue her husband for islander or assault.
 U J. McGarry, . Knight of Labor, got verdict in St. Louis for $l, 800 against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for mali cious prosecution.
 The Hon. John T. Allen, e1-state Treas $soo, ,oO0 to the city austin for an industrial The Anarchists' Relief Committee in Chi cago have organized permanently. They have Sl 800 on hand with which to educate the chill dren and support the widows of the executed Anarchists.
 Fifteen citizens of Crawford County. Ind, tho home of the White Caps, engaged in general fight, in which W. E. Moore was fatally and William Cunningham seriously shot. Bert Browns skull was crushed. The attention of the Dominion Govern Wells, . Canadian, at Badaxe, Mich. Wells killed . neighbor in . quarrel about ditch, and the neighbors friends lynchcd Wells.
 Reports from Cuba state that citizens in Havana and Matanxas have repeatedly de manded of Capt.-Gen. Marin protection from Al. ,u and there Is . strict censogship over the press. The Hon. Charles Gaysrre of New Orleans E se.i9usly ill, " may % not e, Iscosss. Is He is been elected in NSa N
 -Mrs- Winnie Forb.st wife of Dr: Forbes of Cincinnati, took RougP Rats with suicidal intent and died at midnight.
 The Central Baptist church of Middleboro, Mass, was burned -H The Sunday school was in :ession when thsI 6fAbroke out but the ohii- pied. Only six men are now fit for duty, the rest being either hurt or frostbi ten. The St. James street loss will reach $400.o 900.
 -Ofhcer Dof shot and killed Albert Peter pon. . burglar, in Ss4 Francisco. The officer received . bullet jsfhe groin, but is not fatally -Richari Osborne leped.ywith Miss Nellie Osborne of Randolph bounty, Mo. young man named Land hsldJ he enraSed father of the girl by main forse while thu couple, driv- ing away to be msrried, tot cut >f reach. Boston Harbor is almost entirely frozen steam craft have great difficulty in proceed ing.
 A prominent railroad official stated that the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe intended pur. chasing 100000 bushels of seed wheat and sendins it out into the southwestern part of uHa No far have opfYo rnAd fha most from last years failure of crops
 Gov Martin of Kansas has appealed to the reople of his State, asking assistance for those ,utferins in the s3cthwestern part of the State.
 -Ther. are four Ate Of claimants of the es- tate of the late ThomsA Bean, who died in Bon. s,ssl 5oocoa assas l''' '',5 an estate '''s' 70. c. Kings shoe store at Newark Ohio, was burned: less, &150, 900.
 The report of the Treasurer of Harvard College for the year ended Aug. Sl, 1887, shows the receipts to havo been S2, 7S2, IA. and the balance remaining over the disbursements sI0S, ,9S.
 A bill passed the Mississippi House pro- vidiDg fer the pensioning of disabled Confede- rate soldiers who are unable to work, and for the colored servants of the same who are slml- larly situated.
 Isaac N. Stanley. who was paying teller of the National Bank of Commerce, Gle, eland embedded $l0O, GOO of the bank funds in lSS6 but who lost tho money in wheat speculations was sentenced to five years in the Ohio peni tentiAry.
 -One George Lillie, a farmer living nea punkirk, signed what he thought was . light ming rod contract, but which turned up late in the shape of promissory note- Lllile re fused to pay it, and the holder, Isaac P. Rob erts, sued him. The jury brought in verdic of non-suit, and tue case was dismissed
 The Buffalo Rubber Company assigne, with preferred liabilities to employees and l. William A. D. Barr of the Merchants Bank o Buffalo of 1000. There are also several iarg sums due to firms in New York, Boston. al, reach SlOO,00O.
 The first suit against the Boston and Prov idence Railroad Company for damages on ac count of injuries received in the Roslindale ac cident came up in the Civil Court in Bostor The plaintiff is Alfred Swallow of Roslindale who claims $50 900 damages, and the compan offer him q, ,5eO.
 Richard Fitzgerald who was serving sentence of two years in the Albany peniteI tiary and was confined in the south wing, e caped from his cell the other night leaving dummy lying on his cot. He dodged the ofhce and guards until 930 o'clock, then climbe 10 the top of the wal, donned a guard clothes, and jumped to the ground, distau' of thirty-ive feet, and escaped.
 CANADIAN OPINION.
 No Settlement of the Fisheries Que
 tion Expected Now.
 meeting of the Cabinet was he'd at otta, consider reDOrts received from he "a adj