Connecticut western news., 1889-03-06
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns.

Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns.
 A violent shock of earthquake has been experienced in Ecuador. During the night and morning there were fourteen shocks. The telephone wires are down. Panic prevails among the people.
 A dispatch from Havana says that the American bark Rebecca Coruana, owned by Waydell X Co.,, of New York bound from the above port o Sagua. ran ashore on Marillanes Shoa The vessel and cargo will be a total loss. she is situated that she must go to pieces II a few hours. The Ameri- can schooner Charles ]. Willard also ran ashore, but managed to get of With httie damage.
 Oil has been struck in Scott county, Ark. The supply is thought to be ineXhaustibe.
 -Mandus Anderson and August Filgren, Swedes, have been drowned in Blaekmoor Pond. Cranston.
 Thomas Parker Sanborn, writer on the Springfield Republican, cut his throat at Con- cord, Mass Poor health is supposed to be the cause of his suicide.
 "A Delaware and Hudson freight train was thrown from the track at Chazy, N. l., and seven coal and merchandise ears were demolished. Brakeman Kinny was seriously injured.
 "A house at Tusten, Sullivan County, N r., occupied by John Balcher and Nicholas Donohue. was burned. The wife of the latter went up stairs for valuables but was over come and pcrished with her young child. Their charrcd remains were taken from the ruins.
 Tho managers of the San Francisco walk ing match state that the total receipts were about $25, ,0O0. Hart and Moore, who came m hrst and second respectively, will divide about $1O,OOO between them, the former getting 60 and tho latter 40 per cent.
 Neal Dow has declined to be the Prohibi tion candidate for Mayor of Portland. Me.
 In the Maine House of Representatives the Woman Suffrage bill was defeated by vote of 90 to 40. The Honse also voted against the establishment of the first Monday in September as Labor day.
 Tt has been discovered that Charles H. Williams, cashier of the Bee Line Freight Office at Cincinnati, who mysteriously dis appeared Q week ago, was short in his ac- counts with the Erie Company TO the amount of nearly $5, 900, and that he had used the money mainly to pay as assessments on stock of company managing patent loco motive valve. His standing was such that 1t IS said he would not have needed to go outside his office to get the money required to make his accounts correct. He left s, 900 cash in the safe aud a months salary not drawn.
 The Amalgamatcd Puddlers of the Re public Iron Works, on the south side. Pitts- burg, went on strike owing to the refusal of the manager of the mill to rcinstate Frank Carroll, a puddler, who was discharged for not reporting for work when he had been sent for on election day. The mill was closed m every department.
 The statutes Of the Catholic University to be erected at Washington arc printed. They are prefxed by a Papal brief in which a warm eulogy is paid to America.
 The Convention of the National League of Republican Clubs have met in Baltimore. Several constitutional amendments arc to be adopted and plans are to be perfected for sohdifying the organization so as to insure effective and uniform work.
 In report submitted to the Dominion Government at Ottawa, by the Interior De pertinent, it is stated that timber thieves from Dakota enter tue public lands on the Canadian side of the boundary and cut down and carry away timber for fuel.
 Secretary Fairchid awarded the contract for the transportation of Government mon- eys and securities to the United States EX- press Company, of which Thomas C. Platt is President.
 Charles Gilpin, aged 75 years former Collector of the Port of Baltimore, was struck md fatally injured by the east bound Bati. uore and Ohio express at Cumberland. Md
 Two hundred men in the employ of the West Division-Strect Railway Company, Chi cago, engaged Tn laying tracks, struck for an advance in wages from fl l,25 to 1,75 per day.
 A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Marion, Ind, Tuesday morning. Reports from number of towns near Marion indicate that the shock was general in that portion of the State.
 Owing to the alleged efforts of the nuns to proselytizc one of their pupils 25 Protestant young lady boarders have left the Notre Dame Institute Catholic School in Toronto.
 -Dr. Francis Girard of Philadelphia, aged 53 years, died from the effects of heavy dose of opium.
 A despatch from Burmah announces that the Rangoon-Mandalay Railway has been opened.
 It is calculated that seventy lives were lost in the recent gale on the North Sea.
 MT. Gladstone and MT. Chamberlain had an animated discussion in the House of Com mons. In view of their recent strained rela tions the fact of their engaging in q friendly talk ccited much comment.
 The Comte de Paris has instructed Count Dillon to sit with the Central Conservative Committee, thus openly espousing Boulang- ism. M. Stcenackers has resigned his seat in the Chamber of Deputies as protest against the anti-Boulangist clauses in the Scrutin d Arronuissement bill.
 The coal mines in Marshall County, West d-, "A roof, and before the miners could be notified the water was up 10 their knees, and several had narrow escapes with their lives The poisonous gas in the mine prevents an exam inaton.
 The schooner Clyde, Capt. Robert Robin son, from Eastport, Me. for Gloucester, Mass, struck York ledge She was abandon cd in a sinking condition by the captain and crew. who were picked up by the schooner A. C. Newhall and taken to Newcastle, Me.
 William Emerson, a mulatto convict in the State prison at Por; Madison, Iowa, assault ed Deputy Warden Townsend with a sharp knife while the deputy was endeavoring to induce him to come out from his cell. Town eend drew his revolver and shot Emerson, killing him almost instantly.
 A Heggeland, President of the Second National Bank of McPherson, Kan, was in- stsntly killed while in his bank by the acci- dental discharge of a revolver in his own hands. The deceased was one of the richest men in Central Kansas and was prominent in the political affairs of the State.
 Dr. J. L. Sullivan of Maiden, Mass, was fined $50 and costs for neglecting to notify the Board of Health of two cases of dypthe- ria which he was called upon to treat.
 She HeroicaIy Faced Danger.
 Harry w. Mlburn, of Back Creek Neck, Cecil County, Md, and Miss Addie Foard, of Elk Neck, had a thrilling adventure on the Elk River, which came very near proving fatal. The night was the coldest of the season. Miss Foard, whose parents reside in East side of Elk River. Last Saturday after noon they rowed across to visit her parents at Elk Neck. On returning, greatly to their dismay, they found the river near the shore covered with rapidly thickening ice. They bCAlly pushed forward. only to encounter the ,Infir of bo