Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
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. The jail at Cambridge Md, was delivered of four off prisoners. The trials of these men would have taken place at the next April court. The escape was effected by saw ing of an iron bar in rear window in the lower corridor and jumping drought to the ground, n distance of about 10 feet. It is thought that one of the prisoners was sup piled with saw by confederate on the out side. The prisoners were in the upper corri- dor when the escape was made The discov- cry was made by negro detained m jail as witness, who sounded the alarm.
 Abraham Lincoln. a colorcd man, came into Memphis and reported the finding of $I5,OOO in legitimate currency. His bonan- Ba was he says brought out of m old gum stump in Crittcnden County, Ark, opposite this city, across the Mississippi River.
 -Prospcctors arc still leaving Los Angeles Cal. in large numbers, for the gold fields. Two pack trains from the Arizoua mining districts left overland for the mines. The men at work at the paccrs making big wages, but no extraordinary strikes or finds arc reported. Gaskill the man who first dis covered the santa Clara fields, turns out to be escaped murderer from the United States He has already pre-empted some of the best quartz claims in the Santa Clara Valley.
 -Mcthudy X Meyer. lumber dealers, at St. Louis, have made an assignment to Fred A. Wcssrlisrmus, for th he benefit of their creditors. Liabilities not known; assets, SPAS, 300.
 -Information has reached Fort Smith, Ark, of the murder of Deputy United States Marshal, W. A. Moody, a brave and valued officer attached to the United States Court in this city The deed committed at Tulsa, Creek Nation, l. T., by two men named Bonner and Hill,iwhom he was attempting to arrest.
 -Ex-Unitcd States Senator ] ohm J. Patter- Ron married Mildred Franks at Waterville, Wis. nearly q year and half ago. Patterson is a relative of James G. Blaine. Mrs. Mary R. Fleming of Philadelphia now seeks to cover 10000 damages from ex-Senator Pat terson for alleged breach of promise. Mrs. Fleming is a widow and asserts that at the time of the quiet wedding in Waterville the Senator was betrothed to her.
 -According to reports there is serious trouble at Fort Niagara, arising from dissat- isfaction among the troops with the way the officers treat them. It is said there have been frequent assertions, and that the other day a batch of eight men left in body for Can- ada.
 The line of the New York and Massachu- setts Railroad is now practically established. Passing the New York State line not far from Egremont, it will run through Great Barring ton and on to Iousatonie, thence through Glendale to South Lee, striking across to Ty- ringham. thence to tho Pennington River and on to West6cld.
 "A farmhouse on Mountain street, Worces- ter, Mass occupied by A. E.Young, a real estate brol CT, was destroyed by fire. MT. Young and his family, consisting of his wife and three children, barely escaped with their lives The loss on the house is $2 500.
 The American bark E. l.. Pettengill, Capt. C. C. White, of Portland, Me, has foundered in Chesapeake Bay.
 Thomas H. Kerr, formerly Treasurer of the Rrnodwov and Spyppth h Avpunp Railway (Om- pany. who has been on trial for few days less than month before the Extraordinary Term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in New York City, for having been concerned in the bribery of the Aldermen of 1884, in procuring franchise for the Broadway Sur face Railway, was acquitted by that court.
 "A trestle on the Cincinnati and Green River Railroad gave way near Stanford, Ky, under freight trrin, and the engine and two freight cars fell thirty feet and were wrecked. The engineer saved his life by jumping, but the colored fireman remained at his post and received severe injuries. A man who was stealing ride was fatally injured.
 Miss Mable Futile, White Haven school teacher, was killed while walking on the track of the Grand Central Railro d, near Mauch Chunk, Pa.
 Philadelphia capitalists propose buying coal lands in Morgantown county, w. Va, and manufacturing coke on a large scale. They will probably bridge the Monongahela near Lowsville.
 The Rhode Island Senate has passed the Ballot Reform bill, to take effect in June, 1889. The House bill making the manufuc- ture of liquor in the State common nuisance was referred to the General Assembly.
 A pipe at the Standard refinery at Lima, Ohio exploded. John Tussing. carpenter is believed to have been blown into atoms. Philip Paul. Chief of Police of Renova. Pa, was shot and died two hours later. He had QrrxSted n named Rplfnrd and aa he was about to enter the jail a friend of the prisoner named Mike Clary shot him in the back of the head and ndescaped.
 Seven notorious criminals, two of whom were held for murder, broke jail at Ashland, Wis.
 -The death of two trappers named Finlay- son, is reported in Prince Albert, N. w. T., from the Far North, their bodies having been found by men of the Hudson Bay Com pany two miles from their camp, near Deer Lake where they were probably lost. It is feared at Paince Albert that Lord Lonsdale has shared the same fate.
 The tow boat Kangaroo was capsized on the Green River, at Spottsville, Indiana, and is a total loss. George Ingram, the owner, and Edward Simmons, the cook, were drowned.
 An emery stone exploded in the machine shop of one of Whitall, Tatum & Co.'S glass houses at Mievile, N. J., making Q report like cannon, and scattering fragments in every direction. John Stanger was struck by a large piece of the stone, and injured so badly that he will die About twenty other men were at work in the place. and their es- cape from serious injury is considered won- derful.
 An English syndicate claims to own all the new gold fields in Lower California, and is trying to shut out the Americans.
 The Ohio Legislature passed bill appro- priating B 900 for the erection of a suitable m ont wort hp ur nT ha drovv Railroad raiders, who were executed at At lanta in 1862. Of the twenty-two persons comprising the expedition all were soldiers oi Ohio regiments. Eight were executed, and it is over their graves in the National Cemetery at Chattanooga that the monument will be erected.
 The producers and wholesale milk dealers of Pittsburg have formed trust to prevent the cutting of prices, and to maintain the purity of milk.
 Word has been received at TuIare, Uai> that the two men who held up the Southern Pacific train near Pixley last month, commit ting robbery and murder, were in Bakers field and preparing to leave for Arizona. Of fcers were sent down on d special train and the men, who arc believed to be the robbers were arrested. They will be brought to Tu- larc-
 Tho fact that the Chamber ofDcputics has authorized the Government to prosecute such conspicuous supporters of Boulangcr as
  quet. and l.aisant shows that the Tirard Cabinet is expected to take energetic meas urcs against the enemies of the present par hamentary regime.
 The weayers of Fall River to the number of between nine and ten thousand, are on strike They want higher pay.
 Many hundreds of persons attended the funeral services of the late Captain John Ericsson at Trinity Church, New York.
 The New Jersey Democrats have intro duced bill in the State Legislature, making