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Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
A BANK TELLER DEFAULTS.
His Seedlings Amount to Sixty
 eight Thousand Dollars.

n
 Edgar Swan, @ paying teller of Lynn, Mass, called Cashier French into the direc tors room and said "Mr. French, am a defaulter. l have robbed the bank'' Had the bank building collapsed the cashier could not have been more startled, for Swan had been ranked as 0 most exemplary young man. When the cashier recovered from his astonshment he said to Swan: "I want you to promise me two things, that if you come Tn contact with any more money here you Will not take any Of it, and that you will not run away" Swan said No, am ready to face the music" An examination of the books was at once made and although the bank officials will not tell the exact amount of Swans stealings it is known that it is within few hundreds of S6S, ,OOO. Swan agreed to make all the restitution in his power, and turned over to the bank 80 shares of Thomp- son-Houston stock, free from ncumbrance; 50 shares of the same pledged, with an equity of about $3,20O; 15O shares of the Chicago, Kansas and Western Railroad about $3, 900, and additional sums bringing the amount restored up to $33, ,45O. Swan is 35 years old, has @ wife and two children, and ill an endeavor to support them in style has lived beyond his income. Two years ago he found that he was badly in debt, and thinking that he saw a chance to get out of it by speculation, invested in Atchison stock, but in the trouble that followed he dropped TZo,ooO. w hen the boom III thompson Houston stock came, Swan thought he would make another attempt to retrieve his losses, and bought heavily of that stock. He bought it at BIO and it dropped on his hands to 27O. This demoralized him completely, and hence his confession. Swan covered up his peculations by system of entries so shrewdly that two Bank Examiners had fail ed to detect him. and his books had passed creditably, showing no error at every semi annual examination by the Directors. He has been ill the employ of the bank for 17 years, and since 1881 has served as Teller. In a Boston court the facts came out, when Swan was arraigned and held in $3O,OOO bonds, which he did not secure, and went to jail. The bank is able to stand the loss, as it has surplus of $15O,OOO.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
A Safe Robbed by Masked Men,

rdr. Il. J. Brown, night watchman at the Pittsburg Sewer Pipe Works, situated in 8 lonely place on Block House Run, about one mile back of New Brighton, Penn., was sur prised by the entrance of four masked men carrying revolvers, who ordered him to throw up his hands and keep his mouth closed. His hands and feet were tied he was bound to chair, 6 handkerchief placed over his eyes, and one man left to guard him while the other three drilled the safe. They worked for over an hour when they blew the safe open, wreckng it completely. They obtained money and valuables amounting to about $1OO. They then left after threatening to kill Brown if he should ever reveal anything he might have learned as to their identity When they had left Brown freed himself and raised an alarm No clue to the robbers has yet been found.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
New Life in old Oil Fields

The completion of an oil well on the old Rynd farm, Oil Greek near Franklin, Pa which started off at the rate of forty barrels per day, with no signs of decreasing, has caused revival of interest in an old oil field thought to have been thoroughly exhausted two decades ago. and there is a rush Tor leases. This week number of new wells will be drilled. and operations will be lively in view of the large wells recently struck in the territory supposed to be exhausted at Pleasantville, Shamburg, Pitholc, Walnut Bend and at points in Rockland and Cran- berry townships Many persons still believe Venango county is still good oil field. The Standard Oil Company seems to think so, and its agents are taking up leases and oil opera tions are again booming. Many abandoned wells on Oil Creek and in the Pleasantville dis trict are being cleaned out, and a n,Snber of such have been found to produce from 10 to 45 barrcls.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
Coal Mining Statistics.

Mine Inspector Blewitt, Of Scranton, has completed his annual report and forwarded it to the State Bureau of Statistics. From it the following details are taken:
 Number of persons employed, a, ,4S1; total production in tons of coal, 9,SS1 ,S7S.O6, or 425 tons for each employee; fatal accidents, "A, average number of days worked. 233 10; number of kegs of powder used. BOT ,7s1; total shipments of coal, 9,2O7, ,216.O4 tons. Of coal mined, 467 O4S tons were used at the mines and 2O5, ,3Os. .O2 tons were sold for local consumption. To hoist and draw the coal from the mines to the breakers S2S steam boilers, }, 2,S49 horses and mules. and 30 min, locomotives were used, representing 20, 147 horse power. The report shows an increase of l ,354 .11O. .O1 tons mined over the previous year, and q decreuse in local consumption of 35,4S2 tons.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
The Grain of Salt.

A lady finding legga"-boy at her door gave him meal of coffee, meat and bread and but ter, wl'icE he sat down in the area to eat. A moment afterward, however, ho rapped be- scechingly at the door again, and on it's being open remarked with his hand upon his heart, eff had but q little salt s.ould be perfectly happy"
 Of course ho got tho salt.
 Human nature is always lacking mething. Oftentimcs it were tier off without its wishes, yet it is universally conceded that no permanent enjoyment can be had without the savor of hoaltll, which Aocps good cheer fresh and preserves and swcetcns lifo for the future
 Tho great, ruddy farmer pines because he has not won fame or position. The famous man longs for the lusty health of tho sturdy farmer.
 The grain of salt is wanting.
 How to s"curc and retain the savor of health in the midst of this rushing, nervous, over worked generation ls \ problem worthy of our ulants, which but spur on tho ovrrworked nerves to fresh efforts. only to leave them more jaded aud shattered. Nor with narcotics, which temporarily sooth, but to create an un- natural appetite, the terrors of which De Quincy has so graphically portrayed.
 It may be asked what is the cause of this extreme nervousness, lack of appetite, lung trouble, deficient heart action, failing eve- sight, apop,ectical tendency. etc. We reply, poisoned blood, caused by diseased kidney, duo Uto uou'1cS lHuiCdIeu uIe AlleI dll, DuG symptoms of advance Kidney Disease, which IS but another name for Bright's Disease. Unless remedied there will be complete breaking down of the great blooi-purifyin organs, the kidneys and they will be excreted, piece-meal, through the ur,e.
 Now, Tn the spling of tue year, owing to the extra work which has been put upon the Kid neys and Liver, through Q meat diet during the winter months, these symptoms are more pro- nounced, and the danger to the patient corre- ncIu So,l k1,o, u&0r tive that the pois oned blood be eradicated, and that the Kidneys be put in complete health, which can be speedily and effectualy accom- plished by the use of Warmers Safe Cure, a tried and proved specific in hundreds of thou sands of cases.
 Pursuing tHe path VIC have marked out you will possess the salt of content, without which lifes banquet is fiat, sta'e and unprofitablo.' y
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
A MOONSHINER'S HEAD. Shot Three Times, Knocked Down Nine Times, Then Yields.

A dispatch from Charleston, w. Va. says:
 Detective Baldwin went to Clipping Creek to arrest a negro moonshiner named Charles
 Saunders When confronted with warrant
 the negro refused to surrender, and endeav- ored to pull pistol, which was prevented by Baldwin shooting him twice in the right arm. This did not stop the desperado, who ad- vanced on the detective and would have killed him had not Baldwin shot him in the head. This did not check Saunders, who had in the mean time closed in on the detective. The latter only saved his lite by knocking the fellow down nine times with a pocket billy, after which, by the aid of others, the moonshiner was handcuffed and taken to the Mercer county jail The detective received serious injuries, but not of fatal nature.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
She Slept on the Track.

When the Manistee and Northwestern Railroad Company was being built into Manistee, Mich, Mrs. A. P. Sorenson con- cluded she didn't want the road to run in front of her house and ordered the track-lay- CTS to clear out. They laughed at her. Then she took her rocking-chair and knitting work and sat down on the right of way. The railroaders picked her up and set her aside. She wouldn't stay set aside, however, and re- turned with chair and some blankets and camped down again. Her meals were brought to her and she ate, drank and slept there during the raw November days and nights. The track was laid up to her camp each way, and when the company wanted to connect the links the gritty obstructionist was ar rested and sent to jail. jury has just given iier verdict of $2OO and costs for false i'm prisonment, but the railroad is built.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
Six Men Drowned.

Capt. Benjamin H. Knight of Baltimore, Second Mate James Richards ofPhladelphia, Peter Florida, John Smith, Ned Forbes, and Charles Hobbs, sailors of the brig Agnes Barton, which was wrecked near Virginia Beach yesterday afternoon, were drowned During the night three of the men were wash ed overheard and lost. When day broke the life saving crew saw the three remaining men lashed to the rigging, and the gale was still blowing over fifty miles an hour. At 8 o'clock the vessel burst, the masts fell, and the men were lost. No bodies have yet come ashore.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
Mad in a Slecping-Car.

Miss Mabella Baker, of Stetson's Opera Company has been accompanied on her travels by black-and-tan terrier AS tho troupe was en route to Bay City, Mich. the dog suddenly exhibited symptoms of mad ness and began biting in all directions and galloping up and down the car. While the animal was in one end of the car the ladies escaped to the baggage-car and @ Lansing newspaper man, with a coupling-pin, closed the scene and the dogs life.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
Panic at a Fire.

The granite hotel at Wellsburg, near Wheel ing, w. Va, has been entirely destroyed by fire. When the alarm was sounded there was 0 panic among the guests, and there were many marrow escapes. There is no. fire de- partment, and the citizens rushed to the scene to render all the assistance possible. A number of guests in the third story, from which all escape was cut off, were rescued by ladders only a few moments before the walls fell. Several panic-stricken men jumped from the third story windows to the pavement be- low and were badly injured. Six or seven h. dies, who were in the upper stories, had their hair burned. No lives were lost.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
Buried Fifty Hours in a Mine.

Peter Nearshalsky, after fifty hours of inn prisonment in the Black Diamond Colliery, Mount Carmel, Pa, was hoisted to the sur face unconscious. He had been half buried, and had given up all hope when his rescuers reached the "breast' in which he was inn prisoned. Strange to say, his injuries, aside from his nervons prostration, are not serious. After the five men were taken out alive it was supposed that Nearshalsky was dead, but the search was continued with tue result stated above.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
A Sensible Mnu

Would use Kemp's Balsan for the Throat and Lungs. It is curing more cases of Coughs. Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis. Group md all Throat and Lung Troubles, than any other medicine. The proprietor has authorized any druggist to give you Sample Bottle Free to convince you of the merit of this great remedy. Large Bottles soc and $l.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.
Importation of Foreign Reprints
 to be Prohibited.

CO De frOnlDlVeu.
 A bill amending the Copyright law of the Dominion has been introduced by Sir John Thompson, Minister of Justice. The bill pro- vides that publication or republication in Canada is compulsory within three months of the first publication elsewhere, unless it is proved to the Minister of Agriculture that satisfactory progress has been made in publishing in Canada, when an extension of time may be granted. If any person entitled to Canadian copyright under the act fails to take advantage of its pro- visions by obtaining registration of his copy right in Canada, the Minister of Agriculture may grant license to any other person to republish upon the payment of a royalty oi 10 per cent. on the retail price, the royalty to be collected under regulations provided by the Government. After the passage of the act the importation of foreign reprints oi works which have been registered in Canada shall be prohibited Tie bill passed it's first reading unoppossed.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20

"oklahoma Hills" Party in Custody


 of Uncle Sam's Soldiers. The ''boomers" are routed. Lieut. Carson, commanding Troop G, Fifth Cavalry, arrived at Oklahoma, l. T., from Fort Reno. The would-be settlers warned of the soldiers com ing. fled in every direction. Several hundred, however, were rounded up by the troopers, who drove before them, like cattle men, women, children and teams. Houses, tents, dugouts, claim. foundations and marks were destroyed and it is said that Hill has been arrested. The rest of the party will be conveyed to the Kansas line and there dis missed, though their property may be contis- cated-
 Capt. Hays, with Troop K, is marching southward from Kansas, and will take all boomers who may fall into his hands to the Texas line. The boomers are demoralized. but it is feared their leaders may rally them, and, as they outnumber the troops, serious trouble may ensue
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
If Sufferers from Consurnption.

IT SuHCTeFA 1fOm COn8Umnt1On, Scrofula, Bron hitis and General Debility will try SCoTT's EMULSION of Cod llver Oil with Hypophosphites, they will find immediate re- Ii and permanent b neft. The Medical Pro. f. ssion universa ly declare it a remedy of tn greatest value and very palatable. Real: Il have used Scott's Emulsion in several case of Scrofuls and Debility in Children. Results most gratifying. My little patients take it with pleasure. "-W. A. HUBERT, M D., Salis- bury Ill.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
A Scheme to Utilize Niagara Falls.

D. N.Long, a aWillamsville, N. Y. engineer has devised scheme by which he expects to drain the city of Buffalo and derive sufficient power from Niagara Falls to light the city by cleo tricity and furnish power for eighteen miles, About fifteen miles will be @ surface ditch and three miles a tunnel. The tunnel portion will be at the falls, and the southern section will be used for motors, &c. The Buffalo and Ni- agara Water Power and Drainage Company has been organized to carry the scheme into effect, and the legislature has been asked for q charter. The capital stock is $5,OOO, ,OOO and half of that will be used to build the ditches and tunnels. It is planned to have all the trunk sewers in Buffalo empty into the channel
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20

NEARLY 5000 tailors are idle in and near Boston because local clothing man. ufacturers send their goods to New York to be made up by the cheap labor of the tenement house districts.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20

Count Von Berchem, Under Secretary of State. will represent Germany in the confer ence to be held at Berlin regarding the settle ment of Samoan affairs.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20
akes theWeak Strong

If you are run down, have that tired feeling as result O. overwork or the effect of the chang ing season. you s ould take that best of all tonics and blood purifiers. Hoods Sarsap- r,lla. It puri- fes and enriches the tlood, tones the stomach, rouses the torpid liver and kidneys creates an appetite and builds up the system. Thousands who have taken it with benefit. testify that Hoods Sarsaparilla |" makes the weak strong"
 Floods Sarsaparilla cured me of blood poison, gave me . noble appetite. overcame headache and dizziness, so that now am able to work again .' LUTHER MASON. 53 Church St., Lowell, Mass
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20

To the EditOr-Please inform your readers that have positive remedy for the above named disease which warrant to cure tho worst cases. So strong is my faith in it's vir- tues that I will send fl ee a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give me his P. o. and Express address. Resp'y,
 H. G. ROOT. M. O.. 1s3 Pearl St.. Now York.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20

At Rainberg, Austria, family consisting of five persons recently became insane through religious excitement, and prayed continuous ly for three days and nights.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20

The Oklahoma boomers have deposed Paw nee Bill for cowardice, and elected Hill as leader.
 FOR SPECIAL Rates for advertising in this paper apply to the publisher of tho papor. U 12.
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20

II have taken thr bottles of Hoods Sarsape- rilla and consider it the best blood medicine |, have ever taken It builds mp. makes me sleep; better. gives mo good spetite and improves, my health generally" MRs. A. P. LEIGHTON, Portland, Nc.
 I have been troubled for many years with vio- lent headache. Hoods Sarssparila . did me much, good that am almost wholly cured. I earnestly recommend Hoods Sarsaparila to all who suffer with h adaches" MRS. F. sArcnE1I. Gates Avenue. Brookly n, N Y, N B. Be sure to get only
Connecticut western news., 1889-03-20

urrs 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 stIike. 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 q bill in the State Legislature making a clean sweep of city officers in the State be- low the grade of Mayor.
 -Mrs.Ja acob Gessler, of Troy, N. r., put hot bricks into her two-year-old child's cradle and went into another room. The bricks set fire to the blankets and the child was smothered.
 Albert Wilson, of Watford Ont, shot and killed Miss Sarah Marshall, because she re- fused to allow him to walk home with her from church. Hethen set fire to a straw stack to draw attention from his movements. He is still at liberty.
 The North Carolina Legislature just ad- journed, made provision for more fully pen sioning Confederate veterans, and needy widows of Contederates. tax of three cents on each hundred dollars worth of property and nine cents on the poll is being levied for the purpose.
 Mahanoy division of the Reading Railroad ran of the track at St. Nicholas. The engine and twelve cars were wrecked. Benjamin Walker, the fireman, was instantly killed, and Conductor John Gilkner has since died from his injuries.
 Thomas Sheridan broke away from a deputy sheriff in Troy, N. r., as he was being taken from the Court House to the jail friend of Sheridan struck the deputy on the leg with slungshot, disabling him. and the prisoner made his escape. Sheridanis accused 5 with another man of robbing and assaulting Michael Sullivan at Hoosick Falls in Decem- Der last. It is alleged that they placed Sull- van on the railroad track after robbing him.
 An anti-Chineso crusade is the result of Wjs.. who lured young girls into their dens. Several laundEies were wrecked by the indig. annt pe0p1s. Aors troubas b 5sarsd.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-17
Mark Twain's Boyhood.
From the St. Joseph (Mo.) Ne,es

from the 81. Joseph (IMo.) NetcS.
'He was always a rascal" said r. E.
Morris, the painter, at $50 South Fourth
street, speaking of Mark Twain. II was
born and raised in Hannibal, and know
when Mrs. Clemens MARKS mother) moved
from Florida, Monroe county, to Hannibal.
Mark was a dull, stupid, slow-going fellow,
but he was full Of pranks and while he
didn't do the meanness, he planned it and
got other boys to do it. We went to school
to DR.. Meredith, and Mark always sat near
the foot of the class. He never took any
interest in books, and / never saw him study
his lessons. He left school and went to
learn the printing business, and soon after
that left Hannibal and went to steamboat
ing.
II staid at school, got a good education,
and am painter, while Mark is a million
aire. 1t is scandaious fact that as a boy
from 10 to II years of age Mark was dull,
stupid fellow, aud it was the wonder of the
town as to what end would be his He was
pointed out by mothers as boy that would
never amount TO nothing If he did not
actually come to some bad end. And he
was the most homely lad in school, too.
Pranksl can think of dozen of 'em, and
his 'Huckleberry Finn is full of Hannibal
episodes worked over. / read that with as
much interest as would diary of Hanni
bal kept during my school days. Mark is
three years older than myself, but he was
always in a class of boys two or three years
younger than himself"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-17

who made $500 in the few weeks imme-
diately preceding Christmas last year, and
two others who took their first CARPET pat
terms down town and disposed OF $I60
worth in an afternoon: though piece-work,
OF course. IL subject to fluctuations. Mrs
Cory estimates the number OF women who
have come under her personal observation
who have succeeded in establishing them
selves at thirty to forty, several Of whom
have gone south, where the growth of new
industries and the progressive demand for
the latest and best opens a field for
trained designers.
Carpet designing is the most difficult
branch Of industrial art as applied TO tex
tiles, and the furnishing OF a working de-
sign. involving the operation known tech
nically as putting it on the lines" is trying
to the eyes and the patience, but is well
paid. This Is not always done by the de-
signer, but the well equipped woman must
know how. The variety of work which the
luxuries and necessities Of civilization offer
to women who are at once artistic
and practical increases every
for scarf ends, etc., which are in so much
demand for draperies are beginning to be
furnished by New York girls instead of by
almond-eyed artists in the land of the
Mikado. Enterprising people have dis
covered that Japanesque designs
by these same clever women take
better than the foreign article, and so
the sketches are exported, the embroidery
or color printing done in Japan on the
beautiful eastern silk, and by the patient
eastern artist, and then the finished articles
are imported as of genuine japanese manu-
facture.
1t is the same with the Carlsbad chinas.
The German designs are not especially well
liked in this country, and New York girls
are furnishing the patterns which are sent
to Carlsbad to be reproduced in the potter
les for sale to the American trade.
Tha Scotch table linen offers another ex-
ample. Two or three women designers
recently furnished to a Dundee manufac-
turer fifteen patterns for table cloths and
eighteen or twenty for napkins, which he
pronounced the most beautiful he had eyer
seen and sure to take with his home as well
as foreign trade.
has recently offered $1,000 in prizes for
designs to be competed for by women.
Women are designing borders for handker-
chiefs and getrIng out extremely pretty
things in the printed art silks used in home
decoration. and in sateens and other dress
goods. Women are designing for ribbon
mill in Newark and for mills which make
fancy striped towels Oil cloths
and linoleums, of course, offer
good deal of a field. and very artistic
designs in wall papers and ceiling papers
have been shown me as the work of women.
The renaissance of fans has called out de-
signers of fan mounts and one girl makes
good thing out of furnishing sketches for
book covers for Funk & Wagnalls and
other publishers. Where one woman has
shown the road many are quick to follow,
for nothing interests women more at pres
emit than new and practicable money max
ing occupations.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN,