Connecticut western news., 1889-06-19
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

-Meagre details have been received at Kan sas City, Mo-, of flood and cyclone in kau- sas. Uniontown is reported to have been swept away.
 The San Diego and Coronado Water Works were sold in Boston to an English syndicate, successors of the International company, for $1 ,330, 900.
 The practise ship Constellation, Con- mander Harrington commanding, with the Naval Academy cadets on board, sailed from Annapolis on the summer cruise. The vessel will go to Gardiner's Bay, Long Island.
 A terrific rain and hail storm occurred in the Mohawk valley. Small washouts are re- ported at various points along the West Shore Railroad Tanks in residences were overfowed, gardens ruined, and hop yards damaged. in Schuylkill county. Pennsylvania, has been respited until Oct. 23.
 The fifty-third annual commencement of Franklin aad Marshall College Lancaster, Pa, was held. Degrees were conferred on twenty-four graduates.
 The storage house of the Knickerbocker Ice Company at Yum mbling Run, in the sub- urbs of Pottsville, Pa, was burned. The fire IS supposed to have been ineendiary.
 The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons de- cided to grant Jas H, Jacobs, the Lancaster murderer, q further respite, SO that his case may be investigated. Two expects testified to his insanity.
 The Connecticut House has defeated the resolution proposing to submit to the people a constitutional amendment providing for the election of State officers by plurality vote. It was strictly party vote-yeas, SO; nays, IA.
 The Kentucky Republican State Central Committee has decided to hold another con- vention to nominate a candidate for Treas 1rfsri n m nlnce If lpb M m n run. This convention will meet in Lexington on July f.
 w. Edgar Phillips, chief letter carrier at the Post Office in Fall River, was arrested and taken to Boston on the charge of embes- Ihng from the mails. Phillips is accused of taking articles of jewclry and giving them to lady friends. He admits taking the jewelry, but says he found it in a waste-paper basket
 The tug l.. N. O., in the employ of the Customs Department at Quebec, was run into and sunk opposite Silery in the St. Lawrence River, by the Richelieu Company's steamer all were saved except Emily Wheeler, daugh. ter of Alfred Wheeler, Chief Tide Surveyor, who was drowned.
 -For.y-o -one houses were burned in the town of Grinnell, Iowa, which was entirely destroyed seven years ago by 8 tornado.
 Robert c. van Benschoten, of Port Jervis, an Erie conductor, had both legs cut off at Goshen, Ind, and is dead. While he was switching his foot caught in the guard rail and the train ran over him.
 Edward Palmer Turner, who shot and killed his cousin and brother-in-Iaw, Robert Turner, near 1.-The Plains" Farquer county, Va, and was in turn shot through the breast and hand by Edward c. Turner, brother of Robert, died from his wounds
 At the thirty-sixth commencement of Ro- anoke Collegc Salem, Va, the degree of D. D. conferred on the Rev. F. N. Conrad of Philadelphia. The past session shows an in- creased attendance over last year, the at tendance including students from sixteen States, Indian Territory, and Japan.
 Elias Snowberger, a farmer, aged 70 years, residing near Chambersburg, Pa, com mitted suicide by hanging himself in his gar ret. He was worth $4O,OOO. The cause of the great food. His brother some months ago. who was also wealthy. drowned himself.
 The last of the idle collieries about Pitts ton, Pa, the Exeter, operated by the Lehigh Valley Company and employing 300 men, resumed work after an idleness of six months
 William Harrison. alias Bill Kent" was orrestrd at Scranton, Pa., charged with man ufacturing and circulating spurious coin The coins made by him bore the dates 1888 and 1S49, and are very clever limitations
 -lsaac s. Conley has applied in Baltimore for the appointment of a receiver for the Bal. timore and Ohio Relief Association. Conlcy was a member of the association for several years, but when the Legislature refused to subsequent association, and claims that he was discharged from the employ of the rail- road for that reason. The bill asserts that the assets of the relief association exceed $500 900, and that it's funds have been mis. appropriated.