Connecticut western news., 1889-04-24
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns.

IN A FEW BRIEF WOhUS. Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns. A lamp exploded Tn the hands of Malachi Powell. the bartender of the Dulius Hotel, Detroit, Mich. This caused confiagration, in which ex-Alderman Gibson and a coored porter named Whitaker lost their lives. Robert Driess, the night clerk. and Robert McCarroll, the day clerk, had narrow escapes and were seriously injured.
 Mir. John Peters. of Adrian, Mich, has purchased for the American Timber Com pany, of Michigan, 15O, 900 acres ofthe finest cyprus and hardwood timber land in Missis- sippi. He is also looking for 15O,OOO acres oflong-leaf pine for the same company.
 Charles A. Pope, of Bastrop, La., had a difficulty with some negroes recently. He drew his pistol and shot at one of them, Ivy Carney, without effect, when Carney seized breast and stomach. Carney's mother dis charged the contents of a shot gun into Pope's body after he was dead.
 Mrs. Samuel Ryget, ofIudependence, Mo-, shot herself through the left eye, and died in- stantly. Domestic trouble was the cause of the suicide.
 The Controller of the Currency has ordered the payment of 65 per cent. of the liabilities of the suspended California National Bank, of San Francisco.
 The Manufacturers Record," published at Baltimore reports that there is great ac- uvity throughout the South in building cot ton-seed oil mills. and that dozen mills, to cost Sl 100000 or more. have been organ ized, while there is a report that Il two million dollar company has been organized in Philadelphia to build mills in the South. The new mills reported are nearly all by independent companies not con, nected with the Cotton Oil Trust.
 In the House of Commons at Ottawa Hon. Mackenzie Bowcll Minister of Customs, said that the amount of exports from Canada for the nine months ended April l, 1ss9, was So9, .39l; Tor tho same period m 1SSS the hgurcs 59.3oS, 7S5. This is elusive of British Columbia.
 Roland Gideon Israel Barnett. who played a prominent part in the wrecking of the Central Bank at Toronto. was found guilty of fraud in having appropriated to his own use S1O.ooO, the product or two drafts lntrusted to him by cNJasllicr Allan.
 The Illinois Senate resolved to ask Con grcss to make a survey for the const ruction Of n canal between Lakes Michigan and Supe- rior from Bay de Noe. Lake Michigan, to Au Train Bay, Lake Superior. The ground tnkcn is that it would be useful in case of war.
 --J. Munday. mn Italian thirty five years old, employed on he new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, while carrying box on a stringer missed his footing and fell into the
 
 and the body was not recovered.
 -Gcorge Black, of Gray Me- has been ar- rested on charge made by Abel Black, his father, of mixing paris green in a jug of cider rom which the father was in the habit of drinking. The f;,thcr was made seriously ill -Arraycd in evening dress. with n dia- mond m hls shirt front and q jack rose in the lapel of his coat, John Sydney W alters, a journalist of London, England, killed himself nt Chicago, in his room at the Richelieu.
 A loaded gun was exploded by fire in the house of W. H. Stewart, near Chestertown, Md The report awoke the family and enabled its members to escape from the building.
 Eighteen men were in an ore mine at Farm ington, Berks County, Penn, when the shaft caved in recently Richard Ettinger was crushed to death The others escaped.
 The British mails again to be dis patched by Canadian steamers.
 .Levl 5. Pratt, an ol,l offender, was con- Vic.eu at Boston of passing counterfeit Uni ted States Treasury notes. He was formerly empioyed as agent for the sale of q counter. frit detector.
 pr Abe Robertson, prominent citizen to death while fighting the Patrick County forest fires There has been great destruc- ton to farming property
 Notwithstanding the surface car strike sn Minneapolis, the company succeeded in ruaning ears over most of the lines with po- Zee projection. There were many arrests for noting. The Commercial Exchange of Kansas Ut, by resolution requested President liar. rison To appoint an Interstate Commerce River 'Ff' The new Steubenville (Ohio) iron and steel works, which started recently, are closed by a strike of 500 employees.
 IThe Baltimore Grand Jury has indicted vat forfy f.,r .lx-.,,~ bIddrn waters
 Great damage has been done to the pea, bean, and potato crops about Norfolk, Va., by heavy rains.
 The body of Rear Admiral William Rod gers Taylor was buried in the Congressional Cemetery at Washington. Funeral services were held at St Johns Episcopal Church, the Rev. pr. Leonard officiating The pail bear CTS were Gems. Schoheld and Schenck and Ad- mirnls Temple, Steedman, Selfridge, Bryson, Lee and Amy.
 An official investigation of the Santa Fe Railway disaster at Lorenzo Ill.,, by which Mrs. Emma G. Hartt. of Brookine, Mass: hcrson and niece were killed and her husband and several other persons injured shows that Conductor Frc,f Hughes and Engineer Frank Converse were guilty of gross criminal care. lcssness.
 -Capt.-Gen. Salamanca, of Cuba, has is. sued q proclamation offering a reward of $2,OOo each for the capture of Victor and Luis Maetin, brothers, who have been sen. tcneed to death for kidnapping. and $1 ,OOO for the capture of Juan Suarez, an accom- plice who had been sentenced to life imprison- ment at hard labor.
 The trial of Mrs. Frances Carmichael for the murder of her husband ended at Hinstlale. Mich, with a uerdict of mot guilty" He made the accusation on his death bed that she gave him strchnne, but it was proved that he had threatened to take his life
 William Ryan, the Missouri train robber and associate of Jesse James, was released from the Jefferson City Penitentiary. His sentence of twenty-five years for compheity in the Glendale train robbery on the Chicago and Alton Road commuted by Gov.