Connecticut western news., 1889-01-09
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.


 from Many Redundant Columns Another valuable coal deposit has been found in Dakota three miles north of Centre vile. It was struck by O party drilling we'll. One vein, eight feet thick, was first bored into at a depth of 12S feet, and after going through sandstone and slate another vein was struck in which the drillis now work ing. Efforts to develop the find are now being made.
 A fatal accident of a most peculiar char acter occurred at Chldersburg. Ala. A crowd of young men were firing their pistols, and Joseph Parker stepped out to see what it meant. As he did so ball from one of the pistols struck bottle lying on the ground near where he stood. The bottle was broken to Fragments and one of the pieces struck him in the leg, severing an artery. Before a physician could reach him he died from loss of blood.
 The German steamer Main ran into and sunk the British steamer Montana at the mouth of the Beaverton Channel, about 15 miles below Baltimore. Chief Engineer Young went down with the Montana.
 It is believed that the accomplces of Red Nose Mike, recently arrested for the murder of Paymaster Mcclure near Wilkesb arre, Pa., have made good their escape and that they are now in Italy. Pinkertons detectives are their trtil. Of the money stolen from . l,SU out of the S12, 900 missing.
 A merchant of Gilmore City, Iowa, re- gently mailed to Chicago check ou the Mer- chants National Bank of Fort Dodge, pay able to G. Becker. Later the check was re- ceved from a bank at Perry, where Becker's name had been forged. It had been stolen from the mail. Investigation will probably diSclc5e other postal robberies.
 --Benjamin Hopkins, the former cnshier of the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati. having received his pardon, released from the Ohio pcnitent;ary, and went at once to Cincinnati.
 Work on the Panama Canal is being lcssencd daily. and it's total suspension is feared. This would throw thousands of men out of work, and thc Columbian Government in anticipation of trouble, has addressed Il circular to the consuls from foreign coun- tries, requesting them to maintain order. The consuls are requested to obtan instruc- tions for the transportation of citizens of their several countries from the isthmus in case Of n total collapse of the work
 The steamship Madrid has been purchased in New York, it is asserted, to be used as t gunboat for the North of Hayti
 "A meeting of cracker bakers. representing nll of the States east of Pr, nsy vania. is in s session in Chicago.
 The Canada nnl St. .ouis RaIlro:ld re- corded its first accident at Colon, Mich. gravel train jumped the track. Killing s brake man and seriously iIjnring six other men.
 At dinner party given near Crcston. Iowa, the family os Charles Wilson and nine guests were poisoned by meat which had been salted in a zinc vessel. All arc iu serious condition.
 The Mexican Government is considering q proposition to erect Federal buildings in the capitals of nll the States and Territories.
 -Advices from Durango. Mexico. state that there has hccu riot in that rity against some bull fighters whc were stoned by the populace.
 The United States Court officials were mo- tifed of the burglary of the Clarendon. Pa, going through several of the stores in the town, attacked tho post office and got about $zOO in stamps and some money, and dc stroyed alot of valuable letters.
 Alex. Michaud, q teamster, while leaving Thurston's Ledge, Mass, with a gear loaded with stone, was thrown from his seat, run over, and instantly killed.
 John Fitzgerald, ofNewport, while nov ving cotton bales at Old Colony wharf. was fatally injured by a bale falling upon him.
 Communications which are received at the office of the State Board of Health. at Albany, N. r., indicate that there is pos sibihty of smallpox epidemic this winter. The disease seems to be spreading from Bnf- falo eastward.
 
 Iowa approach of the New Missouri bridge, burying a freight engine nearly out Of sight. The crew of the engine had narrow escape. Alarge force is at work repairing the damage, but it will be several days before traffic is resumed.
 The extensive foundry of the Reading Foundry Company at Reading, Pa, where large iron pipe for gas and water mains for many of the larger cities are made closed down indefinitely, throwing 160 men out of employment Dull trade is given as the cause for closing the works.
 Legion of Honor decorations were award cd by the French government to Messrs Scribner, of the Agricultural Department at Washington; Munson, O vine grower Of Texas, and Joeger of Missouri
 -Thos w. Vines, the Chicago emhezzlcr who attempted to travel from Chicago to St Louis in a trunk, was arrainged at tie Foul Courts, St. Louis. He was photographed by go detective. The money which was in silver and small bills was found in two socks in tn, bottom of the trunk.
 w. E. Barrett, of Melrose, publisher of tn, Boston Advertiser and Record. has been cleo ted Speaker of the Massachusetts House b, the Republicans.
 All the dies, numbering between 800 nnt 300, used during the year 1888 in the Unite, States Mint in Philadelphia, were destroye, under the direction of Superintendent Fox and in the presence of the chief coiner ant assayer.
 A telegram received at Havana says thn the American brig Addie Hale. Capt Howes foundered thirty five miles from Cape San An tonic, and that the crew landed at that place They nfterward embarked the schoone Amistad for Havana.
 Mr. Ogilvie, the Dominion land surveyor recently returned from the exploration of tn Yukon country, will report to the Dominic hot flu1 1,,, .1.,rN- llp.s hntN British Columbia aut Alaska should be iSe' at least four miles further south than tn point fixed by Schwatka-
 It is reported that three bands of five me each, who have been hunting in the mour tnins for negroes concerned in the recent mas sacre at Wahalak, Miss, have killed four ( them.
 inventor, is dead.
 While a large number of residents of lr' ington and Dobbs Ferry were skating O Hamilton's Pond, about a mile from the fol mer place, the ice broke and seven persor fell into the water. Herbert Cannon, age 14, and Joseph Gibbons, aged s, were drowl ed. The others were rescued with difficulty.
 Louis Horner, a Chicago salesman, hs gone to Canada with 1000 of his employ CTS money.
 A national convention of colored Cathc lies has begun it's sessions in Washington.
 During 1888 forty vessels of IT ,34S ton wholly or partially owned in St. John, N. B have been swept out of existence. The value was $o50. .000
 Blown to Pieces by Dynamite.
 In Sumncytown, Pa, two youn, men named Erb and Schoeckcr were literalI blown to atoms by an explosion of n hal bucket of dynamite. The young men wer employed at James Miller's dynamite facto ry, and were at work in Swamp Greek