Connecticut western news., 1889-04-03
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.

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 "A despatch from Portland, Ore, says: News has been received from Yauuina Bay Oregon, that the tug returned from tho search for Capt. Robinson and the three men lost from the schooner George B. Chance having found them in perilous situation near the Nestucca Bay, about thirty miles north ot laqulna, where they had drifted in small boat. Their boat filled with water and they nearly perished They had been out two days without food They were wei eomed back by their friends at Yaquina who had given them up as lost.
 On the New York, Pennsylvania and Erie Railway, three miles west of James, town, two freight trains came in collision Both locomotives were badly smashed and IA loaded cars wrecked. Engineer Freeman Conductor fochum and Fireman Carney of the west-bound train were seriously injured The trainmen on the cast-bound train jumped and saved themselves. The loss to the company is not less than S20,0O0.
 Asa Kellogg, General Agent of the South ern Pacific Railroad at Cincinnati committed suicide at St, Louis.
 Verona Baldwin. who gained such mo- toriety several years ago by shooting million
  les. Cal, charged with insanity. She fancies she is filled with electricity, and that she is related to n noble English family She has made application to be appointed on the de- tectlve force, and has worried the police so much that they propose to put her in an asylum
 The Chicago and Alton and Chicago, Bur lngton and Quincy Roads have given notice of the reduction of the lumber rate from Chi cago and Missouri River points from 16 to ID cents per 100 pounds
 After several unsuccessful attempts the New York, Mahoning and Western has sue ceeded in crossing the Lake Erie and Western Immediately after the passing of n Lake Erie fast train, going cast, 100 men in hiding rushed to the crossing and succeeded in get ting the track laid before the Lake Erie peo- pla could get switch engine back to the main track.
 John Maider, a wealthy retired butcher of Allegheny City, Penn, left his home, and his bpdy was found in the Allegheny River with his throat cut from ear to ear. He had evidently gone straight to the river from his home, and after cutting his throat, jumped into the water. No reason is known for the act.
 Lieut.. Harvey F. Bateman, of the Tenth United States Infantry, whose home is at Fostoria, Ohio, was found lying on the Bee Line Railroad track two miles west of Nun eie Ind, with his head entirely severed from his body, and both legs cut of. There are suspicious of foul play.
 Charles T. Blair, foreman of the Chicago Lumber Company, at Denver, Col, committed suicide by morphine.
 Michael Maloney, alias Whyte. indicted for the murder of Frank Spencer, in Dudley, Mass, has decided to plead guilty to murder in the second degree. The government will accept the plea. The house of Elder E. S. Green, at Spring. field, Mass, was burned to the ground, and ..l-4~. ll T burned to death.
 Capt Noah E. Ward of the oyster dred- ging schooner Kate Darling was found guilty in the United States District Court in Balti- more of ill-treatng men on his vessel He was sent to jail pending sentence.
 -J. NJ. Carpenter, watchman of Yale's new recitation room building, was discharged. He is accused of having loaned the rope to the students with which the statute of Prof. Siliman was overturned.
 Theodore Noa hand on a schooner at Baltimore, shot the cook London Johnson, colored, in quarrel over the finding of a cockroach in the soup The gun was loaded with heavy duck shot, and Johnsons injuries are considered serious.
 --Mattie Myers, a pretty 17-year-od domestic employed in widows family in Lockport, died of blood poisoning. Some time ago. a nail in the heel of her shoe, caused little irritation to her heel It be- came small sore, resulting in poisoning her blood.
 Harry Endy, youth, was sentenced in Philadelphia to five years in the Eastern penitentiury the plea of guilty of murder in the second degree, which he had entered for the murder of Nathaniel O. Candy, whom he stabbed on Jan. 27 in a boys fight.
 James Roman |, bachelor of Mlddletown, Ky, died some time ago leaving an estate of S30 900 and an only relative, a l1ece, Mrs William Hydron, Of Kentucky. Roman made a will dividing his entire estate among thirteen negroes who had been his slaves be- fore the war; Mrs. Hydron is contesting the will.
 burning of the city's garbage was burned to the ground by an incendiary fire. Citizens m the ncighborhood have been indignantly re- monstratng against it's use for some time, alleging that it created all Unbearable smell. The Senate has confirmed Corporal Tan ner's nomination as Commissioner of Pen sions,
 Senator Sherman is going to Europe as soon the Senate adjourns He does not expect to return before the fall.
 The fve-story roller process flower mill of Adam q. Groff, ou Mill Greek, three mics from Lancaster, Penn, was destroyed by fire with an adjoining bridge, 125 feet in length owned by the WIllow-strcet Turnpike Con- pauy and a saw mill. The mill contained $500 bushels of wheat, 15O barrels of four, and n large quantity of other grain and feed. Loss on the mill and contents, S22, 900; in- surance, SIG, $500. Loss on bridge, 2,50O; in- sure6.
 The adjoining dwellings of Amos Whal and Samuel Pick, near Meningitis Gap, BcIks County, Penn., were destroyed by fire. The buildings belonged L, Mir. Wahl, who al- so lost about S35O in greenbacks which he had in bureau drawer. Total loss about f1,50O; partially covered by insurance.
 Fire in the cigar factory of D. Fehsenfcld, at Baltimore, caused a damage of S3 900. Loss on stock, q 800. covered by insurance in Western insurance company. The building was insured in tho German Fire In.