Connecticut western news., 1889-07-17
TELEGRAPHIO BRETITIES.

Ed. hendershot, gambler, shot btd mistress, Bella Thompson, at Denver. nflicting 8 serious wound, and then committed suicide. Hendershot's father is prominent citizen of Ottumwa.
 The steamer Switzerland. from Ant werp, on July 10, in latitude 3S degrees, 48 minutes, longitude 72 degrees IS min utes, passed water-logged boat painted white, with bright gunwales, smashed In on starboard side. apparently the lifeboat of schooner.
 Acting Secretary of State Wyatt, of Colorado, has been arrested at Denver for refusing to comply with an order of the court and was locked up in the county jail to serve his sentence of ten days.
 An old building at Moline, Ill.,, for. merly brewery, while being torn down suddenly collapsed, and one of the work. men, Henry Hagger, was caught by fall ing timbers and killed. Four others were severely injured.
 The president has granted respite till Aug. 9, in the cases of Jack Spaniard, Joseph Martin. and Elsie Jayne, con. victed of murder in the western district of Arkansas, of murder in tho Indian territory, and sentenced to to be hanged July IF.
 Articles of incorporation of the Miller Fire Extinguisher company have been filed at Albany by Edmund F. Nexsen, Charles F. North, and Lewis A. Mitchell i; capital, $500, ,OOO. The company propose to manufacture patent fire extinguishers In this city.
 A certificate of incorporation has been filed with the Illinois secretary of state yesterday by the Carpenter Type Making and Composing Machine company of Chi cago. Capital stock. $l ,OOO, ,OOO. Incor- porators, stephen D. Carpenter, s. B. Weitzel, A. NJ. Drake, and otherd.
 The water in the canal of the Under hill Tool works at Nashua, N. H., broke through an embankmcnt near Penne- stock and washed out 6 portion of the canal wall and nearly wrecked the build ing, taking out part of it's foundation. The damage to the company is S5,O0O.
 As the result of Inspector Edgarton's investigation at the New Haven postoffice Henry M. Cummings, carrier, has been arrested, charged with soliciting politi cal assessments. The names of the Postmaster English have not yet beer disclosed.
 The ninth annual encampment of the Pennsylvania division, sons of veterans, is meeting at Renovo today, and will be in session three days.
 John Fries's saw and grist mill, at Mil vile, N. J., together with 8 considerable quantity of lumber, has burned. Loss, sS,OOO; insurance, $1,5 800.
 The New Hampshire house judiciary committee has voted to to report the Option license bill. The measure also includes the repeal of the insurance act.
 All the leading German singing socie- {,n r%ofo o1u,i11 iosr {n S,, the Troy Maennerchor's midsummer music festival to be held on the 21st, 22d, and 23d insts.
 Arrangements arc being perfected fo1 the gala day of the firemen to be held at Catskill, N. Y., on the 17th inst. It is expected that over thirty companies from various points in New York will be in line.
 Wilson and Arthur Williams, burglars arrested on their discharge from Clinton prison on Saturday last by Ulster county officers, have been sent to tho Albany penitontiary by Justice Merclean ol Saugerties, N. Y.
 The Women's Christian Temperance union of Chicago has adopted an address to the temperance women of the world asking them to hold memorial services on Sunday, July 29, as tribute of respect to the memory of Mrs. R. B. Hayes.
 Michael Rooney, who was sent from Sullivan county, N. Y., for manslaughtel was found dead in his cell at the Dame. mora State prison yesterday. He hat committed suicide by hanging. Rooney was AS years old and was under a ter years sentence.
 Zibee Shaw, a son of "Josh Billings, who is summering near tho Delaware Water Gap, Pa., was bitten on the right hand by rattlesnake on Monday while picking whortleberries. The lad wa: we'll dosed with liquor and at last ac counts was doing well.
 Adi.-Gen, Dalton has received a tele. gram from Secretary of State Blaine mo- tifying him that the permission sought | by the Massachusetts Rifle team to enter France as an armed body had been ob tained and will be forwarded to Governo l Ames at once.