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Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
THE NATURALIZATION BILL.
Requirements of the Bill About to be
 Reported to the House.

The Naturalization bill, which the Judiciary Committee of the House has been at work on for some weeks, will be favorably reported by Colonel Oates, of Alabama minority re- port will be presentsd signed by General Col lins, of Massachusetts, and Judge Seney, of Ohio. The minority will object to the bill on the ground that it puts the applicant for naturalization to needless expense and in convenience.
 The bill limits naturalization to the United States courts and the highest State courts having original jurisdiction, which in most cases is the Supreme Court of the State. This takes away jurisdiction from lower State courts and compes the applicant to travel perhaps hundreds of miles to find a jurisdic- ton.
 The requirement. that the United States District Attorney Or the attorney of the State shall appear as a sort of attorney against the applicant cannot well be enforced in the State courts except at discretion of the States, but where it is enforced the minority will argue it will put the applicant to the expense of hiring lawyer to conduct his case.
 The provision that the applicant shall be able to speak English will play the mischief in Minnesota, where thousands of Norwei- gans have settled, and probably lead the members from that section to vote against the bill. General Collins succeeded in having the requirement. of reading and writing Eng hsh stricken out, but the speaking require ment was retained.
 The clause doing away with the primary declaration of intention to become a citizen has been tinkeIed once so as to permit a dec laration for the express purpose of making m entry under the pre-emption laws, but as it stands it prevents an alien from purchasing land in the Territories, and does not author ize him to make primary declaration for that purpose.
 The minority will probably intimate pretty broadly that the naturalization laws are well enough as they arc if they are only enforced.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
StOncWall Jackson Sent the RatiOns.

sDid you ever see the Old Man?" asked ono Confederate veteran of an other, as they stood by the stove dis cussing their favorite heroes.
 "No, I mover seen Stonewall Jackson, but he was my ideal of all generals.
 "Well, had you seen him you wo:lld have seen very common looking man. One day we were camped in the bend of the Rappahannock,a and there was sort of half-fool fellow in my. company who never cared what he said or to whom he said it. Jackson came riding down the road and that fellow got out on the edge of it so that Jackson could not help see ing and hearing him.
 "'Lookee here, generl,' he blurted out, we're all camped here 'thout any thing to eat. My sakes, man, we cam stand sich as this.
 "sNever mind, said Jackson, as he half raise his slouched hat, there vii be way provided for all of you. You'l have rations in plenty in a short while.
 "And he was as good as his word, fo in fifteen minutes the rations came Il abundance. ."-1aanta Consultation.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
THINKS SHE IS IN HEAVEN.
A Girl Who Was Converted and Ha
 Been Having Frances.

Lille Bodner, who is about fourteen years of age and lives at Highland, Pa., was con verted at q religious revival recently and soon afterwards fell ill trance, in which state sho has been much of the time since She believes herself to be in Heaven and imagines that she is in the company of the Saviour. In the middle of con- versation on some religious topic she will stop speaking, her form becomes rigid, her cyeballs roll upward and remain fixed and her hands and arms continue firm and stiff in whatever position they happen to be when she sinks into the trance. When in that state the most varied expressions pass over her face. The frances last from five minutes to half an hour, and don't leave her in the least exhausted.
 Said the Rev. MT. Keefer, pastor: "It is a wonderful case, but it is no mental aberra ton. I am not Spiritualist, in any sense of tho word, but do believe this girl has direct communication with the spirit world. She is with them, she speaks to them. She is man Hesitation of the Divine power. l could give you columns of strange things she has told about people whom she never knew before She has described Heaven and she does not believe she is on earth. It is great mystery indeed.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
The Monkey Gave the Alarm.

A pet monkey belonging to Mrs. James Lewis, wife of Capt. Lewis of the clipper ship Stephen D. Horton, possi- bly, saved the lives of nineteen persons. Smiling along on smooth sea in the tro- pics, APO miles east of Pernambuco, and bound from Calcutta to New York, the m., when then attention of Mrs. Lewis was called to the monkey. With his keen little nose stuck into the pump we'll, he suffered and jumped about in great excitement till the Captain went there and found an odor of smoke. The bales of jute in the hold were on fire. All hands were called, the after hatch broken open, and and water placed on the burn ing cargo. For two hours they fought the smouldering fire, and then, as no flames had appeared battened down the hatches, and crowded on sail for Per- nambuco.
 At B p. m. there was an explosion, caused, the Captain thought, by the fire having reached part of tho 100 tons of saltpetre slowed among the 300 tons of jute. In few minutes the vessel was e,nveloped in flames. Mrs; Lewis was dragged from her cabin by her husband buNt UOCI SuCCCCuSu III 1uUO Ouc of the two boats that were hastily lower ed. Eight men jumped overheard and one of these John Davis, was drowned. Another man, Henry Younger, went back for some clothes and suffocated. For three days and nights, after the ship burnt up, the Captain, his wife, and nine men in one boat, and ten mon in the other, lived on hard tack and gill of %<u tropical sun.
 They were picked up by the bark Twi- light, bound from Cardiff to Valparaiso. The Captain took them within twelve miles of Pernambuco, and thon sent them ashore in their own boats. The sailors went to England by steamer, md Capt. Lewis and wife, who told this story, arrived ill New York in tho steamer Advance. The monkey saved himself by jumping into the boat, and is with them | now.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
NEW WORKS CAVE JEWELLERS
The Hiding Place of a Gang" in a POpulous Part of tho Metropolis.

The Hiding Place of a "Gans" in a
 Populous Part of tho Metropolis.
 Policeman Sentt saw a man go into the vacant lots at the corner of 103d street and First avenue, New York, and disappear in shallow ditch which had been left when the lot was filled up. Sticking out of one side of this ditch the policeman found the head of a whiskey barrel. 1t was hung 8 hinge in tho barrel, like door, and the policeman opened it and crawed into the barrel. Push- ing open the head at the other end of the barrel, Senft found room about twelve feet square excavated in the rubbish. The roof was formed of boards and driftwood. and was covered with the dirt which had been taken out of the excavation. The sides of the room were braced with timber and covered with oil-cloth. A floor had been laid in brick, covered with boards and three layers of oil coth
 The dugout was fitted up with cooking utensils, glasses, and a stove. A large ''grower" held the place of honor in the cup board. The man, who proved to be a we'll known criminal, named Mclaughlin, had taken off his coat and shoes, and was prepar- ing to retire for the night when he was start led by Policeman Senft's, "I've got you"
 Mclaughlin told the officer that the other boys who occupied the dugout with him had gone to the theatre. The cave was about 75 feet from the street, and well con- cealed that a person might walk over the roof of it without suspecting its existence.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
SUNK BY A BARK.
Fifty-two Men Sink with the Steam
 CT Glencos After a Collision.

It has been ascertaincd beyond doubt that tho steamer which was sunk in collision with the British bark Largo Bay off Brachy Head was the Glencoe, belonging to the Glen line, of Glasgow The Glencoe was bound from Liverpool for Lonuou She was in the Shanghai trade. She carried a crew num- bering hfty-two including twcnty-ti,ree Chi ncsc, all of whom were presumably drowned. . She had no passengers.
 The Glcncoe was l three-mastcd iron screw steamer of l ,9Ql tons. She built at Gas- gow in 1S7S wns owned by McGrcggor, Cow x Co, and was rated 100 Al at the Rritis, Lloyds. A wild tempest was raging att the time of the collision and snow was falling so thickly that it. was impossible for the lookout on either vessel to see the lights of he other until the collision was inevitable. The Glen COG forged ahead trying to cross tho Largo Bays bow. but failed to do so alld ran at full speed into the bark, dcmolishng ten feet of her bow The Largo Bay would also have been sunk had she not been provided with water tight sections.
 The suddcnncss of the shock dazed the crew of the bark. They saw nothing further of the steamer. but could make out her crew strug- gling in .tho water. It was Impossible, how ever, to render them any assistance, all of the Largo Bays boats being smashed. The wind blew with such force that the salls of the bark were torn to shreds and a boy Was carried ovcrboard 'rhe bark wcathcrcd the storm until rescued and lowed into Cowcs.
 The Largo Bay is n large iron bark, com- mandcd by Capt. Kirknldy aud owned by John S. Hartticd. of Glasgow, where she was launched in May, 1878.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
HarriSOn's Cabinet,

ell-grounded" rumors as to who will be in President-elect Harrison's cabinet are con- stantly turning up. It is needless to say, however, that each rumor has it's own axe to grind, and that no two lists of cabinet officers which have come to hand are sike. The best opinion in Indianapolis is that Blaine will be Secretary of State, William Windom of the Treasury, Rusk of War, and Wanamaker of the Navy, with Evarts as Attorney General. There is no doubt that Allison has positively declined to go into the Cabinet. and, as Gen. Harrison desired the Treasury Department to go to the West, it is reported on good authority that he has selected MT. Windom for that place.
 Forty ministers, members of the Indianapo- lis Ministers Association. called upon and pre- sented MT. Harrison with an engrossed ad- dress. In reply he said it was his settled pur. pose to "do the right as it may be given me to see the right.'
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
THE EARTH SINKING.
The Roof Support of a Pennsylvania
 Mine Gives Way.

The miners in the White Bridge tunnel of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company at Carbondale, Pa., have been ordered out on account of the bursting of the pillars and the settling of the roof and the ground above 1t.
 One of the men employed in the ex- treme end of the workings describes the cracking and roaring of the earth as
 being a hundred times louder than the
 most terrific thunderstorm he ever heard.
 Great pieces of coal were forced from the
 sides of the pillars rattled along the walls
 and tore away the wooden props which SUD-
 ported the roof These missiles were sent
 with the swiftness of cannon balls. Coming
 from all directions, it was foolhardy to at
 tempt to enter the gangways leading to the under chamber excavations. The entire mountain lying west of the city,
 extending from the entrance of the tunnel to point near the summit pond near Coles Gap is seriously disturbed by this settling of the excavated portions. The area actually
 undermined is fully two miles in length by about three-quarters of mllc in width. The coal in the first vein has been removed and the mining operations are confined to the second or bottom vein, as it is familarly called. The roof-rock is close grained and is what miners call strong
 covering" the average thickness exceeding g fifty feet. Overlaying this rock is the surface
 covering, which is not less than fcrty feet dsep and is composed chiefly of shelly rock. This great body of earth and rock has been supported by the pillars of coal, as the
 wooden props placed by the miners in tho top vein have long since routed away.
 Five hundred persons are thrown out of employment, and the suspension of work will be most expensive to the company.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
A FATAL DINNER.
Five Persons Die from Eati ng Pois.
 oned Cabbage.


 The bodies of J. Bordeaux and his four children, ranging from six to fourteen years old, who died from eating poisoned cabbage, arrived at Olympia, w. T., on the steamer Clara Brown, from their late home in Shelton, in Mason county, and were buried at that place. Tbe cabbage had been prepared for dinner by Mrs. Bordeaux, and shortly after the meal all the members of the family except child named Mary, aged five years, who did not eat any of the cabbage were taken i'll, the result being the death of five within 0 few hours.
 Mrs. Bordeaux and the little daughter Mary were on the same steamer with the bod ies. Mrs. Bordeaux was very ill., and was taken to the Hospital of the Sisters of Char ity. She may possibly recover.
 The unfortunate people, after partaking of the food, were seized with convusions. Dr.. Norris, who was quickly summoned, pro- nounced that they had been poisoned, and notwithstanding the utmost care and atten- tion he was unable to save the lives of any but Mrs. Bordeaux, who had taken several draughts of brandy to alleviate her sutfcrings, and who fortunately had not eaten much of the cabbage. The cabbage was raised in California and brought to the Sound by the San Francisco steamer, as most of the vegetables consumed in that part of the country are brought. 1t is the theory of the doctor that paris green had been put upon the cabbage to kill bugs and that the food was not carefully washed before being cooked.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
A New ReligiOus Sect.

Some excitement has been caused in the middle counties Of South Carolina by the ad- vent of new religious sect, whose apostles have started out on @ crusade Apostle Jenkins explains the new creed as follows: They believe in three heavens and three hells. Life on earth is both heaven No. and hell No. l. Then there is hell and a heaven where people, or rather their souls, stay between death and judg- ment. and then a permanent heaven and hell. Their views as to crea- tion, as set forth by Mir. Jenkins is rather novel. He cited the first chapter of St. John to prove that Jesus Christ was present at the creation. He said that Jesus and God were the only two beings who could create something from nothing. The devil came from space, which was never created nor had it beginning. The beginning of creation was for the benefit of Gods offspring The souls of men, which were not created by him, had embryonic existence in God. Apostle Jenkins is from North Carolina His sect is known as "The True Lights" He says there are about 200 True Lights in South Carolina State and a few ill North Carolina and Geor- Un
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
JAPANESE CIVILIZATION.
The People are Now to Have a Con-
 stitutional Government.

uC KcOpte arc NOW CO nave a SO1-
 stitutional Government.
 Great preparations have been made at Tokio for the public promulgation by the Mi kado of the Japanese Constitution.
 About ten years ago it became evident that the most intelligent people in Japan regarded the absolute rule of the Mikado as out of joint of the times. This feeling grew until the Mi- kado himself began to give the matter seri- ous attention. Eight years ago the people were suddenly surprised and delighted by an imperial edict announcing that in 1890 Japan would become aconstitutiOnal Government, that the representative principle would be the corner stone of the new State fabric, and that the people, through a Parliament, would have share in making their own laws. The great change, 1t was said, would be de- ferred until 1890 in order to give plenty of time to ascertain what form of Constitution was best adapted to the needs of the country
 The whole scheme originated with Count Ito. The Mikado commissioned him to work out the details of the now Constitution. He went to Europe about seven years ago.
 1t seemed to him ultimately that the Con- stitution of Germany was, on the whole, best suited to the circumstances of Japan. On the model of the German Constitution, there fore, the fundamental law regulating State affairs in Japan has been formed. Since Count Ito returned to his native land force Of German constitutional lawyers and ad- ministrators has been at work under his di- rection preparing the new Constitution and getting ready for a representative assembly of lawmakers to be elected by the people.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
He Escaped the Asylum.

An unsuccessful attempt was made to con- fine Sylvanus D. Brown, of Paterson, N. J., in the Midd1etown Insane Asylum. Mr.. Brown, who is well known among business men and politicians ofnorthern New Jersey, has suffered for several years with insomnia and nervous digestion. According to MT. Browns story, he was persuaded by his brothcr-in law, William Richardson, to go to his farm in Goshen. Mir. Browns suspicious had been aroused by what he considered strange con- duct on the part of his wife and her sisters on the day he left Paterson, and he was not surprised when Mr. Richardson proposed that they stop off at Middlctown and consult a physician at the ''hospital'' there After an interview with Superintendent Talcott at the asylum it was arranged that MT. Brown should go to t, hotel for the night and visit the "hospital'' the next morning. Mir Brown watched his chances, escaped MT. Richardsons vigilance, and, with the assistance of friends, got off for Scranton early the next morning. Mr. Brown seems to have believed that his wife was a party to the proposed commitment; but Mrs. Brown says that she has no knowledge that her husband was to be taken to an asylum, nor did she believe that he needed such treatment
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
Frozen to Death.

The body of Joseph Henick, of New York Mills, weaver, was found frozen half mile west of Whitesboro Station, on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, by track hands. The body was lying near a fence, quite distance from the track. Henck had apparently taken of his overcoat and lain down upon it, and had tied his handkerchief around ai board of tho fence. There was a little blood on his face, and it was thought that he IS struck by train and had been unable to go any further than the fence, to which he tied the handkerchief to attract at tention.
 James Gordon. Jr, one of the oarsmen and guides at the Fuller House, Greenwood Lake, N- J., was found dead in the mountains be- tween the lake and Sterling by searching party instituted to look for him. Gordon went to Sterling to attend an election O few days before, and on the following night star- ted to return. He was intoxicated and got lost on the mountains in the dark. It was evident that he died of exposure, as the body was frozen stiH when found.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
Liberals Favor Reciprocity.

The Canadian Liberals held their first cau GUS at Ottawa to arrange their crprogramme for fighting the Government on the policy of un- restricted reciprocity during the present scs- sion. 1t was decided to adhere to the lines adopted last session in favor of complete commercial reciprocity with the United States. The Hon. Wilfred Laurier, leader of the Lib- eral party, pointed to the result of the recent elections in Haldimand and toilette as un- mistakable evidence of the growing popular ity of the agitation in favor of closer com mercial relations with the neighboring repub- lie, and advised all true Liberals to unite in taking advantage of the increasing sympathy which had been manifested throughout the country in that direction. Sir Richard Cart wright followed in the same vein. Not only many heretofore indi ifferent Liberals but sev eral supporters of the Government have an- nounccd their intention of stalking their political existence i'll supporting the move ment i;tvorinS unrestricted trade relations with the United States.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
Lands of the Creeks.

The President sent a. message to Congress announcing that treaty had been made with tho council of Creek Indians in the Indian Territory by which it is proposed to complete the title to some 3.O0O,OOO acres of land ceded by the Creeks in 1866 for the use of other Indians and freed men only. By the new treaty the govern ment is to pay the Creeks seventyfve cents per acre additional and twenty cents per acre for surveys, etc, and have full title to the land by which it may open the same to homesteatcrs. The President asks Congress to act upon the new treaty which expires by its terms on July 1, 1889, if not ratified. The lands in question are located in Oklahoma, and this treaty thus made, is held to be a recognition by the President of the claim that Oklahoma lands should not be opened with out q similar purchase of the claims of other tribes.
Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
Art Exhibit in WashingtOn.

One of the attractions to visitors to the na- tional capital during inauguration week will be the American art exhibit, which is now being arranged. It will be strictly national in character. Tho idea is to bring together collection of the best work of the best Ameri- can artists to show what native artists are capable of accomplishing. Itis expected that the exposition will embrace something m6re than a hundred superior works in oils to be secured by loan from the artists or their pres ent owners. It is intended, also, to have a collection of water colers on view in one or two of the rooms. The proceeds are to be de- voted to the Garfield National Memorial Hos Dital