Connecticut western news., 1889-05-01
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns.

Arthur Sumner, ex-editor of the Cana dian War Cry" the Salvation Army organ, has left for the United States. It has become known that he was about to publish book entitled "The New Papacy; or. Behind the Scenes in the Salvation Army" and that the Commissioner of the Army gave him the choice of suppressing the book or being sent to the penitentlary for an offence which he had confessed to Mir Coombs and ex-Edtor Chase. The book was criticism upon money getting and other schemes of the Army.
 "A masked burglar entered the house of George l.. Whipple. a farmer residing near Ipswich, Mass, and at the point of a revol- yer commanded Mir. Whipple to hand him over $40.
 The striking carpenters at St. Louis have agreed to return to work for the employers who have agreed to the eight hour day sys- tenn and to pay 3o cents per hour wages.
 The Hon Henry Starnes has been ap- pointed Speaker of the Quebec Legislative Council, vice the Hon, Pierre Boucher de Ia Bruere, removed for partisan conduct.
 Robert Tate and George Jansen were sentenced by Judge Blodgett in Boston to three years Imprisonment each for robbinga Pawnshop last October.
 The weavers. 150 in number, employed by the White Manufacturing Company, at Rockville, Conn have struck for 10 per cent. increase in wages.
 Two freight trains came into collision one mile south of Glen Mary. Tenn, Brake man Taylor, Conductor Hinelne, and Engi- neer Rusk were so badly crushed that the two hrst-named died soon after being extricated, and Rusk's injuries are fatal Two other men were slightly injured.
 -The funeral of Mrs D. C.. NJ. Pierce, the "sig woman," took place at Dover, N. H, It required eight persons to place the body in the easket, and all the trimmings, handles, etc. had to be removed to allow the casket to pass between the doors
 D. J. Canary. champion fancy bicyclst of the world, who has been four years abroad exhibiting in all the principal cities of Europe, arrived at his home in Meriden. Conn. re- gently and met with an ovation from wheel men and others
 Superintendent of Police Ebersold has been appointed Inspector of the Chicago Po- lice, the place formerly held by Bonficld, who resigned after Mayor Roche had suspended him from duty
 William Martin, for three years cashier for !. R. Newman < Sons, clothiers at Pitts field, Mass, mysteriously disappeared gently, leaving a wife and five children.
 -E. l.. Whitaker, bookkeeper and conf- dential clerk for the plumbing firm of Smith & Corners, of Cleveland, has been arrested for embedding the firm money. The short nge is said to be $11 ,OO0. Whitaker had been employed by Smith X Corners for five years. He declares that he is member of the firm and that the shortage can be ex- plained The prisoner was held in S1 ,5OO bail
 Prof W. R. King made a balloon ascen- sion from Nashville, Tenn. He was accom- panied by MT. William Fisher, resident of that city.
 Since the remarkable escape of Bank Robber Burke from the penitentiary at Bal timore. it has leaked out that a so-called ''trusty" known as George Williams, who had been sent to the house of one of the di- .rcctors of the prison by the Warden 10 tack down some carpets, disappeared, and has not since been heard from.
 In the Clrcnit Court at Chestertown, Me, Capt. Walters of the Martha A. Jones, oyster dredging boat, was convicted of illegal dredging and sentenced to three months in the House of Correction
 "A special from Winnipeg says: "W. F. Dulmage, Grown Timber Inspector at Rat Portage, left town suddenly Q few days ago. An investigation shows him to be $2O 900 short in his accounts"
 Gov. Jackson, of Maryland has entirely recovered from his recent illness.
 The Morgantown Female Seminary, at Morgantown, w. Va., was burned Loss $25, ,0OO.
 The new gunboat Yorktown, at League Island, and the Adams, at Mare Island, have been put in commission.
 Miss Della Porter, aged Is, died in Barre, Vt, from poison taken intentionally. No cause for the deed is known.
 The North German Lloyd steamship Dresden arrived at Baltimote with 2,OOO German emigrants, nearly all of whom have left for the West.
 During the absence from home of the family of Jacob Reichard, of Allentown, Pa, the house was robbed of $3, ,O0Oin cash, four gold watches and other jewelry.
 Mrs Sidney Lee, mother of Gov. Lee, had an operation performed on one of her eyes recently. She was attacked with glaucoma in this eye. being the same disease that de prived her of sight in the other eye. The operation is what is known in surgery as iridectomy. which is performed by cutting out a portion of the iris, in order to form an artificial pupil. If the operation is not sue cessful Mrs Lee will be totally blind.