Connecticut western news., 1889-01-30
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
AOaGEsTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS
interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant ColumnA

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 -A boiler Hue on the White Star line steam ship Republic exploded while she lay at her pier in New York, and a dozen men who were in the stoke hole suffered serious injuries, which may prove fatal in three cases. A fire man says that the flew known to be weak, but the officers deny this and are reti- cent as to the causes of the disaster.
 Henry W. Adams, who took the place of n striker with the Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company. Brooklyn, N l., was found dead of wounds near the car stables. Whether the wounds were the result ofan accident or other wlse is not known.
 During fight with four tramps on the outskirts of Scranton. Pa, Police Officer Ellis J. Ellis was shot in two places in the abdomen. He will probably die. The entire police force has been scattered over the city and surrounding country in search of the men who shot Ellis.
 Tho State of Guerrero Mexico has enact- cd law exempting from taxation for four years Indians attending adult primary schools
 The Legislature of Puebla, Mexico, has authorized the Governor to subsidize rail- roads that may be built in that State.
 The West Chicago Street Railroad Con- pany announces that it will soon begin the construction of a new tunnel under the Chica- ED Rivcr to cost S1,5oO, 900. The tunnel will be a third of a mile long.
 Samuel M. Felton, president of the Penn sylvania Steel Co rpany, died at his residence in Philadelphia, agcd 79 years.
 Two men were killed and four badly in- jurcd by a gas explosion at Nanticoke, Penn.
 The agent of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company at Indianapolis Is de f,.nIter in the amount of nearly $500, ,000.
 Charles Crumbough.aged twenty five, died at Leroy, H., from trichinosis. He had been an intense sufferer for nearly three years.
 The schooners F. l.. Richardson and Ella A. Warmer. long overdue at Philadelphia from the West Indies, have been given up for lost. Fifteen men arc missing.
 Thomas Barton, an English forger, was captured in Philadelphia. His peculations amounted to $10O,00 Scotland Yard detective will take him back to Macclesfeld, England.
 Thomas Reid, aged fifty years, commit ted suicide by hanging on hisfarm near Rush vile, Ind.
 Fred Hopkins and another colored man named Jenkins, labor agents, have been lynched near Vicksburg, Va.
 The Austrian semi-official press fully ap- proves the protected restrictions of immigra- ton into the United States.
 About two thousand farmers and others interested in tobacco raising met atBrooks- vile. Ky, to organize against raising crop in the Burley District next season. Little of the crop of 1888 has been sold and a number are holding the 1887 crop.
 An explosion of gas occurred in No. l slope of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nantieoke, Pa. Five mine engineers were surveying, when the gas caught from one of their lamps. Two were killed, three fatally and two seriously injured.
 James Hawkins one of the victims of the Bussey bridge disaster on the Boston and Providence Railroad on March 13, 1887, has Avnr n dau aocs tn tho n m onnf nf &2G 000 His original suit was for S15 ,0OO, but the plaintiffs mind became affected, and the claim was raised to s5O,0OO. By consent of the defendant the case has been settled by the payment of $35, ,0OO.
 -Erightful mortality from diphtheria is re- ported from Berks and Lehigh counties, Pa.
 Tho great fly wheel foutreen feet in diam eter and weighing six tons, in the engine house of the Northwestern Parlor Suite Com- pany, at Chicago, burst with terrific crash. There was mad stampede of the workpeople, but only the engineer was injured.
 The three-masted schooner Allie R. Ches- ter, of New York, laden with phosphate rock, and bound from Charleston, s. C., to Barren Island, New York, has sunk of Hatteras. Of her crew the captain, mate, cook, and two seamen were drowned.
 There is a possibility that the electoral vote of Texas may not be counted, owing to the blunder made by the electors in not aftix- ing their signatures to the envelope contain ing the record sent to Washington. They have been summoned to meet and rectify the error.
 United States Senators Shelby M. Cullom, Republican, of Illinois; Matt w. Ransom, Democrat, of North Carolina, and Richard Coke, Democrat, of Texas. were reelected.
 A MT. George H Hull is busily engaged in forming Q pig iron trust to regulate and encourage the output of Southern mines.
 The business portion of the village of Matamora, H., was destroyed by fire. The losses amount to $25,OOO, with little in- surance.
 The crematory which was recently built inst. Louis was itself cremated. The loss is estimated at $20, ,OOO. The fire is supposed to have caught from the furnace or oven utilized to reduce the dead to ashes. A bod y was being cremated when the fire began.
 A Catholic colonization society with a capital stock of $1OO 900 has been formed in Pittsburg, Pa. The objects of the society are to establish Catholic colonies in the South, engage in manufacturing, mining numbering, stock raising, and so on. Tracts of suitable land will be secured in northern Georgia and Alabama, and the capital stock may possibly be increased to q 100000.
 George A. Pearce, the Secretary Of the Planters and Merchants Insurance Com pany, of Mobile, Ala, has decamped, leaving shortage of between $40, 900 and $50, 900. His losses were due to speculation.
 Quebec intelligence says: A large number of seals are reported in the vicinity of Manicon- agan- At Godbout the other day over 2.OOO were seen at one time. From St. Pancras and Blanc Saloon come reports also of an un- usual number of these animals.
 In South Chicago a Standard Oil Com pany tank on the east of the town burst, let. ting loose about 1.50O, 900 gallons of oil Nearly twenty acres partially submerged. Much alarm is felt for fear the oil may become ignited, in which case there would necessarily be great destruction of property. The loss to the Oil Company is about $S, ,O00.
 The barkentine Walter S. Massey, Capt Phelan. which sailed from Pernambuco on Dec. 20 for New York, with full cargo oi sugar has been totally lost at Cape Halter. as, having run ashore theer. The crew are all saved
 The steamship Cariboo Fly returned to Victoria, E. c., from an exploring trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands. She was sent north by those interested in the black cod fisheries They found passage navagable for vessels drawing twelve feet of water between Meresey and Graham Island and also found two good harbors very close to the fishing grounds and which were not marked on the admir- atty chart.
 -Abram Burras, a fisherman, 6S years of age, was killed of train No. 22 of the West Shore road at Tomkins Cove, N. Y. He was walking on the track and being deaf failed to notice the danger.
 Three hundred miners at Boonsboro, Ia. have struck because of a recent reduction in price from 4 1-2 to cents bushel. The mine operators claim that the strike will benefit them by reducing the output and in. creasing the price of coal. The strikers are obstinate, and say they are out to win.
 At the meeting ofthe Society ofthe Army and Navy of the Confederate States of Amer. ica. held in Baltimore, Sir Garnet Wolseley Adjutant-General of the British Army, was elected an honorary member of the society.
 Commissioner Stockslager, of the Genera Land Office, has just published large and complete map of the United Stntes, copies o