Connecticut western news., 1889-05-15
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns.

The steamer Morgan City, from New York to New Orleans. put into Charleston, $. C., with her propeller very loose.
 Fire partly destroyed tho oil houses of the Charleston and Savannah Railway at Charleston, S. c., and thirty-six bales of cotton. Loss, S2 800; insured in the Liver pool and Globe.
 The German steamer Ditmnrchen, while docking in Boston, came into collision with the Philadelphia steamer Parthian, cutting Q large hole through the port side just above the water line. The damage to the Parthian will amount t4 about S2,5OO. and to the Otmarchen about $500.
 Jefferson Davis hns written letter de- nylng the assertions made by Gen. w olscley in his artclc in the North American Review, criticising Davis's course as President of the Southern Conedcracy.
 pr. Frank l.. Vincent. one of the faculty of the Clifton Springs Sanitarium. accident ally met his death at his office while experi- meuting. it is thought, with tho tripod for nervous diseases.
 The Croton Gas Works in New Castle. Penn, were levied on by the Sheriff q few days ago oh executions of emplo yees for wages due. settlement was made and the employees will run the factory for two weeks, when the works will be shut down. The stock on hand and the material to be used in the two weeks will pay the men their wages. amounting to $11 ,000.
 Speaker Matthews of the Illinois Legisa. ture, rendered his resignation, having been appointed First Comptroller of the Treasury by President Harrison. Representative l. II. Miller of Stark County was chosen his success eOr.
 of the employees O. rhe Dickson Manufactur- ing Company, at Scranton, Penn., is to go into effect.
 Emil Weber, q gambler, was shot and killed by Sandy Olds, another gambler, at Portland, Oregon. Weber was native of Ohio.
 The government will erect new hfe-sav- ing station at Wallis Sands, Rye. N H., and remodel the old building ut Straw Point.
 At the Barton Hill mine, Mincville, Essex county, Charles Tunstal was killed while coming out of the mine in Il car loaded with ore. His head was crushed.
 The body of Charles H. Reynolds, a one armed veteran, was found in Lake Champlain at Plattsburgh. He was fishing, and it is thought he fell iEto the water while asleep.
 Mir. Matthew Dcvnin, aged 50, an em- ployee of the car works in Carlisle, Pa., while attempting to run a heavy piece of timber through blaming machine, was struck in the head. He died half m hour later.
 The daughter of Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson of Jackson, Miss, who eloped with Mir w. T. Howe of Wisconsin, and who Wub tO thitt Seu ih SdhO ih-, returned to her home with her husband.
 A freight train on the New England Railroad broke in two nt Tonncrs six miles west of Brewsters. and one section ran into the other, smashing some of the cars and blocking the track. 4 locomotive on it's way to a Western railroad was badly smashed. The Washington express was delayed nearly nine hours by the wreck
 Thirty buildings in Waldron, Mich, were burned. Loss, 5000
 Bishop Moreno has been arrested nt Silas. Mex, for wearing a cassock in the streets, und fined, &1OO.
 The Michigan Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting tho sale of tobacco to miners under years of age.
 James Ginger, employed as a currier at Gates tannery, Lowell, Mass, was danger ously cut in the throat with knife by Thos Delaney, during quarrel over some trou- blc that had occurred between their children Delaney has so far eluded arrest.
 The new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, which replaces the ono destroyed in January last, is now thrown open to the public. The first carriage was driven by Thomas Lane, and contained the Rev Father Lanigan and Mrs. md Miss Blake, wife and daughter of the superintendent of the con tract
 The Rev. A. F. Cunning, D. D., has been admitted to partnership in the firm of w. L. Green & Co.,, proprictors of the Congregation alist, of Boston. He will be associated with the Rev. pr. Dexter in the editorial manage ment of the paper