Connecticut western news., 1889-02-20
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN FEW BRIEF WORDS
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redundant Columns.

George Bassett, aged IT, commit ted sui cido by hanging himself in his fathers barn, near Carthage, N, Y. The loss of an eye a short time ago caused him to become mor- ose and it is supposed the act was comnut- ted during u fit of melancholy.
 Pour men employed on the new railroad work at Campbell Hall, N. r., which is to be the centre of tho lines rnnning to and con meeting with the Poughkeepsie Bridge, were buried by the fall of u bank of earth. They wcrc gotten out alive, but William Egan died soon afterward.
 The boiler of a locomotive on the North Penn branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad exploded at Centre Valley, instant ly killing Fireman Crockett and fatally in turing Frank MeGowan, the engineer, both of Philadelphia. Brakeman Fred Schrock, who was in the cab at the time, was thrown 100 feet, but escaped with slight injuries.
 The father of Secretary of the Treasury Farrchild died at his home in Cazcnovia, New York.
 Tho amendment to the State Constitution of Nevada. authorizing State Lottery, has been defeated by 500 votes.
 Two men attempted to assassinate Dr. w. w. Kelley, Superintendent of the Nebra sk a Insane Asylum, at Norfolk, Neb. Kelley was struck by three bullets, one of which seri ously wounded his shoulder. A week ago Kelley was arrested on charge of murder, but was out on bail.
 The Hessian fly is ruining the wheat crop in Central Illinois. In some places whole fields have been destroyed.
 In a fight between Italian railroad work men and a party of negroes on the new Ches- apeake < Ohio road, near Newport. Ky three men are reported killed and twenty wounded.
 A despatch from Edmonton, N. W. T., says: A loud noise like the report of can non, followed by Q rumbling noise like thun- der, only apparently under ground, was heard by many people in the town and the surrounding country. Some report haviag perceived slight trembling of the earth md 1t was most probably O shock of earth quake.
 Luke Palmer, a wealthy citizen of Bur- hngton. h., disclosed that he was swindled out of s, 900. He was tricked into bunco game by a tine-looking young man who pre- tended to be the nephew of Q bank President with whom Mir. Palmer is acquainted.
 Lincoln clubs honored the memmory of the great President at banquets in New York and clsew here, on the anniversary of his birth day.
 -''Rcd Nosed Mike" one of the men con- ccrned in the murder of Paymaster Mcclure and his companion at Miners Mills, Pa, was convicted of murder in the first degree at Wilkcsbarre.
 -The Rev. Edward A. Ashfeld, of St. Pcter's Church, Memphis, Tenn, was mur- dered by young man whom he had be- frlcndcd.
 "A six days bicycle race is taking place in Madison Square Garden, New York. There are twelve entries.
 Thomas Riley, while skating in company with a number of companions on Mill River, in Stamford, Ct., broke through the ice and was drowned.
 "A coal tar boiler ut the Creosoting Brick Works, of Guild, White < Gillespie, in Chatta- noogn, Tenn, exploded, causing the death of Charles Falls and fatal injuries to his son. Both of the men were covered with coal tar, md tho body of the former was burned to charcoal. Falls was an ex-policemau.