Connecticut western news., 1889-07-10
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant COlumns.

"A dispatch from St. Thomas, Ont, says: The total prohibition liquor Inv known as the Scott net was repealed in Elgin county by an overwhelming majority.
 Colby (Me.) University has received from Gen. Benjamin F Butler an oil portrait of himself, painted by an eminent Chicago artist. The General Is represented as seated in his camp on the James River, with the Union army behind him. and the Confederate gunboats, approaching from Richmond. in front. 1t is fine work.
 The vestibule train east bound on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was wrecked by slide in cut near Ona. There had been 8 very severe rain, which caused slide in the cut. George W. Walsh, the oldest engineer on the road, and his fireman, were killed. It was an unavoidable accident. No passengers were injured.
 -Milwaukee received Q severe blow to one of her great industries. The Falk, Junge Borehort brewery, employing about 400 men, was burned. The plant was worth over $7OO, 900, and it had a capacity of 600, ,000 barrels of beer year. Everything was swept away, including 52 900 barrels of beer.
 At HiIlsborough, Ohio, the jury returned a verdict of murder in the second degree against MT. Britton, charged with killing his brother-in-law. The punishment for this crime in Ohio is imprisonment for life.
 At the village of Albany. Minn., black diptheria has broken out in 113 families. Both churches and the schools have been closed.
 Nearly 100 people were poisoned at Adair, Iowa, by eating ice cream which had been made in new tins, and fatal results iR several cases are anticipated.
 Henry Klcinpcll, keeper of book store, committed suicide by hanging at Kansas City. He leaves Q widow aud two children at Madison, Wis.
 h. r gan was sentenced to the penitentinry for life for the murder of one Hays, his brother in-law.
 At Hopkins, near Minneapolis, Minn., Carrie, the eighteen-year-od daughter Of Hiram Frost, burned uO death. Her mother, who was the only one in the house besides the girl, went to visit nt O neighbors near by, leaving gasoline stove burning. She had been gone but short time when smoke was seen issuing from the building and it was quickly destroyed A search was made soon after and the young woman's charred remains were found in the ruins.
 Rice Smith, during a Quarral at Water loo, Me-, with an old man named William Whitten, whose life he had previously threat ened, knocked him down and pounded his head against a stone step, causing death within m hour. Both men had been drink ing, Smith is held for murder.
 -Sergt. Daniel O'Brien, of Capt. Sander sons company, Eleventh Infantry, stationed at Fort Ontario, was struck by Q train on the Rome, Watertown aud Ogdensburg Rail- road near the fort gate, and SO badly man. gled that thcrc is no chance of his recovery.
 Capt. c. L. Miller, of the T Wharf Lighter Company ofBoston, who discharged the ship distress signal on the Fourth, which caused the death of George Hoffman, John Green and Frank O'Connell, has been held in $500 bail on U charge of mnnslaughter.
 Lyman K. Williams, for nearly thirty years Superintendet of Schools in Stcuben County Ind, committed suicide by hanging. He was graduate of Ann Arbor College, Mir. Will Hams served two terms as County Treasurer Grief over the death of a member of his fam fly and poor health ure supposed 10 be tn, cause of his self-destruction.
 Harry Dixon, the young Mississipian re- gently appointed to a West Point cadetship by the president upon the statement of the boys grandmother that her husband and son (the cndet's father) had both been assassinated because of politics failed to pass the physical examination re quired of cadets.
 Mir. John T. Ford, manager of Ford's Opera House, Baltimore, in getting off a street car in that city, stepped in the way ol runaway horse. He was knocked senscless, but on coming to he walked home. although he was severely bruised.
 The Methodist Episcopal Church at An. gola, Ind, was destroyed by an incendinry.
 Miss Ida Phillips, late Q Missionary in India, fell from the bridge over the Blue Earth Rsver, at Minneingo City, Minn-. and was drowned.
 Walton B. Crockett, the son of one of the original settlers of xapdria, Va, for many years a resident of Louisiana and President of the State Board of Assessors under Gov. NcHenrv. is dent.
 l, eled, sent by Pope Leo XIII, to Cardinal Gibbons as & souvenir of the Popc's jubilee, b to be placed upon the main altar of the Baltimore, Md, Cathedral for use on special occasions. It is twice the usual size of those in daily use upon the altars of Catholic churches, and fA about three feet from ped estal to apex. It is new, having been m, pls for tho iubils.-