Connecticut western news., 1889-02-06
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redundant Columns.
 The big malt house attached to the An heuser Beer Brewery, St. Louis. Mo-, burned down, causing a loss of S200,000. The build ing was filed with more than 200, ,OOO bushels of grain, chiefly oats and barley.
 Otto Kayser, 25 years old, shot and killed Anna Klaus in Philadelphia. and when the police went to his house after him. he cut his wife's throat and then his own. They are all dead.
 An entire family, consisting of Mir and Mrs. John Olsen and three child ren, were drowned while attempting to cross the river in a wagon fifteen miles north of Bismarck, Dak. The team broke through the ice and pulled the wagon and occupants with it. The swift current carried them away before man, who saw them from the shore, could reach them.
 Policeman Philip Farley, of New York, became drunk while on duty and attacked several inoffensive citizens, firing his revolver and otherwise endangering their lives. He was arrested and his stripes were removed.
 A soft coal syndicate as been organized by Eastern capitalists to develop the rich coal lands in Cambria county, Penn.
 Robert Gibson, farmer living in Craw- ford county, Pa, a few days ago placed So,00O in n coffee pot and buried the coffee pot in a barrel of onions in his cellar. Shortly after some one broke into the cellar and car ried off the barriel of onions, money and all. Gibson is reported as having gone insane over his loss.
 John Nicholson, of Detroit, is under ar rest for bribing jurors of the Wayne Circuit Court to disagree in the case of the Grand Haven Railroad Company. His confession mplicates some prominent people.
 The Presque Isle Gas Company has oho pIn its tur yvb nr-- gauized to sink for the sake of testing the re- sources of the Trenton rock underlying Erie. The well is 1, 800 feet deep and cost S15 ,OoO. -onas Miller, Asa A.farker and John Slmp- son were arrested in Brooklyn, N. Y, on com plaint of the Brazilian government. In the house where they were captured was found an entire photographing outfit, two genuine Brazilian bank notes and seven negative pho tographs of one of the notes.
 Several boys were skating on pond in Paterson, N. J., when three of tbem-Willie Hughes, Hamilton Aiken, and Joseph Taylor -broke through the ice and were drowned.
 Canadian insurance companies announce reduction in premiums upon all vessels which carry a store of oil for the purpose of putting it on the water.
 Fire in a schoolhouse at Johnstown, N. r., resulted in panic among teachers and pupils, who, however, escaped. The Chief of the Fire Department was killed.
 The resolution providing for the submis- sion to the people of constitutional amend mcnt prohibiting the manufacture ID or sale of Intoxicating liquor in the State passed the Pennsylv ana Senate.
 William T. Cavenaugh, for the last six years Assistant Secretary of State was ar rested in Topeka, Kansas, on a warrant charging him with blackmailing State Print er Baker.
 Two young men were caught at North Bpnt)D- hOIlIOtr lpSh n fp11 grown corpse. Citizens fear that either graveyard has been plundered or a mnrder committed.
 Young people in Milford (Mass shoe factory are being arrested for defrauding their employers by stealing finished heels from weighed bags, for rewcighng as new work, thus getting double pay.
 pr. Burnett, a so-called Indian doctor md astrologer, was arrested at Hammond, Ind. charged with .syoodooing'' Paul Malsch, n har,l-working German farmer, whom he had terrorized into giving up considerable property.
 Samuel Rothschild, of Hartford, Conn.,, took poison and then threw himself off the Hobcrt street bridge, St. Paul. Minn. Find ing this did not end his life he cut his throat with pen knife, and when found his feet and hands were badly frozen. Still the doctors say he will reco yer.
 pr Oliver Wendell Holmes has presented
 
 cal Library Association.
 The American bark Mary Hasbroock, bound for Boston, put into Halifax to reit with new sails The Collector refused to allow the sails to enter free of duty.
 John Burns, ofAttleboro, aged 60 years, a jeweler, was struck east of Hebronville sta tion by train on the Old Colony Railroad bound north, and his body was thrown on the south bound track. Another train south bound ran over him, and cut his body to pieces.
 -Cleary, the New York ''boodle" Alder man, has been granted a change of venue from New York to Broome County, it being impossible to obtain jury in New York County.
 The United States and Brazil Mail Steam ship Company's vessel Advance, from Bra zilian ports, arrived in New York, bringing as passengers from Pcrambuco, Capt. Lewis, of the British ship Stephen D. Horton, and wife. The latter vessel was burned at sea on Dec. 21. She was abandoned at the last moment. All the crew were saved.
 Samuel Hazlctt, his wife, three sons and daughter, living in Kcnsiugton, a suburb of {, Philadelphia, were seized with symptoms of poisoning shortly after eating supper, and a physician was called in. The prompt use of n stomach pump placed all but Samuel out of danger. but he is likely to die. It is SUD- posed that the food contained poison of some kind. Whether plaec'i there accidentally or not is not known.
 The Mullanphy Savings Bank, in North St. Louis, is out about $7,50O, and Louis A. knockstedt, the paying teller, has left the city. The youthful teller has been speculat- ing in mining stocks.
 Twenty surface railroads in New York are tied up. The strikers in New York and Brook lyn were guilty of many acts of violence. All attempts at arbitration and settlement have failed.
 Five men were upset in New York bay by frrryboat. Two were drowned and one of the rescued is dcrous.
 -tien. Joseph Rife was thrown from his car rage in Harrisburg Pa, and instantly killed. He was a graduate of West Point and a Cap tain in the regular army when the rebellion broke out He served through the war and retired as Brcset Brigadier-General.
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