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Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

DR. HAMMOND, the famous specialist in nervous diseases, contributes paper on this subject to the North American Reuier. It is unique in its way as a literary pro- duction as we'll as profound, from scientific point of view. The text for his essay is to be found in the series of tragedies which are now agitating Lon don society. In Dr. Hammond's opin- ion the desire to kill is a ruling pro- pensity with every human being. The King of Dahomey kills a half dozen wives before luncheon, while the Prince of Wales is satisfied with the slaughter of hundred pheasants. The propen- sity is the same in both cases. The difference is merely one of degree. The instinct is inborn and no amount of civ ilization can wholly eradicate it. Grim inal statistics refer to motiveless mur- ders. But Dr. Hammond's experience as nervous specialist satisfies him that no murder was ever committed without motive. If there were no motive there would be no reason why the mur- der should take place, and consequently there would be no murder. The people who possess ill an inordinate degree the propensity to kill their fellow creatures are generally skillful in concealing their motives and again are actuated by reas- ons which are altogether inadequate from normal standpoint.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
Dynamite Explodes at a Dance.

dynamite cartridge placed under the corner of a house near McGahcysviIle, Va, in which party of negroes were having dance, exploded and almost totally destroyed the building and fatally injurhd Amos Moore would have resulted if an alarm had not been given by man who saw the cartridge and recognized the danger. All but three cs. capped from the building before the explosion took place. Moore and the two women, who had not time to escape, were thrown with ter rible force through the building, and it is feared, that they cannot recover. It is thought that the perpetrator of the fiendish act is known, and every effort is being made to arrest him
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

Mss MARY MAccR1BBEN, who died recently in Washington, claimed to have seen every President from Washington down to Cleveland. She was born in Annapolis, Md, and lacked but few years of being a century old. During the war of 1872 she was living in Balti- more City and witnessed the memorable bombardment of Fort McHenry. She was we'll acquainted with John Howard Payne and witnessed his first appear ance on the stage in Baltimore. She first went to Washington by stage in 1921, the journey from the Monumental City occupying twelve hours.
 CHARLES B. BoLEs is the real name of the famous California highwayman generally known as Black Bart At
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
TRAIN ROBBERS AT WORK.
Central Pacific Express Ca: Rob-
 bed in the Sierras.

The eastern overland express was robbed by masked men near Clipper Gap, Cal, as the train was running slowly through the snow sheds The robbers ransacked tho express car and got several thousand dollars. The first seen of the robbers was when two masked men appeared at the side door of the express car, smashed in tho upper glass DOT tion, and covered Messengers Johnson and Carpenter with revolvers.
 Under the protection of their weapons the two men climbed into the car and one pro- ceeded to go through the Wells, Fargo X Co., s safe and packages while the other held the two messengers at bay. They ransacked the car and safe, securing everything they could find, but, singuarly enough, they left in their hurry sack containing $1O ,O0O in coin which was in the safe. Several other sacks standing near containing smaller amounts were also untouched, which leads 10 the inference. that the men became alarmed before they had fully ransacked the safe and fled.
 Near New England Mills they disappeared through the side door, dropping to the ground as the train was going at a. fair speed. A force of detectives sent out at once by special train, but they haven't yet returned, and no particulars can be learned of the amount stolen. They were evidently old hands. Both men are described as
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
A Peculiar Russian Bath.

A wealthy New-Yorker and k titled European were served, while Hunting in the Big Horn Mountains not long ago, with a Russian bath of the peculiar type lndulged in by the Indians. The Indian takes no bath whatever during the cold half of the year, but when sum mer comes he bathes often, and then he wants good thing. His is no JMuscovite importation, housed in marble walls and furnished with luxurious crouches, cozy reading rooms, aud the seductive allure mepts of modern bar. It is original in design and simple in construction, but very effective and satisfying in it's re- suits. The camp having been pitched on the bank of & mountain stream, the bucks lie down on the grass and smoke their pipes while the squaws build the baths. Tall saplings are cut and thrust firmly in the ground at each end in such manner as to form curved roof or coop.
 A large hole is then dug in the ground underneath the coop, fire is built, and of it. After the stones have been we'll. heat the coop is covered with hides and wet blankets and the fire extin- RulSl16u WlCu WuGCT. A OeIlSo C1Ouu Ol steam arises and the bucks crawl into the apartment, while the squaws read just the hides and blankets and make the place as nearly steam tight as possi- ble. The Indians sweat till the steam escapes or condenses, and then they crawl from under the flaps and jump di- rectly into the brook. When they leave the water they lie down in the sun; the squaws bring dry skins and blankets and the bathers refresh themselves with pipes and firewater.
 Eastern sportsmen who have sought excitement ill the West havc sometimes been surprised to find the wild Indian enjoying some of the extreme refine ments of civilization. The latest pat tern of popular rifle for big game was ill the hands of the Indian before it could be purchased in New York. Local sportmen who had sought in vain for it ill this city went out on the plains and found the first savages they met armed with it.-N. Y. Times
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
READ HIS OWN EPITAPH.
Returned to His Home After Being
 Absent Twenty Years

aDSenC twenty 1edrS.
 An old man was seen groping his way slowly among the graves in the old church yard at Oxford, Me His name was Ezekiel Fogg and as lc stopped before an old stone, crum bling with the frost of many winters, Il, had the unusual experience of witnessing his own name engraved thereon.
 The fact was that, although alive and still vigorous, he had been for years dead to l.is family and friends and they had marked h;s death by n suitable mound aud headstone.
 He started for the West about twenty years ago, and settled in Plattsburg, N Y, for a short time. only to continue on his travels until he reached town in Nebraska, where he worked i'll a stone quarry. There his wife and son joined him, but after year or two they went back to Maine, the father agreeing 10 follow in a few days. Fogg did not return. Later his friends heard that he had been murdered.
 Fogg trave,ed about i'll variousparts ofthe West, farming at one time ill Arkansas, and living later as hunter and trapper in tine mountains of the Far West. One day he found Maine paper and he read O.! tho death of a man bearing the name of his only son. This revived his memories. and he decided to return home hoping that hc might find some trace of his family. It is believed, though, that the whole family is de,I
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
the breaking out of the WAT he was living

the breaking out of the WAT he was living in Decatur, H., and joined the 116th Illinois Regiment, was made Sergeant, and served three years, gaining some distinction for bravery. Returning home in 1865, he disposed of his farm, locating his wife and three small chil- ,dren--all girls-in the little flown of Oregon, Ill.,, and then started, for Montana. From all information his domestic relations were peculiarly happy. His wife is described by her neighbors as an estimable woman, and the children he left behind him were bright and unusually pretty. For many years he has been terror to the stage companies and travellers in the noun tains of California.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
New Pacific Fisheries.

The Canadian Fisheries Department has been apprised of tho return to Victoria of two British Columbia Auhing schooners which had been on an exploring tour to Black Cod Banks of Queen Charlotts's Islands. The owners of the vessels have been richly rewarded for their enterprise. Fish were found in great abundance in from 15O to 300 fathoms, and at about three miles from shore. The anchorage along the coast is excellent, in natural barbors, well sheltered from the wind. The supply of fish at all times was all that could be desired, and steam fishing ves- sells, with 300 or 400 fathoms of cable, would doubtless succeed best in the fishery. The Victoria people are naturally somewhat ex- cited over the success which has attended the inauguration of what promises to become a great industry.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
TWENTY LIVES LOST.
Another Terrible Disaster on the
 Mississippi River.

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 The Ouchita River steamer, the John NJ. Hanna, was burned near Plaquemine, 100 miles from New Orleans, about midnight and twenty lives were lost
 The Hanna was a short distance above Plaquemne when d negro roustabout cried out that the boat was on fire. The next moment the flames burst from big tier of cotton bales The vessel was laden with cot ton in a very dry condition. The flames sprang from bale to bale like flashes of lightning, and shot up through the cabin ana over the sides of the cotton, wrapping the entire boat in flames. The scene that enSued was terrible in the extreme.
 The smoke was so thick and suffocating from the high piles of burning cotton that q number of persons were overcome by 1t and fell in a suffocated condition on the floor, where they died before the flames reached them. In the meantime the crew were fight ing the flames as best they could but with out success. The flames soon reached the engine room, bursting the steam pipes, and releasing great volumes of steam that severe ly scalded several of the men.
 Capt. Jolles, the pilot, had swung the wheel around, and headed the Hanna for the shore. AS she had full head of steam on at the time, she was run into the bank ill two orthree min utes. A maj jority sprang from her when she was about ten yards from the shore, and the moment the boat touched the rest leaped into the mud and water The Hanna rested moment aground then bounded away and swung around, drifting down stream, and burning until she finally sank.
 Although the crew had escaped from the burning boat they were not wholly saved, and both the Captain and Bob Smith, the pilot, met their death after getting ashore They sprang into the mud on the bank, and becoming fast there, were slowly burned to burning boat. They buried their faces and hands in the soft mud to protect themselves, and appealed to the people on the shore to come to their assistance This was impossible. The Captain was finally pro- tected from the fire by means of a box, aud late, however He had suffered too serious injuries. and he died before he reached Plaque mine. The Hanna was valued at SIS ,OOO : her cargo at $12. 900. Both are total loss
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
A SERIOUS WRECK.
Twenty five Persons Injured, Two
 Fatally.

As the passenger express train, on the New York Central road was passing Churchvilc it jnmped the track because of the spreading of the rails, and the locomotive, express car, and eight passenger cars were thrown into the ditch running alongside the track. The train was going ut a speed of over forty miles an hour in an endeavor to make up time, and it. was strange that more serious results did not follow, ;s it is 25 per sons arc injured at least iwo of them fatally. The latter arc Mrs.J. H. .McCormack, of Buff falo and Miss Anna Penney, of Lewiston, Me. The wreck is a serions one and the track was blocked for several hours.
 The baggage car is upside down in the ditch. One passenger cer ran into the field and turned over on onnside. The eng inc and the rest of the ears left the track, but arc not badly wrecked. The train left the track just west of the Black Greek bridge, and all the cars passed over the bridge on the ties, but none went into the creek.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
Progress in Panama

The work on the Panama canal continues, although on some sections labor has been reduced. Altogether some two thousand men have been discharged during the past two months, owing to disputes between the canal company and contrac- tors. It is not expected that more work men will bedispenscd The highest authorities consider total with suspension of work very improbable. Such suspension could only be occasioned by the complete failure of the organization scheme now under consider ation in Paris. There are now about nine thousand laborers actually engaged on the rCS
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
No Indemnity Yet Demanded.

It is asserted positively by the Department of State that no demand for indemnity has been made in the ease of the steamer Haytian Republic, which was recently given up by Hayti on demand of the United States war ships MT. Morse, owner of the vessel, recent ly requested Secretary Bayard to demand $25O 900 indemnity The Secretary has in formed him. in reply, that there is no need of haste in the matter, and that the question of damages can best be determined after the yes. sci has arrived at New York, where it is due in a few days.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
A Poor los CrOp.

Reports received from 25 of the leading points where ice is stored along tine Hudson river between Esopus and Albany, N. Y. state that careful examinations made of theice fields show that they are unfit to be harvest ed. The heavy rains caused the water in the Hudson to become very muddy. When the cold weather came the mud froze with the ice The ice is of a chocolote color. When turned up it looks more like plowed ground than anything else. Nothing would please ice men better than to see ice fields float southward and a new crop form. The gross tonnage of ice now in the icehouses is less than it was this time Inst year
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

Papers Adverse to Pensioner Ab-
 stracted by a Clerk.

According to the statements of some of the officials of the Pension Bureau at Washing ton bundle of documents relating to a pen sion case was laid on the desk of Deputy Con- missioner Mclean for final action The case was regular on it's face, and the applicant en- titled to relief under the laws of the United States. At the last minute an adverse cer- tiication of an examining surgeon, backed up with an affidavit, were filed. These last-men- tioned documents defeated the application
 When Commissioner Mclean began his con- sideration of the case the certificate and uffi- davit were missing An investigation was made by the Government secret service under the direction of Chief Clerk Gallagher. It is understood that one of the clerks of the bu- reau made waS with the papers while they were laying on the desk. and proof to that efecthas been obtained. An arrest will prob ably follow in the course of a day or two. The motive for the theft is said to be in the fact that the claimant and the suppositous thief are personal friends. The clerk indi- rectly desired to make certain the issuance of the certificate.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
CATTLE MARKETS.

NEW YonK-Good Steers, 10 to lO4c.; Fair do, Sa4 to 9s4c; Oxen,7 7h to l0c; Dry Cows live weight, Sl.6O@ s4.25; Bulls, do., s1.S5 O S4 ,O; Sheep, 8 to 5Ac: Lambs 51a to 6c.; Veals 5to Slac.; Hogs, city-dressed 61s to 7cper fb.
 WATERFOWL, Mass.-Market Beef, few choices7.s 0 to SS %; extra, $7.OO to S7.52; Is; quality, ss. % to $50; ;2d quality, 500 to S5.50, Sd quality, $4.00 to $4.50. Swine.--Western fat, live, 6 to 6Ac.; Northern dressed hogs 6I to7 cents per fb Sheep and Lambs.-In lots, S2OO, SS.OO to S4 each; extra, s t25 to s5; Spring Lambs, 31s to61zc, per 1b; Veal Calves, 2E to 6c. 1b.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

THE case of M Chauffat, French man, is attracting medical attention in London. On one occasion last year he slept continuously for thirteen days and a half, and, at the latest advices from England, he was lying asleep at the Alexandria Palace, having fallen into a sort of trance six days before. His ap- pearance is generally normal, but at times his limbs are set in uncommon rigidity. No respiration is perceptible and there is constant twitching of his aye1idS
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
Buried Alive.

fatal accident occurred in Denver, Col, which resulted in the instant death of atleast four men and the wounding of several others. The Denver Gas Co. had 100 men employed in excavating ditch, six feet deep along the sid. of and underneath the track of the cable car line, when suddenly the track for an en- tire block fell, crushing the life out of and inn prisoning the men underneath. Men were immediately set to work removing the fallen track and four dead and two badly wounded have been removed The other men escaped with more or less bruises 1t is not yet known whether any more are beneath the track or not
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
CANADIAN ANNEXATION.
Most of the Outside Towns Near the
 Border Favor It.

There is no douht that the feeling ill favor of union between Canada and the United States is growing in Windsor, opposite De- trGit and neigh boring Ontario towns. Three newspapers published there, tine Review. Clarion aud Record, speak in favor of amIcxa- ton of some sort.
 Some time ago q political union club was formed at Windsor with the idea of sprea ding the doctrines of annexation, and it was pro- posed to have the Mayor issue q procarla- ton for an election to get a vote on the feel ing This was not done, although petitions were drawn up to this effect. The town off cers decided thatlt could not be done without an order from the General Government. It is said that outside of men holding positions in the Post Office and Gust om House, who live on the public, the feeling in ;lll parts oi Canadu is in tlvor of q nn:nn of some k:nd.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
GEN. LoGANs BODY REMOVED
Deposited in Its Final Resting Place in the Soldiers Home Cemetery

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 The remains of Gen. John A. Logan were removed from the Hutchinson vault in the Rock Creek Cemetery, where they were placed about two years ago, to the new Logan Chapel in the National Soldiers Home Ceme tery, Washington.
 The transfer made without ceremony, and as the little company were ready to leave the cemetery, John A. Logan, Jr., in a few words, thanked the guard, who have watched over the remains for nearly two years, for their watchfulness and fidelity, and pinned on the breast of each a gold medallion bearing Gen. Logans head in bas relief on one side, and an inscription on the other, hanging from bar, bearing the word Fidelity"
 The new chapel is of Maine granite, built in the Norman style of architecture and is in- tended as family sepulehre. A Saxon cross surmounts the apex of the roof, and large stone l. stands out in bold reliefover the arch of the doorway. The interior-a space of eighteen feet by fifteen, and probably twenty Feet high-is lined with pressed brick with or namented trimmings, and several windows give plenty of light. The coffin containing Gen. Logan's remains, will be encased in Q steel casket and rest on the tiled floor in the centre of the chapel, visible to the public through a heavy, grated iron door.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

ALFRED LADD, of Rutland, Vt., has suffered from neuralgia of the face so intensely that he the other day al lowed rash and inquisitive doctor to cut out his inferior dental nerve. Three quarters of an hour were consumed in the operation which is rarely attempted bv s11rpaons
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain, who has so many fine characteristics as we'll as lot of bad ones, has now earned the sympathy of Americans by displaying deep devotion to the game of poker, to which she invites select parties at her honse in Paris
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

TH1RTY-F1vE years ago George M. Woodruff, of Litchfeld, Conn.,, cut his initials on the limb of an apple tree. They disappeared in time; but when the tree was cut down and split into firewood not long ago the initials were found four inches from the surface perfectly dis tinct,
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
A Building ColIapses.

While an entertainment was being held in the hall at East Prospect. Pa, the building collapsed and 300 persons fell with the broken timbers from the second to the first floor. To add to the terror of the situation the stove set fire to the ruins. A large number were badly bruised and cut, but there were no fatal casualties and only few were seriously injured. The work of releasing the unfortun- ates, some of whom were pinned fast by the debris, was speedily accomplished by the uD- .pi,
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
by surgeons.

THE Duchess of Montrose's example has been copied. Sir William O'Malley, rich baronet, aged 75, has married at Dublin Miss Caroline Favey, a damsel of Is. The baronet advertised for a housekeeper and was so taken with Miss Caroline that he at once proposed and was accepted.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

LONDON dressmakers and milliners are heavily fined if they allow girls to work over hours in their shops. One of the best known and most patronized dealers in mourning goods in that city was recently up in the police court on a charge of this kind.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
Fire and Flood,

In Saigo, China. fire destroyed 700 of the 1000 houses in the town including the Post Office and most of the temples. The flames had been extinguished only half hour when the river, swellcd by food, swept away the embankmcnts, broke bridges, and caused great damage to the crops. Tho double visi tation has caused great misery.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

HENRY F. CHEATHAM, the new col ored member of Congress from North Carolina, is. says the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, ga mulatto, well-behaved and quiet, and has some of the best white blood in the State in his veins"
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
Canrrh Cured.

A clergyman, after years of sufYer
 that loathsome disease, Catarrh, an
 trying every known remedy, at last founV prescription which complete cured and saved him from death: Any sufferer from this dread ful disease sending a self-addressed Stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, SS Warren St., N. I., will receive the recipe free of charge
 An experiment recently made in Scotland \ proves that the tortose can walk mile in four . hours.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

ELI WRIGHT, of Youngstown, Ohio, has received a transcript from the re- cords at Washington that shows him to have been the youngest Union soldier in the late war. He enlisted when twelve years and one month old.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
Disliked Confinement.

Fourteen prisoners escaped from the Ham, ilton County Jail, at Chattanooga, Tenn, by cutting oil six iron rods an inch in diameter and sliding down rope, made ofblanksts,to to tAa mound. Officers have been searching the oountyy h all directions, but none of the fu- Hi6f0U have bsoA rseaptured.
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02
Modes of TranSpOrtatiOn.

City Man (answering an old lady's question: will cost you about $3, l think. That is the usual charge for 8 hack ride around the cornor.
 Old Lady-I said nothing about hack rides. want to go to Hacks Corners, on the railroad, forty miles away.
 City Man-Oh! 1t will cost about $1. N. F. TTeehLy
Connecticut western news., 1889-01-02

P1TMAN, the shorthand man, doesn't believe in vaccination, medicine, astro- nomy, religion, love, marriage, or & future state, and thus far no one has wasted minutes time striving with him,