Connecticut western news., 1889-05-22
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns.

The closing of the saloons in Boston will throw 3 3,500 bartenders out of work.
 In the Northwest farm laborers are holding mass-meetings in the fields to discuss the wage question.
 The strike of the miners at Brazil, Md, is
 yer, and over 4.OOO men have compromised with the employers and returned to work.
 The capacity ofthe eEdgarThompsonSteel, Works, at Homestead, Penn., has been inl creased and large number of additiona workmen have been taken on.
 Work has to a partial extent been resumed with new hands on the Susquehanna Rolling Mill at Columbia, Penn., the puddlers oi which went on strike six weeks ago.
 Tho immense Candee rubber works at New Haven, Conn.,, which had beeen idle for some time, have started up agaln with full com plement of hands in all the departments
 The Occidental Sugar Company, with Claus Spreckels at it's head, will soon start ten immense bect-root sugar factories in California, for which nearly all the machinery will be made by California workmen.
 Two large mains in the aqueduct of tht National Water Works Company, which con veys water from the Miss ouri River at Qin. daro, Kan, to Kansas City, were washed away as a result of the recent heavy rains. The pecuniary damage is $2O O,OOO, and Kan sas City will depend on the Raw River for water for two weeks or more.
 The Oil Trade Association of New Eng land passed resolutions in which they repre- sented to the Senate Committee on Inter State Commerce the advantage the trade has enjoyed in being able to ship oil to the West by way of Canada, and expressed the hope that the practice would not be interfered with.
 The coalheavers of Ashland, Wis, have gone again on a strike to secure 50 cents a day. The companies have employed men from St. Paul and Duluth to take their places. Special police have been appointed to prevent trouble.
 -Dr. Porter, State Health Officer of Flor ida, has exnruined reported case of yellow fever at Palmetto, Mnnatce County and pro- nounced it typhoid malarial fever. e
 The body of an unknown man was fonnd hanging to tree in ravine near Winena, Minn. 1t Is believed to be a case of suicide
 The Illinois House of Representatives has passed the bill appropriating $50, 900 for monument to the late Gen. John A. Logan.
 The bill authorizing the construction of elevated roads in Boston was killed in the Massachusetts Senate by q vote of 20 to 15
 A. w. Edens pleaded guilty to charge of forgery in the Superior Court in Boston recently. He was the agent of Q Florida land company, and was detected in forging names to leases.
 u, suicide at Florida, Orange County. He was found hanging in his woodhousc. He was TO years of age, and was thought to have been insane. He leaves a widow and three chl dren.
 Turner Hall, in Bridgeport, Conn.,, was burned, causing Q loss of SAC, 1000, The building was erected two years ago by cor poration, and was occupied by several Ger man societies. The fire was the work of an incendiary. Eli Cook, colored, has been ar rested on suspicion.
 Gov. Bulkely, of Connecticut nominated Judgo Charles B. Andrews, of Ltchfeld, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Judge David Terrence, of tho Superior Court, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and renominated Judge Elisha Carpenter, Of Hartford, to the Supreme Court. .
 Tho Supreme Council of the Catholic Knights of America met in Chattanooga. Every State and Territoryin Yhich the order exists was represented except Montana.
 Hugh L. Mckay, an internal revenue clerk at Norfolk, Va, was arrested on a charge of embedding S2, 300 from the Gov ernment.
 Two thousand employees of the National Tube Works Company. at Mckeeport, Penn, struck work for an advance in wages Of lO per cent.
 Million Allen. who was looking for work,
 
 Conn. He belonged to Thompsonville, Conn
 The four-masted schooner Talofu, Ar thur Sewell & Co. owners, was launched at Bath, Me. She is of 7SS tons burden.
 James Albert won the walking match at San Francisco with a score of 533 mlcs. Guerrero was second, with 525 miles.
 The Pattern Makers League of North America, at their meeting in Pittsburg, agreed to abolish all piece work. A wreck on the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad at Ormsby, \ suburb of Pittsburg. Penn., resulted in the injury of eight workmen, three of them seriously. The accident was caused by the backing ot a freight train upon a siding on which stood Q work train, which carried 100 Hungarians. number of cars were wrecked. In the case of Peter Magee against the West End Street Railway Company, of Bos- ton, the jury returned Q verdict for ten thous | and dollars for the plaintiff, Magee, who was | a member of hook and ladder company | had leg taken of in a collision between the | truck and horse car while going to fire. A storm of wind and rain swept over | Burlington, Iowa, and surrounding country | doing considerable damage to buildings Snow fell in Northern Michigan and Wiscon | sin to n depth of from three to five inches.