Connecticut western news., 1889-05-29
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns.

Charles Glendenning, the oldest resident or Alleghany county, Pa, died aged 1O1 years He never used whiskey or tobacco in any form, and up to a few weeks before his death was remarkably healthy. He leaves behind him three or four generations of chil- dren and Q host of friends.
 The syndicate which recently purchased several Newark breweries came into posses sion of George w. Wiedermayer's establish. ment. The price paid is said to be s25O,- ed their entire municipal ticket for the first time in many years by handsome major ity.
 The Aged Workmen's Insurance bill passed the third reading in the Rechstag.
 Ten thousand miners at Saar, Austria, have struck. The Prague tramway lines are at standstill owing to the strike of the drivers.
 John F. Ross, who a few months ago murdered his uncle, George Hughes, in Glou- cester, Va, and afterwards shot himself through the head, is dead.
 -J G. Clarke of Bangor has presented to the Maine State College the fine herbarium collected by the late Rev. Joseph Blake of Andover. Mass. 1t embraces about thirty thousand specimens, and was purchased by Mir Clarke for SIG, ,0oo.
 The bark Mary K. Campbell of New York which went ashore last fall at Matane while on the voyage from New York, coal laden arrived in Montreal, after having wintered in the ice at Matane. She is badly damaged.
 Dwight w Lord cashier of an Omaha National Bank. says that he was robbed on the Sante Fe road of $1 300 in money and s5,OO0 in promissory notes, while sleeping in his berth.
 A band of six horse thieves. who stole Nh Mexico, were arrested by Sheriff Lopcr and $50 of the horses were found iu their posses sion.
 In the luquIry as to the state or auairs at the Chicago Insane Asylum, Dr. Clevenger, formerly O member of the medical staff there, testified that it was impossi ble for reputable practitioner or attendant to stay there The most disreputable ones were the ones to stay, because they devoted more time to intrigue. Boodleism controlled the management of the institution.
 Il. Q. C. Lamar, Jr., son of the distin guished statesman and iurist, has turned up at New Orleans as drummer for Rochester, N. T., shoe house He had been department clerk under President Cleveland, but resigned when Gen. Harrison came in and sought other channels of employment.
 Two years ago Annie Grifiths, of Frank lin, Penn.. was supposed to have been mur dered in Kansas, and her relatives mourned A surprised her friends in Franklin by appear ing among them She is not likely to die for some time.
 Joseph c. Burritt, aged seventy two years. a leading jeweler of Ithaca, N. r., was pruning tree on his lawn. He was upon a ladder twelve feet from the ground. limb gave way and he fell, striking upon his right temple and died soon afterward.
 The Keystone Rolling Mill, at Reading Penn, will resume work. It will run inde- pendent of the Beading Iron Works.
 The passenger steamer John Hopkins, of the Baltimore and Savannah route, was burned at Baltimore. Loss $2O0, ,00O.
 The body of Allen Thorndike Rice was re- moved from the receiving tomb at Mt. Au- burn Cemetery. Boston, and placed in the Bourne family tomb. its final resting place.
 Il. D. Felter. the proprietor Of Hotel Johnson. at Binghamton, was fishing from 0 boat on the Susquehanna- The boat cap sized, and Felter, being unable to swim, was drowned.
 Prof John E. Russell, who recently re- Igned the chair of Biblical Theology at Yale .he Mark Hopkins Professorship of Intellec tual and Moral Philosophy at Williams Col lcge.
 The Supreme Court at Boston set aside the verdict of the Plymouth county. jury which found that the will of the Rev. Father AeNultS was obtalned by undue influence. The property is worth s60.0O0.
 Bishop Keane the rector of the new Catholic University in Washington, arrived in that city. A banquet was given in bis honor in the evening at Welcker's Hotel. A. Leo Knott, formerly Second Assistant Post master General, presided.
 -J- F. Ownhy. lawyer, and Richard Moore, a reckless young man, fought a duel at short range at Paris, Tex, without doing Moore ted while going to court for preliminary examin- ation. was shot and killed by Ownby. The murder was of u eowsrdly character. Ownby stationed himself at courthouse window, and when Moore appeared in custody he rid dled him with buckshot. Moore's brother threatens to kill Ownby