Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 INA FEW BRIEF WORDS

u DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 INA FEW BRIEF WORDS Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redundant Columns.
 When a f1re Tn a New York tenement with which an incendiary had intended to blow up the place, was discovered.
 Indian Commissioner Oberly has been summoned to Washington to testify before a Senate committee about an alleged disregard of law concerning Indian reservations by an employee Of the department, and scandalous disclosures are expected.
 Members of the Dakota Legislature con. template asking for the removal of Governor Louis K. Church.
 Chicago anarchists declare that the peo- pie will shortly take the government into their own hands by force.
 Over half a million dollars worth of property was destroyed by fire in Philadel- phia. The Hotel Stratford was badly dam- aged and the guests became panic stricken. One fireman was killed and two were in jured.
 Cornelius II. Delamater, head of the great Dclamater Iron Works, died at his home in New York, after a two days illness, from pneumonia.
 N nat Inc pODce ana DfFlu stevenson De ieve to have been an attempt to destroy the latter's brewery with bomb was made in New York. The explosion was terrific and damaged the houses for a hundred yards around, but the brewery escaped with com paratively triiing injury Several persons were hurt, but no one dangerously.
 The Pacific Guano Company, of Boston has assigned. with liabilities of $1 ,OO0, GOO.
 Tho Attica, N. Y, sleeper woke up after having slept thirty-four days and fell asleep again within twenty four hours. She seems to know what happens while in the trance.
 Mrs Harrison wife of the President nt-elect, is being considerably annoyed by beggars md plaee-hunters of every description.
 The new Hotel Sutherland, located at Sutherland, Fla, was destroyed by fire, the guests narrowly escaping with their lives The loss is estimated at S11 ,5OO.
 The following countries have significd their intention to be represented at the In tcrnational Maritime Conference in Washing ton next autumn: Brazil, Chih, Denmark France Germany, Great Britain, Hawaii Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweder and Norway and Uruguay.
 Key. T. Heshn, rector of St. Michaels Church, New Orleans, has been appointed Bishop of Natchez, Miss.
 Nineteen of the largest sewer pipe firms in the United States have formed a combination at Welsville, Ohio.
 -Thirty-eight skeletons, thought to be those of Indians, have been found on the farm of Jacob Luce, near Whitlock, Ind.
 Large numbers of white mems cattle are now ranging on the Backfeet Reservation in Montana, and much dissatisfaction is ex- pressed by the Indians.
 The board of Directors of the National Confederate Soldiers Home, which was es- tablished in Austin, Tex, in 1886, have issued an appeal to Northerners for support.
 White Caps have warned the Salvation Army to leave Champaign, Ill.
 Two miners were killed by an explosion -of gas in the Penn shaft at Pittston, Pa.
 The strike of the horse railroad employees has been declared off in Brooklyn, 6he-eeu- pany having gained complete victory. The cars in Brooklyn and New York are now running regularly. Several hundred of the men who took q leading part in the strike were left out in the cold.
 Tho third annual convention of the Mer. chant Tailors' National Exchange is being held in New York. Delegates to the number of 475 are present from all parts of the Union.
 In the Pennsylvania House bill was in- troduccd making it a penal offence, punsha ble by finc of not less than $50 or over $100, for any person to treat" another tc intoxicating liquors.
 Spinal meningitis has broken out among the horses in the nciShborhood of New Brunswick, N. J. Four of MT. Coudert' horses were saved by surgeon The disease affects the motor nerves, and is said to core spond with the spotted fever in hum an beings It has spread over a wide section of the coun. try. and is increasing.
 -James McGowan, one of the New Yori strikers, was shot and killed by Charles Walker, conductor of Boulevard cal which had been attacked by the mob. Walker has been arrested, and claims that the shoot ing was in sclf-defence. This is the first fatality which has resulted from the strike although at the outset much bloodshed was feared. The strike is virtually at an end The men have been ordered to go back to work on Eighth and Ninth avenues.
 -Managua, Nicaragua, has..eithcr the orig inal "Jack the Ripper" or a very excellent imitation. Within ten days six women, al of the character of the women who met theil fate at thehands of the Whitechapel murderer have been found butchered just as myster iously.
 Tt is reported that the United States hn. agreed to Bsmarck's proposal to hold con ference in Berlin on the Samoan question.