Connecticut western news., 1889-02-27
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns.

IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS. Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns. There has been S3U, 900 fire at Skowhe- an, Me.
 Charles E. Williams, cashier of the Bee Line and Erie freight depot, at Cincinnati Ohio, has mysteriously disappeared.
 (. II. Pugsley has been arrested at Ionia, Mich, for obtaining goods on false pretences He claims to be from Rochester, N. '.
 A north bound passenger train has been thrown from the track near Ralston, Pa. and fifty persons were injured
 A. w. Scott, O prominent resident of Windsor Locks, Conn.,, has been missing since Feb. '. His body has now been found, and 1t is believed that he committed suicide. John O'Nen went to St. Paul, Minn., and married the Widow Hamline, reputed rich He stocked a store but the widow would not pay for the goods and has separated from him.
 Charles Morris and his wife, living near Blacks, $. C., went out for Q walk, locking thcir two children in the house. When they returned there was only heap of ashes where their house stood. . - Two members of the Ferry faction of the Stone county feud, which took place
  Frank and William Armstrong. are locked up in the jail of Ozark, Mo-, charged with murder.
 Very grave accusations of improper con- duet are to be brought before a joint -com- mittee of the Pennsylvania Legislature against George F.. MacGarland, ex-Superin- tendent of the Soldiers Orphan Schools of Philadelphia.
 An explosion occurred in Pomeroy' s shooting galely, Bristol, Conn.,, causing ser ious damage. The building was set on fire by the explosion, and three kegs of powder stored in the building were soon reached by the fire, causing another and more serious ex- rlosion and completely wrecking the building. The residence of Mrs. Henry Moser, near Carlisle, Pa., was entirely destroyed by fire, with it's contents. The occupants of the house barely escaped with their hves. Loss, S50,000.
 Ten buildings in the village of Allegany, N. r., were burned. The loss is $30,00O.
 The Ramirez -Varela Colonization Com pany, after compliance with the law, has taken up one thousand sitios of Oaxaca land in the States of Guerro and aca, Mexico, and will transfer it to an Amer- can syndicate. This is one of the most valua- ble land and mining concessions ever granted by the Mexican Government. ,- Nelson c. Hubbard, of Wheeling W. Ya., freshman of Wesyan College at Middle town, was severely injured at that institution ana was taken 70 the nOSplVal m NeW f1dyen. He and several friends were celebrating Wash ingtons birthday by firing of fire crackers in their rooms. Some one threw a large cracker into Hubbard s room, and he picked it up when it exploded in his right hand, the hand was badly mutilated, aud the first two fingers were amputated. -.. A despatch from Topeka, Kan, announ- ces the most disastrous fire that ever visited that place. It began in the Clonbe front i've story stone block on Kansas avenue, owned by Wilson Keith and occapied by the George W, Crane Publishing Company Crane loss is $200.0 .0O0, and the loss on tie building is $40.000.
 -Twenty-one business firms were burned out in Rock Rapids, Iowa. Loss s75,0o0.
 A wooden bridge over he Yamaska River nt Brownsville, Canada fell forty feet A man named Tipney was killed and several persons were injured.
 Ut is said the Canadian Government will not announce any changes in the customs tariff until President-elect Harrison has been installed in office, and has announced his policy.
 George D. Egert, 61 years old, and for about thirty years roadmaster for the Utica and Black River Railroad Company, hanged himself ;n a woodshed in the rear of his resi- dence at Utica. -......
 An overloaded stove in the dry goods and notion store of Isidore Horn, at 915 South street, Philadelphia, caused a fire which resulted in the loss of two lives. Mrs Schwartz and her baby were burned to death. Others saw factory, at Columbus, O., has been totally destroyed by fire. Loss, S40,- -Forty-eight deaths from diptheria have occurred at Wabash. Ind Every case has proved fatal. A row of small business houses on Twen ty-second street, Chicago; were burned. Loss, $5O,OOO.
 Rev. James Gibson, a colored preacher was drowned while trying to swim across Sugar Creek at Charlotte, N. c. James Moran. a boy of Is, of Brooklyn, Ill.,while suffering with rabies, bit his mother The mother is now suffering with hydropho- pha, and both will die.
 -J. F. Thompson has brought suit for A 900 against Mime. Albani for alleged breach of contract in 1884 in the matter oi concerts proposed to be given in Buffalo and Toronto. -Representatives from ninety firms of car riage, wagon and buggy manufacturers in the East and West met in Chicago and organized "The Carriage and Freight Association"
 The Greenwich Hotel at Springfield, Mass. has been burned. Loss, s2l ,0O0.
 The ninth convention of the Ma tiona Electric Light Association has met in Chica go.
 Prince Dhuieep Singh, who is now station ed at Halifax in the British service, is visit ing Niagara Falls.
 John Wilson, the Dakota train robber who broke jail at Deadwood, has been recap tured.
 The summer residence of John Hunting ton of the standard Oll Company at North Dover Ohio. has been destroyed by an incen diary fire. Loss, $500
 The machine shops. car shops and locomo tive house of the Coneinnati St. Louis anC il,,-,,y h,,, h,ar Inv fire. Loss, S2C0,ooO.
 Jesse Calhoun, descendant of John c Calhoun and one of the wealthiest residents of Pike County, Ark, committed suicide after hearing that his only son had been arrested in Texas for murder.