Connecticut western news., 1889-10-02
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.

THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
 Prof. B. E. Nichols was killed at Ann Ar bOr, Mich, while trying to stop his runaway horse. Deceased had been teacher in the public schools there for p years.
 Forest fires are reported in Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Sonoma and Marin counties, Cal. The loss has been very heavy valua- ble timber is destroyed, and many suburban villas are burned.
 The constitutional conN ention at Cheyenne, Wy, selected Cheyenne as the seat of govern- ment for ten years, or until majority of the people vote change.
 An English capitalists, who is in Pittsburg. laughs at the talk of English syndicates and their doings. He says: "As soon as an American wants to sell out an Englishman becomes suspicious, as they well know Americans are not throwing any money away"
 One night last week Ernest BOvey went to college at Princeton, N. J., as a Yale man, made himself popular with everybody and stole $500 belonging to student and then decamped. Bovey's father says 'tis an old trick of his sons.
 The Hayerstraw express from Jersey City ran into a freight train the other night, n terribly burned by being showered with vitriol from wrecked car.
 Mrs. Siler of Indianapolis, Ind, had four children. Among them is 3-year-old boy, who set fire to his baby sisters clothing few days ago and held blazing paper to the in- fant's face, burning it so badly that it died. When q crowd had gathered in the house af- ter the infant had been burned to death, the youngster tried to set fire to the clothing of a neighbours little girl.
 Winnebago Indians threaten to kill every person in Thurston county, Neb., if two In- dians, now held for murder, are convicted.
 A large textile manufactory is to be erected at Chester, Penn., under the auspices of Heztel & Co. of Philadelphia, Penn., a large tract having been secured on the river front. It will be on the same plan, but larger than the Aberfoyle Mills, just about being com pleted.
 The engine, postal and baggage cars and two day coaches on the Big Four' road were ditched near Greensburg, Md. while running at the rate of 30 miles an hour, by an open switch at McCoy's. Engineer Winslow was considerably scratched, but he was the only one injured. Train wreckers are responsible for the accident.
 At the Rochester, N. I., fair grounds the other day, Prof. Jenkins made balloon ascension and parachute jump in the presence of 10 900 people, landing in the top of pine tree on Rochester bill without injury.
 William Loughbridge, ex-congressman from the state of Iowa, died on South Moun- tain, ten miles above Reading, Pa., where he has been for the benefit of his health. He was 63 years of age.
 A train on the Lewisburg & Tyrone rail- road, rounding curve about two miles from Bellefort, Pa., struck a cow and was thrown from the track. It ran short distance on | the cross ties and then the engine plunged down an embankment, carrying the baggage car with it. Two persons were severely hurt, and nearly all those on the train were bruised and battered.
 The decision of the collector at Boston re- fusing to allow drawbacks on boxes made | Secretary Windom on the appeals of the Bea- con oil Company, per Duvall, August p; !; Hale, September 9, 1889.
 President Harrison and Secretary Noble will have consultation, when it is believed | the appointment of q commissioner of pen sions will be decided upon. MT. A. B. Camp | bell, of Kansas, whose name was presented 1 to the President by Senator Plumb, has de- cided, it is said by his friends, to enter the | lists as candidate for the office, and they say that he will be selected.
 Capt. w. R. Jones, general manager of the Edgar Thomson steel works, Pittsburg, Pa., | died of injuries received in the accident | at that place last week.
 | About 20 persons were present at the seventh national convention of the Socialist Labor party in Chicago. The proceedings l were held with closed doors.
 A number of owners of charcoal iron fur naces in middle Tennessee, with syndicate of capitalists, have organized company at Huntsville, Ala, with a paid-up capital ot $270,0 1000, for the purpose of manufacturing steel rails, etc., by the basic process.
 The August statement of the Chicago, Bur- lington !S Quincy comes to light soon. Earn. ings are said to show from $70O, ,OOO to $75O,- 900 increase in the net.
 | There was almost a riot at the Thaila Theatre on the Bowery New York, last week when Police Capt. McCullagh stopped the performance because the place had no license. The audience defaced portions of the theatre and egged Mir. Amberg when their money was not paid back.
 A Pittsburg special from Connellsville says | that the Wheeler < Morrell coke plants o1 the Cambria Iron Company, the last works idle from the late strike, have resumed, the men agreeing to return without the com pany signing the Knights of Labor scale.
 A passenger train on the Baltimore X Philadelphia railroad came into collision with an engine coming in an opposite direction the other day, near the Sixth avenue cross ing, West Wilmington, Del. Fireman Ed. ward Lyle of Newark, Del, was killed.
 Maury Sims, son of Col. R. M. Sims, of South Carolina, who brought in at Appomat- tox the famous flag of truce from Gen. Lee to Gen. Grant, is in Boston, the guest of Col. Herbert k. Hill.