Connecticut western news., 1889-04-10
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER,
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condelfscd From Many Redundant Columns.

Interesting Paragraphs Condelfscd
 From Many Redundant Columns.
 The value of Meissoner's pictures which will
 he exhibited in the French Exhibition is es.
 timatr,i at $2,000,O00.
 The prejudice against horse flesh has now
 so faded out in Paris that there are l32
 rrcognized butcher shops where horse flesh is
 openly sold
 On the recommendation of Mir. w. H.
 smith, the Queen has granted pension of
 SiO0 q year to Inc wife of the late Professor
 Proctor. who is now in Florida
 The candlo in Othello and Desdemona's
 bedroom, now being played at La Scala, is
 an electric light, no other form of illumiua-
 ton being permitted there
 Mrs Bernard Becre, one of London's most
 prominent mattresses, has made her debut as
 singer. Her voice is rich eontralto, and
 promises in time to make her singer of rrlirnt rank
 A new American actress, Miss kinharvie
 has made her debut in London in Young
 Mrs Winthrop" She is said to lack spon- taneity and pathos, but is a beautiful wo
 man and dresses cxpuisitcly.
 "A new medal made in Germany has the heads of William l., Frederick ILL, and Will
 ham II.
 The body of q woodranger named Gil uoW H'ts "FH ituuu III lHc hNeT NOTc, hU
 Kilkenny, with the skull crushed. It is be hc.ed that the man was murdered on account of agrarian troubles
 Captain wissmann the German Imperial Commissary has assumed supreme comma nd on the Zanzibar mainland, Admiral Dein. hard, the commander of the German squad
 ron. consenting-
 "A despatch from Panama, via Galveston, Texas, says: Since the suspension of work on the canal over eight thousand laborers have been sent home from the lsthmus. A consul, ar investigation shows that there are still over thrtc thousand persons the line of the works who arr in n destitute condition Sonc deaths from starvation have already bcn reported, and it is feared that many more will occur if prompt measures are not taken by the West Indian Government to send the people back to their homes Negroes and women and children are the worst suffer- ris Despite the great distress, goud order prevails
 The woik of forming new Compton q Escomptc in Paris does not progress and ii is expected the scheme will be abandoned.
 The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill providing for the esta ablishment of parole system for prisoners in the State penltentiaries.
 -George Cunningham, the janitor of the Court House Tn Scranton and Q well-known 6rand Army man, accidentally shot himself wound.
 Thomas Washington, IA years old. was put on an engine on the railroad of the Pio- neer Coal Company, near Charleston. W. Va. He returned and struck Engineer Spriggles on the head with pump handle, knocking hfm down, and then beat him to death
 Col. Richard Long, treasurer of the Long Sprng Trust Company, ofChicago, was struck oy an Erie and Pittsburg engine on the Fort Wayne road in Allegheny City and fatally injured; He had command of the Seventy f IPfY( T served under Gen. Fremont. He gained his toricai prominence by capturing Bella Boyd, the notorious rebel spy.
 VI W. White. Sheriff of Mclean county. attended religious revival and there con lessed that 13 years ago he embedded $1 900 | ot the county funds. He pal over the money, and promised to pay the interest which will | amount to $500.
 -The foundry and machine shops of Sheriff < Sons on First ave-, near Ferry st., Pitts ourSh, caught fire and were totally destroyed together with large number of valuable | patterns. The flames spread to the Anchor Paste Works The total loss will reach $6O- | 900. Sheriff < Sons loss is about $35 900. l with $1O,OOO more1on the building The An chor Paste Works loses about $15, 1000.
 Fire originating in butchers shop at Nelson, Neb,, burned . whole block of IA | buildings, including hotel, two drug stores, | three groceries one hardware and one gener- | al merchandise store. Loss, $5O,OOO. | Fire at Wilson, N. C.. destroyed the facto- ry of John A Wilson & Co., manufacturers of sashes and blinds, together with the Rieh- mond and Danville station and other build lngs. The loss is $30,OOO.
 The box, Reg. and wheelbarrow factory, of D. K. Saluel Son. at Knoxville, Tenn, vas destro ed by fire The loss is about $2O- OOO; no insurance.
 Lives have been lost, many people were made homeless and property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was destroyed by the prairie fires and high winds in Dakota and Minnesota.
 Settlers on the Des Mones River lands in l Iowa made armed resistance against evic- tlon, and drove of the United States mar shals and their men.
 Captain R. K. Lord rowed out upon Lake Maxinkuctee, near Logansport, Ind, tied lump of lead around his waist, cut his throat and jumped into sixty-fve feet of water. His body was recovered.
 Special Treasury Agent George H. Sim mons unearthed a system of wholesale snug ghng by which the customs have been de frauded of over f200 900 during the last few years. The Yanderbilts, Garretts and others have been imposed upon by the smugglers.
 The night messenger boys of the Western | Union Telegraph Company in Chicago are on ! strike. They receive at present 8 per week | and they have demanded S3 50, and to get | of every tenth night
 Comm andant H. .. Seely, of the League Island Navy Yard, has Icceived commup.- cation from Secretary of the Navy Tracy | ordering that the cruiser Yorktown be made ready for sailing on April 20.
 During fire in a sash and blind factory | at Wilson, N. C., a workman name Wallace, | who went into the factory to save his tool | chest. was burned to death.
 Deputy Warden Cherrington, of the Ohio | Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, was sus- pended for infcting inhuman punishment up- on an insane convict.
 Prof B. F. Posey. ex-Superintendent of Public schools in Winston County. Ala, has been arrested at Boonville, Ark, on a charge | of embezzlement.
 An attempt was made to wreck the Penn | ey1vania limited yestibule passenger train | No. at Louisville, near Canton, Ohio, by | little town. The Instructions were discovered | and removed in time to prevent bad acci- dent taking place.
 In the Toronto (Ontario) Police Court | Sohn Lee West consented to give up the | money stolen by him from his employer, | Charles Feahney of New Orleans. The charge | of having brought stolen money into Canada | was then dismissed and West was released. |
 A riot and attempted lynching occurred l at Xenia, Ohio. Sherman Jackson stabbed | and killed Frank Lawrence, colored. mob | attempted to lynch Jackson. but the police, | after a hard struggle, placed the prisoner Tn l jail.
 "A freight train on the New England Rail- | road ran into work train near Hopewell l Junction Patrick Kelcoin had both legs | broken, and two Italians were badly bruised. |
 About 10 switchmen employed in the | Erie wards at Buffalo, struck because three | of their number were discharged and not rein | stated at their demand.
 Burglars blew open the safe of the First | National Bank of Plymouth, Ohio, but got | only S1 ,0Oo-
 -Elwin Booth the great tragedian. has ]