Connecticut western news., 1889-03-27
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed From Many Redundant Columns.

The fire department at Bridgeport was ,alled out in response to four alarms. The 9rst was caused by the burning of Coles, Bal dcrson Coles sash and blind shop, which was totally destroyed. Soon afterward the second fire was discovered in Yanstone & Westlake's carpenter shop Damage slight The third fire was discovered in the station barracks, which were totally dcstrored. The fourth fire started in large double house owned by Patrick Taite. Loss $1 ,5OO The fires were all of incendiary origin.
 John Dietrich and Charles Day found a revolver in Pottsville, Penn, and Dietrich, who is but years old, pointed the weapon nt Day, who IS a year younger, when it was discharged, the ball passing through the boys nose and down the roof of his mouth. 1t is probable that Day will die.
 Emily Schcnckle vas Albert Lindstrom's veetheart, four years ago in Sweden. She refused 10 marry him after he had paid her passage to the United States, and in Worces- ter, Mass, he shot her. injuring hcr fatally and then killed himself
 Tho employees in the machine shop of the Pcnnsylvania Railroad Company in Altoona, Penn. were notified that hereafter nine hours will bn considered days work, with a half holiday on Saturday.
 In a cave on the western side of Bears Mountain, near Cumberland, Md, Daniel Schraum found human skeleton. It tproved to be the remains of John Hodel, an inventor. who seven years ago left his home in fit of despondency, and has not since been heard from. His invention of clock was wonder ful. resembling the Strasburg clock, but it failed to realize financially. bottle found in the cave contained hydrorhlorc acid. He had killed himself Near by were an um- brella. n rosary and some silver coins.
 Bishop Keane, the President of the new Catholic University at Washington, has left Rome for Germany, where he will visit the principal seats of learning, ufterward visiting the universities of Belgium and France.
 -Pohlman Bros stable, St. Louis, Mo-, was destroyed by fire and fifty horses burned up. The stable of !. H. Manor wHs also burned, with ten horses. Fifty horses in all were saved from both stables. Pohlman's loss is $25 ,0OO, aud Menor's S5,OO0, each cov- cred by insurance.
 -Jabez Crowell of Vassalboro, Me-, cele- brated his one hundredth birthday. It was made a very happy event, the townspeople attending in large numbers. Crowcll IS well preserved. His eyesght and bearing are good
 A mine underneath the town of Hyde Park, Pa, sank for the second time recently. The business portion of the town is greatly alarmed.
 Herr Palitschek has been appointed Aus trian Consul at New York, to succeed the late Hugo Fritsch.
 The Dooley- -Milroy feud in Deer Lodge alley, ueleHtl, mOH. HlhiuS ed in one death is on the point of breaking out again. The Milroy fnction stopped Q Dooley funeral by the exposure of firearms and bloodshed was narrowly avoided. Fur ther murders are expected daily.
 -Awoman wno was founu deau lu a norel at Pitt street, Boston, was identified as Mary Lyman, who, in 1874 was near y murdered by Thomas Piper. sexton of the Warren avenue Baptist Church, who was af- terward hanged for the murder of little Ma bel Young.
 The Lewiston Importing and Trading Company. Limited, has been incorporated with a capital of $i50, 900. The incorrora- tors are Leonard Lewisohn, Adolph Lew isohn. Philip Lewisohn and Albert Lcwisohn.
 -J. O'Br:en, aged 24 years of New Britt ain, entered Frederick Ruff's saloon at Hart ford, Conn. X quarrel ensued, when Ruff drew D revolver and shot O'Brien dead. O'Bricn was a soldier.
 proprietor of the Jennings Bit aud Anger Works and worth $500,O0O, has been re- moved to a private insane asylum He is a member Of the Connecticut Legislature,
 The Norfolk, Va, Chamber of Commerce has requested the Secretary of the Treasury to have the Cape Charles Lghtship returned to her anchorage. as its absence is endanger- ing life ard property.
 The schooner Monitor arrived at Glou. cester, Mass. from Burgess Banks Newfound- land. with 55, 900 pounds of fresh halibut, which sold at and cents per pound.
 The cities of. St John and Portland, New Brunswick, have voted to consolidate under the name of St. John. The new city will be the fourth in population under the Domin- ion.
 The Carondelet (South St. Louis) Post Office was robbed of $1 900.
 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have given notice of an important change in its ticket selling arrangements. Special tick cts will be placed on sale for the of parties. Ten or more persons in party will be carried one ticket at the rate of two cents per mile per capita. The present rate is three cents per mile. without regard to the number of persons carried. The privilege is extended over the entire system of the road east of Pittsburg and Eric.
 The Board of Parduns have refused to commute the sentence of death in the case of Mrs. Sarah Jane White!inS, convicted of murder in the first degree. at Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. Whiteug was arrested charged with administering poison to her husband and two children, causing their death. She was tried for the murder of her daughter Bertha, aged years, and convicted as stated. She was sentenced to be hanged. The case of Samuel Johnson. the murder of John Sharpless, was held under advisemeut.
 Mat Zimmerman, the cowboy desperado, who was captured in Utah on last Monday, has been delivered to the Nebraska ;luthori- tres, and is now awaiting the execution of the death sentence.