Connecticut western news., 1891-01-28

nearly 200 wires His feet had hardy touched ground when he heard a crash.
 The heavy snow had broken a crossbeam in half, and both parted from the main pole. One half of the crossbeam fell in straight line and struck his horse on the head. Policeman Murphy ran to the bakers assistance, but all he could do was to shoot the horse which had been fatally injured.
 A Firman's Daring Deed.
 As the 2:10 morning up train from City hall on the Third avenue "L' road was approaching the Houston street station "live'' electric wire fell upon the rails in front of the station, emitting sparks. The ticket chopper succeeded in signaling the train so that it came to a stop few feet of the wire, which was hissing fiercely.
 James A. Cottrell, a fireman attached to Engine Company Mo- 9, in Eighty-fifth street, came upon the station. He was on his way home with his wife and three chil- dren from a ball. Cottrel took in the sit uation at glance, and crying out, "Who's got rubber coat?" leaped down on the track near the wire A rubber coat was handed to him, and wrapping it about his hand he picked up the glowing wire and tossed it from the track over to one side, so that it hung in the street in a place of comparative safety.
 New Jersey in Tangle.
 The state of New Jersey is a tangle of wrecked poles and wires from one end to the other, and it will he week before the telegraph service is restored. Five lines of wires across the Newark meadows look as if cyclone had passed over them, so com pletely have the damp, clinging masses of snow done their work. One of the pictur- esque features of the occasion was the loss to the signal service of big cyclone which had been spotted on Saturday morning out in Montana. Last night the weather sharps at the Equitable building couldn't say what had become of it.
 It may come down on us without warn ing today or it may have gone off to the north.
 Pennsylvania in Bad Shape.
 SCRANTON, Jan. 26.-The most destruct- i've snow storm of many years fell last night, and this city is stormbound. The snow broke the telephone and telegraph wires, and this morning the streets were impossible from fallen wires. One huge pole, directly in front of the Western Union office, was broken off short by the unusual strain, and the service of the company was greatly impeded.
 The fire alarm service is also broken. The street car service is hopelessly blocked, not wheel having moved on the different lines during the day. The telegraph com pany is not able to operate 8 single wire The Western Union office could reach Binghampton and Buffalo, and has been trying, with partial success, to reach New York, Philadelphia, and other important centers by way of those cities. The storm also extended to the cities of Wilkesbarre and Carbondale, where the telegraphic and telephonic service are totally interrupted. AN ALLEGED CORRUPTION FUND. A Newspaper Says the 'Force' Bill Will
 Employ 4O2, ,3O5 Republicans.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-In an article on the 'force'' bill, the World says: "Do not the assemblymen of the Empire state appre- ciate the danger which threatens their own people scarcely less than residents of the south? Are they willing to see established in the metropolis political autocracy, with John I. Davenport at the head? Re publican journals have declared that Day exports connection with the measure eX- ists only in Democratic imaginations, but the assertion will not bear the test of in- quiry He admits that he drew the orig inal bill, and of men in the country he has fattened most upon the election laws now in existence.
 "During the past nine years, according to his own figures on file in the treasury department, he has received personally in the shape of fees additional to his salary as United States commissioner over $200, ,00C and has disbursed altogether to Republic an heelers under the guise of supervisors the enormous sum of S527, 1858. This is bad enough, but it is only grain of the amount which will be at his disposal under the pending bill
 "With the power to appoint discreet men at pleasure and perpetual and un- limited appropriation at his back, he would possess a corrupt influence simply beyond all calculation or estimate.
 "Nor should the cost of the measure to the whole country be forgotten. If it's provis ions be executed in the 67,OOO voting pre- cincts in the United States there will be employed 402, ,3O5 men at salaries aggregat- ing s17, ,OOO, ,OOO.
 Think of it-a Republican corruption fund of over ST ,0OO, 900 in 1892. That is the real meaning of this bill. There will nc longer exist the necessity of frying the fat out of manufacturers. The United States treasury will furnish unlimited capital fol Quay in the north, and bayonets without | number for the Mizells of the south. Such | is the Respiration of despair, and such the | character of the contest now waging in the | United States senate. This week may tell the stOry''