Connecticut western news., 1893-01-26
BRIEF BBR,IIEFTTEssEISS TT EMS OF NEVIS NEVIS
INT FREsTING HAPPENINGS OF THE WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Developments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh From the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Con- deused For Our Readers.


 densed For Our Readers.
 Thursday, Jan. 1e.
 Six telescoped passenger coaches are the result of rear end collision of two passen- ger trains on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad at Hobart, Ind. No lives were lost.
 Two children starved to death at Hanes Valley, Pa.
 The entire population of Charleston in- dulged in snowballing yesterday for the first time in forty years.
 The Goodall worsted mills at Sanford, Me, burned. Loss, S100, ,0O0.
 Howard Edgar, of NutIey, N. J., com mitted suicide. The Ohio river is frozen solid from Pitts burg to Cairo. Elias Carr was installed governor of North Carolina.
 Ex-Sheriff Joseph I. Thompson, of At lantic Highland, N. J., died of paralysis. The wife of Martin Miller, of Alderman vile, who was instantly killed by their sleigh being struck by train at Easton, Pa, has died of her injuries. Yale and Harvard held debating con- test at Cambridge. The latter won by S2 points in a score of ,4S5. Friday, Jan. 20. A sleighing party at St. Paul of fifteen or twenty persons was run into by an cleo tric motor car, seriously injuring six young women.
 John Smith, Harry Williams and John Riley claiming to be from Cincinnati, were | arrested at New Albany, Ind, yesterday for | passing counterfeit dollars bearing the date of 1888.
 It is rumored that Senator Charles J. | Faulkner, of West Virginia, is to wed the | widow of Senator Hearst, of California. | Senator Faulkner is a widower. Mrs. | Hearst's fortune is estimated at S30, COG, 900. 6. Howard Coveney, whose recent mar | riage with the widow of the late actor, W. | J. Florence, caused such stir, announces | that arrangements will be made by them | for season with "The Mighty Dollar" Fire in the Baltimore warehouse of the | American Phosphate and Chemical con- | pany caused loss estimated at S200, 900. | Adjutant General Porter in his annual report urges that full and complete sup ply of all necessary field equipments be issued to the troops in New York. Saturday, Jan. 21. | c. w. Miller's livery stable at Buffalo | burned.
 | A. M. Gump's sporting goods house at Dayton, O., was destroyed by fire | Three persons were injured in a boiler explosion in the dry goods store of Hills, Mclean & Williams, Binghamton, N. Y. | Fifteen cars of an Erie freight train were | thrown from the track by broken rail at | Washipgtonville, N. Y. | By collision with freight train at Ran dolph, Vt, the Central Vermont express was ditched. Several persons were injured. | All the coal miners in the Echoles, Mo | Henry, Taylor and Williams mines, Gen. tral City, Ky, have struck for an advance in wages.
 The fiywheel of the 75O-horsepower en- | zine in the Alice Rubber mill, Woonsocket, R. l., weighing 1000 pounds, burst, wreck ing the engine room and causing $15,0O0 damage.
 The cashbooks of ex-Auditor Pavey, of Illinois, are missing.
 Monday, Jan. 23.
 Miss Ella Hale of Upper Sandusky, O., lost her voice after a coughing spell five years ago. On Wednesday she had another severe fit of coughing and when it ended her voice returned perfectly. Mrs. Dr. French has fled from Boston to escape arrest on charge of having caused the death of Mrs Lillian Hamilton through I malpractice.
 
 on the stage as Flora Walsh, died. She was taken ill less than week ago.
 Warren G. Abbott's brewery, Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire.
 John Culbertson, aged 7O divorced two weeks ago, married widow of 30 at Can ton, O. One clergyman refused to perform the ceremony
 In boiler explosion at the waterworks at Napanee, Ind, Saturday, Councilman Cornelius French and Engineer William Parker were killed, Electrician Johnson was fatally hurt, and Isaac and James s. Whistler were seriously injured
 At Fort Wayne, Ind, Right Rev. Joseph Dwenger, bishop, died.
 Tuesday, Jan. 24.
 Fred Irving the burglar, was sentenced at Portland, Me, to 20 years imprisonment.
 A gang of men was engaged in getting out logs at Tiadaghton, N. 9., when a large log came down the hill, striking and killing Rodger Nagle and seriously injuring P. c. Roach.
 MT. Louis Towers, the clerk who was seriously burned in the fire in the paint and oil establishment of Francis Miller at Wash ington, died.
 The McBeth Lamp Flue works at El. wood, Ind, were burned. The fire was caused by the high natural gas pressure Over 600 men are thrown out of employ. ment. Loss, S100,000.
 Sylvester Peabody, farmer near Gouv' erneur, N. T., was kicked in the temple by one of his horses and killed.
 About 50 men employed at the Goodyear Vulcanite company's works at Morrisvfllei Pa, quit work because of a reduction of 5t per cent in wages.
 John F. Swartley of Coleman, Pa, was found dead in the Mount Vernon hotel al Washington asphyxiated by gas 1 Rev. Samuel nrcntt Killed