Connecticut western news., 1909-12-30
GRIM ES
 AND CASUALTIES s


 younger daughter of
 NN Samuel l.. Clemens CASONLlI IES' (AIark TwainJ, was drowned ill her bathtub ill her fathers country home, Stormtield, near Red ding, Conn.,, during perlCd of uncUn- sciOusneSS fUli0NILg all ;.,,t,k If epi- lepsy. Miss Clemens, who was about twenty-eight years old, had been her fathers social secretary.
 Three minutes after he had been marrled to Miss Rose Lee Butler and as he was about to enter carriage with his bride Gabriel Len was shot to death by Joseph Jackson at Strick- land, Pa, who had been d suitor for the girls hand.
 Governor Fort of New Jersey signed d requisltiou at Trenton for the extra ditiUn from New York of Mrs. Caroline B. Martin and Mary w. Suead, mdirt- ed ill Essex county for the mdrder of Ocey w. Sneud, who was found ill u .bathtub.
 The Rev. William Ritter and his wife were found murdered in their home ill Washington. Ind. The budy of the minister Was found straugieu in the cellar, while that of his wife was found on the floor of the Sittin1 room.
 Two hundred insane women fought for their freedom in Il s.ie which start ed ill the Central Hospital For the lu- sane at Jacksonville, III. They were all rescued by the tiremen. The dam age amounted to SJO.UOO.
 Seven men were killed in the Chi cago and Carterville CUai compuny's mine at Herrin, Ill.,. by gas eXplo- sion caused by Mine Surveyor Pierce and helpers igmiting gas with lamps which they carried.
 Abraham Bennett, the son of a wealthy real estate dealer of Brooklyn, shot and fatally wounded his sister, Anna, and then killed himself. because she had announced that she intended getting married.
 Charles l.. Warriner. the former treasurer of the Big Four railroad, who was found $6t3,OUO short m his accounts, pleaded guilty and was sen- fenced to six years in the penitentiary at Cincinnati.
 Suddenly becoming violently insane, G. C. Cheuvront, runcher, of Fresno, Cal. killed his wife and one child, wounded three other children and end ed his life under the wheels of rail. road train.
 Because her boy lover was paying attention to girl twenty-five years her junior Mrs. Lillian A. Ashley, d trained nurse of Cleveland. O., com mitted sui idr by shooting at Pitts burg.
 Two men were drowned when Il trol. ley car containing seven passengers was derailed at Il switch near Derby, Conn. ard fell down Il ten foot em bankment into the Naugatuck river.
 Adelbert F. Hoyt, real estate deal CT, of New York was sentenced to four years and ten months in Sing Sing prison for defrauding client, Mrs Julia w. Porges, out of S10.0OO. Orville Snyder, who killed Arthur Green ill row at Canyon City, Ore, surrendered, was taken from Deputy DllSllll bs H. Ntet'ts bg AtNN aAt'3aNNN men and shot to death.
 Five trainmen were killed and two were fatally hurt ill Il head-on freight collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad, near Fort Rit- ner, Ind.
 As the result of another outbreak of the tongs in Chinatown, New York, one Chinaman was killed and another mortally wounded by four highbihders.
 Five hundred persons perished in d storm that swept Portugal, aud TOO vessels were driven to sea. The loss amounted to $3O,OOO.O0O
 One man was killed and six injured by the explosion of 1.0S0 pounds of nitroglycerin in the Hercules Powder plant near Ashburn, Mo. 4 gale wrecked the Italian legation at Lisbon, Portugal, destroying the minister's valuable collection of works of art.
 Following the destruction by fire of the Keystone hotel at Gloversviue. N Y, three lives gre lost.