Connecticut western news., 1911-02-16

few hours uter. Saturday Vas the birthday of both Tillie and Annie Ger schOwft;: Lpdermans two .bcarders. Tillie was nineteen years old and An nie, her cousin. was seventeen. The last gathering was different, for the two girls were found dead in bed, with gas escaping from the single jet in their room. It as probably an acci dent
 When William McCrary of Denver fired bullet through his brain be- cause of business and marital troubles he not only took his own life, but killed a friend and cost the life of the woman he is supposed to have been in love with. The bullet passed through McCrary's head and entered the brain of Arthur Knowles, who was standing beside him. Knowles died shortly aft erward. When Mrs. Julia Sohn heard of his act she took carbolic acid. She will die.
 You seem to be awfully nervous this morning." said John Monohan of Oakland City, Ind, as he sat in a barber's chair while Forest Butler was trying to shave him. "If you had taken what I have, you'd be nervous. too," said Butler, and as he uttered the words he fell dead by the chair. Butler had proposed to Miss Katie Ward and she had rejected him. Two minutes before Monohan entered the shop he had taken strychnine.
 Two mail pouches which contained checks and other bank paper valued at $5O0,000 were recently stolen at Thal- man, Ga., where the Atlanta, Birming- ham and Atlantic railway crosses the Seaboard Air line. The pouches were dropped to be picked up by the Sea board, and some one made off with them. One pouch was stolen Jan. 19 Aand the other Jan. 31.
 Suffocated by smoke from burning feather bed, Charles Fisher. a baker, met death in his room in a boarding house at Bradley Beach, N J. He was found at the door of the room, escape. There was no mark of fire on the body, and it is quite certain that he died of suffocationl
 J. w. Powell, a young farmer, in a jealous rage shot and killed Miss Maud West near her home in Buchanan, Va, and then killed himself with a shotgun. Powell had been correspond ing with Miss West and was much in love with her. When he called on her Powell found another young man in her home.
 George SDraker. a farmer. was found frozen to death in a snowbank a short distance from Yosts. Montgomery cOun- ty. N. Y. Men were about to cut a tree when they noticed a foot protrud- ing from the snow in an adjoining field When the body was drawn from the snow it was found to be that of Spraker.
 Three men were killed at Blairs Sta ton. near Donora, Pa., when they were struck by passenger train on the Monongahela division Of the Penn sylvania railroad The three men started to cross the tracks to go to the company store and did not see the fast train approaching owing to a sharp curve.
 Ten shop employees of the Missouri. Kansas and Texas railroad were torn to fragments and seven others were injured when an engine under repair exploded in the Smithville (Tex) yards. Besides the loss of life railroad prop erty valued at $20.OO0 was destroyed
 In connection with murder commit ted in West Hoboken. N. J., four years ago Peter Orraye of Brooklyn has been arrested in New York. At the time of the crime seven men were arrested, but they were acquitted after a long trial.