Connecticut western news., 1911-01-26

beast off. He was taken to a hospital. where he was found to be suffering from internal injuries and several fractured ribs. The injured man was leading the elephant from the base ment to the main floor of the building when the beast crushed him against the wall.
 Six men are known to be dead, four fatally injured and seven severely hurt as the result of an explosion in mine No. l, Carbon hill, Gayton Mines. W. Va. Others are still entombed. The work of clearing out the mine has begun, and 1t Is believed that more miners will be found alive. More than POO men were employed In the mine, and the number missing has not been ascertained. The cause of the explo- sion is not known, but 1t is thought that 1t was due to disregard of danger signals by the miners.
 After failing to shoot his wife with rife John McCombs, fifty years old. n farmer, Is alleged to have clubbed the woman to death In a fit of jealous rage at Indiana, Pa. After killing the woman McCombs sent his nine-year- old son, the only witness to his action, to the home of a neighbor and went himself to the home of another, neigh bor, where he attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself with hal ter. McCombs was cut down in an unconscious condition and turned over to the authorities.
 After he had concluded an eloquent sermon in the Presbyterian church at Lakeland, Fla, and just as he stepped from the pulpit, man supposed to be the Rev. John Gibbs of Paterson, N. l.. was arrested on charge of horse stealing by the sheriff, who had been notified to look out for Gibbs by the authorities of Tampa. The man has been in Florida several weeks. going under the names of "Griffen." Gibbs and "Epstein," and there are three sep arate charges of horse stealing against him.
 Bound and gagged, with his face cut in several places. John Baton, the as- sistant superintendent of the Colonial Life Insurance company at Orange, N. J., was found in his room by Low ell R. M. Haag, one time school com missioner, in whose home he has lived for some months. The room had been ransacked byftwo white men and a ne gro, and the curtain and the side of one window was blazing smartly when MT. Haag found his friend tied up and in danger of being burned to death.
 The United States patrol boat Vigi- lant was steaming north on the East river and was just beneath the Man haitian bridge in New York when a dark object fell from the bridge mid way. The Vigilant was ordered about, and the crew grappled for the body with boat hooks and got it on board. The letters in the mans pockets were addressed to E. W. Heaton of Plain field, N. J., and the initials E. w. H. were embroidered on the inside of one of his pockets.
 The government hopes to put at least $1,0O0, 900 into its coffers through the civil suit against Duveen Bros, the New York" importers of antiques, arrested last October, charged with defrauding the government of customs duties by the undervaluation of i'm ports. It is the intention of the gov ernment to press its prosecution of the Duveens in line with the policy recent ly announced that criminal action will be taken whenever possible in customs cases.
 In a jealous frenzy over seeing his wife in another mans company after she had refused to live with him, Samuel L. Showus walked into the big seed and agricultural store of J. Bol- giano & Co.. in Baltimore. where his wife and his victim were employed, and shot to death Benjamin F. Bup- pert.