Connecticut western news., 1879-01-22
NEWS OFTHE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

the 6ecOnQ degree. The Jury were ouU some time, and came into court declar- ing that they could not agree. The judge sent them back, saying the case was one of importance, and then came the verdict of murder in the second degree. At first the jury stood ten for murder in the first degree and two Tor aequittal. Mrs. Coob was sentenced to the State Prison for life. -Thirty-two Cheyennes were killed during the flight from Fort Robinson, Neb., and of those recaptured fourteen are wounded. Five of our troops were killed. Vigorous measures have been taken to pursue and capture the savages.
 An ex-detective of Parkersburg, Va, has been arrested and was nearly lynched for printing and circulating scandalous charges against prominent citizens of the place.
 The coal miners employed blythe Philadelphia Company at Girardvllle and Centralia, Pa., threaten to strike unless two months back wages are paid them.
 The business failures all over the country during the year 1878 were, in round numbers, nearly ten thousand i've hundred, with liabilities of upward of two hundred and thirty -four million dollars. This was an increase over the figures for 1877, but it was, no doubt, owing to the repeal of the Bankruptcy law.
 Miss Walker, residing at Brecon Mills, Ontario, suddenly dropped dead. ] Her betrothed, Edward Cousins, hear ing of her death, cut his throat, and Miss Walkers mother, on seeing her daughters corpse, also dropped dead.
 IN. P. Hill (Rep.) was elected Uni ted States Senator from Colorado, re- eeiving more than wo-thirds of the votes in both branches of the Legislature.
 The British bark, l.. de V. Chipman, was abandoned at sea. The master (Archibald) and four men were drowned. The British bark, Tamora, was spoken at sea, and reported having lost her steward, boatswain, carpenter, and seaman overheard.
 President MacMahon of France has signed decree pardoning 1,800 Con- munists.
 Ut is stated upon good authority in New York that the body of A. T. Stewart glelisefed to Judge Hilton, and that it has has been placed by him in 8 secure vault. we'll guarded, there to remain until the completion of the crypt in the Stewart Memorial Cathedral in Garden City. It 1s ueclared that negotiations for it's re- turn were made through a noted lawyer of the city. At first $100, ,O00 was de- handed for it, but final compromise was made on $50, 900, and this sum was paid.
 Covert D. Bennett, the supposed .rxlu4 nw.le Na n who has been indicted for the murder of her husband, Police Officer Richard IT. Smith, in Jersey City, on August 1 last, has been indicted for complicity in the murder.
 -Twenty-seven persons were killed hat year by the explosion of nine New York steamboat boilers.
 There has been terrible explosion again in the Dimas Colliery, Pontypridd, Wales, and flfty-eight miners are SUD- posed to have been killed.
 The hanging of Charles Sharpe and James Mcdonnell, two Molly Maguires, who had been found guilty of complicity in the murder of George K. Smith, in 1868, took place in the little jail, in the rear of Mauch Chunk, Pa, where so many poor wretohes have already paid the penalty of their lives for being con nGcted with the secret association in question. Messages to the men were constantly sent in, telling them that they must not be afraid, for the Gov ernor would most assuredly grant the petition for the respite. A reprieve had been granted the two men, but it or. rived at Mauch Chunk too late, and when 1t came the two men were dangling at the end of ropes, dead.
 -One of three prisoners who escaped from Sing Sing last July has been found in a Boston jail, from whence he would have been released Monday. He has been taken back to Sing Sing.
 "A severe earthquake has been felt { in Florida, which extended from Jack sonville to St. Marks.
 The damage to the railroads be- tween the East and Chicago by the re- cens storms is immense.
 Three girls, between twelve and fourteen years of age, ventured upon the foe covering the canal at New Bruns- wick, N. J. They fell through an air hole, and two of them were drowned.
 The American ship Thomas M. Reed, Captain Small, bound from San Francisco fer Liverpool, went ashore in the breakers in Freshwster Bay, near Linny Head, on the coast of Wales. Three of the crew were lost.
 Madam Anderson, who commenced walking in Mozart Garden, Brooklyn, December Is, completed her 2.770t6 quarter mile in 2, 2,770 quarter hours, the last quarter being made in shorter time than any preceding one. 1t is pro. nounced by @ Il the most wonderful feat of the kind ever attempted.
 A Vienna journal publishes Q long petition from the Russian Provincial Chambers to the Czar, for constitutions rights as means of protection against Nihiists.
 Thomas Graham, Hunters accom-. pfice in the murder of Armstrong, is said to have become insane when the execu ton of his principal took place.
 The receipts of the Catholic Cathedral Fair in New York, amounted to $172, ,625. 4S.
 The tenement-house and bee, saloon of John Odendorfer, in Jamaic, Plains, Mass, district, was burned Mrs. Odendorfer and her ten year olt son pefished in the flames.
 The Newspaper Directory gives tn, total number of periodical publication In the United States as S,703, agains S,340 year ago. There are thirteel more daily and BOT more weekly news papers than were reported January, 1878 The Centennial year-1S7S-has beer the only one in eleven years in whicl the number of publications has not in creased.
 Numerous floods have been cause, in England and Scotland by the suddel thaw.
 -Louisa Blaskowitz, fifty-eight year old, was burned to death in her owl house at Syracuse while alone. He mFaAI.anas l,a1 4 n