Connecticut western news., 1880-10-13
NEWS OF THE DAY

Of desert1on and mlsapprOprlatlng g funds and sentenced to one years imprison ment on each charge and to be dishon. orably dismissed the service.
 -One hundred workmen employed or the'Cape Cod ship canal, near Boston Mass, struck Friday on account of the discharge of the Italian boss, and say they will not work until he is reinstated This is thought to be the beginning of 6 general strike.
 Ella Gibbs, the ten-year- daugh- ter of John H. Gibbs, of Linden, N. J., was trampled to death by a COW on Thursday.
 Near the town of Bisbee, Ari., Tues. day. man named Dodson attempted tc assault 8 young lady, and being foiled killed her brother and wounded the girl herself. A party is in pursuit of him. B. T. Owen, Justice of the Peace at Concordia, Miss, was shot and killed in court Friday by J. W. Glover, g farmer, who had been rsbuked and ar. rested for creating a disturbance.
 -Ex-Governor Gaston has declined the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Fourth District of Massachu- sets. This action leaves the present Representative, MT. Morse, the candi- datf {
 Lizzie T., wife of the late W. c. Ralston, the San Francisco millionaire, has brought suit against Senator Sharon to recover & large amount of money which, she claims-he having been her husbands executor-he turned to his own account.
 Special dispatches report frost at a number of points in Texas on the nights of October and 5.
 Thomas Forrest, who stabbed Mi chael Corbis fatally for discharging him from employment at the California mine, Silver Reef, was taken from jail by masked men and hanged.
 By the fall of scaffolding at Brad ford, Pa., Chales Roedel and Charles F. Freeman, painters, were precipitated twenty-five feet to the ground. Roedell was instantly killed and Freeman proba- ply fatally injured.
 In Georgia Colquitt's majority over Norwood for Governor will be over 50,- 900. The regular Democratic nominees for other State offices are elected by 70, 900 majority.
 Two children named Keene died several days ago near Milbrook, N. Y., and the father, mother and remaining child were taken ill. A post mortem examination of the bodies of the dead children showed that their heads and breasts were filled with worms. At the bottom of a spring from which the family used water myriads of worms were found. The survivors of the family are now out of danger.
 There are in the United States 21O military posts and stations, of which 43 are not garrisoned but are in charge of old ordnance sergeants IT are armories and arsenals, are recruiting depots, 1 is the engineer depot at Willett's Point, N. r.; is the West Point Military Academy ]; 1 (Key West Barracks, Fla. is unoccupied, and IA are garrisoned by troops ready for service.
 The Prussian Government is becom- ing alarmed about the Socialists and warns the Saxon Government and Ham, burg State to take measures to secure the peace.
 Invitations have been sent out for a Socialist Congress in 1881 in Zurich.
 The inhabitants around Scutari in Albania have been summoned to arms. Admiral Seymour has told the Russian Admiral to be in readiness for sailing orders.
 The centennial of the battle of Kings Mountain, N. O., was celebrated Thurs day with appropriate ceremonies
 Tt is reported that Great Britain has proposed that the allied fleet take Lem nos and Mitylene, islands in the Hgean Sea, and hold them as 8 pledge for the fulillment of the Porte's note.
 Three British steamers from New Orleans, the Stag, Robinia and Benalla have been wrecked in the harbor of St. Michaels in the Azores.
 The official vote of Vermont shows that Roswell Farnham Rep) was elect ed by 25, ,012 majority. The majority fol Lieutenant Governor Barstow Rep. ii 25, 100, and for Treasurer John A. Page (Rep.) is 25, Al. In 1878 the Republi can majority for Governor was 16, 634 and the plurality 20,038.
 Two chieftains of Persia, with thei allied forces of 15,00O men, are devasta ting the Lonijan and Maragha districts A Persian general has been sent to col lect troops to act against them.
 The late M. Ofenbach was burie, from the Madeleine in Paris.
 The Russian Government has calle, convention of Russian cotton manufac turers to discuss threatened crisis il that industry.
 General Gonzales has been electe President of Mexico by very large ma jority.
 -Faulkner's Mill and the Chase Mil in Lowell, Mass, were burned to tn ground Wednesday afternoon. The los : amounts to $500, ,000; fully insured.
 The Democrats have reelected Go, ernor Colquint of Georgia.
 At Pottsville, Pa., Charles Wilthe shot his wife. He then shot and stal bed himself, dying in a few moment from his wounds. The couple has live unhappiy for the past few years.
 The Democratic Congressional Go vention for the Thirteenth New Yo1 District nominated Colonel Edward l Gaul, of Hudson, for Congress.
 Sunday afternoon Frank Hooper, Greene, and Chester Addition, of Soul Leeds, Me-, attempted to cross Ale Pond in boat and were drowned.
 The amount of foreign gold tn has come to this country since July last is estimated by the Treasury oficia to be about $35, ,O0O, 600.
 The tourist party, of which Jude Donohue, of the New York Supren Court, was member, while returnir from the Yosemite in six-horse coac were capsized near Milton, Gal. Fath Treanor had a leg broken and his deal followed its amputation. Judge Donohl and his wife and Mr. Walton sustaint