Connecticut western news., 1880-04-21
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS

oeelye were chosen delegates to Chicago, Tho though uninstructed are in favor of | senator George. E. Bdmunds,- of Yer .mont, whom tine convention recom- mepded to their consideration.
 ; "A woman named Forest and her child were killed at Nelsongille, Manitoba. re- gently by the falling in of the floor above them, which contained 15O bushels of wheat. = 15l-h Odessa, Russia, nineteen persons 2 mostly students, have been tried by Scourt-lnartlal for various political of fences: Two of them were acquitted and the others, were sentenced to various : terms at hard or military labor.
 e -Frederick W. Rice, an insurance agent, feh down coal mine at Provi- oence, Penn., l5O feet, and was instantly killed. .. -.. - P .s-- Daniel Miller and Charles Frazer were smothered by gas in 8 we'll they were digging on the farm of Jacob Stoi- tytus, near Lancaster, Pa. Miller not belng heard from, Frazer went down to iearn what was wrong. He was himself then overcome by gas.
 alexander Wilson left his home in Cincinnati to go to Covington fire. He went into one of the adjoining houses to assist 1n saving the children, and was there caught and killed by. one Of the 2 alhng walls. He was the proprietor of fine only public library in Covington.
 -An elevator in the Borden Block at Fall River, Mass, fell from the third hoor Wednesday. The elevator con talned seven persons. Henry Seyey was fatally injured and the other occupants were slightly injured.
 One of the heaviest shocks of earth quake felt for years was experienced in San Francisco Wednesday. The motion was vertical. Many of the buildings rocked so that the motion was plainly visible.
 In the Iowa Republican State Con- vention the Blaine men carried every district and selected none but pro nounced Blaine men. The resolutions reported indorse Senator Blaine as the choice of Iowa. ... ...;
 A fire and explosion by which eleven persons were killed and 8 number wound ed occurred at an oil mill in Silvertown, near North Woolwich, England. The roof of one of the stills was carried dis tance of 140 yards. The still contained 2 s000 gallons of oil. .s.... -. .es.- James Black, negro, who made felonlous assault upon Mrs. Hattie Fer r1ss, near Ford's Depot, in Dinwiddie County, Va, was taken from the jail by an armed body of seventy-five masked men and was hanged to a gallows near the jail '~5 At Harrisburg, Pa, ex-State Treas nrer William H. kemble, in custody of Deputy Sheriff and accompanied by his counsel, went to the Dauphin County Jail and Kemble was admitted to bail in the sum of $5, 600.
 In Washington, Mass, Perley B. Hutchkinson, an aged resident of the town, was murdered and his house set on fire. .a
 William O. Bendenfer and Lewis Powell were instantly killed while at work in the mill of the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company at Trenton, N. J.
 -rCox and Balbo, the two New York nurderers; have been sentenced to be executed on May 28. They will be exc euted at the same time. A. At Nelnah, Wis, early Sunday morn ing, three masked burglars beat Mrs. J. L. Coates into insensibility, ransacked her house and made off with $4, 900 worth ef diamonds, watches and jewelry.-
 A dispatch from Burmah reports that 700 men, women, boys, girls, priests and foreigners have been burned alive undsr the towers of the city walls of Rangoon as sacrifice for the restoration 1 of the Kings health. The panic in Man dalay Is frightful and hundreds of peo- pie are leaving the city. The Kings ill., ness is said to be leprosy. Theebaw's son and heir, who is only few months old, and brother of the late King, have both died of smallpox. Astrologers have advised Theebaw to remove the capital to Mount Shobo, the original seat of, the present dynasty.
 The walking match in New York showed, 8 good record for the leading men. At l o'clock Saturday morning, after five days walk, Hart (coloreO had scored 492 miles; Pegram (eolored), 473 miles, and .Dobler, 462. This was almost 100 miles day for Hart. stood, Hart, 531; Pegram, 521 Dob Ter, 504; Howard, SOY; Allen, 493; Krohne, 48S; Williams, 466; Hanwaker, 418 The following is the score of the eight men remaining in the race at the finish Hart, 565! Pegram, 5439 Howard, 534s i; Dobler, 531 :; Allen, 525a Krohne, 516 Williams, 5O9s Hanwaker, 450s. Hart's score beats the best ever before made that of Blower Brown, in London, 553 miles.
 Dun, Barlow &; Go. s report of the failures during the first quarter of 1880 shows an aggregate of only 1,482, de- crease of nearly one-half, as compared with the first quarter of any year since 1874. The liabilities amounted to only $12,777, ,074, which is less than they were ever before reported in any quarter since the beginning of the publication of these reports, and less than one-fourth the to- tai for any first quarter in the last pre- ceding six years. During the core spending period in 1879 the failures aggregated 2,524, with total liabilities of $43, f12, ,665, while in 1878 they were 3,335, with liabilities of $82, ,078, ,826. .,
 On the night of April 9th 8 terrible fire broke out in cotton-weaving factory at Moscow, resulting in the death of a.. large number of the operatives. The fire broke out in one of the lower stories, and spread rapidly over so large an area before 1t was noticed by the men dwell ling in the upper stories, tenanted by some 200 persons, that descent inside the building was impossible A rush to the safety staircase outside the building ended in it's giving way and depriving the inmates of their only means of es- cape. Only thirty lives were saved.
 A A-telegram from the Russian Consul at Van, Armenia, appeals for aid to save the inhabitants of that district from utter Restitution. The famine is increasing and 150i persons have died of starvation at Agbat. In the villages girls are dying, 100 having died at Van The Russian of f.. l.