Connecticut western news., 1881-11-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

-AAA0A OO1IuSOA WhS uhuB0u db OuaF- lotte, N. O He and two others mur- dered an old blind negro for his money, and divided it-ffteen cents-among them. Heis confident of heaven.
 A fast limited express train (to run from Jersey City to Chicago in twenty six hours) will begin running on Mon day next.
 -Wechsler X Abraham's dry goods store and the Pioneer Iron Works, both in Brooklyn, N. Y., were destroyed by fire Thursday. The losses of the for mer were about S25O,O0O and of the lat ter about S10O,0O0.
 A terrible and most heartrending accident occurred in the Mississippi River near Davenport, Iowa, Thursday night, which resulted in an awful loss of life. The steamer Giichrist, bound up the river, having on board twenty. three passengers and crew of fifteen, after passing the Government bridge connect ing Davenport and Rock Island, became entirely. manageable on account of the cam rods of her engines suddenly giving way. She was thrown with re- sistless force against an abutment of the bridge and soon began 10 sink. The passengers and crew were scalded by the escaping steam, and as the vessel sank their cries for help were piteous. Steamers and boats lying in the neigh borhood were manned and taken imme- dlately to the scene of the disaster, but only eight persons were saved.
 MT. Vanderbilt has secured the con- trol of the Atlantic and Pacific road, now building between Marion, O., and Hammond, Ind. Attachments have been issued for two officials of the Van derbilt Board of Directors of the Ohio Railroad. t.....
 The schooner Erastus Wiman, of New York, ran into and sank the schooner P. M. Wheaton, of Hunting ton, near Gull Island Thursday night. The Wheaton sank immediately, Cap tain Hallock being drowned. The Bras tus Wiman lost her head-gear and an- Thomas IL. James of New York City, has been nominated by President Arthur to be Postmaster General, and his name sent to the Senate. The name of Judge Charles J. Folger, of New York, has been sent by the President to the Senate as nominee for the Secre- taryship of the Treasury, ex-Governor Morgan having declined.
 -Lloyds publish list of 239 vessels reported in their Loss Book between the 18th and 18th inst. The list in- cludes nothing less serious than vessels dismasted.
 At Reading, Pa, Monday, can- non was cast which will be twenty five feet long. It is known as the Lymann- Haskell gun, and the shot will be propelled by the explosion of powder in four pockets as well as in the chamber. It will throw 8 15O-pound shot ten miles.
 The Minnesota Senate has passed the Railroad Adjustment bill.
 The Mississippi at Quincy, H., is higher than at any time since 1851, and the damage done is incalculable.
 -Guiteau's trial has been postponed from November 2 to November IA.
 MT. Tyner, First Assistant Post master General, resigned Wednesday, and his resignation was accepted. He emphatically denies that he obstructed the prosection of the alleged Star-route frauds, and says that he reported upon the unnecessary cost of the service to Postmaster General Key.
 Fight at Cartersville, Ga, between circus men and deputy marshals. Negro killed. Two circus men shot. A lion and bear escape in the melee. Lion still loose.
 The supplementary centennial cere- monies at Richmond, Va, closed We'd nesday monster parade took place. British flag hoisted on the State Capitol and formally saluted by the military.
 Ex-Governor Scott. of South Car ollns, is on trial for murder in the second degree at Napoleon, o.
 MT. Windom has been elected to the Senate by the Minnesota Legisla- ture.
 Blanche Douglass is to be tried with the Malleys for the murder of Jennie Cramer. -
 In the Senate Tuesday MT. Shobel was sworn in as acting Secretary. MT. Ingalls,, of Kansas, objected to resolu. tion, which was adopted, however, tc provide for the safe keeping of the Rochambeau papers, which have beer offered to the Government for $20, ,000 MT, Sherman offered resolution ask ing for an investigation into the expen allure of the Treasury contingent funG since 181.
 Mir. Henry Ward Beecher ha, retired from the editorial management of the Christian Union, and sold ou his interest in the paper.
 The President sent to the Senat. Monday copy of the letter addressed by Secretary Blaine to the Anerical Ministers in Europe protesting against European guarantee of the freedom o the proposed Panama Canal as uncalle, for, in view of the obligations assume, by the United States in the treaty witt the United States of Colombia in 1946 and as opposed to the traditional polio of the United States against Europeal interference in the affairs of this con tinent.
 S.s FOREIGN ITEMS.
 In France the Chambers were ope Friday aud Gambetta was elected Pro visional President.
 In Germany the returns of the cleo tions for the Reichstag show that tn Liberals have made heavy gains, ths the Government candidates were beate in the places where it put forth all it strength to secure victory, and that tn Jew-baiters have been disastrousl routed.
 In Ireland Dr. Fitzgerald, the Catl olic Bishop of Ross, has published 8 le ter denouncing the no-rent manifest of the Land League. On Wednesda several hundred farmers marched int Tuam, County Galway, to prepare n' tices for the submission of their cases the Land Court. Cheers were give for the Land Act.
 The London Press is still discus ing Secretary Blaine's circular respec 4bo Hono1 Tho Dn5