Connecticut western news., 1881-03-16
MEMS DAY,
GENERAL ITEMS

I It has been determined by the States Senate, and to give the Repub- icans 2 minority representation on the committees.
 Mir. and Mrs. Trotter, of Oldtown, Ohio, have been arrested for causing the death of their son William. The boy had been fined $5 for disturbing Q religious meeting and his parents beat him after the trial so badly that he died'
 Three hundred and twenty-nine Senate bills and papers have been re- turned from the United States House, where they had lain ,on the Speakers table untouched. The Senate passed every bill that came from the House.
 Senator Angus Cameron was nom- mated for United States Senator on the fortyseighth ballot in the Republican caucus at Madison, Wisconsin. & ~zC. D. Gilmore, Q Washington attor- naY and claim agent, has brought 8 suit for $200, ,000ss damages against Carl Schurz upon the ground that MT. Scflrz disbarrea him from practice in the In terior Department, estimated to beworth $40, GOO a year. Gilmore was disbarred ASN 0A4SSO0 O14DC43.
 The steamer Erin brought to New York, Tuesday, the crew of the British steamer Drunduff, which was lost on Q voyage from Philadelphia to Antwerp.
 During the season from November 1, 1880, to March I, 1881, Cincinnati pork packers slaughtered 12,134 hogs less thansin the previous season, but there is an increase in the average weight and, yield of lard per head, The hogs cost $6, ,A66, ,2S8, an increase of 25. 16 cents per 100 pounds ss '-'-,
 sssss--At the inquest held on the body of Engineer Freeburn, whose disobedience of orders caused the collision at Severn, Md, with the train bearing ex-Presi- dent Hayes, Ray, the conductor, said |: "Freeburn and I had the orders read oyer to us twlce by the dispatcher at Baltimore, and the accident was due to our carelessness. Harry is dead now and am alone responsible" The jury sagreed with him. .S''k .E
 The Congressional Committee of the National Greenback party has is- sued an address to-sthe people charging sehe national banks with having rebelled against the Government, causing bor- rowers of mdney to pay 800 per cent. ! annual interest for it's use, and by such action infuepcingst'a weak Executive to veto the Funding bill" It is pro- posed to correct this by electing the National ticket.
 The body of Arthur Strabos, New York civil engineer, was cremated in .Dr. Le Moyne's furnace at Washington, Pa, in two hours and thirty minutes.
 President Garfield made, and the Senate conirt med, the following nomi- nations for Cabinet offices: s., sSecretary of State-James G. Blaine, Of Maine.
 Secretary of the Treasury-William Windon, of Minnesota. | Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh, of Pennsylvania. ---
 8 Postmaster: General - Thomas l.. James, of New York.
 Secretary of the Interior-Samuel J. Krkwood, of Iowa. A<szs a.
 Secretary of War-Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois. @s.- .a..z-e
 Secretary of the Navy-WIlliam H. Hunts of Louisiana. ssssss ss es s-The Insane Asylum at Danville Pa., was burned on Saturday, but most fortunately hot single life was lost. All the patients, over three hundred in number, were attending prayers in the chapel at the time the fire broke out and were easily removed. The building cost.about $500, 900. -=>'''. .- As-
 The O'Leary belt was won by Pan- chot who made 541 miles laps and 165 yards. Khrone the second in the match made s523 miles. About $1 1000 was received over the expenses to be divided among the walkists. .A,
 The train on the Baltimore and Po- tomao Railroad, son which ex-President Hayes and his family and friends left Washington Saturday afternoon, met in collision c few miles from Baltimore a train consisting of two engines and sev- on empty passenger cars going south. Two men, J., Wyman Young, of Shamo- kin, Pa.,s and, John Oliver, the baggage; master, were killed, and twenty persons, eleven passengers and nine train men, were injuredJ some of them, it is thought, fatally. The engines and several of the cars were wrecked. The chair in which exsPresident Hayes was sitting was thrown several feet forward, but neither he nor Mrs. Hayes was injured.
 ss s-The Italian bark Ajace, Captain Morici, went ito pieces on Rockaway Shoals in the gale Thursday night. She had crew ofiffteen men, of whom one came ashore alive on fragment of the wreck. The carpenter and three of the crew killed themselves in their despair and the captain and the rest wers drowned. Much damage to small craft on the Jersey coast was done during the gale -N 20
 FOREIGN. B.. e A team of Canadian artillery will this year enter for the annual competi tion of British artillery corps at Shoe. buryness. g. --..-ss
 The Portuguese Chamber of Dep a uties- has adopted the treaty giving England right of way through the terri tory and territorial waters of Portuga s for military and commercial purposes England thus gains access to her Soutl African colonies by Delagoa Bay.s .s
 Queen Caroline, widow of Kine Christian VIII. of Denmark, is dead She was eighty7fiye years old, .s s..-
 -Roumania is quietly preparing fo war. s-- sR s.- -Twenty-three arrests, under tn, , provisions of the Coercion act, wer made in Ireland Tuesday. The prison CTS were forwarded to Kilmainham jail Dublin. --.. -.,.-
 % Sir Eyelin Wood will assaul Laing's Nek on the termination of tn -eEtruce if peace is not concluded. H -=s says that the Boers admit that their de feat is inevitable, and that the majorit of them wish to return home.