Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12

in the fight with Indians, near Tucson, Arizona, last Sunday.
 MT. Fletcher Urling Harper, of Harper X Bros., the New York publish CTS, is dead.
 Jacob Gouldshier and Daniel Me- Ginley, convict thieves in the Pittsburg | (Pa) Workhouse, on Tuesday passed | the guard by quick dash and reached an outer door. Hero they met Mrs. Kennedy, wife of the superintendent. | Gouldshier knocked her down, but she seized and held him till help came. passed out and ran to the river, pursued by the superintendent, who jrmped upon his back and fell in- to the water, when in desperate strug- gle the culprit would have drowned the officer but for timely assistance. Both culprits were secured.
 A Washington dispatch says that no actual change in the Cabinet will be completed till Congress meets in December. Windom will not be let off till then, nor MacVeagh, nor any of the others. When they have sent in their regular annual reports, their successors will be appointed.
 - The attempt to combine Messrs. Blaine and Conkling in the Cabinet of President Arthur has fallen to the ground A Washington dispatch says Mir. Blaine positively refuses to remain.
 Edward McDermott, desperado, killed John Keefe and fatally wounded Bernard McCardle at Jeffersonville, Ky, on Monday night.
 The fourth class of naval cadets at Annapolis, Md, were cruelty hazed Sunday night. Members of the third class were suspected, and, refusing to divulge what they knew, the whole class of fifty was Tuesday confined on the Santee.
 Tt has just been discovered that Miss Clara Hamilton, young daughter of Governor Hamilton, of Maryland, was clandestinely married last August to John Stanhope, youth of twenty, on the summit of the Blue Ridge Moun- tains.
 The District of Columbia Grand Jury presented an indictment on Tues day against Charles J. Guiteau for the murder of President Garfield.
 The Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the State of New York be- gan its sixty-eighth annual conclave at
 
 Poughkeepsie on Tuesday.
 Captain Howgate was again arrested at Washington on Tuesday on fresh charge of embedding $50,00O.
 A coroner's jury at London, Ont, in the case of five persons killed last Thursday on the Great Western Rail way have found verdict of manslaugh- ter against Conductor John Maxwell, who has fled, and Engineer Richard Wolmsley, one of the dead.
 At Bellefontaine, Ohio, the exami- nation in the Whitmore alleged wife poisoning case resulted in almost posi- tive proof of the prisoners guilt.
 The proposed Panama Congress to be held next December seems likely to be failure.
 The Chiricahua Indians in Arizona have attacked party of soldiers en- gagged in repairing telegraph lines, and killed two of them.
 The writer of letter said to threat en the assassination of Senator Conk- ling is found to be Henry J. Rowley, of Utica He admits the expression of hope that somebody would shoot Mir. Conkling if he attempts to enter the State Convention.
 The question has arisen in reference to the constitutionality of the informa- tion filed by the government in the Star Route cases, and it is claimed that the accused can only be proceeded against by indictment, course now barred by the statute of limitations.
 The body of young woman named Nellie Wright was found in the Erie Canal at Albion, N. Y., last Sunday. A letter in her pocket cause a young farmer of the neighborhood to be sus- pected of her murder and he has been arrested.
 The widow of President Lincoln is in sad state of mind over the murder of President Garfield and fears that her son, the Secretary of War, will be assas- sinated.
 The vicinity of Wautoma, Wis.,, was struck by tornado last Thursday.
 Minnie Quinn, young servant in the family of James Malley, in New Haven, testified that James Malley, Jr., was at home on the evening on which it is supposed Jennie Ora mer's death occurred
 A Washington rumor has it that ex- Governor Dingley, elected to succeed MT. Frye, of Maine, in the House of Representatives will decline in favor of MT. Blaine, who, back again in his old field. will endeavor to get his old place of Speaker.
 A dispatch to the London Standard from Fort Amiel says: Reports have been received here of serious rising in Zululand. It is believed that Cham is implicated in it. No details have been received"
 In Ireland MT. Parnel defines fai1 rent as paying two shillings where eighteen shillings are now paid for rent. There are now 133 suspects in jail MT. O'Donnell, M. F., addressing his con- stituents at Dungarvan, boasted that the Land League virtually governed Ireland.
 In England the Economic section oi the Social Science Congress have dis. cussed fair trade and free trade, nearly every speaker, including Professors Bonamy Price and Goldwin Smith maintaining the soundness of free trade The Associated Chambers of Commerce have also declared their adherence tc free trade.
 The British steamship Barnesmore
 Captain Trennery, sailed from Whining
 ton, N. O., on Thursday, for Liverpool
 with cargo of cotton and naval store valued at $200,0CO She is the frs steamer cleared from Wilmington for
 foreign port since the war. The British steamer Hallamshire i , aground in the Suez Canal, causing suspension of the traffic. The Mallow County Cork) Lan' 1 T. L IL. L L q