Connecticut western news., 1881-08-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

l trials, the jury once disagreeing and twice finding 8 verdict of guilty. two death sentences and five stays of pro- ceedings and reprieves. He died by strangulation, declaring his innocence to the last.
 The census returns show that the number of working collieries in the Pennsylvania anthracite region has in- creased during the last ten years from 225 to 273, and the output from 15,- 596,OO tons in 1870 to 27, ,433, ,00O tons in 1880.
 Admiral Porter will have charge of the naval part of the Yorktown celebra- tion, and Gen. Hancock of the military. The Conservative D emocratic Con vention of Virginia nominated the following ticket: John A. Daniel, of Lynchburg, for Governor; James Barbour, of Culpepper. for Lieutenant Governor; P. W. Mckinney, of Prince Edward, for Attorney General.
 The Mesculero Indians in New Mex ico have crossed the Rio Grande, and are killing herders in old Mexico. Troops and settlers are in pursuit.
 The majority against prohibition
 
 whites divided; the negroes did not, but voted solidly against the proposed meas ure.
 The election in North Carolina. Thursday, resulted in the utter defeat of the Prohibition ticket. : The Indians in the San Mateo Mountains, N. M., are on the warpath and settlers are being murdered.
 Leo Hartmann, the Nihilist, is said to have gone to Canada for fear that he would be arrested by United States au- thorities.
 -Typographical Union No. 6 of New York City, is preparing for a strike of printers to take place September 1. The necessary capital, $S,000, 900, has been obtained for constructing a ship-canal across the Maryland and Del aware peninsula. Six millions of the amount were taken in France.
 The Democratic Convention of the Second Congressional District of Maine held at Lewiston Thursday nominated Mir. Franklin Reed. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the Cincinnati plat form, the administration of Governor Plaisted, and execrating the attempted
 
 The Ohio State Prohibition Conven- tion met at Columbus, and indorsed the State ticket previously nominated and adopted the usual platform.
 William G. Fargo, President of the American Express Company, died at Buffalo Wednesday.
 At Portsmouth, N. H., Tuesday the Republicans reelected Mayor Sise for the fourth consecutive term by majori- ty of 65 and plurality of S6, over John 5. Tocot, Democrat. The Greenbackers had a ticket. There is a Republican majority in both branches of the city council.
 Ambrose Lomprax, who witnessed the massacre of the surveying party south of Ell Paso, says the party was armed and had a pitched battle with fifty Indians. Six Indians were killed. The Kentucky Legislature elected on Monday is largely Democratic and in favor of the election of Senator Beck. The latest reports from Alaska are that the country is in peaceful condi- tion.
 Ten persons have diedfrom wounds received at tho Peoria (Il.) distillery explosion.
 Commissioner Raum reports the internal revenue receipts of the United States for the last fiscal year at over $135, 100000.
 The public debt statement gives a decrease during the month of July of SHOOTS, ,023. .23. Cash in the Treasury, August 1. $236, SIS. .19O 25; gold certifi- cstes, S5,749,S2O; silver certificates, $51, ,9S3, ,9S0; certificates of deposit, S10, 10000.
 Over seventy people were killed in Mazatlan, Mexico, by the explosion of a powder magazine, which was caused by lighted cigarette dropped by one of the guards.
 The Bureau of Internal Revenue re- ports that during the fiscal year ended June 30 last, there were taxed at S1.7 per ], 1000 567, ,3S6, ,9s2 cigarettes, netting a revenue of $992, ,929.22.
 The census returns show the popu- lation of Canada to be 4, $50, 933, an in crease of 6S0, 498 during the past ten years.
 An uncovered light carried by a boss into mine at Lonsford, Pa., caused large loss to property and en- dangered the lives of two hundred men and boys.
 Two hundred yard men, working at the lumber mills of Skillings, Whitney & Barnes, at Ogdensburg, N. Y, struck on Friday for $1. .25 per day. They were getting $1.10. Several non-strikers have been attacked and the Mayor has been called on to preserve the peace and protect property.
 Farmers in Illinois are offering high wages for farm laborers.
 Secretary Blaine is so confident oi the Presidents recovery that he will send no more bulletins to Minister Lowell.
 Thomas Marvin, passing himself of as a wealthy widower, married a young lady of Richmond, Va., recently; passed a forged letter of credit for $500 on the bank and went on the honey. moon, and abandoned his wife at Albion, N. r., deceiving her with a story that her mother had been killed and that she should return home.
 Thomas Andrews, the "King of the Moonshiners, and who is said to have murdered a United States Marshal in Tennessee, has been arrested in Baxter county, Ark.
 Ham White, who was convicted in April last iu Texas of robbing the United States mails and pardoned by the Pres ident, has been arrested in Colorado for stage robbery.
 FOREIGN.
 At consistory in Rome the Pope sald 1t was clear in view of the recent riots that he was deprived of freedom, but he would endeavor to meet his trou- bles with fortitude.
 English capitalists propose pur-