Connecticut western news., 1881-12-14
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL HElFa.

1883 he became an apprenfica in the printing office of the Lancaster ,J0,A.ndI and afterward proprietor of the paper
 He established the Philadelphia Pres, and Washington Chronicle, and hat
 been Clerk of the House and Secretar1 of the Senate of the United States. o- |, Hugh Hay was hanged at Mon
 treal Friday for the Murder of William Salter, and Frank Hall was hanged al
 Little Rock, Ark, for the murder o
 Paul Saunders. '
 In the United States Senate, of
 Wednesday, 8 committee was appointee to prepare memorial on the desth oi President Garfield. |
 The, services of 7Drsa Hamilton
 Agnew and Bliss as medical attendant.
 upon the late President are valued d
 $25, 900, and it, is thought Congress will pay the bill. ' -' '-'-
 Hugh Judson Fitzpatrick, the Amer
 jean Consul to Ohii, whose death is an
 nounced, was born near Deekertown
 N. J., on January IA, 1886. He gradu
 sted at West Point, and served in the army, rising to the position of Major. General of volunteers. He was we'll
 known as cavalry officer. ivulT / .r---=Fhe Forty-seventh Congress began it's session Monday. General Keifer,
 of Ohio, was elected Speaker of the
 House and all the other Republican caucus nominees were given their places, The remainder of the session was devoted to the consideration of claims for con. tested; seats. The important business in the Senate was the introduction by MT. Edmunds of resolution eentinuingthe old committees, the introduction by MT. Sherman, of 8, three per cent. refundine bill the introduction by, Mir. Beck of a bill retiring the trade dollar, and & bill by Gen. Logan to place Gen. Grant on the retired list of the army.
 In the U. s. House of Representa- tives, Mir. Keller received dA8 votes. Mr. Randall 129, and MT. Ford 8. .The two Readjusters from Virginia and Mir; Smith of New York, voted with the Re- publicans for Mir. Refer. ! .l-Gen. Joseph Warren Keller, the new Speaker of the. House of Repre- sentatiyes, was born in Bethel Town ship, Clark County, Ohio, January 3O, 1S36.s He is farmer, but studied law and followed it as a profession. He served in the war, first as Major and then as Lieutenant Colonel and Col onel. He was brevetted Brigadier and Major General, and was wounded four times. Herwas a member of the Ohio Senate in 1868 and 1869, Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in, Ohio from 1868 to 1870, and trustee of the Ohio .Sold1ers' and Sailors. Orphans Home from 1870 to 1878, and has been 3 trustee of Antioch College since 1873. He was delegate to the aOinninnati convention in 1876. and was elected, to the XLVth, XLVIth and XLYITth Congress. A. 2. r.i5ro ~i 3L9 ( Y Tri-In Minneapolis Sunday fire and an explosion destroyed a cotton-mil and four fouring mills. Four persons were killed and several wounded. The loss is about $568, ,000. .-s.srll -F.T-!si : Ut is believed that the body of the Earl of Crawford and BaIcarres1 has been stolen by the thieves who carried of A. T. Stewards body. Some think 1t was stolen before it's supposed burial.
 Mir. Trescot and MT. Walker Blaine, with two sectretaries from the State Department, who left for Lima and Santiago, take out special instructions to urge settlement of the conflicts of ChiG with Peru in the spirit and upon the basis of General Hur1but's con- versation with Admiral Lynch in Au- gust. oy .ea,Eg -@of
 MT. Nimmo, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, reports that the total value of our foreign commerce last year was s1, e75, O24, SIS. .'.' sIiaI
 Father Mccarthy the parish priest of Greenfield, Mass, was shot Snnday night by David McMullen. ss11 f |
 Near Leadville recently murderer was blown up with giant powder in his cabin by mob. - .-rF, I
 The Worlds correspondent at As pinwall reports that forty officers and nearly one thousand men employed on De Lesseps' canal have died Of fever since January. --------.-
 -John Taylor, Brigham Young's suc- cessor has taken another and 8 wealthy wife. ,- 'r.tEs..S E-J tZsts5
 It is reported that the wholesale. lumber firm of Porter, Jones $ Rai6uelI of Philadelphia has failed with +liabili- ties stated at $1OO, ,000.L TzIJ e .C,rgos scoowAsHINaToN NOTES. --5Cft isao Senator Vest introduced in the United States Senate two bills bearing npon the Mormon question. One of them provides that whenever auy mar riage according to the forms. belief or practice of any religious denomination shall be solemnized in any territory of the United States, written certificate of such marriage, containing names and residence of the parties married. shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the Terri tory. The, other bill provides that, no woman shall be disqualified as a witness n any trial for bigamy in the Territor- es by reason of her marriage to the defendant in the case. TE7 F.T|
 President Arthur has signed a con Vention providing for an exchange of money orders between the United States and New Zealand and South-Wales.
 The U. s. Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections Thursday dis posed of the charges against Senators Miller and Lapham, of New York, who, t was alleged, at the beginning of he last extra session had procured heir election to the Senate through and fraud. d.E4. The mat CT was referred to a subcommittee for investigation. The sub-eommitteelh havy ng reported that there was no evidence whatever produced to sustain the alle- committees Thursday greed unanimously to ask to be dis further consideration 2 of he case.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 A dispatch from Brussels says that n explosion has occurred in the Cock 'rell colliery, causing the death of sixty K persons. Ms<a.N
 in Ireland the tenants in Kildare, Wicklow and Tipperary are strikink Igainst rents. A number arrests lnder the Coercion act were made yesl erday. The Times urges E.ngfiahmen to subscribe to the Landlords Defense Association. %>Z.g,> ><aY