Litchfield enquirer., 1881-08-25
DOMESTIC.

 The grain operators of Chicago are trying
 hard to keep up prices. An action has been brought in Illinois against the Chicago & Alton R. R. Go. to test | the right of corporations to pool earnings, so | as to destroy competition. | Dispatches from Tucson say that 25 settlers
 have been killed near Mitts Station by the l Apaches. Governor Cornell has issued proclama. tion appointing certain citizens of New York | to entertain such distinguished Frenchmen as
 may visit America to attend the Yorktown celebration. | The steamer Persian Monarch has lost her propeller at sea. There is serious trouble in St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, Brooklyn. People have been digging in Cypress Hill | Cemetery (near Brooklyn) for the remains of | A. T. Stuart. Disbursing Officer H. w. Howgate, of the
 United States Signal Service has been arrest
 ed at Mount Clements, Mich., charged with
 embeZzlement. The Providence Athenaum was robbed on l Monday night. Judge Seth Ames, late Chief Justice of the | Massachusetts Supreme Court, is dead | The evidence against the alleged brigand | Exposito is closed and Judge Chipman has | adjourned the case till the 3Oth, inst Mir. Blaine is again in Washington Queen Victoria sent a dispatch of sympa- 1 thy to Mrs. Garfield last week. | The American Association for the Advance
 ment of Science met at Cincinnati, last week. Further murders by Nana's Apaches are l reported: l The assassin Guiteau made an assault upon one of the prison guards on Wednesday, Dr. Edward Augustus Freeman, the Eng
 fish historian, has accepted the position of | noo resident Professor of Cornell University | Leo Hartmann has declared his intention
 of becoming an American citizen. The exhibition of the New England Manu-
 facturers' and Mechanics Institute was open
 ed at Boston, last week. | The financial troubles of Mount St. Marys
 College. at Emmittsburg, Md, have been ad- | iusted. A party of Americans was recently attacked l by Mexicans near Tombstone, Arizona, and l live members of it were killed trouble IS an. l ticipated. l A communication from the Patriarch of the Armenians in Turkey was received Friday,
 expressing qualification at the Presidents 1 preservation. The Rev. MT. Fairly, Congregational min-
 ister, was drowned at Falmouth, Mass, Fri l day.
 Joseph Brampton, an English forger, was oliCosc0 dt uAtAuCIpuldy rFluay, upon the ar. l rival there of the steamship Pennsylvania. Two men were killed and others injured in
 railroad accident near Waco, Tex, last | week.
 Charles Stockley was hanged at Batavia, | N. r., Friday, for the murder of John Wal ker.
 The Long Island Railroad Company gave | up the operation of the North Side Road. Regattas of the Larchmont Yacht Club and
 the Kill von Kull Rowing Association took l place, Saturday. The temperance wo' kers of the Northwest
 met near Chicago last week. Nana's band of Apaches have killed George Daly, a prominent mine manager in New | Mexico. The boiler explosion on the tug A. B. Ward, at Chicago. is attributed to low water The eight Mollie Maguires accused of the ] murder of Maurice Healy in Pennsylvania l were committed for trial The secret Irish council threate4ed to burn English merchant vessels. A waterspout at Cane City, Colorado. on Saturday, destroyed vast amount of proper ty.
 Nearly all the crops of Ohio show dimin- ished yield. The camp of the Apaches in New Mexico l has been captured and soldiers are in pursuit of the Indians.