Connecticut western news., 1881-08-17
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL lTENa.

AN0 w o~OH N 11H DA 1
 GENERAL ITEMS.
 TWO unknown young men tried to row across tho bow of the steamboat Mary Powell at Poughkeepsie. Friday night. Their boat was smashed and the men drowned. '---'''--''' ''''' '-'' pr. Bliss, one of the Presidents pnyslclans, is suffering with bad case VI pus Poisoning occasioned by an in auvertent cut and consequent absorp- lon o1 Pus and blood in the operation of Monday.
 Seven men were arrested at Dunbar. Ia.' Tor the murder of Maurice Healy, a mine inspector, on June 26. Healy had onended the Mollie Maguires by taking all aetye part against the liquor traffic. ,-Astroke of lightning caused an ex- pioslon of four dust in the Atlantic M1lls of St Louis and in half an houl sne immense building was in ruins. The ne spread to several other buildings ana now threatens the Iron Mountain Depot on Plum street. The loss will be over $500. 900. -
 .-Benl. Bird was hanged at Jackson. vile Fla., Friday. He slipped through tne moose at the first attempt.
 The Mississippi Greenback Conven. tlon, which meets on the 24th, is ex Pectedsto nominate 8 ticket composed or Republicans, Greenbackers and In. dependent Democrats, which will be in. dorsed by the Republican Convention Clarence Gray, of San Francisco was sentenced to twenty years impris onment for the murder of Theodore NTlanQn 1R k Press.
 --Grevy, alarge village Tn the canton ofs Grisons, Switzerland, has been destroyed by fire.
 The Rev. John Hill Burton, the historian and biographer, is dead.
 At Rochester, N. r., Maud s. re. peated her fastest time, making a mile in 2. .103 at the first attempt.
 The Cornell University crew were Danube Thursday. They led for time, but Shinkle, of the crew, collapsed when the race was over.
 Mabel Wilberforce, the plaintiff in the recent libel suit of Wilberforce vs. Philip, in which her counsel threw uI their briefs, was committed for trial fol perjury: She swore that she was born in San Francisco in 1854, but the Treas. ury have witnesses to prove that she had two children, one of which was born at Dover in 1862.
 Mrs Willard Fillmore, widow of ex. President Fillmore, died in Buffalo on Wednesday.
 -Minnesota will market this season 6Ale oe million and half bushels in excess of last year,
 An attempted uprising in the State of Panama was recently discovered and promptly suppressed by seizing the Both of the Virginia Republican conventions have adjourned without etfecting compromise. The straight outs adopted platform with a plank favonng the payment of the debt, but were unable to nominate a ticket, all the candidates declining to serve.
 The entire business portion of the town of Pawnee City, Neb., has been wiped out by fire, which started at midnight in Reeder's; drug store. The loss will probably foot up $1OO,O00.
 IFredefick William Henes, one of the oldest citizens of Newport, Ky, shot himself through the heart during 8 it of adespondency over the recent death of his wife.
 A fire which occurred at Trafalgar Ind, at 3 o'clock on Wednesday morn ing, burned out IA business houses, leaving only three in the town un- touched. Itwas caused by flying sparks, fromiRn excursion train on the Frank lin, Fairland and Martinsville Branch o1 the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago railroad, which passed about 3 o'clock. The total loss wil reach $50, 900.
 MT. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis will sail Sunday morning for Liverpool Theyz'are going after their daughter who is being educated abroad.
 Several Panama Canal officials, in cludiDg MT. Etienne, sub- director, anc MT. Barbier, have died of fever an6 there is dismay in the canal service Six superintendents of the isthmus ex cavations have died there.
 The Canadian Civil-Service Com missioners condemn the spells system and recommend the Government t, adopt competitive examinations.
 Two men were killed by lightning at Grand Valley, Man, on July 30, ant a companion on seeing their blackene, corpses became raving maniac.
 The house and barn of Dr. W. H Bowen, at Scituate, R. l., were fired b, internal machines on Monday night Dr. Bowen has been active in enforcin. the liquor law.
 The boiler of steam threshing ma chine on the farm of Henry Young, nea Columbia, H., exploded Tuesday, kill ing five persons and seriously inju1in five others.
 There were 527 deaths in Chicag last week, an unprecedentedly larg number, being at the rate of 52.5 pc 1,0OO.@
 Fifteen regulators rode into Ora, on,yKy., Saturday and attempted t assume control. The Marshal raised posse, killed three of the regulators an captured four. 1
 The West has again been visited b destructive floods, doing immense dam age. A number of lives were lost.
 Mrs. H.~C. Robinson, of Monroe near Bridgeport, Conn.,, was gored t death by bull recently.
 William Gale, the long-distanc champion walker of England, com pleted in New York at $40 p. m. Mon day his sef-imposed task of walkin 6,OO0Guarter miles in 5000 consecutiv periods of ten minutes.
 -Dr. Hamilton says: "The opers tion on the President on Monday has n doubt inflicted some temporary injur upon the patient, and it is quite prot able that for a few days to come th febr1e movements will be a little il creased. But for this," he adds, "W ahnlE fhi11fr fhoro mill ho odocr1oA