Connecticut western news., 1881-03-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

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 GENERAL ITEMS.
 The Sprague divorce case will prob ably be tried in April.
 An explosion took place at the Rock Mountain Coal and Iron Com pany's mine at Amy, Wy, on Thursday evening. Fifty Chinese and Q number of white men were in the mine, of whom twenty Chinese have been brought up dead and fifteen Chinese and two whites severely injured.
 William Bailey, of the Boston Lancers, was killed on the railroad at Centralia, Ill.,, by an accident.
 -Vennor's latest forecast of weather for March is as follows: There will be 8 rapid moderation on the 4th or 9th to warmth, but the temperature will again fall on Sunday night or Monday, and @ week of extremely cold and stormy W eather will likely ensue, with some hours of heavy snowfall. The 17th and 18th days, and possibly the 16th, come within another downward curve of the weather line, as do also the 24th and 25th.
 ay-On Thursday, the last day of his term in office, President Hayes vetoed the Funding bill which passed the Sen ate and the House.
 The boiler makers, ship carpenters and calkers of Chicago are holding out for advan ced wages.
 In Galveston, Texas, on Tuesday night, an aged lady named Mrs. Bur goyne was run over and killed by street car on which her son WAS passenger.
 A frightful accident occurred on the Hannibal and St. Jo.epi, Railro1d. on Tuesday, near Lingo, Mo. A passenger train Tan off the swiic',. Tire relief train was sent for, and, ao E ookield, 1t went through & bridge. A large num- Der o. employees were on board, ot whom five were killed and sixteen were injured. some dangerously. 70, Tuesday the Capitol building of the State of Minnesota was burned at s.. Paul, and the fire is believed to be t,,e work of an incendiary. Most oi the papers of the State and Courts were save,..
 The report of the United States Treasurer shows G%e toual debt of the United States les cash il the Treasury to be s,1, ,879, 956, ,4i2.77. O. Mlnch 1st 1878, i5 was $2, O42, 037, 129.0S showing a decrease i,2 tbe debt during the foul years as above of $2OS, S24, 730.27, anc for the annual interest charge $17, ,557,' 7OS.
 | Al a few minutes befo hire Sunday eveni'3 g. fi,e broke out jl S33. Patrick Orphan ge, at Jackson sS:eeG and Lin coin avenue, Hyde Park, Pa., and four teen boys and three girls, ranging 1T age from six to twelve years, were suffo cated. Nearly all the children who lost their lives had neither father nol mother.
 In ;he match for the O'Leary belt in New Yo.k, Hart, the holder of the belt, broke down the first day ant Hughes, the ''leppe3," who has the bes record for walking, withdrew on tho second day. They were the only two men in the list of fifteen w;,o started from nom record was expected.
 -Crc.1es Merrill killed his mother a China. Me-, lecer}ly, ard to hide hi crime chopped the body to pieces ant buried whac he could not burn.
 FOREIGN.
 The Eoers say they desire peace but England must grant them thei freedom.
 The population of the German En pi1e is.A5, 194, 172.
 A Russian comm;~sion is to be ap pointed 10 consider ti,e question of ed mitting the people 10 g. sha1e iu t.' government O: the co,!h.2y.
 There is story in Paris that an abb who recently gave damaging evidenc against brother abbe accuse 1 Of an out rage at Dinan, was removed to a kemin ary at Lehon and found deod the nex morning.
 The p'a9re has appeared at Djaffe i1 Mesopotamia. Folr deaths have al ready ,crrre6.
 M. de Lesseps's report to the Pana ma Canal Company claims GhaG there ar 1Oo .OOO shareholders, and that the worl will be finished by 1888 and cost $l0O, 100000, the contractors beginning th' Calebra cutting i'd October. Coloret workme.l f4om Colombia and the Wes Indies will be employed.
 -The bc7v of General Colley, kille' in Africa, has been 'ound. In ihe en sagement with tne Boeis the Engli ] had 600 men. he Eoe-s ], ,CoS2.
 It is stated thct the Iz.ish Lam League funds are nearly all esGed i American securities. -Private te'egrams received in Lon don state that peece has been declare between Chili and Pe-n. The Orange Fee Stae Volksraa has expressed syMpatbv with the Boer: and also hope that G!ea5 B.iv.,in vii oc Boers.