Connecticut western news., 1881-10-05
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS

"NAO oOAh Pl6C0S. 1Io6S W6r uprooted or twisted of, and so far & heard from twelve persons were killed with several missing. The force of tht wind was so great as to throw flat car. on the track and to break down large number of telegraph po'es, The coun try swept by the cyclone was abou thirty miles long and ffom one to foul wide.
 Charles Parmenter, foreman of the painting department at the National Armory, was crushed to death on Fri. day while attempting to step through the large wheel between the spokes.
 -Aspecial from Centralia, Kan.. says ID. B. Wales's house was blown dowr on Wednesday, and himself, wife, ani four children were buried in the ruins One child was killed and another fatall, injured"
 Information has been received f, the effect that the three robbers who robbed the train on the Iron Mountair Road on September 22d were captured on Wednesday one near Sulphu, Bluff, Texas, and two in the Indian Ter ritory.
 = The Senate Sub Committee Ton Bankruptcy will visit the leading busi. ness centres after the special session oj the Senate, being anxious to be in a position to report for or against & new act at the regular session of Congress.
 .-Proceedings by way of an informa- ton were begun at Washington on Fri day, against ex-Second Assistant Post master General T. J. Brady and others. accused of the frauds in the star-route service, and orders of arrest are said to have been issued.
 Several hundred oyster-shuckers in Seaford, Del, one of the largest oyster packing places in the country have struck. By this the entire town is thrown out of work. Every packer is under bonds of $50 not to pay any more than 123 cents for each nine pints of oysters, and it is now thought there will be no packing house open this year.
 The Adirondack Railroad has been sold under foreclosure for $35O, 1000.
 Irving G. Vann and John G. Churchill have been nominated for Supreme Court judgeships in the Fifth Judicial District of New York,
 -Guiteau will be defended by his other-in-law, MT. Scoville, of Chicago. The defense will be that the prisoner is insane. The New Jersey authorities have decided to take no action against Guiteau.
 The Cabinet members have been asked, it is authoritatively said, to re. main in office at least until the meeting of the special session of the Senate on October 10.
 A large reunion of -Confederates was held at Moberly, Mo-, on We'd nesday.
 Frank and John Mcdonald, who had murdered two half-breed Indians at Menominee, Mich., were killed by a mob last Tuesday night.
 Most of the forest fires in Western New York have been extinguished by rain.
 The ship Alice Buck was wrecked on the California coast last Tuesday morning and ten of the crew were drowned.
 At Moscow fire which broke out on Tuesday night, destroyed the bazaar and number of warehouses, the loss being estimated at g., 800, 1000.
 The Swiss government has been re- quested by Russia, Germany and Austria, to forbid the proposed Socialist Congress at Berne. William Ryan, one of the Glendale (Mo.) train robbers, has been convicted and sentenced to twenty-five years 1m- prisonment.
 The Massachusetts Prohibitionists held their State Convention Wednesday or,I okal X r.. | eruOT. Secretary Blaine, it is alleged, in- tends to retire from the Cabinet forth | with, but it is generally believed that he | will continue for the present at least to | give the new President generous SUD- port.
 The fund for Mrs. Garfield and her | family has increased to $324, ,675.67. An attache of the eSurgeon-Generars | Department at Washington alleges that | on Monday night he heard two men on | the street plotting the murder of Presi- | dent Arthur. -James Andrews was shot dead at | Oroylile, Cal, last Monday night by E. h. Sproul, who mistook Andrews for | J. 5. Espey, for whom he was lying in wait.
 The steamer Anchoria, which arrived | Wednesday, reports that on the night | of the 20th inst. she was in collision with an unknown bark which disap. peared and no trace of her or her crew could be found afterward.
 The Scotch cutter Madge won the second contest in the Seawanhaka Club series, against the cutter Wave, beating her by eleven minutes 51 seconds. irre- spective of time allowance, which was thirteen minutes forty-eight seconds.
 FOREIGN.
 In Ireland it has been ascertained that cask of powder was used in the attempt to blow up Captain Lloyd's house at Pallas Green, County Liner 1ck. Two inmates were injured.
 The London Lancet condemns the late Presidents surgeons for having issued bulletins making the best of the case.
 At the Electric Congress at Paris Dr. Siemens, of the celebrated firm O. Slemens Bros., cable manufacturers. has brought up the question os the rights of property, In submarine cables. As no government has jurisdiction beyond three marine miles off its own coast. the cutting of cable in mid-ocean would not be criminal offense. The French Government will discuss the subject with other governments.
 --Agrarian outrages are still common in Ireland. The house of Captain Lloyd. of Pallas Green, County Limerick brother of MT. Clifford Lloyd, the fam ous or notorious stipendiary magistrate at Kilmallock. has been shattered bv an explosion of dynamite. The foreman of an Orange emergency expedition has