Connecticut western news., 1881-06-01
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS


 Topeka, Kan. There are seventy-eight grand lodges and BIO, 145 members in 2 the United States. The next session will be held at Charleston. ?. The Michigan Assembly has passed a bill restoring capital punishment in the State.
 The Maryland Democratic State Convention will meet in Baltimore on June g to nominate 8 candidate for Comptroller.
 The youngest daughter of James Westover, aged 16, of Markesan, Wis, .epOisoned herself because her father for bade her beau, Dan Murray, aged IS, calling at the house. The young man ..wss so grief.stricken when he heard of the girls fate that he also committed suicide by taking strychnine.
 In the rife tournament at Milwau- kee between teams from Milwaukee, Chicago, and Minneapolis. at 800, 900, .asnd LOGO yards, the Milwaukee team won, with @ score of 1,216 points, to Minneapolis's 1,153 and Chicago's ], ,122. At 800 yards the Milwaukee team made 429 out of a possible 450, score said to be at the best on record.
 The thirteenth annual convention sof the National Woman Suffrage Asso- citation opened in Boston Thursday. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton presided. Among those present are Isabella Beech CT Hooker, Belva A. Lockwood, Susan B. Anthony and Lillie Devereau Blake. The Republican Convention in the Second Congressional District of Maine, to nominate successor to Representa- tive William P. Frye, is to be held in Auburn on Thursday, June 23.
 Tho Iowa Republican State Conven- tion to nominate candidates for State officers is to be held in Des Moines on the last Wednesday in June.
 The dwarf Commodore Mutt is dead.
 The United States Treasury has re- ceived more than $250, 900, 900 (the limit set in the calG Tn registered 6ves for conversion into three and one-haf per cents. -.
 David Augsburg, of Pamelia Four Corners, near Watertown, N. r., shot neighbor named Samuel Seolor and his two sons Wednesday morning. Tbe father will probably die. The shooting was the result of a quarrel about farm. In thirty, days there were ten mur- ders on the Isthmus of Panama.
 The statue of Admiral Farragut at the northwestern corner of Madison Square, New York, was unveiled and presented to the city Wednesday. Secretary of the Navy Hunt made the presentation speech, and Mayor Grace responded. MT. Joseph H. Choate de. ivered. the oration.
 During 1880 there were mailed in the United States 1, ,O53, ,252, ,876 letters, or an average of 21 for every man, woman and child in the country. The total of all pieces mailed was 2, 720, 234, 252. ..l...-
 During a circus performance in Milwaukee, on Monday night, in an act where one Butler shoots potato from the head of man named Baughman, Butler missed his mark, and the bullet struck. Baughman on the head just above the right eyebrow. The ball penetrated the bone, but the injury is not necessarily fatal .... In St. Joseph, Mo, four negroes were killed and thirteen or more badly hurt by an explosion of oil stored in the cellar beneath the saloon in which they were drinking.
 The assessed valuation of real es- tate in New Jersey according to the . census is $436, 032, ,638, and of personal property, $126, ,215, ,985. The total State indebtedness is $53, ,828, PAY.
 The remains of Colonel Thomas A. Scott were buried in Woodland Ceme- tery, near Philadelphia.
 The total values of the exports of domestic provisions, tallow, and dairy products during April, 1881, were $8,- 133, 164, and during April, 1880, $12,- 965, 5,672. The total values of dairy pro- ducts for the twelve months ended April 30, 1880, were 1928, ,4S5, ,781, and during the same period in 1880, $16,- 6Q7,95O. = ..
 A most terrible disaster took place near London, Ontario, on Tuesday. The steamboat Victoria bad party on board celebrating the Queens birthday. The boat was an old one, and as she was on her trip on the Thames she suddenly collapsed and went to pieces. The water was not deep, but large num- Der of persons were held under water by, the hurricane deck and drowned. About 230 lives were lost by the dls- aster. '--s
 Captain Chester, in command of the expedition for the relief of the Arctic vessel Gulnare, has employed the New foundland sealing steamer Proteus, which will leave St. Johns as soon as she is equipped.
 The shore end of the American Cable Twas landed Monday at Dover Bay, N. s. The laying of the cable is going on at the rate of 130 miles day.
 The President has made the follow ing appointments to West Point: AL ternates, 1881-James Nesle Plumb, of New York l.. O. Hunt, Michigan A. W. Kimball, Massachusetts,. Cadets at Large, 1882-M. H. Barnum, of New York; C., Lyman, of Mississippi; Chas. M. McCook and W. B. Albert, of Ohio.
 A pilot schooner containing pilot, three apprentice pilots and cook, was swamped in the St. Lawrence, opposite Riviere du Loup, on Saturday, and all on board were drowned.
 In New York city at a conference of the stalwarts it was decided to open the campaign at once at Albany, and leave no stone unturned for the reelection of Conkling and Platt. Messrs. Conkling and Platt were present at the meeting.
 -Col. Thomas A. Scott, one of the prominent railroad men of the country, died in Philadelphia on Friday. He was Pennsylvar ian by birth. He went into railroading at an early age, and as Assistant Secretary of War during the war was of much benefit to the Government in this department. He was Superintendent and afterwards President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for many years.
 Private Van Risen, belonging to the artillery company at Fort Hamilton, committed euici6a in thn harracka op