Connecticut western news., 1881-02-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL mEms

l.: for an absolute divorce from his wife, Katherine Chase Sprague.
 -Dnrlng the temporary absence of Mrs. Bascomb from her home at Altoona. N. Y., on Tuesday evening. the house caught fire and four young children were burned to death,
 -Ihe Senate committe has added two amendments to the Pension bill, provid- ing that the examining surgeons fee snail not exceed one dollar, and that pensions payable to inmates of the Ma 0onal Home shall be paid to the treas urer thereof for the benefit of the pen sloners, any balance remaining at the date of a pensioners discharge to be paid over to him, and in case of his death 1t shall be paid to his widow or minor children.
 The President sent to the Senate the name of Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, vice Justice Swayne.
 Judge Howell E. Jackson, 8 State credit Democrat, was elected U. s. Senator from Tennessee, receiving the entire Democratic strength and the votes of IS Republicans. The thirtieth ballot was taken before an election.
 The House was engaged all day Wednesday, after the morning hour upon roll calls, with reference to the consideration of the electoral count resolutions. The Republicans, led by MT. Conger, prevented a vote being reached on it, while the House, tired out, adjourned.
 The largest fall of top coal and HI,n 5r,A l I In the Empire Mines, near Wilkesbarre. Pa, Wednesday, when 2,O00 tons fell, burylng two miners, Morris Evan and ms son Thomas. Hundreds of men are at work digging for the bodies. The cause of the fall is not yet known.
 The steamer Minnie, used for tow ing logs on Perdido Bar, Florida. ex- ploded her boiler Saturday night, killing the captain, engineer and fireman, and completely demolishing the cabin. The steamer immediately sank.
 In West Virginia J. N. Camden lDem.) was elected to the United States Senate, and Philetus Sawyer (Rep.) elected by the Wisconsin Legislature.
 General Francis A. Walker, Super intendent of Census, telegraphs to tho Consultation that the discovery of mis- stated portfolio makes the population of Atlanta, Ga, 37, 421, instead of 34, ,39S as previously published.
 Mrs. Wellington Barnes, residing in London, Ont, died Sunday from the effect of swallowing two artificial teeth, brushing th9m.
 Three masked burglars forced the door of the South Chicago Iron and Steel Works office Sunday night, bound and gagged the janitor, and while one held pistol at his head the other two blew open the safe combination, took 5000 in bills and $1, 15O in gold and escaped. Charles Brooks, the ianitor, is suspected, of being implicated in the robbery, and with his son has been ar- rested.
 On Saturday and Sunday Apaches in the vicinity of San Marial, New Mexico, killed fifteen persons and wounded several. Nine are missing and were probably killed. J. M. Rob Inson, Mining Engineer of the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, is reported missing. Two others of his party were killed. Captain Jack Craw- ford's mining camp is reported to have been attacked and three men are said to have been killed. The Apaches headed for the northwest. Companies of troops and citizens of San Marial are in pur- suit. The band numbers from forty to sixty.
 Treasurer J ohn Sherman is reported as saying that he believes that an extra session will be necessary, as he thinks the chances are that the Funding bill will fail between the two Houses.
 More than 100 organizations. num- bering 2O,OO0 men, have already en- gagged quartersin in Washington for March 4. Fifty thousand men are expected in line, and as many more visitors to the city.
 The population of the State of Maryland, according to the schedules returned to the Census Office by the enumerators, is as follows: Males, 462,- OO4 females, 472, ,628; native, 851 ,984 1 foreign, 82, ,648; white, 724, 718; colored, 1 209, 914. Total, 934, ,632.
 The population of Washington Territory is:-Males, 45, 977 females, 1 29, 143; :; native, 59, ,259; foreign, 15, ,861 white, 67,349; colored, 7,771. Total, 75, 120.
 The House Committee on the Inter- 1 became Canal has referred back to the l subcommittee the bill and report favor Ing the incorporation of the Eads ship railway across the 1sthmus of Panama. with instructions to strike out the pro- vision for an indorsement by the Gov ernment of its stock to the amount of $50, 0,0OO,OOO.
 It is stated on trustworthy authori- ty that Justice Swayne, of the Supreme Court, will tender his resignation to the President and that ex-Senator Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, will be nominated to succeed him.
 FOREIGN
 The British Government has dis armed the Second Battalion, Eighteenth Royal Irish Foot Regiment, stationed at Aldershot, believing that a strong Fenlan feeling existed in the brother hood.
 The English patrol from Pretoria, South Africa, surprised and captured a Boer laager after severe fighting. The Boers lost twenty seven killed and many wounded. The enemy aban- doned their stores. The British lost four killed. All is we'll in Pretoria.
 A boat used for harbor work at Cherbourg has foundered with her crew, consisting of eighteen persons Eight bodies have already been re- covered
 General Skobeleff of the Russian army telegraphs that on the 24th of January the Russians captured Geok- Tepe and Deugil-T -Tepe after nine hours of desperate fighting. "The Tekke- Turcomans are in full retreat. Their