Connecticut western news., 1881-02-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

auguration of General Garfield. Nearly every member will start on the evening of March 2.
 Smallpox is spreading terribly in the West. In one small town in Iowa there were sixteen cases, and so great was the fear of contagion that no one could be found to bury the dead. As fast as 1t is known that smallpox pre- vails villages are quarantined. Nurses cannot be obtained, although $5 day IS offered for them. In Chicago the disease is increasing rapidly and many deaths occur through neglect.
 '-S. G. King, Independent Demo- crat, was elected Mayor of Philadelphia on Tuesday by majority of 5,538 over Mayor Stokley, Republican.
 The bark Hazael, of Salem, Captain hosJertA, from Sierra Leone with hides for Boston, struck on the South Shoal Wednesday night. Seven of the crew lost their lives while leaving the sinking yes sel on raft
 Paddy Ryan, the pugilist, was ar rested in Troy, Tuesday, for his fight with Goss in West Virginia last year. He escaped from the officers.
 The Palace Hotel of Dr. R. V. Pierce in Buffalo was burned on We'd nesday. Loss, $40O,00O; insurance, about $240.000. The patients escaped with their lives but lost their clothing President Gonzales, of Mexico, has granted ], 800 square leagues of land in the State of Sonora for a colony, which 1t is expected will be settled by Ameri- cans.
 The joint resolution introduced in the United States Senate by MT. Plumb relative to the sale of alcoholic bev- erages proposes to amend the Constitu- tion so as to prohibit the manufacturer sale and importation of all intoxicating liquors, except for scientific, medical and mechanical purposes, in any portion of the United States. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
 The U. s. House Committee of Ways and Means elected Representative Tucker, of Virginia, Chairman, to suc- ceed Fernando Wood.
 It is reported that Wisconsin will get 8 Cabinet position in General Gar fields Cabinet. Either the Secretary Generalship will be given to ex-Senator Howe OF Postmas ter Payne, of Mil waukee.
 At the Poplar River Agency the floods have been so great that number of Indians and 500 ponies were drowned. As F. A. McClain, was driving along the highway, fifteen miles south east of Bradford, Pa., in 8 sleigh con- taining 200 pounds of nitro ycerine, the horses became frightened and ran against a boulder, causing an explosion. McClain was torn to atoms, and both horses were killed. There was not @ trace of the sleigh left.
 A party of ten men working in tur- pentine encamped in the woods at Jackson Springs, Virginia. The hut took fire and eight of the ten men per ished.
 flooded by the blocking of ice and back mated that damage to the amount of vatprs and warehouses were flooded and large amount of grain was destroyed. Fernando Wood, member of Con- gress, from the City of New York, died at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Sunday. He was Mayor of New York city for three terms, and has represented the City in Congress for many years.
 Three mysterious fires occurred at Waterbury, Conn.,, Sunday, doing dam age to the amount of over $20O.00O.
 A suit for $25, 1000 damages has been and his landlord by the wife of H. A. lIxTro ct &Sc4 but of late drunken loafer. Mrs. her husband liquor knowing him to be an inebriate.
 A dispatch from Marshall, Texas, says the county clerks office there has been robbed of the returns from nine. teen of the twenty three voting places, 1t IS supposed, by some one connected with the Federal Court, before which g number of citizens are soon to be tried for violating the election laws.
 General Herman Uhl, one of the proprietors of the New York Stoats ZeitaGng, accidentally shot himself Sun. day, dying in fifteen minutes.
 MT. Peter Cooper, of New York city, celebrated his ninetieth birthday Satur. day and new gifts made by him to the Cooper. Union were announced. Mr. Cooper, to celebrate the day, gave to the trustees of Cooper Union $3O, 900 in cash and the receipts for $70, 900 expended in the last year on the Institute Building. He also gave $1O,0OO to the fund for aid. ing poor children.
 "A number of M. de Lesseps's en. gineers and contractors have arrived on the Isthmus of Panama and begun work on the Canal.
 MT. Lowe, Secretary of the De. partment of Agriculture of Canada, said before the Emigration Committed that during the year 85, 1855 emigrants arrived, of which number 38, 536 settled in Canada, the remainder going thro ugh to the United States.
 A resolution has passed both branches of the Legislature of Colorado expressing sympathy with Ireland. Green Jackson, colored man, was hanged at Mar1on, Ark, Friday, fol spring.
 IN. W. Shores Democrat), of Lee, has been elected Representative in the Fifth Berkshire District of Massachu- setts, in the place of the late Alexander Hyde, receiving 338 votes against 28a for G. c. Hunting Republican, ) of Lee.
 The United States Senate Commit. tee on Territories authorized Senator Saunders to report with recommends tion for passage the bill which provides for creating the Territory of Pembina to consist of the northern half of Dakota
 The United States House Committee on Appropriations agreed to report ia vorably to the House the bill making ar appropriation of $175, 900 to prosecute g search for the steamer Jeannette.
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