Connecticut western news., 1881-06-08
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS

OoAAAOAOh HUI 0oNOAbo1s CA-O d1tOO Obdt6S Senator, J. F. Lewis for Lieutena ant Governor, and Captain Frank s. Blair for Attorney. General.
 As MT. and Mrs. Henry Nieman were driving home, near Des Plaines, H., on Thursday, during heavy thun- der-storm, they were both struck by lightning and killed. Mrs. Nieman's 8 dress took fire and was burned nearly off. There were no marks on their per sons.
 Ben James, colored, was hanged at Marion, c. H., s. O., Friday, for the murder of David M Howell on August g, 1880. When the trap was sprung his neck was not broken and he strug- gled violently, drawing his knees up to his breast.
 The boat race at Brunswick, Me, between the Junior, Sophomore and Freshman classes of Bowdoin College was won by the Juniors in 19m. S. The distance was three miles.
 A thousand stocking weavers are preparing to emigrate from Chemnitz, Germany, to America.
 Work at the Pennsylvania coal mines will stop on the 9th, 10th anu 11th, 23d 24th and 25th of June, and on the 4th, 9th and 9th of July.
 The losses to Iowa farmers this year from poor seed will amount to $2, ,OOO,- 900.
 The Iowa Greenba ckers have nomi- mated D. Nj. Clark for Governor, J. M. Holland for Lieutenant Governor, A. D. Dabney for Judge of the Supreme Court, and Mrs. M. B. Nash for Super intendent of Education.
 A colored boy carried can of dyna- mite into blacksmith's shop at Low moor, Va. on Thursday, and caused an explosion which killed him and three men.
 Governor Bell, of New Hampshire, was inaugurated Thursday. His ad- dress gives the State debt as $3, 372, 77O, reduction since last year of $139, ,696. The savings banks deposits amount to $32, ,O97, 734, an increase eff nearly $4,- 100000.
 Burglars blew open 8 safe in Aull- vile, Mo, on Wednesday, and in doing so started fire which consumed nine stores, with their contents.
 The proposed amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of liquor was defeated in the State Senate Monday.
 The monument erected by the La- dies Monumental Association in Mount Olivet Cemetery at Frederick, Md, to mark the graves of Southern soldiers who fell at Antietam, Monocacy and elsewhere was unveiled Thursday.
 In the Iowa Greenback State Con- vention resolutions were passed sympa- thizing with the Irish Land League, and favoring the election of President and Vice President of the United States by the vote of the people.
 Alfred B. Street, the poet, for many years State Librarian at Albany, died there Thursday, aged about seventy years.
 By the explosion of a boiler in 8 dye works in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, hree persons were killed and ten chil- dren more or less injured.
 Levy, the cornet player, has been rrested and required to give bond at the suit for divorce of his first wife.
 About 700 delegates were present at the Iowa Greenback State Convention. Resolutions were adopted favoring old uA14O SICCA0dCh HIluClRl6S, duu ing unequivocally Woman Suffrage; also one committing the party to the anti monopoly movement.
 Twenty seven barrels of gasoline standing. on the platform of freight house in Springfield, Mass, caught fire Wednesday, after the passing of an ex- press train, and burned for over an hour. There were two explosions, the first, soon after the outbreak of the fire, and only fremen suffered by it, while the second came when the fire was thought to have been eztinguished and crowd had gathered about the barrels. About forty persons were more or less seriously injured.
 .-Alarge and enthusiastic World s Fair meeting was held in Boston Wednesday night and committees were appointed to push the work.
 In Gainesville, Texas, while three deputy sheriffs were trying to arrest John Thompson for carrying concealed weapons, Thompson shot and killed all three of them.
 The Philadelphia Mint during May coined 4,241, $40 pieces, valued at $7,668, ,55O. Of this amount there were 2. .22O double eagles, 324, 800 eagles, 769, 920 half-eagles, 800, GOO silver dol lars, 155, ,6OO three-cent pieces and g. 49O, ,000 cents.
 The Executive Committee of the National Association of Amateur Oars men has fixed upon September and for the next regatta of the association, River at Washington.
 The sentence of Stearns K. Abbott, convicted in Massachusetts of the mur- der of Mrs. Crue, has been commuted to imprisonment for life. |,
 At Albany, on Tuesday, balloting was begun in both houses for the elec- tion of United States Senators in the places of Messrs. Conkling and Platt. In the Senate the ballot to fill the va cancy created by MT. Platt's resignation resulted as follows Platt, 8; Herman, '; Depew, 2, with scattering votes. For the Conkling vacancy the vote stood Conklng, 9; Jacobs, 6, with scattering votes. In the Assembly the vote to fill the Conkling vacancy stood: Jacobs. 47; Conkling, 26; Wheeler, 16, with scattering votes. The Platt vacancy vote stood: Herman, AT; Platt, 21, with scattering votes.
 The first vote in joint convention for the short term stood as follows :- Conkling, 34; Wheeler, 22; Rogers, 15 Fenton, 3; Pomeroy, 2; Edick, 1; Wads worth, l; Jacobs, 52; Cornell, II; Crow ley, 3; White, 2; Bradley, 1; Folger, Balance, scattering.
 The second ballot was for success or to ex-Senator Platt, and was take1 immediately afttr the first, with the fol lowing results: For long term-Platt