Connecticut western news., 1881-02-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

charge of having three wives. s A fire destroyed the First Baptist Church in Cambridgeport, Mass. The loss amounts to $105,0OO; insurance, $57, ,OO0.
 The Illinois House of Representa- tlyes has adopted the resolutions calling upon Congress to retire General Grant with the rank of General.
 Mrs. Catharine Miller and George smith were hanged from the same scaf- fold in the jail-yard in Williamsport, Pa., on Thursday, for the murder of man, on the 18th of March last.
 The boiler of the pleasure yacht Carrie, of Philadelphia, lying at Chases wharf, Baltimore, exploded, making a complete wreck of the vessel and killing four men.
 Four more men have lost their lives hy being buried beneath snow avalanche in Utah.
 The strike of 4, 900 coal miners near Pittsburg, Penn., has been ended, an advance of pay having been granted. At Flushing. l.. T., Mrs. Caroline Q. Allen, charged with ill-treating Mary Hammlll by locking her up in build ing to starve, was sentenced to years imprisonment and to pay $100 fine.
 The public debt of the United States was decreased $7, ,382, 167. T in January For the seven months ending Jan. 31 the reduction was $5O,172, 727. The total 1nterest-bearing debt is now $1,- 675, ,265, 400, and the total debt of the country Is $2. 113, 474, 103. 36. There is $221, ,674, 535.08 in the United States Treasury.
 Tom Buford, the murderer of Judge Elliott, of Kentucky, has been sent to an insane asylum, having been acquitted of murder on the plea of insanity.
 "A dispatch from Albuquerque, N. M, says: Pera, Barrea and California Joe, the murderers of Colonel Potter, were taken from the jail by a band of masked men and hanged on the porch of the building. Not word was spoken, and 1t was scarcely fifteen min utes from the time the band approached the jail until the three men were dis posed of.
 A resolution has been introduced in the Concord (N. H. ) city council in- structing the Mayor to close all liquor saloons in the city.
 Three children of the Rev. Manning Hunter (colored), of Sumter Co.,, s. O., were burned to death, Sunday night, by the explosion of kerosene lamp. The father was away preaching and the mother was also absent.
 The New England Agricultural So- clety recommends the appointment of George B. Loring, president ot the so- ciety, as National Commissioner of A ffT1ro I,x7 DrociIa,,4 GarGa1l
 -Twenty-fve persons have been mur- dered within short time by remnant of Victoria's band of Apaches.
 The winnings of the men engaged in the walking match in New York City aggregated $S, O4S 80, distributed as fol- lows: Hughes, $3. 219. 52 Che also gets $1 ,000 from O'Leary for beating the best time on record); Albert, 8, ,414.64 Vint, $1, ,20732 Krohne, $8O4 28, and Howard, $4O2. A.
 Christian K. Ross says that he believes that the founding reported to be in the custody of Tuscarora Indians in Ontario is not his son, Charlie Ross. The mail train on the Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad met with an accident two miles below Middleburg, Pa, the cars jumping the track and taking fire. Fifteen persons were in- jured, five of them seriously
 Mrs. Barcomb, of Mooers, N. Y, locked her four children, the eldest being but seven years of age, in the house, while she went to the store for kerosene. After making the purchase and starting for home she discovered that her house was on fire. Help was immediately summoned, but on opening the door the flames rushed out so that 1t was impossible to enter. The charred remains of the little ones were found in heap, and in such position that one might suppose they had taken refuge under the bed. The cause of the fire is not known, but it is supposed to have been the explosion of lamp.
 In the match for the O'Leary belt In New York thirty men started on the six-day walk. They kept dropping out day by day until Friday night at 12 o'clock, when six only remained out of the thirty. At that time the score stood as follows: Hughes 500 miles; Albert, 485; Howard, ASA; Krohne, 480; Vint, 473; Phillips, 425; Campana, 385. At this time Hughes had beaten the best record ever made, he making 800 miles in five days. At 9 o'clock Saturday night, when Hughes left the track, the score stood as follows: Hughes, 568 Albert, 559; Vint, $50; Krohne, 53O Campana, 425. The belt was presented to Hughes.
 A party of citizens from Kinzua, Pa, went to the woods to see 8 well ''torpedoed." Forty quarts of nitro glycerine were put in a barrel to be thawed by steam. It exploded, blowing the engine-house and derrick to pieces. Two persons were killed and number of others seriously injured.
 A large number of papers in Ohio and Indiana have been made victims o1 an advertising swindle The name of z good advertising agency in Cincinnati was used in sending advertisements tc these papers. Many papers printed the advertisement and sent the bills to the agency. More, however, sent letters O. inquiry, which led to the detection The perpetrators are unknown. Thei scheme evades the law.
 -Cleophas Lachance was hanged a Athabaskaville, P. O., Friday, for tn murder of Miss Desilet at Balstrode las October. He made full confession be fore his execution.
 An ordinance of Quebec require transient merchants or their agents o employees to take out license at $6 per annum before following their vocs lions or selling by sample within tha corporation.
 FOREIGN.
 A most exciting scene in the Eng fish House of Commons followed tE arrest of Davitt. Messrs. Parnel Dillon and thirty three other of tE Irish members were requested by tE Speaker to withdraw. after they ha