Connecticut western news., 1881-02-16
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

-heporLS or Sor1ouS damage by floods reach us from all sections. In Western Pennsylvania much damage has been done. Serious damage has been done in Ohio, Indiana, Eastern New York and in the Southern States. While three little children were re- turning from school at Tasting, Pa., on Thursday, they slipped from log Tn crossing a stream and were all drowned.
 In the Illinois State Legislature concurrent resolution from the Senate expressing sympathy for Michael Davitt on his arrest was concurred in by the House. A resolution of sympathy with Ireland, and characterizing the course of the British Government as unjust, was adopted in the Senate. Six men were killed outright and large number of others fatally injured Thursday by an explosion of coal mine near the town of Salem, Ohio, at the terminus of the New Lisbon Rail- road. ~ Two men were killed, five fatally wounded and anumber seriously injured by railroad collision at Allentown, Pa., Thursday. A passenger train and a freight train crashed together in Q fog.
 Mine persons were burned or other wise injured, one of them fatally, in a car that was upset, and set fire to by the stove, near Communipaw on the New Jersey Central Railroad Thursday night.
 = The Post-office Department at Washington estimates that 512, 931, ,224 letters, 163,O4S, 912 postal cards and 496, 706, 132 newspapers, aggregating 1,605, 502, 1892 pieces of all classes, passed through the mails in 1880.
 Three men were killed and ten in- jured by an accident on the Ohio and Mississippi road, near Owaneko, Ill.
 The Pension Appropriation bill was passed in the United States Senate, and the Legislative Appropriation bill was passed in the House.
 A Board of Naval Medical Officers has been ordered to convene at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital on March l to examine candidates for admission into the Medical Corps of the navy. There are eleven vacancies, and appli- cations to appear before the Board must be addressed to the Secretary of the Navy.
 A fatal accident occurred at Buffalo, on Tuesday, the arched roof of the old New York Central depot falling from the accumulation of snow and ice upon it, crashing to the earth, and burying a number of persons and cars beneath a tangled mass of iron, wood, glass, snow and brick. Four persons were killed and a number of others injured by the disaster.
 A fire at Omro, Wis.,, Monday, de- stroyed one-half of the business part oi the town. The loss is not less than $20O,0
 An abandoned schooner was dis covered in Chesapeake Bay Monday. On the ice near her was lot of clothing and pair of oars, indicating that the crew had perished in trying to reach the shore.
 William Law and his son John, and Samuel Varley and his son Henry, while crossing the Taunton at Fall River Sun- day, broke through the ice and were drowned. At the same place an un- known man broke through the ice about midnight and succeeded in working his way to within about fifty feet of the shore, when he sank.
 About $500 square miles of the Sacramento valley, California, are sub. merged by floods. The losses cannot be guessed at, at present, but the aggre. gate will be stupendous sum.
 During the severe cold weather 6 roadmaster on the St. Peter and Vino, na railroad in Minnesota found shanty with nan, his wife and four children frozen to death. They had burned -ur all their furniture to make a fire.
 FOREIGN NEWS.
 MT. Dillon, Home-R Rule member o Parliament for Tipperary, speaking il Manchester, said if Englishmen did not quickly change thelr temper towards tht Irish they (the Irish) would indeed b, dogs and slaves if they did not long fo the day when they could join the United States. MT. Parnell, he said, within month would stand in the Congress a Washington an honored and welcomed spokesman of Irish wrongs and will ex plain to the American people the condi tion of Ireland.
 -Littlewood, the pedestrian, of Shef field, has sailed for America to take par in the walking-match which will com mence in Madison Square Garden ol Monday, March z.
 A newspaper of Orenburg, in Rus sia, reports that the distress is so grea among the Ural Khirgiz tribes that the, are selling their male children for grail and leaving the girls to perish by colC and hunger
 -Earl Hraovilla Rr;+;sb Eoroior, Secretary, says he sees no reason why Greco-Turkish war may not be averted
 The following islands in the Britisl West Indies have been admitted to tn universal postal union St. Lucia Grenada, Tobago, and Turks Island The postage on letters to these coun tries is reduced from 13 cents to cents.
 The London Times, in an editoria article says: The publication of tn Russo-Afghan correspondence found il Cabul after the massacre of the Britisl Embassy makes 1t clear beyond doub that the invasion of Afghanistan in 1871 was the inevitable consequence of real, pressing and growing danger upol the frontier of our Indian Empire.
 The two men rescued from dam aged boat at the wreck of the Bohemia Monday became raving 1unatics an died.
 In the English House of Common Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Hom Secretary, replying to MT. McCoal (Home Rule) member from Wicklo0 County, said there was grave and jus cause for cancelling Michael Davitt'