Connecticut western news., 1881-07-20
NEWS OF THE DAY
: GENERAL ITEMS,

field, Minn.. Thursday, destroying many 1 buildings, killing two persons and severe | ly injuring many others.
 The Philadelphia Democrats have nominated J. H. Mitchell Qhe present Republican incumbent) for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; Moses Veale for Recorder of Deeds, and J. c. Nc Manemin and David Haggerty for City Commissioners. Of the thirty men who were buried Wednesday by land slide at the mouth of the Cincinnati Northern Rail- road Tunnel, near Cincinnati, two were killed and four wounded.
 MT. William E. Chandler's bill to punish the giving or receiving of illegal free passes on railroads has been in- definitely postponed by the New Hamp- shire Legislature by vote of 176 to 35.
 Maud s. beatl her record at Pitts burg, Wednesday, by quarter of a second, and trotted mile in g. 103.
 Two boys, one fourteen years old sand the other eleven,- have been arrested at Roekport, Me-, for drowning Willie Cain, boy of ten. I The Confederate General Pember- ton is dead. He was born in Philadel- phia, entered the Confederate army early in the war and was in command of Nieksburg when it surrendered to -sGen. Grant.
 Eighteen houses and two million feet of lumber were burned at Pottsdam, IN. Y., Wednesday.
 a- a--The long-missing whalers, Vigilsnt vand Mt. Wollaston, have been found by Indians in Behring's Straits. Three .corpses were found on the Vigilant. E 1.-The Ohio Democratic Convention on Wednesday nominated J. w. Book walter for Governor, B. M. Johnson for Leutepant Governor, E. F. Bingham for Supreme Judge, A. F. Winslow for sState Treasurer, F. c. Dougherty for Attorney General, and John Grove for 'G6mmissioi1er of Public Works. The platform denonncesr the spols system and declares for ciyil-service reform, a tariff for revenue and commission to reform the tariff. --.. .-.-
 The body of Mrs. Stewart, of Sil- suicide at Niagars Falls, has been found.
 Reports from the flooded districts in Iowa report unprecedented damag tocrops and railroad property.
 $-The Greenbackers of Wisconsin have nominated Edward P. Allis, of Mil waukees for Governor, with 8 full State ticket. 1fssfrs9- -f .d '-..
 ss--G Gr1scom, the Chicago fasting man during his 45 days fast lost in weigh, 49a pounds. Dr. Tanner lost thirty-six and one-half pounds in forty days. On the first day of the fast Griscom's s pulse was GA and his temperature 1CO and on the last day the pulse was S4~and his temperature 98. The total amount of water drank by Griscom was 1, ,433 ounces. His loss in weight was frac- tion over pound and one-tenth per day. He declares that he has felt no serious inconvenience from his fast or his fruit feast after the fast.
 ~-Thomas Pugh, of Cincinnati, son. in-law of Governor Hendricks, has been killed by the Apaches who captured him near Fl Paso, Mexico, July 3. .- 3-Feuf young men of Sandsfeld, Mass, on Saturday night tarred and feathered a woman whose offence ap- pears to be the bringing of petty suits against her neighbors.
 The thermometer registered 1O4 in St. Louis on Sunday, the highest in thirty-six years, and 103 in Cincinnati Monday. There have been 23 deaths from sunetroke in St. Louis, 21 in Pitts burg, 4 in Covington and in Indian apolis. 5s
 Heavy rains and water spout Mon day caused flood in Linn Creek and the Iowa River at Marshalltown, Ia., which damaged over $200,000 worth of property. Other places also suffered severely.
 Details have been received regard ing the falling in of the roof of a church in San Mateo, Mexico. An Oaxaca dis patch announced the killing of fifty-nine worshippers, but later dispatches say. the number killed will probably be much larger.
 At meeting near Birmingham, England, MT. l.. B. Myers, of the Man haitian Athletic Club, N. Y, ran quar- ter of a mile in 49 seconds-the best time Oh record for that distance.
 Jefferson Davis has written letter in which he condemns the attempt on the Presidents life and trusts that he lfecover. s-..
 A daughter of William Morgan, whos 1t is alleged, disappeared years ago after revealing Masonic secrets, is now living in Oregon. She says her father was drowned by five men. ...
 In the joint convention of the New York Legislature Saturday, the day after the caucus, MT. Lapham received sixty seven and MT. Miller sixty eight votes the highest number received by any candidate since the contest began. The Conklfng men voted mostly for MT. Wheeler on the second. ballot.
 -Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, appointed July IA as a day of fasting and prayer for the recovery of the Pres idept. Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, has been asked to address the Cover nors of other States on the subject of a concurrent proclamation of thanksgiv- ing.9ts~<1'' c af .-... s-.
 pr. Weisse, of the University Medi- cal College, after making experiments on two dead bodies, the conditions be- ing asafar as possible the same as those in the case of President Garfield, gives 1t as his opinion that the ball has not penetrated the liver, but is lodged in the lower part of the body. Dr. Frank H. Hamilton expressed somewhat simi- lar views.
 The sshah- breed" caucus, at Albany, with sixty-six members of the Leeisla- ture in attendance, has nominated Con- gressman Warner Miller, of the Twenty second District, as the successor of ex- Senator Platt, and Congressman FL bridge e. Lapham, of the Twenty seventh District, as the successor of ex-Senator Conkling. Mir. Depew sent letter withdrawing his name.
 FOREIGN NEWS.
 An astronomical congress will be held at Strasburg in September. The leading astronomers of Europe and America are expected to be in att