Connecticut western news., 1882-01-04
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 victed of fraudulent counting, has been | fined S100, sent to prison for six months and debarred from holding office or voting for seven years. The annual report of the Massachu- sets Savings Banks shows the number of banks to be 165; liabilities, $23s, 936,- 736, 7S; number of accounts, 73S, 951- increase, B, 556 deposits. S230, ,444,- 479. .10-increase, SIS, ,326, 556. 73 sur plus on hand, S14, SEQ, 600. .67-increase S132, ,405. 79; cash on hand, $1, ,061, ,651. .O6 decrease, S602, ,S39. .S9; average rate of ordinary dividends. per cent; aggre- gate earnings, SIP, ,2S5. .345. .35-increase, S390, ,634. 75; percentage of earnings to total assets, 5 per cent.
 A negro riot took place at Ply mouth, N. C., and attained such pro- portions that the local authorities could not stop it. At one time 300 negroes were under arms and defying the law. The trouble arose from 8 quarrel be- tween negroes. Arrests were made but the prisoners were released. Several parties were mortally injured during the trouble. .,- Philadelphia threatens to abolish the electric light. Twenty-Five build ings were recently set on fire in one day by means of the wires.
 Mir. George Kennan, in letter from Washington, expresses the opinion that the statement that minor Russian off, cer held back the news of the escape of the Jeannette survivors for ten weeks Is without foundation, and gives his req sons for his opinion.
 The twelve-year-old son of Dr. J. F. Russell, of Oshkosh, shot and killed They were playing with gun which they supposed was not loaded.
 Extensive veins of coal have been discovered south of Grand Junction, Greene County, Ia. on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. ---s Isaac Sterling, of Cold Spring, N. r., jumped from 8 mov1ng train at Kingston, N. r., Wednesday night, and was hurled against the timbers of the bridge and instantly killed. Small pox has broken out with great severity in some parts of Dakota, par taking of the nature of a plague. Some of the victims are said to have died within twenty-four hours after being attacked. It is also said that before death blood gushes from the eyes, ears and noses of the victims.
 An invitation has been received by the National Rifle Association from the British National Rifle Association, for American National Guardsmen to meet British volunteers at Wimbledon next July.
 The Chicago Board of Trade has 2 adopted resolutions protesting against the "practicA abolition of the life saving stations on the lakes by the fail ure to increase the pay of the keepers to figure commensurate with their meritorious services"
 The capture and execution of Chief Arzate, long the terror of Presidio del Norte and vicinity, in Mexico, and thirty of his band, near Chihuahua, is con- firmed.
 While John McCleary, of Brad ford, Pa, was torpedoing a well the well made a flow of oil and threw the torpedo out, causing its explosion. The torpedo contained forty eight pounds of nitro o-glycerine. McCleary was thrown about 100 feet, but none of his bones were broken.
 President Gonzalez has invited Senor Matias Romero, formerly Mexi- can Minister at Washington and three times Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico, to accept an appointment as 8 special envoy to negotiate . reciprocity treaty of commerce with the United States. Senor Romero will probably accept the position.
 A fire occurred at Durand, Pepin county, Wis, on Sunday afternoon and the entire place, with the exception of three buildings, was destroyed. Durand is the village in which Maxwell was lynched, and the fire was the work of Maxwell's friends. The village was set set on fire in five places at once.
 The lawyers interested in the trial of the Malley boys, at New Haven, Conn.,, deny the truth of the recent rumors to the effect that the State has secured important new testimony, and that astonishing developments are to be expected.
 "A negro exodus from South Carolina to Arkansas has begun. .a
 "A serious disaster took place on the York River, at West Point. Va, on Mon day. The steamer West Point took on board large lot of kerosene oil, in bar 4OASs WAA0 uAoCunA6 6Au6 hCG CtAISO tu1S oil exploded, destroying the steamer. Nineteen persons, including some four of the crew and nearly all the stevedore's hands, were fatally burned.
 In a fight between Italians in Mott street, New York, one man was killed and four wounded, two dangerously.
 "A Kalamazoo paper publishes an in terview with an ex- officer of the Michi- gan cavalry regiment which had charge of Jefferson Davis after his capture, in which he relates how he stole S14,OOC from Mir. Davis. -.-.-. zs... |.
 It is understood that Lieutenant Flipper, the colored officer recently tried for incorporation, will be dis missed the army.
 All the prisoners confined in jail al fernando, Miss, escaped on Thursday night. Among the number was Nelms a colored man who is under sentence O death for murder.
 Two clerks in 8 store in Greer Plain, Sussex County, Va, were found murdered in the store on Friday night
 A dispatch from Charleston, W. Va. says that on Friday Peter Herring an, his two sons were swept over the Gov ernment dam in the Kanawha River an, drowned.
 The statements of the anthracit coal trade for the year so far as the, have been compiled show that the tota production will reach about 28, 800, ,00 tons.
 Mayor King, of Philadelphia, hs appointed another colored man as policeman. This is the fourth colore, man appointed to the Philadelphi force.