Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

eStlmates that at least thirteen million | dollars of property and many persons remained safely in port on account of warnings prior to the recent cyclone. Frank James, the highwayman, has surrendered to the authorities of Missouri. His band is broken up, and he is discouraged. The jury Investigating the tunnel disaster which took place on the Harlem road in New York City, returned 9 strong verdict, holding Rawson, the contractor and others guilty of culpable negligence, duplicating the railroad companies, and censuring them for a mistaken economy which makes travel dangerous.
 Commissions Price has notified the Indians whose support is not provided for by treaty stipulatlons that tl ey will be expected to labor for livelihood.
 Governor John L. Barstow, of Yer mont, was inaugurated on Thursday. His inaugural states that the debt of the State is $209, 9,583. It considers the subject of railroad legislation at length, and says that the power of the State to regulate railroad corporations cannot be denied, though it should be used with caution.
 The reported discovery that the nucleus in the newly discovered comet has separated into three unequal frag- ments is announced from Nashville Tenn, and Cincinnati, Ohio. The longest fragments are from 15, 1000 to 10000 miles long, and the distance be- tween them from 2,O00 to 5000 miles.
 Joseph Stamans, workman for the Brush Electric Light Company, was instantly killed by shock of electricity while at work connecting the wires in New York City.
 During the progress Of 8 street pageant at St. Louis, Mo-, several per sons were injured by the falling of a platform on which they were seated.
 It is reported that the Dominion government of the Dominion of Canada has decided upon the formation of two new provinces in the northwest.
 Fraudulent bids for star route contracts have been unearthed in which a notary and postmaster of Kansas are Implicated.
 Four ounces of dynamite were part of seizure in an alleged eounterfeiting case, and the explosive was tossed about in the New York Post Office building with dies and electrotypes. Later it was more securely deposited in the North River.
 At Prospect, Tenn., a negro having been adjudged guilty of a brutal crime, was taken and hanged by 8 mob.
 Dun, Wiman & Go. report that dur ing the last three months there were 1900 failures in the United States, with liabilities of SIS, 942, ,S93. For the same period last year there were 1, ,O24 failures, with liabilities of BIO, ,112,3 ,365.
 Reports from Virginia and North Carolina represent the quality and color of the tobacco crop as being fully equal to that of 1880. .-..
 A chemical examination of Guiteau's poisoned bouquet shows that the large bud contained arsenious acid largely in excess of 8 fatal dose.
 Secretary Folger's son is ill in Min nesota, and is not expected to live.
 Through collision of railroad trains at switch station, in Kansas, six per sons lost their lives and several others were injured.
 The total reward offered for the arrest of the Taylor brothers, who re- gently killed Sheriff and his deputy on a train in Tennessee, now amounts to $12, 800.
 A notorious negro murderer named Jerry Cox. who was under sentence of death, set fire to the jail in which he was confined at Nashville, N. O., and was burned alive.
 Judge Folger accepts the nomina- ton of the Republicans of New York for Governor. He gives his reasons in lengthy letter of acceptance. MT. Hepburn, the candidate for Congress- man-at-large on the same ticket, de- clineS the nomination.
 In the State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg, Judge Turnkey decided that railroad com pany must honor it's tickets, whoever sells them, and that therefore the ticket, on it's face, entities the holder to the rights of @ passenger between the points named on the ticket. This opinion reverses the judgment of the lower court and lays down the law in an interesting way in regard to one phase of the ticket scalping business.
 The members of the Grand Army O the Republic of Pennsylvania, Easterr Ohio and Western Virginia held re union in Pittsburg, Pa., on Monday It is estimated that over 50,000 stran- gers were in the city.
 In the United States Circuit Court at Utica, an application for writ o habeas corpus in the case of Sergean Mason, who attempted to shoot Gui teau, was denied.
 The monthly statement issued b, the Treasury Department at Washing ton, shows that the public debt wal reduced nearly 15,000,000 during September.
 Near Rochester, N. r., 8 boy C fourteen died through having been inc paled upon blackberry stalk.
 Last weeks arrivals at Castle Gal den, New York, numbered 1855; fo the month 32,843. The record show an increase over last year of abou 29,OO0.
 Wheeler, the San Francisco mul derer, was resentenced to death.
 General Crook says there are n hostile Apaches in Arizona.
 George Travis, Mrs. T ravis an their children, of Bridgeport, Pa, wel dangerously poisoned by eating sausag'
 A number of men took possession 8 train near Granada, Col, and robbe the express car. The passengers wei protected by two sheriffs.
 At three o'clock on Saturday morn ing fire broke out on the steamer R E. Lee while on trip to New Orleans and about thirty miles below that city which resulted in the total destruction of the boat and 8 terrible loss of life The Lee was one of the most note' steamers on the river. By the disaste