Connecticut western news., 1882-08-30
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

hanged on Nov. IT, for poisoning Mrs. Gray and Travis Jones of Surry county, Va, in the early part of April, by put ting arsenic in their coffee.
 The Texas fever has attacked the cattle at several slaughter houses at Auburn, N. Y., and all beef is sold under certificates of the Board of Health.
 The balloon Columbus, /" which as- Cended at the Bavarian festival in New York. descended in Duchess County, about twelve miles above Poughkeepsie. The aeronauts were landed in a quag- mire.
 The Missouri Republican State Gen. tral Committee has decided to hold no State Convention this fall.
 -Anumber of horses received shocks of electricity on Nassau street, N. T., while walking over the buried con- ductors of the Edison electric light wires.
 The roof of the Erie Railway EIe- vstor at Buffalo, N. r., was blown off Thursday night by an explosion, the cause of which is unknown. The building took fire and burned to the ground. The engineer, John Bonnsr, John Kemp and Henry Lee are supposed to have been burned. Timothy Driscoll had his skull crushed and his right leg broken. The loss is over $250, 900, and the building is in- sured.
 Captain Webb won the swimming match against Thomas Riley at Hull. Mass, on Wednesday.
 n two cattle which had died of the plague at Sennett, N. r., the spleen WAS found enlarged and very dark, the kidneys congested, the third stomach solidly competed with food, and other aggra- vated symptoms.
 An accident occurred on board the United States steamer TAllapoosa just after she left New York harbor on We'd nesday. The men were at exercise lowering the lifeboat, when the forward tackle got away from the men tending It and the bow of the boat went by the run into the water, throwing the men from their seats and three of them over- board. Henry Kratz, acting quarter master, was probably stunned and did not rise to the surface; August OhlmseD, boatswain's mate, was rescued with one arm disabled, and Oscar Wes- terholTn, seaman, with broken ribs. Every efurt was made during the rest of the night to find Kratz, but without avail. Julian G. Baker, gunner's mate. who saved the life of Ohlmsen, was thanked on the quarter deck and sub stantially rewarded by Secretary Chandler.
 Wednesday afternoon engine No. 762 ran into a freight train loaded with cattle, hogs and sheep, at Monmouth Junction on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The engineer, A. Brown, of the light engine, was probably fatally injured. Hundreds of hogs were liberated by the collision and are running at large.
 On Wednesday Benjamin Harris. colored, living near Visalia, Cal, shot and mortally wounded his wife. He killed his stepdaughter, aged fourteen. snd severely wounded another step. daughter, aged ten, with an ax. He made his escape, with thirty men in hot pursuit.
 The English steamship Castalia has been chartered to load 500 mules at the port of Philadelphia to be taken to Alex andria, Egypt, for the English Govern ment.
 The New York Worlds correspond ens st Lima writes that the Chilians are Eespng more and more savage as the lsliure of their policy grows clearer. Trance has stopped their sales of guano. The Pernvians are in undisputed pos sess1on of the interior. The representa-. lves of the Provisional Government at Lima and former Peruvian Minister to fnas country have been arrested.
 William B. Fitzpatrick, of Mil waukee, Wis, who claims to be the heir to the throne of Ireland, has been writ ing to MT. Gladstone, the British Premier, to urge upon his Royal sister. Victoria, that she renounce her title to hls country. He does not appear to be crank. -
 The unfinished second rate ironclad Massachusets, on the stocks at the Rortsmouth Navy Yard, is to be broken 1p: She IS of the same class as the uoiossus and Oregon. She was com, menced near the close of the war. and represents an outlay of about S2, OOO. .OOO
 = On the Hampton branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad last evening freight train of about thirty cars, leaving Washington. northward bound, collided with an er. srs engine and caboose proceeding in fne same direction, throwing the freieht engine down 8 forty-foot embank- ment. The engine landed in inc ShabbacoDg Greek, instantly killing two ooys named Christine, who were riding upon the engine, and Conductor Shen. ara, who was in an extra caboose. En. emeer Frost, of the demolished eneine nad both legs broken and also sustained other injuries. Blame is attached to inc engineer of the extra engine, who, it is sald, failed to recognize the switchman's signals.
 Charles Mahon, who lived five miles east of Nit. Pnlaski, Ill. and who had been missing for three days. was dis. covered Monday with two young men. who had been working for him. sil three Dhndfoided and their throats cut from deed. ---"A ioi LUG A suddn rise in the Rio Granda River Monday night carried away mart of the Great Northern Railway and . part of the Mexican national bridoes This will prevent rail Communication wlth Mexico for several days. thonob che damage is not detrimental to traffic
 Wear Globe, Arizona, a stage was attacked by robbers, who killed the ex- 2ress messenger and secured more than
 The long strike of the miners has ended m the defeat of the men. Work Mas resumed in many of the mines. In Sne Cumberland region the Knights of Labor were strong enough to deter the men rom going to work until they had voted the strike at an end.