Connecticut western news., 1882-06-28
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

State House grounds at Columbia, s. O. was shattered by lightning.
 Favorable reports are given of the crops in Kentucky and Kansas.
 Mrs. Johanna Walker, of New York City, sued lodge of Good Fellows for widows benefits, but was defeated be- cause her husband was in arrears at the time of his death.
 General William B. Bate was nomi- hated by Tennessee Democrats for Gov ernor.
 The Republican State Convention of Vermont nominated John l.. Bar stow, of Shelbourne, for Governor. s. B. Pingree was nominated for Lieuten- nt-Governor. w. H. Dubois was nom- mated for Treasurer by exclamation. The committee on resolutions reported set deploring the death of President Garfield pledging support to Repub- iiean principles; condemning the one term system in the State Legislature; recognizing the importance of legisla- tion favorable to education and agricul, tural interests; expressing confidence in the present tax law, and pledging the support of the officers nominated. The old State Committee was enlarged and renominated.
 At an emancipation celebration in Houston, Texas, Charles F. Witham was killed, Deputy Marshal Glass se- riously wounded, 8 colored boy killed and negro shot in the back.
 President Arthur, General Sherman and several cabinet officers were present at the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic in Baltimore.
 At Hamilton, Ont, 8 man killed his wife and her employer and then took his own life.
 A collision between 8 gravel train and a "special," on the Northern Central Railway, near Mount Carmel, injured.
 Four men were killed by boiler explosion at Willismsfeld, Ohio.
 MT. Joseph s. Sanborn retired from business in New York in 1873 with fortune of $20O, 900. He lost it in Wall street, obtained precarious en- ployment as 8 clerk, and when he could get no more work shot himself.
 The official story of the loss of the Rodgers is given by Lieutenant Berry. His telegrams are dated at Port Townsend, in Washington Terri tory. The origin of the fire is a mystery. There is a theory that it was the result of spontaneous cumbus- tion, but it is much more probable, as Lieut.. Berry thinks, that it was caused by the heat from one of the engines, near which the flames first broke out. Every thing that 1t was possible to do to save the ship seems to have been done. The crew worked gallantly and the abandonment was ordered only when all hope of saving the vessel was at an end. It was with difficulty that the officers and men were able to get on the dreary shore where they subsequently encountered so much suffering.
 It is estimated that the fatal cyclone in the West has left ], 500 persons hom- less. An appeal to the public for aid has been made.
 The Arkansas greenbackers nomi- mated R. K. Garand for Governor and 8 full State ticket.
 Captain J. Ross, with his command of fifty rangers, who left Tucson, Ari. !, two months ago, has returned. The rangers were captured in Mexico and sent back 250 miles through hostile ter ritory without arms.
 -Advices from Chihuahua City state that Mexican troops had another fight with Indians in Encinillas, in which fifteen Indians were killed and twenty made prisoners. Five Mexicans were killed.
 A lamentable tragedy has occurred at PIttsburg, Pa. A shoemaker named Wyncoop stabbed his wife to the heart and then cut his own throat.
 Four cowboys have been killed in a fight with Indians on the borders of the Indian Territory.
 -Dr. Gay and Wm. Gaygen were both mistaken for burglars and killed on Monday by the inmates of the houses they were seeking to enter, the one in Boston by George Edmunds and the other in Ithaca by George Brown.
 The disaster to the British steamer Escambia proves to be a sad affair. She left San Francisco loaded with grain and with deck load of coal for use. The pilot had left her but few minutes when heavy sea struck her, which came com pletely over her decks, filling her with water She went over to the port side. The lifeboat and small boat were cut loose and filled with men while in the water. The Captain and nine men were in the small boat and seven others took the lifeboat, which was without oars and almost swamped. The boats kept together for some time, the men in the leeward boat being help less and shouting to the Captain to come to them. For hours the Captain tried to assist the other boat, but finally 1t drifted away to the north, when he started for the shore. When about hali mile from shore the Captains boat capsized, and of ten men in her but four reached shore. Twenty-six lives were lost.
 In New York City some time late on the night of May 23, 1882, or follow ing morning, Louis W. Gutermuth, 6 German by descent, aged thirty, who lodged at No. IA Vest 47th street, anc was Mexican and South American aeent for Coombs, Crosby & Eddy, of No 15s Cliff street, was violently assaulted b1 two men and struck on the head witt some hard instrument or instrument! while walking along 57th street, iron Fifth avenue toward Broadwa with female companion, presently known as Mrs. D. Shafton Hawkes., of No, 91' Seventh avenue. Mir. Gutermuth dieC of his injuries at his lodging on Sunda, the 11th inst. On Monday, May 29 MT. Gutermuth made partial state ment of the affair to friend, but saic 1t was long story, and he would finisl it when he recovered. Mir. Guternutl was well enough to leave his house be fore he died. On Coroner Merkle' order, MT. Robert 0. Clapp, of the Ross more Hotel, and John K. finley, quondam private detective, were ar rested, the primary reason seeming t. have been that there was a feud existin.