Connecticut western news., 1882-06-07
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS


 and Quincy railroad. The Comptroller's monthly sta te- | ment shows that the funded debt of the | city of New York on May 31, was over $97, ,500,0OO. Owing to the sudden illness of a juror the MnlIey Douglass trial was ad- journed to the 18th inst.
 By the explosion of railroad tor pedo two children were fatally injured at Troy, N. Y.
 the Malley murder trial at New Haven sister of James Malley, Jr., and family servant testified that on the night before the finding of Jennie Cramer's body James was at home. The Rolling Mills at Milwaukee, Wis, have closed, and 5000 men are out of employment.
 Friday nor ming found every one of the twenty. six iron rolling mills of Pitts burg cold and silent, and fully 25, ,OOO stalwart workmen walked the streets out of employment. If the lock, out continues two weeks longer fhis number will be increased to fully 10000.
 The pump column of the Alta mine, at Virginia City, Nevada, broke, and soon after the bulkhead in the east drift gave away, letting in heavy rush of water. Six men working in the west end were cut off and drowned.
 It has been decided by the Gov ernor of New York, to establish the State military camp at the plot of ground about a mile north of the viii lage of Peekskill.
 Two woodchoppers, Seymour Dey and Harry Curry. were killed by Indians in Arizona.
 The Fusion Greenback State Con- vention of Maine nominated Gov. Plais- ted for re election. The platform favors the unrestricted coinage of gold and silver, and declares that the na- tional bank currency should give place to greenback currency. The principles of the party are: Equal rights, no monopolies, no banks of issue, safe currency, preservation of the public debt, reform In the ci vii ser vice and in the tariff system, no i'm prisonment for debt, free education. It was also resolved "That we unite against the Republican party" Gov. Plaisted accepted the nomination..
 The steamer Earl of LonsdaIe, which arrived at Boston from Havana, reports that on May 31, fifty miles southwest of Nantucket lightship, passed four white mattresses with pill lows attached; also, at the same time, large piece of wreckage apparently a part of 8 vessels hull.
 A member of the Grand Jury of the County of New York, went out as an amateur detective the other night, and the result was the finding of in. aictments against several unlicensed saloon keepers who were arraigned be- fore the Court of General Sessions.
 A compiled statement of the cotton acreage of the United States shows a material decrease as com pared with that of last year.
 The Maine Prohibition State Con- vention nominated the following ticket: For Governor, William T. Eustis; Rep- resentatives to Congress, John M. Stone, Henry Tallman, the Rev. w. G. AxtelI, and J. D. Ladd.
 The arrivals of immigrants at New York during May far exceeded the num- Der ever recorded in any one month, the total being 90,O19.
 Considerable anxiety prevails in all branches of business at Milwaukee, St. Louis and Chicago, in view of the de- cision of tbe ironworkers to iEaugurate strike on the 10th prox.
 The New York State Assembly, by vote of 77 to 35, adopted the majority report from the Judiciary Committee, aequibting Judge Westbrook and ex- Attorney General Ward from charges of official misconduct,
 The straight Greenback State Con- vention of Maine nominated tho follow ing ticket:
 For Governor-Solon Chase.
 Congressmen-M Messrs. William F. Eaton, Eben O. Gary, B. K. Kellock, and D. B. Averill.
 The platform adopted demands the abolition sf all banks of issue.
 That no more bonds be issued.
 That all public lands should be held as homesteads for the people.
 That all money should be issued by the federal government.
 That the dollar paid to soldier for his services in defence of the country during the late rebellion should be made equal to that paid to bondholders.
 That imprisonment for debt should be abolished, and that the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, except in such quantities as may be demanded by science and the mercantile arts should be prohibited.
 Tho will of the late Cornelius J Vanderbilt, of New York, is contested by his sister, Mrs. La Bau Berger, who alleges fraud and undue influence agains George N. Terry, who principally bene fits by the disposition of the property The estate aggregates about $600.00
 Particulars of the disaster in Ian building being erected, state that si1 men were either killed instantly O. fatally injured and forty-two other more or less seriously hurt
 On the application of counsel fo Mir. Dion Boucicault, Judge Barrett O New York reduced the alimony allowe, Mrs. BoucIeault in her suit for divorc from g., 800 to $1 ,50O.
 Governor Crittenden, of Missouri will pardon Frank James, the outlaw as soon as arrangements for obtainin, his pardon in other States have beel completed.
 An extensive confagration destroye most of the business portion of tn town of Willaros, Colusa County, Cali forDla.
 It is now rumored, in connectio with the mysterious death of Jenni Crsmer, that her father committed SUI cide last winter
 Accounts of serious marine disaste, accompanied with loss of life, come fro1 St. Johns, N. P.
 An appropriation of $1,250, ,OOO complete the Brooklyn Bridge we passed by the Senate of New York.
 The Civil Code bill passed the Ne