Connecticut western news., 1882-06-14
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 MT. Pierce, Republican member of Congress from Indiana, has been nomi- ted for re- lection.
 The Hebre V Immigrant Relief So- ciety say that the Hebrew refugees are coming faster than they can be pro- vided for. and that. half of them have no trades.
 Six men entered the Bank of Brook field, near Kansas City, Mo, on We'd nesday evening just at closing time, in- timidated the clerks with their revol. vers and took over $5, 900 from the safe and drawers, getting safely away with their booty.
 -Five hundred head of cattle brought to Montreal from the West for shipment to England were turned out to graze on firm near Montreal and were poisoned by eating a noxious weed. A large number died and the remainder are under veterinary treat ment.
 The meeting next year of the New York State Press Association will be held in or near New Yolk City. J. G. P. Holden, of the Yonkers Gazette, was chosen president, and A. O. Bunnell, of the Danville Advertiser, was reelected secretary and treasurer.
 A relief steamer for Lady Frank hn's Bay has been chartered and will leave St. Johns about July 1.
 The cigarmakers' strike at Milwau. kee, Wis, has come to an end.
 A meeting representing the hosiery manufacturers of New Hampshire unan- imously decides that unless Congress gives speedy relief the necessity exists of suspending operations in all the mills. A hostile meeting took place on Wednesday between Major B. A. Burke, State Treasurer and editor of the Times. Democrat, and Mir. O. H. Par ker, editor of the New Orleans Pica- y,tne. Three shots were fired and Burke was shot through both legs.
 The Ohio Republicans nominated Charles Townsend for Secretary of State; John H. Doyle, Supreme Court Judge, and 0. A. Flickenger, member of the Board of Public Works.
 The revenues of the New York Gus tom Hout during the first nine months of the present fiscal year were S116,- 00O,O0O.
 > In Oregon the Republicans were successful in the elections. They re- elected Mir. George to Congress. The Legislature is Republican.
 John Jackson, living near Harris Station, Missouri, went to church on Sunday, leaving his four children locked in the hoRse. The house caught fire, and when the parents returned they found their children burned to crisp.
 -Ex- Governor Franklin J. Moses, of South Carolina, pleaded guilty in the Court of General Sessions of New York to obtaining money under false pre- tences and was sentenced to six months imprisonment.
 The French brig Deux Pores, ar. rived at St. Pierre, N. F., from the Great Banks, lost six of her crew at sea.
 Yale defeated Dartmouth at base ball by score of to 8.
 A dispatch from Decatur, Alabama, states that 8 riot took place Tuesday night between colored and white men in Sumter County, Ala. The colored men were driven from the town and re- turned at midnight and set fire to it.
 Captain Matthew Webb challenges any man ia America to swim from one mile to ten for $l ,00O or 5000.
 At Butlerville, Ark, three negroes charged with assaulting little girl were taken from jail by mob Sunday night and hanged.
 Pensacola, Fla, Marquette, Mich. and Concord, N. H., are to have new Government public buildings.
 Mrs. Mentzer lost her life and Miss Montgomery was fatally injured by distressing railroad accident that hap pened near Wilmore, Pa.
 MT. Blaine will not accept 8 nom- ination for Congressman at- Large in Maine.
 Accounts from Pittsburg (Pa.) and other cities state that the striking work men continue to conduct themselves in m orderly manner. At Milwaukee ? (Wis.) a lot of iron workers who were receiving more than the average wages made common cause with the strikers, to the great annoyance of their employers. The indications at Pittsburg appear to warrant the conclusion that the manu- lecturers are wavering.
 General Fuero, Commander of the Mexican troops in Chihuahua, with 400 Mexican cavalry, surprised and attacked Juh's band of renegade Apaches early on the morning of the 25th ultimo, near Bosque de Santiago. Thirty bucks were killed and ten taken prisoners. The entire camp outfit, including fifty headsof stock, was captured.
 -Vennor prophecies wet and cold summer.
 The board appointed to inquire as to the number of persons killed and the value of property recently stolen or de- stroyed in Arizona by the Indians, has reported that forty-two persons were killed and nine wounded, and that the Expectations cause loss in property of $30, 250.
 A wind and rain storm in North Carolina did much damage and killed two colored girls.
 The schooner Industry was lost on Leke Michigan with all on board,
 -Advices from St. Louis, Mo-, state that relatives and friends of the notori- ous Frank James are still endeavoring to obtain pardon for him from Cover. nor Crittenden.
 At Rondout, N. r., a man and also . child were found suffocated in their beds.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The General Deficiency bill was passed by the House.
 The abolition by Mexico of the ez port duty on silver is said to be for the purpose of encouraging American in- vestments in that country.
 -Iu the House, s. s. Cox secured the passage by unanimous consent of 8 joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to lend to the Hebrew Aid Society of the United States, whose headquar- terS are in New York GOO army teuts