Connecticut western news., 1882-09-13
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

ton, @ sensation was created on Thurs day when the Court announced that a number of the jurors had been tam- pered with, and that propositions of Q most corrupt nature had been made to them. An investigation will be had. Mrs. Elizabeth Guckert, of Read. ing, Pa, is not expected to survive a terrible attack of hydrophobia with which she was seized after being bitten by dog ten weeks ago.
 Three babies, children of debased and drunken mother, were found In state of helpless intoxication in an alley iu West Twenty sixth street, New York, by the Society f)r the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
 At Newport, R. l., 8 boy seven years old died after brief illness, and three physicians pronounced it case of Asiatic cholera.
 Three Cuban leaders who had es- caped fl om Cad were returned to the Spanish authorities by the British police at Gibraltar.
 -One of the scverest earthquakes ever know on the lslhmus of Panama occurred ThursdaY.
 Ten persons arret tod for complicity in the murder of the Joyce family, near Gong, Ireland, have been committed for trial.
 Three Americans, said to be dan. gerous bank robbers, broke from Mon treal jail Tuesday night.
 Five hundred head of Kentucky mules for the English army passed through East Buffalo, New York, on Wednesday.
 The ship Thomas Pope, arrived at San Francisco from the Arctic, brings news of the loss of the steam whaler North Star, through being crushed ID the ice off the coast of Alaska.
 -The Republicans of Nevada nomi mated Enoch Strother for Governor. The platform approves tbe administra- ton of Arthur calls for the enforce ment of the anti Chinese laws. and promises to defend the public school system from sectsrian influences.
 The English Volunteer Rife team made their first appearance for practlce at Oreedmoor Tuesday, and achieved 8 score that surpassed that of the Ameri- can team by over one hundred points.
 The brigades of labor turned out in procession in New York with banners and music, making 8 huge demonstra- tion. About fifteen thousand men were in line.
 -Reuben Woolmau, of Pittsgrove, Salem County, has been nominated for Congress by the Prohibition Labor Convention of the First District of New Jersey.
 The Greenbackers of the Second District of New Jersey have nominated Edward T. Rowland for Congress. George A. Reeves, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, died from hydrophobia, caused by the bite ci rabid dog.
 In New York City, the Tammany Hall Committee on Organization de- oided to send a full delegation to the Democratic State Convention, and voted Monopoly State Convention and to ask that body to make no nominations until after the adjournment of the Democratic Convention.
 Russell Brett, of the Pennsylvania Twenty-se cond, and Thomas M. Bayne, of the Twenty third Congressional Dis trict, have been nominated.
 A large quantity of goods. alleged to be the property cf the Philadelphia AImshouse, was found in the house where the a5sconded Superintendent Phipps recently boarded. The search for public property is being continued, and 1t is probable that arrests of other 2 ofHcials will be made. e -Six persons were injured by the ex- plosion of boiler in Cincinnati.
 A store near Portsmouth, Me, was entered by two masked men and robbed. The proprietor was maltreated to such an extent that he is expected to die of his injuries.
 Representatives of the ironworkers at Pittsburg, Pa, decided to continue their strike. They demand $6 8 ton fol pudding and decline to compromise.
 -Dr. Hedges and MT. Scott, Of New berg, N. r., who obtained several thou sand dollars by manipulating cards against the money of Francis P. Weed, are now in Chicago, and say they in- tend to keep the money as the statute of limitations allows them to do, and the money cannot be taken from them. :. At the New York Democratic State Convention at Syracuse there will prob ably be four contending delegations. The Herald says there is an absence of harmony among the organizations pro- fessedly opposed to John Kelly.
 From Brownsville, Texas, 40 new cases of yellow fever are reported in two days and ten deaths.
 Two physicians were carried into { lake by runaway team and drowned on Sunday, at Post Mill Village, Vt.
 The Boston longshoremen's strik has ended.
 While riding in wagon near West Albany an aged German and his wife were killed through being struck by { locomotive.
 The British Rifle Team arrived o1 the Alaska and were heartily welcomed by representatives of the National Rife Association.
 General Sherman, in execution of court martial, reprimands Major Josepl H. Taylor, Assistant Adjutant General United States Army, for conduc prejudicial to discipline.
 Richard Martin, of Adams town ship, Michigan, died on Thursday nigh of genuine Asiatic cholera
 A man near St. Louis, Mo-, who's wife had procured 8 divorce, shot ant killed his two little children and the committed suicide.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 -Arabi's army is said to number 93 100 men, with 143 guns.
 A rumor is current in Paris tha England has signed secret treaty wit Turkey relative to the ultimate organizs ton of Egypt.
 In the Odeon Theatre, Paris, figt occurred between M. Paul Deroulede the poet, and M. Mayer, the director C the Larste1me. Both combatants wer removed to the police station.