Connecticut western news., 1882-04-19
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Sunday night. Loss. 55,OOO; insur- ance, $30,000 An order has been issued for the arrest of General Clinton B. Fisk, who is charged with swindling in mining Bail has been fixed at $75, 1000.
 John Enright horsewhipped Harry Patterson in Oceanic, N. J., Saturday, for slandering his intended wife. A suit for assault and two for islander are the results.
 Mrs. Scoville filed petition in the county court setting forth that both she and Charles J. Guiteau are residents of Chicago that said Guiteau has become insane ; that he has property valued at several thousand dollars in copyrights of books and has daily revenue from the sale of photographs, and that by reason of his insanity he is wholly incompetent to have charge of such property. She also alleges that he is about to sell his body, pos session to be taken in the event of his execution. She therefore prays that the court immediately appoint con- servator of the estate and person of said Guiteau. Mrs. Scovi1le's attorney is William s. Johnson, formerly an asso- ciate of Hon. Emory A. Storrs, and is ono of the most adroit lawyers in cases of insanity. The question of Guiteau's insanity will now be tried in Chicago.
 The petition of Mrs. Scoville for the appointment of conservator for Guiteau's property has been refused.
 The dam across the Rock River at Janesville, Wis, was swept away by the water, and in consequence the wheels of eleven mills and factories are stopped. The dam was 280 feet long.
 Mrs. Ryan, the mother of Johanna Ryan, who was burned at the fire in the Potter building, New York, is said to be dying of starvation. She is 105 years old.
 The Chicago Times, which has had a special correspondent in Missouri to investigate the particulars of the Jesse James shooting, publisheda letter Mon- day morning containing interviews with number of Missourians who knew James, and who all persist in the belief that it was not Jesse James who was killed.
 The revenue of the Dominion of Canada for the last nine months amounted to $24, ,479, ,e66, and the ex- penditure to $l7, ,999, ,567.
 A boats crew of six men was drowned Saturday during storm in the harbor of Victoria, B. c.
 Three sisters, all over fifty years of age, died suddenly within ten minutes of each other, in the same room, Saturday night, in Philadelphia. WASHINGTON NOTES. The House Committee on Education and Labor directed Representative Sher- win to report to the House favorably a bill appropriating $10,000,000 for gen. eral educational purposes and ask that it be printed and Tecommitted to the committee.
 The House Committee on Law Respecting the Election of President and Vice-President have agreed upon 8 bill. It provides that the electors shall vote on the third Tuesday oi December, and that between the day oi choosing the electors and the day on which they are to vote the title to the office of elector may be deter mined and the decision by the highest judicial tribunal oi the State shall be conclusive. Congress is to meet on the second Wednesday in January to count the votes. In the event of a controversy in State as to the appointment or eligibility of electors the decision by it's highest judicial tribunal having jurisdiction shall be conclusive, unless reversed by both houses. If there be more than one judicial decision, the two houses shall determine which shall be received. If no certified decision has been transmitted, or if two or more such the contested votes are not to be count ed unless both houses concur.
 The petition of George Scoville ask ing for pay for counsel for defense in the Guiteau trial was filed in the petition box of the House of Representatives. He asks for $25 day, and says that the trial ruined him financially.
 The nomination of William D. Chandler to be Secretary of the Navy was confirmed.
 It is understood that the case oi Fitz John Porter was practically dis posed of at 8 meeting of the Cabinet and that it will be made the subject of { special communication to Congress al an early day.
 The Critic says: "Secretary Lin coin, who is now the only member of tht Cabinet appointed by President Gar field, will remain in that position for { short time longer, and then be super ceded by some one more in accordance
 with the present administration :"
 The House passed an original bil appropriating $80,000 for the subsist ence of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes Apachas, Kiowas, Comanches and Wi chitas in the Indian Territory, the sam
 being deficiency for the current fsca year.
 -Guiteau's book, entitled "Th
 Truth and the Removal" has beel printed and copies distributed to presl
 representatives.
 MT. Cox, of New York, introduce in the House bill for the repeal of tn , iron clad oath so far as it affects Senator and Representatives and asked for it , immediate consideration. Mir. Camp } of New York, objected, and the bill wa , referred to the Committee on Judiciary } with leave to report at any time.
 A bill was introduced in the Hous for the relief of soldiers of the war ( l the rebellion who were confined in rebt 5 prisons. It provides that such soldier l shall be pensioned at the rate of 5 per month in cases where the term ( , imprisonment shall have bee l ninety days and less than one year
 $4 per month additional for each flu month of such imprisonment in exces of one year, and g. per day for each an s every days confinement in said Confet
 crate military prisons, and that sai | pensions shall be payable in the sam
 manner as other pensions are paid.
 MT. McLane, of Maryland, intrt