Connecticut western news., 1882-03-01
NEWS OF THE DAY

AoA 1Au1OcIAuS h0ury WulamS. daVlOR had the smallpox, he was re pited from January 27.
 A house under the Keeler's Peak, near Big Cottonwood, inhabited by a wood-chopper named Taggart, his wife and i've children, has been swept away by snow slide near Salt Lake City. Reports from Helena, Ark, and ad- -5Sscct HiGees confirm the form sr tales of widespread disaster from the floods. Several lives have been lost and terrible want prevails. Elsewhere the worst is over.
 A terrific boiler explosion occurred ct Carlisle, Holmes County, Ohio, on Thursday. by which five men were in- stantly killed andsso horribly mangled. = William H. Vanderbilt's team, Will liam H. and Lysander Boy, by the ac- tion of the National Trotting Associa- tiop, have had their time of 2:20 made an off cial record.
 The fishing schooners Edith M. Few, Captain Corlis, and Paul Revere, Captain Bentley, of the Gloucester fleet, have now been missing about six weeks. The Pew was manned by crew of six teen men and the Revere by crew of fourteen.
 Chairman Bogert has issued a call for meeting of the Pennsylvania Dem- ocratlc Stote Committee at Harrisburg on March 22.
 By the burning of the F1atbush, N. r., Insane Asylum three lives were lost.
 An effort is being made to close the theatres in Chicago on Sunday.
 On Wednesday, at the word of com- mand, petitions praying Congress to halt in legislating for Utah were pre- sented at probably every house in the Utah Territory. The children in all the Mormon schools were made to sign, or their names were signed for them.
 "A committee of Confederate sol diers of Cincinnati went to Mentor on February 22, and presented to Mrs. Garfield resolutions of sympathy. The resolutions are framed Ill Tennessee marble. and were passed in September last
 The fatal cases of scarlet fever in New York City last year were 1864, against SIS the year before. So far this year there have been 670 fatal cases, .
 Calvin J. Cowles, of Charlotte, N. O., has offered forty acres of land in Alexandria and Wilkes Counties to each of fifty Jewish families expected in Philadelphia from Russia.
 The annual report of the Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries shows an increase of seventeen vessels and 8 falling of of 322 tons measurement in Canadian shipping during the past year. The cost of the maintenance of the Canadian navy was $126, ,605. A limit will be placed upon the number oi passengers carried by passenger steam CTS on inland waters.
 At Lancaster, Pa on the 22d, while salute was being fired, the cannon ex- ploded. killing Frank A. Herzog, and dangerously iniuring Peter Rochrich.
 The stockholder of the Pennsyl- vania Military Academy, in Chester, have decided to rebuild on the old site, The Connecticut Western Railroad, extending iron Hartford to Millerton, N. r., has been purchased by the Rhine beck and Connecticut Railroad Company whose line extends from Millerton tc Rhinecliff, on the Hudson River, where it has extensive dock facilities.
 Captain Stonington, of the steamer Newborn, picked up five survivors of g wrecked British bark of the coast oi Lower California. The party was fam. ishing and about to resort to cannibal ism. It consisted of the captains wife and two children and two seamen. One of the children and one of the seamel died immediately after being rescued.
 The Indians ip the Canadian North vest are stealing horses and cattle and killing whisky traders.
 A bill has passed the New Yorl Senate appropriating 8, 300 annual, for three years for the propagation o seed oysters.
 The Indiana State Greenback Con vtntion nominated full State ticket The platform adopted says that al money should be issued by the govern ment labor should be protected b national and State authority; tn Eight Hour law should be enforced the bonds of the United States shoul not be refunded, but paid as the become due, in the lawful money ( the United States legal tende, shonld be substituted for national ban notes; the Burlingame treaty should b abrogated 1; public domains should | reserved for actual settlers Congres should regulate interstate commerc, It denounces railroad, land and moneye corporations as monopolies; demand g graduated income tax and opposes 8 increase of the standing army.
 -Aquarrel broke out Tn party of fiy ct barn raising in Rowan Count, North Carolina, February 22d, betwee two men only but when one man kille the other by throwing an ax at hin he lost hls footing in the effort, fell an broke his neck, the others were so @. cited that they let go log, whic crushed to death another of the part, Two of the five only remained alive.
 In Waverly, Nebraska, at spellir match, James Cook, merchant, W, called upon to decide the correct spel ing of word. He decided agalnst painter named R. B. Raiven, who calle Cook liar, and then shot him dend.
 Special correspondence from Lin tells of extraordinary military al naval preparations being made l Chii, for what purpose it is n known.
 The fire in the Flatbush (L l. ) | sane Asylum damaged the building the extent of $35, 900.
 -Slosson, the billiard champion, h returned home and was received wi enthusiasm. He complains that he W snubbed by Vignaux after the rsce match in Paris.
 Henry Bolger, an employee, w examining an electric machine in Philadelphia rolling mill, when he car lessly placed one of his hands on u wire, receiving the full force of the GU