Connecticut western news., 1882-05-03
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,


 --BradStreePs reports 105 failures in ethe United States last week, an increase of 19 over those of the preceding week, and 5 less than the week of last year.
 Two resolutions, practically enders- ing Gov. Crittenden's action in the Jesse James affair, were introduced in the lower House of the Missouri Legis- lature-one by a Democrat and the other by Republican. Both were ruled out by order of the Speaker, and an appeal from the decision of the Chair was taken. The Democrats voted solid, 80 in number, to sustain the Chair, while the Republicans and Greenback- CTS, 42 in number, voted agalnst the Chair.
 The amalgamation of the com, panies of the Great Western and Grand Trunk Railroads of Canada has been agreed upon.
 A party of about sixty masked men appeared at the jail in Minneapolis, Minn., demande the surrender to them of Frank McManus, the tramp who as- saulted the four year. old child Nina Spear, and lynched him.
 The Ahti- Chinese Convention in San Francisco on Friday night adopted plan of action, which includes 0 scheme to divide the Pacific coast into districts, which shall be notified to re- move the Chinese within 8 specified time. Failing such action, the district is to he proclaimed dangerous, and peaceably disposed citizens to be warned to abandon it and if the Chinese are still ha1 bored in the district, the League is to remove them by force, using as little force as may be necessary, until the country is rid of them. The Con- vention then elected an executive con- mittee and adjourned sine die.
 -The jury in the case of Dwight Kidder, who IS charged with the murder of his brother, Charles D. Kidder, in Springfield, Mass, in June last, after being out all night, brought in, Friday morning, a verdict of manslaughter, whereupon the prisoner was sentenced to twenty years in the State prison.
 The steamer Marion, on the Wa teree River, s. O., exploded one of her boilers on Friday. She had on board a picnic party numbering 35 or 40. Six persons were killed and many were in jured.
 --Three negroes were hanged for arson Friday at Greenville, s. 0.
 In Sexton and Schaefer's fourth match game of billiards in New York, there was vely slow play and a poor average. The time of the game was threo hours and fifty-eight minutes, the score standing Sexton 600. and Schaefer 538. Sexton's average was 4 2-37 and Schaefer's 97-147.
 R. Scott, one of the Northampton hnr b- rr,k,t ,t,oS.1 l. .1l leaves by will $1, 800 to his wife, and S5OO 10 his accomplice, James Dunlap.
 There is plan on foot for using the hydraulic power of Niagara Falls as 8 means of generating electricity to it. luminate several of the large Eastern cities, including New York.
 General Forsy tn, with portion of his regiment, the Fourth cavalry, struck the hostile Apaches in southwestern Arizona, and, after four hours of fight ing, dislodged them.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson died Thurs day evening at his home in Concord, Mass.
 On Thursday night special freight train on the Boston, Concord and Mon treal Railroad parted on the grade near Warren Summit. The rear portion of fifteen cars ran back into a way freight train which was following. Every car of the special was demolished and the engine and several cars of the way train were smashed. The conductor and brakeman of the special were killed.
 The entire family of Adam Ballinger, farmer near Clyde, Kan., have been poisoned by trichin@. A boy 12 years old died Thursday night. Mrs. Ballin- ger may recover, but the remainder of the family, consisting of five persons,
 A dispatch from Tombstone, Ariz,, says :-The reported capture of Gaiey- vile and the killing of thirty persons is incorrect. Only one man has been killed three miles from the town.
 During the course of the Malley trial Thursday Dr. Prudden testified that the body of Jennie Cramer showed no signs of death by drowning. Prof. Chlttenden said he had discovered arsenic in the girls stomach.
 The New York State Anti Monopolv Convention, at Albany, was composed of Democrats, Republicans, Tammany men and Greenbackers. The Chairman an- nounced that, owing to want of time, & letter from the Hon. John Kelly would be printed and distributed. The men, tlon of MT. Kelly's name was received with mingled applause and misses. The resolutions which were adopted are long and cover wide field. They advocate transportation with fair profit, railroad commission, free canals, prohibition against free passes, free unsnbsldlzed press and many other things. They are opposed to the con- tract system in prisons as at present performed as being unjust to the honest laborer, and they favor the formation of anti-monopoly leagues.
 T. Fl. McMuIlen. convicted of wife murder at Fall River, Mass, has been sentenced to prison for life.
 Two unknown men chloroformed the clerk in the telegraph office at Gen. booty.
 "A dispatch from Winnepeg, Man.. says:-The Assiniboine is now breaking up and creating trouble near Brandon ard Portage la Prairie, washing cut a section of the Cank nkda Pacific Railway. The Air Line between here and Portage Is also submerged, and traffic is again interrupted. Provisions had to be sent to the relief of passengers detained ahout thirty miles west of this city, who are in from two to three feet of water. The water is stilLrising at En- erson, and all the stores on Dominion street are under water, and the occu- pants are beginning to move out. The water IS now at the railway depot, over hait mile from the river. The river opposite Niverville rose fifteen inches m one night and is rising one and half inches Ioar hour