Connecticut western news., 1882-11-22
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENyRsL ITEMS

which collided with Q freight train on the Plttsburg and Lake Erie Railroad, causing loss of life, last Saturday, has been lodged in jail at Beaver Co.,, Pa. The barge Saginaw was run down by the sound steamer City of Worcester and sunk in the East River. Captain Taylor, of the barge, lost his mother, wife and two children.
 A man and boy were killed by the fall of Q water tower which was being tested by the Fire Department in New York City.
 A special Minister is to be sent to the United States from Nicaragua to pro- mote the passage of the act incorporating the Maritime Canal Company.
 Nh. Johnson, of the Republican State Committee of New York, denies all knowledge of the assessment circular is- sued over his namo after tho election.
 An elevator in Meningitis carpet house, Louisville, Ky, recently fell from the second floor to the basement and se- rlously injured its five passengers.
 Seven thousand four hundred labor CTS on the Northrn Pacific Raillo oad, with following of gamblers and saloon keepers, arc approaching the Flathead Indian Agency to the alarm of the agent At Pittshury tho iron trade Is F. ported to bo Il aNvcry d-prcsscd conti- tio2.
 Merchants of San Francisco are sub scribing for Nicaragua Ship Canal stock. Captain Bernard Logan and his n.ate, Patrick Corrigan, of the whaler Rain bow, were arrested in San Francisco for abandoning sailor on an ice tloe.
 c9 t1,o p1a,1 silver dollar Is being extensively circu- lated.
 Pope Barrow has been elected United States Senator in Georgia, to fill the un- expired term of the late B. H. Hill, and Alfred H. Colquit for the full term, com mencing M srch f, 1883.
 The potteries at East Liverpool, Ohio, are resuming work, the strike hay ing proved unsuccessful.
 The Chinese government refuses to give certificates to its subjects other than ] laborers as provided for in the recent act of Congress-.
 Brave Bear, & Yanktonais Indian, was hanged at Yankton, D. T., for the murder of Joseph Johnson.
 Coal miners in Western Pennsyl- vania demand an increase of pay of from three and half to four cents per bushel, and will quit work on the 2Oth inst. if refused
 By the derailing of construction train near Kansas City, Mo-, on the Alton Railroad, three men were killed and thirteen wounded
 By the falling of large derrick at Cleveland, Ohio, three men were killed. The Convent of Notre Dame, near l. by fire Tuesday, but no lives were lost Pensacola is rejoicing over the ces- sation of yellow fever's ravages. No new At Bridgeport, Mich, the Post master has been arrested on charge of robbing the mails.
 Doctor Julio Macias was killed in a duel in the suburbs of the City of Mex ico. The arms used were Colts revolv- CTS and the distance was fifteen steps.
 Typhoid fever prevails to an alarm ing extent at Providence, R. I.
 Three persons were fatally poisoned through partaking of herb tea at Bow manville, Ont.
 A locomotive on the Hudson River Railroad, at Peekskill, while crossing from side track to the down track, ran into the Chicago express, wrecking one drawing-roo car and injuring three pas Bengers, one dangerously.
 The will of the late John O. Hamil- ton, son of Alexander Hamilton, was filed in the Surrogate's office. The estate is estimated at S1 ,000, 900 and is distributed among relatives.
 Paine < Sackett, woolen manufac- turers, at Providence, R. l., have made an assignmsEt. Liabilities estimated at $500, ,0O0.
 Completed returns from New Hemp shire give Hale 3S 39S, Edgerly 36,9O0, scattering 939. Hale's plurality over Eagerly is 1,498 and his majority 559. In the first Congressional district Haynes, Rep, has 3.795 plurality, ard Ray, Rep, in the Second district has 2,214. Last year the total vote for Gov- Dem, 40 813; scattering, 919
 A fishing boat capsized on Lake On tario, near Southampton, by which, 1t is supposed, the entire crew was lost.
 In Minnesota political circles are ngitated over the Senatorial succession. Senater Windom claims four more mem bers of the Legislature than are necessary to a choice on joint ballot. This claim is, however, denied by MI. Dunrell.
 -Lisrtenant Rays report on the first years work at tho Arctic Meteorological Station, at Pci1t Barrow. Alaska, Is pub Hshed. The work Of observation pro gresses without disruption.
 California merchants Gre making loud complaints against the freight cxac tions of the Central Pacific Road.
 In the Curtis political assessment case the Supreme Court will deny the ap- plicatlon for . writ of habeas corpus. affirming the cocstitutionality of the law under wLich Curtis was convicted
 The rcxt Hi 9ois Legislature will be 80 evenly divided that David Davis Is likely to Lc c-tcrol a5ail for the Scna- torial race.
 Two Indian villages in Alaska were shelled and destroyed by the revenue cutter Thomas Corwil on account of the hostility Of the natives. FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The dispatch box of Professor Pal mer, who was murdered by Bedouins, has been recovered.
 The Finland Diet has petitioned the Czar to give full ibe rty to the press 1T Finland.
 Heavy gales are blowing around the coast of England and several disasters are reported with loss of life.
 Frederic Gretton, an English turf man, owner of Fernandez, 1sonomy anc other well known race-horses. is dead.
 MT. Mansfield, the magistrate who arrested Mir. Matthew Harris in Ireland has been suspended.
 The authors of the plot to murder the Joyce family have been made knowI by witness in the trial.
 -The Swiss Federal Council is dis