Connecticut western news., 1882-05-24
NEWS. OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 Burke, proved his innocence. He vii return to Ireland in few days.
 -Colored men are being employed tc take the places of striking coal miners near Pittsburg, Pa.
 The City of Owen Sound, Cana dian passenger steamer, was totally de sroyed by fire on Lake Huron. Two persons lost their lives.
 The Peruvian Minister presented to the President a letter fromVice President Montero, of Peru, expressing the gratitude of his country to Genera Hurlbut
 The platform adopted by the Penn sylvania Greenback-Labor Convention IS of strong anti-monopoly character It's tinan cal plank insists that all money must be issued by the government anc that there shall be no banks of issue whatever that labor shall have the same right before the law of combining . to resist the encroachments of capi al as capitol has to combine against labor. In relation to the public land question It says that the public lands should be reserved for actual settlers, and all grants made to corporations, any provisions of which have been violated, should be declared revoked.
 A dispatch to Chicago from Osh- kosh, Wis, reports great scarcity of cattle in that vicinity and fears of 8 beef famine ale said to be felt.
 In the Massachusetts Legislature the rejection of the bill for dividing Boston into aldermanic districts was Ia L lnitted to the people.
 Two men were hanged on a tree by 8 mob in the parish of St. Martin, La, Governor McEnery has offered reward for the apprehension of the lynchers.
 Moses H. Gripnen, eighty years of age, was convicted at Newport, R. l., of the murder of Charles H. Thomas. November 19, 1880.
 The steamer Rio Grande, of the Mallory line, from Galveston, Texas, for New York, with cargo of cotton, put into Delaware Breakwater with her cargo on fire. The steamer WAS scuttled.
 At Sheffield, Ind, on Sunday, four men were drowned while fishing,
 The Women Suffrage Bill failed to pass the New York Assembly by a vote of 54 yeas to 59 nays.
 --Governor Long sent to the Massa- chusetts Senate veto of the bill to regulate the practice of dentistry.
 -The Young Mems Democratic Club. of New York City, at lively meeting discussed proposition to nominate MT. Samuel J. Tilden for Governor, and a resolution to that effect was laid on the table.
 Serious disasters to shipping are reported on the New Foundland coast The schooner Letitia, with all on board. IS lost. Several fishing vessels are lost with all their crews. There is a large French vessel, with 8 crew of nineteen men and eighty-seven passengers, now forty days overdue. She is given up as lost. Since the arrival of the French fishing fleet at St. Pierre twenty-one deaths from drowning have occurred.
 Twelve persons were drowned by the capsizing of boat last Sunday night on Lake Calumet. III.
 WASHINGTON NOTES,
 The House Committee on Appro- priations have nearly completed the General Deficiency Appropriation bill. It appropriates about $21, 1000, 900, $l6, OOO, 900 of which is to supply def- clencles in the appropriations for the payment of pensions during the fiscal year. ...
 The Senate passed the Five Per Cent Land bill by a vote of 23 to IT. It provides that lands entered by military scrip or bounty land warrapts in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mis-. souri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas. Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Flor ida, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado. in- cludlng the Virginia military and United States military land warrants located in Ohio, shall be construed to come within the provisions of lav for the payment to the States of five per centum of the proceeds ois public lands disposed of within theiT borders; the lands to be estimated at the rate of $1. .25. per acre and paymentto be made in cash.
 The bill extending the charters of national banks passed the House by considerable ,majority-125 to 67. Its success is largely due to MT. Crapo's frank and straightforward dealing in regard to amendments, which won him the confidence of moderate and sensible men on both sides. The Greenbacke CTS ana the opponents of the national bank 1ng system did not show as much infiu- ence or strength as was expected, though some of those who voted for the bill did so only on the ground that the interests oi the country require 8 banking system of some kind, and they acknowl- eoge that It was necessary to con- nnue this for the present until H4 me amendments require ninety days notice from banks intending to will. draw bonds, and allow no greater amount than $5, 900, 900 to be withdrawn m one month allow suits between banks and individuals to be tried in State courts; make $10,000 instead of S50. .O00 the lowest amount of bonds to De deposited against circulation, thus givlng authority for banks of smaller capital than the present law tolerates provide that the banks shall pay the cost of the plates for new notes, and that banks going into liquidation shall Keep their corporate existence until tneir business Is closed up and protect the rights of small stockholders in re- organization.
 Mir. Hazleton, Of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Elections, submitted report to tho House to-day on the election case of Lowe vs. Wheeler from the Eighth Congressional district of Alabama, declaring the contestant Lowe entitled to the seat. The report was laid over for future action.
 The National Bank bill being under discussion in the House MT. Murch. of Maine, offered an amendment reducing rom twenty to three years the period for which the banks may extand their