Connecticut western news., 1882-08-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

NEWS OF THE DAY
 GENERAL ITEMS.
 General R. Ingalls,, who arrived at St. Louis from the Indian Territory, says last week he found himself at Cim- arron, NM, where the whole populace was in arms fighting the cowboys. Men and women were using revolyers against the enemy and four men were shot dead m short time. Ut is reported that the German emigration to America so far this year is 10, GOO less than at the same date last year.
 The Missouri Democratic State Convention on Thursday adopted plat form demanding civil service reform, tariff reform and protection for Ameri- can citizens at home and abroad. A Railroad Commissioner and Superin- tendent of Public Instruction were nominated.
 MT. Albert Curry was nominated for Governor of Delaware by the Republi- can State Convention at Dover.
 Extensive forest fires are raging in Michigan.
 Two freight trains collided near mc4tE68Qrs x%1OWa. Ilfe6 men were killed and several injured.
 A uail stage and its occupants were robbed by two masked men near Shreve- port, La.
 Mrs. Ann Karl, young wife, was burned, fatally it is feared, by trying to kindle a fire with kerosene oil, In her home in Williamsburg, N. Y.
 In the Chicago Bridewen one pris- oner, considered harmless imbecile, killed afellow prisoner with a wooden leg which he first stole from his victim. -Advices from Alaska state that the mortality caused by plague among the Russians and Creoles continues to be very great.
 The explosion of boiler of float ing engine on the Brooklyn river front set fire to over thousand bales of cot ton, which were almost entirely de- stroyed before the flames could be ex- tinguished. s~
 Through an explosion on the river steamboat Fanchon at New Orleans one man was killed and several injured.
 -Teamsters, after fighting Indians, who were on the warpath, in New Mexico, captured one of them, scalped him and then roasted him alive.
 Arrangements have been made by the Mormons for testing the con- stitutionality of the Edmunds act in the Supreme Court of the United States. .-Seventy-five cans of impure milk oI the worst kind were found by the in. spectors of New York city and were thrown into the river.
 A woman at Greenpoint, l.. l., was burned to death by the explosion of { kerosene lamp.
 Colonel John Church Hamilton son of Alexander Hamilton, dled a Long Branch.
 Special advices from Milwaukee give encouraging reports as to the crop in some of the more important corn an( grain producing Western States.
 Seven negroes, asleep on the tracl of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, nea, De Soto, were run over and killed.
 Another glove fight has been ar ranged between Sullivan and "Tug' Wilson to take place at Madison Square Gafden, New York, August IA.
 The funeral of Miss Fanny Parnel took place Monday from Ironsides, neal
 
 tended by delegates from the Lani League branches in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
 The bodies of three American prospecfors were found in Sonor, Valley, Gal. It is believed that they were-murdered by Mexicans.
 -Homing pigeons made the high from Columbus, Ohio, to Newark, N. J.. 4631 miles, in 27h. 45m. The army worm is doing mucl damage in Connecticut.
 There are twenty victims of the toy pistol now in Chicago, all dying of thu lockiaw.
 John Donaldson, of Milwaukee Wis, has issned challenge to fight an, man in America (excepting John IL Sullivan), ssTug" Wilson preferred, witt or without gloves, for $5, 900 side.
 "A woman in New York City wh, tried to hasten fire with kerosene wa so terribly burned that she died in fey hours.
 Sixty Russian refugees sailed iron Philadelphia for Liverpool, the Ioca committee being unable to provide fo them.
 
 hcasa Convention is to be held at Wor cester, on September 20. Captain Alfred Aylward told Ne, York World reporter that Arabi Be had issued commissions for privateers t aid the Egyptians in crippling tn English {; that American capital ha been enlisted and that this governmen would have to decide whether it wi allow American officers in the Egyptia army to be executed as robbers C rebels in case of capture, or recogniz Arabi Boy as de facto ruler of Egyp
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The President has approved the a, appropriating $50, 600 for Mrs. Lucret Garfield, less any amount paid Jamt A. Garfield, on account of his salary { President of the United States.
 The House Committee on Commert reported the bill which was placed c the calendar to regulate the export, tion of articles made in imitation butter and cheese. The bill provid. that any article or substance exporte to any foreign country not the actu product of the dairy and not mao exclusively of milk or cream, b, into which the oil or fat of animals n, produced from milk enters as COT ponent part, or into which any meltt butter or oil thereof has been introduce to take the place of cream, shall be di tinctIy and durably stamped, brandt or marked in plain Roman letters n less fhan halfan inch square. A heay penalty follows all violations of u order.
 The House passed the bill, SameDded bv the Senate ipcreasiuor fl