Connecticut western news., 1882-11-08
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Northern Central Railroad, twenty-five miles from Williamsport, Pa.
 James W. Simonton, for many years general agent of the Associated Press at New York, died suddenly at Napa, Cali fornia, on Thursday, of heart disease.
 Josiah Quincy died suddenly at Vol laston, a suburb of Boston, Thursday morning. MT. Quincy was about eighty years old, and at the time of his death he was the oldest living ex-Mayor of Boston. He was the son of the second Mayor of Boston, Josiah Quincy, who died in 1864. MT. Quincy adopted the law as his pro- fession. He always took an active part in municipal politics, and in 1845 he was elected Mayor. He remained in the office for two years. Before his term for Mayor expired, Boston was supplied with pure water from Lake Cochituate.
 A fire at Hull, opposite Toronto, Ont, destroyed property valued at over S5OO,OOO.
 Proposals to furnish about 4, ,00O, ,000 pounds of beef for Indians were rejected at Washington, as the prices named ranged from $4.17 to $5.43 per 100 pounds, which was considered too high. -Postmaster-Ge General Howe estimates the receipts of his department for the next fiscal year at $50, 67O, ,456.27 and the expenses at $46, TAI, 11125, leaving an excess of s, ,929, ,345. 02.
 William Neal and Ellis Craft were convicted some months ago at Catletts- burg, Boyd County, Ky, Circuit Court, of the murder of Robert and Fannie Gibbons and Emma Carrier. They were granted new trial by the Supreme Court, and were taken to Ashland. On the way they were attacked by 8 mob of boys. The Sheriff's party fired at the boys but shot over their heads, killing six spectators and wounding at least thir- ty others A fearful excitement prevails at Ashland where the sufferers lived.
 John B. Lesautnier, wealthy prop erty-owner and an old and hitherto re- spected citizen of Milwaukee, was dis charged from his position as Manager of the Exchange Department of the Mer- chants Exchange Bank of that city, and sued for $25, 900 damages for the seduc- ton of Miss Sylvia Seifert. The girls mother is insane from grief over the scandal.
 The Pension Office at Washington is busy sending out special examiners. It is estimated that last year several mill lions were taken fraudulently from the Treasury.
 At Providence, R. T., woman se- cured a verdict for $6, 795 against street railroad company for injuries received while on one of its cars.
 Two colored men were shot while stealing corn from field near New Rich mond, Ohio.
 The skeleton of a missing man, whose hands had been caught in 8 bear trap, was found in the woods near Greenville, Me. He was caught by the hands, and in this condition starved to death.
 Three men were killed through an accident on the Ohio Central Railroad in West Virginia.
 In New York City the wife of Dr. Edward o. Seguin, in 8 fit of melan- cholia, took her three children into the parlor, blindfolded and tied their hands as If she was about to play a favorite game with them and then shot them one after the other. She then killed herself Two lives were lost by the Park The atre fire. Clark, the stage carpenter, died in New York. Leo, the carpenter, is now known to have been buried in the ruins.
 -The annual Baptist State Convention of New Jersey was inaugurated at Bor- dentown. Fifty delegates, representing 33, 900 Baptists were present.
 -Adelina Patti returned to New York in the Servia.
 Mrs. Scoyille, who was declared in- sane by the court in Chicago, and her daughter Bertha, are at the Tecumseh House, London, Ont.
 A heavy log slipped from the hands of the workmen at a sawmil at Waynes 6eId, Ohio, and, rolling over a group O children who were playing near by, killed one of them outright and fatally wounded four others.
 The Park Theatre, New York City was burned to the ground in an incred Ibly short time on Monday. Mrs. Lang try's debut was thus postponed and fash ionable society was correspondingly dis appointed, as over $6, GOO worth of tickets had been sold for the night. Mrs. Lang ry's engagement will be continued out il some other theatre. The loss by the fir is very heavy.
 Government officials at Bradford Pa., have arrested an alleged counter feiter who promises to give important in formation in regard to his confederates.
 At Philadelphia discarded husban was arrested for attempting to kill hi wife and other relatives by throwing a ingeniously constructed bomb into thei house.
 The number of post-ofices in opers tion in the United States on June 3( 1882, was 46,231, an increase of n during the year; 1,951 of these office are filled by appointment of the Pres dent and are known as Presidential" O fees, and the emainder-44, 280-a1 filled by appointment of the Postmaste General. During the year 3,166 ne post-offices were established and 1, A were discontinued.
 A society has been incorporated Boston, Mass, for the purpose of coloni ing Palestine with industrious Christian
 Miss Gilbert, the philanthropist, hi discovered that parasitical malaria orig mates in prisons among the convicts an that 1t is spread abroad and is very dal gerous.
 A man while at work repairing bridge fell into the canal at Cohoes, T., and was carried by the water over weir dam, raceway and the gorge into u Mohawk River, where his body VI brought on shore.
 "A pOTIlOu LII tu0 l Olub DdITOW IGcu Expedition has returned to San Francisc They confirm the report that the body
 Ensign Putnam was seen on the fl which carried him out to sea.
 The bark Malville, Captain Edwa, Harlow, of Freeport, Me-, was wreckt on the reef of Hesquist Harbor on u 10th inst. All hands were lost. IT body of lady, dressed in silk, suppos, to be the wife of Captain Harlow, al