Connecticut western news., 1882-05-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
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~e~A@AA1G e%3A OA0Ao oO664OA O1 U1O 10RA61u- ture, that it (the Legislature) has no power to redistrict until new enumera- ion has been made. Secretary Chandler received on Friday telegram from Engineer Mel vile dated, "Lena Delta, March 24, 1Se2.-FouEd De Long and party dead. Found all papers and books. Will continue search for Chipp." The boat commanded by Lieut.. De Long, and carrying thirteen others of the crew of the Jeannette, was separated from the two other boats in a gale on the night of Sept. 12, 1881, when about fifty miles northeast of the Delta of the Lena. On Sept. 19 De Long and his party landed on the northwestern part of the Delta, and attempted to make their way across the Delta to settlement on also left records in huts along his route. The last one bears date of Oc- tober 1. The Executive Committee of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee elected Colonel D. B. Henderson, of Dubuque, Iowa, Secre- tary.
 -Lieutenant R. M. Berry, com- mander of the Rodgers, has forwarded dispatch from Sredne Kolymsk, via Irkutsk, giving particulars of the loss of the vessel. The crew were landed safely and quartered in the houses of natives.
 John Anderson, who was sentenced to the State prison for life for the mur- der of Horatio J. Hall, in 1874, and was afterward confined in the insane asylum at Middletown, Conn.,, escaped from that institution Thursday night. He left letter saying that he would be out of the country 1n 24 hours and would kill any one who attempted to capture him.
 A dispatch from Santa Fe says the Mexican troops on Tuesday killed seventy eight and captured thirty three of the Indians who fled from Arizona, pursued by Colonel Forsyth.
 Horace Maynard, whose death is an- nounced, was born in Westboro, Mass, Aug. 30. 1914. He emigrated to Ten. nessee snd was Professor in the State University. He was elected to Congress as Whig in 1857. He was reelected to Congress in 1859, and in 1861 was again elected as 8 Union man to that body. In 1863 he was appointed by Andrew Johnson, then Military Govern or, Attorney General of the State, and Reporter of the Supreme Court. In 1865 Mir. Maynard was again returned to Congress, and was re. elected for three subsequent terms, in 1872 beating Andrew Johnson and Gen. Frank Cheat ham for the State at large. In 1875 he was appointed Minister to -Constanti- nople, where he remained until he was recalled and appointed Postmaster-Gen- eral by MT. Hayes.
 The passenger train from the East, due at Stamford, Conn.,, at 9:57 Wednes- day morning, struck gang of track iaborers 8 mile east of that station. One man was killed and two were in- jured. .-.
 During the last nine months the Federal revenues have been $42, ,000, 1000 more than the expenditures.
 A negro named Milton Frye has roisoned eight persons of his own color md @ white man at Pittsburg, Pa. All sill probably die, excepting one woman.
 -Advices from New Mexico state that & column of Mexican troops met the hostile Indians, killed seventy. eight of them and took thirty three prisoners.
 Fires on the waste lands of Long Island, originating among it's scrub oaks near Beilport, have destroyed several houses.
 John Mitchell and two sons, while engaged Monday in cutting down a tree near Uvslde, Texas, were approached by party of horsemen named O'Briens and Fields and fired upon. The two sons were instantly killed, and the old man fatally wounded. The murder grew out of misunderstanding regard ing land claim.
 The Government has been notified from Winnipeg that all trains for Man 1toba are delayed on account of spring Hoods. Two hundred carloads of freight . and immigrants are already detained near the boundary.
 The property of the Rockaway Beach Improvement Company, includ ing the Rockaway Beach Hotel, was sold Monday for $l0, 700, subject tc several heavy mortgages.
 Nine business houses were de. stroyed by fire at Shelbyville, Tenn, Mondsy. The loss is $2O, 1000.
 William G. Krueger, the inventor of an air ship, committed suicide Mon. day by shooting himself in the head.
 A dispute has arisen between Brazi and Uruguay and both nations are send ing troops to their frontierso
 An attempt on the lives of Cyrus W Field and Wm. Fl. Vanderbilt was dis covered Saturday by the explosion of ar mfernai machine in B leather mail poucf on an elevated railway train in New 1ork City, The two packages in tht mail bag were marked in German hand "Cyrus w. Field, esq.,, corner Twenty nrst street and Lexington ave-, City, and "Wna. H. Vanderbilt, esq.,, 459 Fiftf avenue, City" The packages contained half pound of powder each, witl matches fixed to ignite when an attemp was made to open the boxes.
 An internal machine was throw, into the vestibule of the house of MT John A. Davenport, No. 319 Eas Nineteenth Street, New York, lat Saturday night, where it explode, without doing any damage. 1t wa probably intended for Superintendent Wallmg, who lives at No. 311. Post master Pearson sent portions of th machine intended for MT. Vanderbilt t Professor poremus, who found tha they coCeained sulphuric acid an, chlofs..e of potash.
 pr. Doremus, of New York, win examined the internal machines Ietel, found in that city, discovered at ono that the liquid contained in the glas bulb and designed to fire the gun cottol was sulphafic acid. This made tn workings of the internal machine clea at ogce. On top of the gun cotton il the hasFs was some powdered chlorate [ potash mixed with fine sugar. four, Q