Connecticut western news., 1882-07-12
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

At Milwaukee, Wis, the striking ron workers and the employers have arrived at an amicable understanding ard the strikers will resume work or Monday next. It is reported at Pitts. burg, Pa, that additional iron manufac. turers have signed the scale of wages demanded by the workmen.
 The Arkansas Republicans have nominated ". D. Slack for Governor,
 The Greenbackers and Independ: ents of Alabama have nominated State tlcket, headed by J. l.. Sheffield fo, G"vernor, and 1t has been adopted by the Republicans.
 The assessment roll of New York City for 1882 shows an increase of S6O. OOO, GOO in the value of real estate and s decrease of over SIC, 900, 900 in the value of personal estate.
 The status of the strike amono tbe lronworkers at Pittsburg, Pa. remains unchanged, both manufacturers anG men avoWlng their determination moi to yield.
 -The steamer Scioto, with party oI
 SOo excursionists on board, came in col. nslon with the steamtug John Lomas, on the Ohio River, about 8 o'clock, on tne night of July 4th, near Mingo June ton, Ohio. The Scioto sank within m 1mfee minutes in fifteen feet of water,
 me tug was only slightly injured, and saved great many of the passengers oi sne Scloto, but the loss of life on the ill. lated boat is large, and will no doubt amount to ffty-many of them women and children.
 The Legislature of South Carolina adlourned after having redistricted the state ln accordance with the new Con- gresslonal apportionment.
 An Atlanta (Ga.) editor and his friend were arrested on board railroad tram, near Atlanta, on the supposition that they were about to leave the State for the purpose of engaging in a duel with another editor of Atlanta.
 The total exportation of all kinds o1 gram from New York during the month of June amounted to 1908, ,553 bushels. .-Ihe meeting between Michael Day. ltt and the workipgmen at Union square, New York, was imposing and tnii of enthusiasm. The labor unions. including those that are now on strike arrived at the scene in procession. with thelr banners inscribed with significant notices. Mir. Davitt was welcomed in an appropriate address and with un- measured applause. In his reply he alluded to Mir. Parnell's position in re- iatlon to the proposed naturalization of iand and predicted that the latter would nnally be found to hold the same views as himself.
 At the burning of the Victoria pa. per mliis at Oregon, Westchester Co, N. l., three men lost their lives. Two or them are believed to have been sleep- ing ot the effect of spree, and it is thought that the fire was caused bv careiessness on their part.
 It IS estimated that the peach cron m Delaware will amount to nearly five million baskets.
 The steamship Nevada landed at Castle Garden, New York Citv, on Mon. nay, Sz1 Mormon immigrants, 100 of the number being children. They came rom Europe in charge of thirty-four elders of the Mormon Church.
 "A wretched old man named Moses Grlnnell, verging on the seventies. was sentenced at Newport, R. l., to impris onment for life. He murdered a neioh- Dor named Charles IT. Thomas. who was currently believed to be living with his daughter.
 Governor Cornell, of New York, has vetoed the Civil Code bill and the Mill tary Code bill.
 The New York State prisons earned In June $3,571 in excess of their ex- penses.
 The official canvass of the vote of oregon gives the following maiorities For Congressman, Mir. George, 3,365; TOT Governor, Moody, 1,42S; Supreme Judge, Lord, ,401; Secretary of State. Earhart, 2,516; Treasurer, Hirsch' 2.652; Superintendent of Instruction McElroy, 3, 143, and for State Printer. Byers, 2, 42S.
 Gases of drowning occur in the water surrounding New York City in every month of the year, During eleven years past 2, ,1O2 persons have met death in this way, 1870 of whom were males and 232 females. The aoe at which the largest number of people nave been drowned is between thirty 1Aso "hU ioIty-uf0 years.
 On the Santa Cruz road in Cali fornla loaded coach was hurled over a precipice and four of the passengers killed. MT. William R. Garrison, son of commodore Garrison, who was injured on the head in the disaster on the Long Branch Railroad on Thursday last, died July Ist at the house of MT. John Hoey, Hollywood Park, Long Branch. to which he was conveyed immediately after the accident. This makes the fifth death by the disaster.
 The Hungarian Colonization So- ciety, of N. '. City, has purchased 1O. GOO acres of land in the James River ValIav Va, for the purpose of colonizine Hnn, garlan immigrants. It is also proposed N. J. 'oi'
 -hansas crop reports give 8 glowing picture of the harvest prospects. which are just beginning to be realized there
 "A irlghtful explosion occurred at Dover, N. J., whereby $50 pounds of dynamite went off with astounding force and greatly damaged the town. One life was lost.
 The published report of a massacre of oolonists by Indians, in Foulk County, D. T., turns out to be hoax. originating in practical joke to scare two young men who were in camp at the place where the massacre was sup- possed to have occurred.
 Three riotous negroes were killed m disturbance in the courthouse in brookville, Florida. and several others injured.
 The Pennsylvania strike continues Wltn no prospect of cessation. Pittsburg business men are suffering inconve- thence through the freight handlers strike in New York City.
 , The village of Coalville, Butler ljOI Pa