Connecticut western news., 1882-10-04
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

ana nelgnDOrhOOd held meeting and | expressed indignation at the false econ- omy displayed by the New York and New Haven Railroad, to which they traced the recent accident in the Fourth avenue tunnel. In New York City, Edward Hovey, who killed his sister-in-law, was sen- fenced to be hanged November IT. Thomas McCabe, who murdered his mother, received seven years in State prison. A drunken father in Philadelphia poisoned every member of his family. seven persons, by putting arsenic in the water bucket. The coloced miser of Philadelphia was buried Friday. His relatives have already commenced 8 contest over his estate of $15O,OOO.
 Several shoe factories in Saco and Biddeford, Me. will close rather than pay the wages demanded.
 Two men were killed by a car falling from the International Bridge. at Buffalo, into Niagara River.
 The propeller Vulcan was wrecked in Long Island Sound. The captain and crew saved themselves by taking to the small boats.
 Fire destroyed seventeen business establishments, including the Dens- ocrot office, in Ridgeway, Pa.; loss, $15O, 1000.
 Judges Reynolds and McCue, of Brookly1 have affirmed the decision of the Court below refusing 8 mandamus to colored girl who wanted to attend white school.
 Tho yoIuas of 1I,a ;rox,ou4a oe ..... chandise into the United States during 1882, were $741, 983, ,917, and for the corresponding months of the preceding year $643, ,248, 555, being an increase of S98, 735, 1882 for the year ended August 31, 1882. The values of the exports of domestic and for eign merchandise from the United States during the twelve months ended August 31, 1882, were $737, ,038, 772, and for the twelve months ended August 31. 1881, $894, 717, ,454, decrease of $157,- 678, ,682 for the twelve months ended August 31, 1882.
 The daughter-in-law of ex-Gcvernor Dennison, of Ohio, has made her ap- pearance in comic opera in St. Louis. She is said to be meditating accepting 8 position in N. Y. City.
 John F. s. Smyth, the chairman of the New York Republican State Con- mittee said to an Albany Arqus re- porter-you can say in the Argus that I have no reason to suppose that MT. Folger will decline the nomination, and every reason in the world to conclude that he will accept it.
 A statement prepared at office of Sixth Auditor Fla, of the United States Post Office Department, shows the gross receipts of the department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1882, to have been $41, ,265. .317.10, against $36, ,217, 511. 55 during the previous year, being an jn- crease of$5, ,047, ,8O5. 55. Thereceipts from the sale of postage stamps, postal cards, envelopes, &c., during the yesr ended June 30, 1882, amounted 50 $39, ,533, previous year, an increase of $4, 5S4, . 504 91. The issue of stamps, &c., for 1882. amounted to $40, ,978, ,053. AZ, an increase over the previous year of $6,352, ,617.
 General Crook is personally inves- tigating the troubles in the several In- dian tribes.
 Diamonds worth $12, ,OOO were bold ly stolen from showcase in the Oincin- natl Exposition.
 Four negroes were killed and many wounded during political fight at Lan- caster, s. O., on Wednesday.
 Secretary Teller has decided to re- open for settlement 10000, 900 acres oi land in Northern Dakota which were withdrawn by Secretary Schurz.
 A church was demolished by cy- clone on Wednesday evening, during services, at Newton, Kan., without seriously injuring any of the congrega. tion.
 Thirty. six new cases of yellow fevel and two deaths are reported from Pen sacola, Florida.
 A board of inquiry has been ap. pointed to investigate the loss of ths Jeannette. The relics and records oi the Jeannette have just been turned over to Secretary Chandler by Engineer Melville.
 The damage by the Panama earth quake was not so serious as at first re ported. Four persons have died iron the effect of the shock.
 The German Catholics in conven VkOA 6O ulAW1uAOO RtboSOu 6b1OAk 4C6OAu tions in favor of Catholic children at tending parochial schools only.
 On Friday night woman and he five children, named Bush, were drowne, near Heathsville, Northumberland Go. Va, the building in which they wer living being washed away by the flood
 Upon application by counsel fo some of the creditors Baltimore Cour has appointed receiver to wind up tn, affairs of the Yorktown Centennial As sociation.
 Money has been received from th' Treasury Department to pay deput. marshals in Philadelphia for their ser vices in the election of 1880.
 A well defined shock of earthquak was felt in St. Louis, Mo; Springfield and Centralia, H., and Vincennes, Ind
 General Benjamin F. Tracy wa nominated by the Republicans for Jus tice of the Supreme Court for tn Second Judicial district of New York.
 A remarkable legal struggle is nov going on in St. Louis between Mrs Wackerle and the Mutual Life Insuranc Company, of N. Y. City. The compan have produced man they claim i Wackerle, whom the woman repud iates.
 William Walter Phelps was nom mated for Congress by the Republican of the Fifth Congressional District ( New Jersey.
 A colored miser died in Philadel phia, eighty -four years old, in the mids of poverty, though he owned propert worth $100, ,000. ~-~.- ...