Connecticut western news., 1882-11-29
NEWS OF THE DAY

LOAA 0tdeC httS Ueeu leC1Oeu III IdVOf Ol Edward Wemple, Democrat, defeating George West, the present member. Wages of slate quarrymen in New York and Vermont are to be cut down twelve and half per cent.
 At Providence, Pa., woman while trying to obtain some money from a burning house perished in the flames Two domestic servants were burned to death in boarding house at Indianapo- lis. Ind.
 -Meius, the brakeman on the Chicago express train at the time of the Spuyten Duyvil disaster, was acquitted of man. slaughter in the Court of Oyer and Ter miner, of New York City, notwithstanding Judge Davis's charge, which was against the prisoner.
 The President in his forthcoming message, a Washington reporter says, will recommend large reduction of the internal revenue tax and revision of the tariff.
 Three young men charged with at tempting to extort money from Walter Malley, of New Haven, were discharged in the Court of Special Sessions of New York City, the evidence not demanding their being held.
 In the Trades Congress at Cleveland Ohio, resolution was adopted urging E the members of the respective unions tc refrain from purchasing in the future all cotton goods bearing the trade mark of a Massachusetts firm which had largely re- duced the wages of its operatives.
 The Postal authorities are still unable to locate the systematic robberies of i'm fr,,K how been periodical in occurrence since Decem- Der last.
 The statistical division of the Agri- cultural Department estimates the follow ing as the yield of 1882 Com, 1885, 900, 900 bushels; wheat, 40, ,000, ,0O0 bushels; oats, 470, ,00O, 900 bushels; bar ley, 45.0O0,00O bushels; rye, 10000, ,0OO bushels buckwheat 12.000. 900 bushels. Thomas J. De Jarnette, who killed his sister in disreputable den at Dan- vile, Va, two years ago, has been dis charged from the Raleigh N. O. Insane Asylum.
 Two men were killed and three fat ally injured by the accidental precipita- tion of a quantity of ice down shafi they were sinking, near Scranton, Pa.
 -Thurlow Weed, the veteran New York journalist, closed an eventful life in his eighty-sixth year on Wednesday His end was peaceful and painless.
 A novel case came before Judge McAdam in the Marine Court of New York City, in which widow was defend ant in a suit for breach of promise ot marriage. She allowed the case to go by default, and the plaintiff was awarded $1, 900 damages.
 Four additional victims have been ndded to the list of killed in consequence of the fire in the factory building al Providence, R. I. A coroner's jury has been impanelled to investigate the cause of the disaster.
 Since the action of the people O New York State on the question of fret canals the merchants of Montreal have set themselves to the task of persuadine the Dominion government that free canals in Canada are essential to the expor trade.
 Three tramps were killed on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad neal Barraboo on Monday. They were steal ing ride on the front platform of $ mail car, and the train ran into freight train.
 MT. William A. Russell, merchant in Reisterstown, Md, was shot dead bJ one of two burglars who had broker into his store.
 Fire broke out in four-story build ing used for manufacturing purposes al Providence, R. l., causing a panic among the operatives. Several young women jumped from the fourth story 4o 4lo1 e4ro 1R were killed and others fatally injured.
 The freight steamer Wearmouth from Quebec, was wrecked on Magdalel Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, witt a loss of sixteen lives, only four person were saved.
 @-The Boston Fish Exchange, in con sequence of the hostility of fishermen retail dealers and wharfmen, has dis solved.
 Returns of the Congressional elet ton from the whole State of Arkansa! except one small county, show the tot vote for Congressman-at-Large to be z follows :. Breckenridge, Democrat, 43 327; Cunningham, Greenbacker, 21 ,39: total of 64, 721 less than half the vol boiled in September.
 A series of census bulletins on tt commercial fisheries of the Middle State now being published at Washington shows that New York comes fourth in u list of fish producing States, with produc valued at s, ,3S0. 565. Persons employed 7,266; fishing vessels, 541; fishing boat 5 3,A1.
 The St. Louis Ore and Steel Work employing 5000 men, propose to shl down December 1.
 In the coal pits near Pittsburg abol l,500 of the 5000 miners are on stril E for an advance of half cent bushel c their wages.
 Governor elect Cleveland, of Ne York, has resigned the Mayoralty Buffalo.
 The total vote for Governor Pennsylvania, as received at the Sta Department, the computation of whiC is completed, is as follows: Pattiso Dem, 355, ,791; Beaver, Rep, 315, ,58s Stewart, Ind, 43, 743 Armstrong, G. I 23, ASA Petit, Pro-, 5, ,196 Total vot TAB, ,803. Pattison's plurality. 40, 20 This IS the largest vote ever boiled in u State, with the exceptions of the Pres dential contests of 1876 and 1880.
 The official count of the vote f Governor in the last State election Alabama gives O'Neil, Democrat, 10( 591, and Sheffield, Independent, 46, ,3e
 -The menhaden fishery of Tiverto R. l., alone amounted this summer Al, GOO barrels.
 Guy Smith, twelve years old, W sentenced, at St. Louis, Mo, to ol years imprisonment for killing his gran father.
 Three men were killed near Hol rood, N. E., by car being thrown fro the track in consequence of running ov an OK.