Connecticut western news., 1882-06-21
NEWS OF THE DAY

NEWS OF THE DAY
 GENERAL ITEMS.
 The total values of the exports ot
 domestic provisions, tallow and dairy
 products during the month of May !oo2. were $6. 165, O15; for May, 1881
 $9.092 642. Five months ended May
 5l, 1882, $42. 966, 216; 1881, $51 ,663, ,. 614.
 A terrific explosion of gas occurred
 ID the Stanton air shaft at W,lkesbarre
 Pa. Five men were descending in
 bucket, with naked lamps upon theil
 heads, which, coming in contact witt
 the gas, caused the explosion. On.
 man was killed and four so badly burned
 that their recovery is doubtful.
 Robert Bonner has put chased tn.
 two year-old sister of Maud s. for $1O,
 Judge J H. Berry, of Benton, wal nominated for Governor by the Arkansa. Democratc Convention.
 Ten negro men and one white woman, employed on the railroad anc occupying cabin in the bed of Two Mile Greek, were drowned, the cabin 6eing swept away by swiftly rising
 Henry B. Anthony, who has just been elected United States Senator in Rhode Island, was born in Rhode Island Tn April, 1915. He adopted journalism as profession. In 1S49 he was elected dovernor of Rhode Island, was reelected at the expiration of his term and de- ollned third term. Ia 1858 he was first elected 8 Senator from Rhode Island, his election Monday being his fifth. He was elected President of the Senate pro tempore March 23, 1869, and was re- elected March 10, 1871.
 The army worm is doing much damage to corn and barley in Ohio. In warren County all the corn and barley has been destroyed.
 Indians numbering 1,5OO are re- ported as killing stock on Powder River, Wyoming, and threatening the traders.
 Five drunken mothers, with their eighteen neglected chlldren. were the chlef spectacle in 8 Brooklyn police court in one day.
 North Carolina Republicans in State convention have adopted the nominees cf the recent Libe ral conyen- tion. ''- o- o
 -Elght lives were lost by flood &C., cloent ln Indianapolis. Five bodies were recovered.
 Tho house of James Penderpast. Jr., at Monsop, Mass, was destroyed ny ire on Monday. His mother per isl. q In the flames and his father was possibly fatally burned.
 MT. Robert B. Roosevelt has re- @gned his position as trustee of the brooklyn Bridge, on the ground that he mas been unable to obtain any definite knoWledge of the management or condi- tlon of the work. He says it will take two years to finish the bridge.
 The strike at the Wabash Iron Con- pany' s rolling mill, in Terre Haute. Ind. nas ended, aud the men gone to work, the word forever" being stricken from me contract, and the Pittsburg prices, when established, to govern.
 The case of Dr. Montreyille M Hedges, who is accused by Francis P. Weed ct having entered into conspir- acy with William M. Scott to defraud him at game of draw poker played at Newburg, N. r., year ago, wherein he lost $l5O, 900, wRs on trial. Weed testi- nes that after losing $15O. .O0O at poker. ne holding four aces and Scott straight hush, the two men enticed him into a game of faro at Dr. Hedges office, and in this he lost $45O, 900, nearly bis en- tire fortune. He lost the S45O. 900 in less than half an hour.
 It is said that Mrs. Tibbitts. mother of the boy lynched at Perham, Minn., Tor murderiDg the surveyors, was the one who instigated the crime. and that she had also induced her son and an other boy of his age to wreck train on the Northern Pacific road, but that the | sccomplice backed down and the scheme 1 was abandoned. Detectives are working 1p the case.
 Several houses near the Platte | river, Colorado, were swept away by a | water spout. The bodies of Ludwig | Muer and Fidele Drier, who were in one | ol the houses, have been recovered. | Three children were drowned. Other | lives were lost.
 William Milliken, of Boston, was | killed by a 400-pound bear near the shore of Lake Piseco, in the Adiron- 1 dacks, Saturday afternoon. He was one of hunting party.
 in Chicago, Mrs. Caspar Sey ybolt, on Saturday, dressed her four children ID ID white clothes with bright ribbons, l then gave them strychnine, and as soon | as they were dead laid them out care 'uily with flowers in their hands, and | all thelr surroundings made as beauti- | iul as possible. She then took a dose | o1 the poison herself. When her bus. | band appeared at the door, she met him | and said: "Come and see the children they are all dead and gone to heaven Bee now pretty they are with nice flow CTS for the angels" Mrs. Seybolt died | Sunday.
 The New York branch of the Jewish | Relief Society cable a re- quest to England to stop the importation of old women and children.
 Dispatches from southeastern Iowa, western Missouri, and central Illinois report widespread and very heavy rain storms, 1n places assuming the form of l water spouts, and doing much damage | 20 property, sucn as washing away of bridges, railroad tracks, etc. but no lives are known to be lost.
 A large barn in the cattle yards | north of the Lake Shore and Michigan southern depot at Gainesville, Ohio. was burned, and two tramps perished in | the flames. It Is supposed that their ! pipes set fire to the barn.
 The beef famine at Montreal causes among the working peo- pie. The price IS now twenty-five cents | per pound.
 Another shipload of Chinese ar- rlved r at Victoria, B. O., recently. The l Chlnese merchants of San Francisco | predict the arrival of 4O,OOO of their | before October.