Connecticut western news., 1882-03-22
NEWS OF THE DAY
: GENERAL ITEMS.

College for the purpose of building a new dormitory.
 The dwelling of Alfred Willis at Cardiff, Ont, was burned on Monday. His three children perishGd.
 The Garfield Club of New York City has issued petitions to be circu- lated for signature asking the President to commute the sentence of Sergeant Mason.
 Five boys were digging tunnel at St Joseph, Mo-, Friday, the earth caved in, burying them alive. Michal Ga1rish alone showed symptoms of life when the bodies were recovered, but he died as he was being taken out of the pit. Fifteen hundred dollars was stolen Thursday night by masked robbers while they held two old people at bay with reyolvers near Barneston, Pa. Gov. Blackburn of Kentucky re. prieved Ike Turner just twenty min utes before the tine fixed for him to be hanged.
 A man, who is sad to be insane, attempted to Ein Dr. Gray, Superin- tendent of the State Insane Asylum, at Utica, N. r., in the latter's office, by shooting him. The ball passed through the doctors cheek.
 Sergeant Mason was lodged in the Albany Penitentiary on Thursday. A resolution praying for the reduction of his sentence to expulsion from the army is before the New York Assembly.
 The bill to establish capital pun ishment has been defeated in the Wis consin Assembly by 8 close vote.
 The schooner Bellerophon, of Glou- cester, which has been absent since January 23 on the Banks halibut fish ing, has been given up by her owners as lost with her crew of fourteen men. This loss swells the number to seventy five men from this port since January |. "A scene occurred during the trial of an assault case, in Brooklyn, when two ladies learned for the first time that their wealthy father. 82 years old, had just married young wife and transferred his property to her. An Ottawa, Ont, special says it is announced there that the Empress of Austria will visit Canada and the United States next fall and that the Prince of Wales will accompany her and his sis ter, the Princess Louise.
 At the annnal meeting of the Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, it was stated. that the number of interments is 210,024.
 By a boiler explosion at Lynn, Mass, 8 shoe factory was destroyed, one man was killed and four were in. iured.
 The inquest in the case of George Barry Wall, who was shot by his wife at New Utrecht, N. Y., resulted in g verdict that the shooting was caused by Mrs. Walls careiessness.
 -One hundred and fifty miners were imprisoned in Durham coliery by the collapse of shaft. They subsequently escaped.
 At Albany Mir. Grady (Tam. has been appointed Chairman of the Senate Committee on Congressional Appoint ments. Three regular Republicans and three Democrats are also upon this committee.
 = In the Massachusetts, House on Tuesday the Prohibitory Liquor bill was passed to it's third reading.
 In New York Augustus D. Leigh. ton, for the murder of Mary Deane, has been sentenced to be hanged on April 21. -Advices from Port au Prince of the 1st inst. state that smallpox still pre- vailed there to fearful extent. Over POO deaths had occurred since February 22. Business was paralyzed.
 A Philadelphia special says Engi. neer Melville in letter to his wife says he thinks De Long and his party have perished.
 The President nominated Judge Blatchford for the vacancy in the Su. preme Court and Mir. J. R. Yonng fol the Chinese Mission.
 The New York Society for the Pro. tection of Game has voted that poultry should be sold drawn.
 The Massachusetts State Senate has passed anti-polygamy resolutions.
 At the Palmer Hill iron mines near An Sable Forks, hoisting rop, broke, letting Q car loaded with or, fall 1,300 feet, killing Ethan Howart and seriously iniuring Edward Robare miners.
 The residence of William Stewart near Greensburg, Ind, was burned an Mrs. Mary McElroy, aged 106, perishe in the flames.
 The Board of Aldermen of Bosto have authorized the Mayor to offer re ward of S1,O0O for the apprehension ( the murderer of Mrs. Bell.
 Intelligence has just reache Panama of an appalling earthquake i Costa Rica. Advices received state ths four towns have been destroyed. Thes are Alajuela, San Ramon, Grecia, an Heredia. In Alajuela alone sewers thousand lives were lost. Those le alive there are homeless. The last grei earthquake which visited Centr. America was on March 19, 1873, whe San Salvador was utterly destroyed an many lives were lost.
 Eight persons have died of iniuri received from the explosion on the Oh steamboat Sidney, near Ravenswoc last Friday.
 The Connecticut State officials ha' selected camp-ground for the Sta militia at Mantle.
 The murder committed in Bostc adds another to the long list of mystel ous tragedies. Mrs. Bell, who h: gone to a bakery for milk at eig o'clock ID the morning, was followed ( her return home by a man who ab siyely accosted her, pushed her vi lently into her own hallway and the stabbed her in the neck nine time Her dying screams brought her lit daughter to the scene and aroust one or two women in the house, all whom saw the man leaving after fiuis ing his murderous work. The cries the viotim were also heard by g carpe ter passing in the street who had vi messed what had occurred outside of Il door, waited until the man came or followed him until he came to t1