Connecticut western news., 1883-03-07
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL TEAds

put sickness is breaking out, and the Geatn rate In some of the towns is high. ne advocates the forming of a reserve tund for the relief of prospective distress.
 -Governor Cleveland vetoed the New York City Elevated Railroad Five Cent Fare bill on Friday.
 A party of ranchmen raided an h. dian .camp west of Chihuahua, Mexico, and killed and scalped twelve of the aborigines.
 At Philadelphia, seventy one-thou- sand dollar railroad bonds were stolen from the office of safe deposit con- pany during the forenoon.
 At Chicago it remains an open question as to who fired the first shot in the atfray which resulted in the killing of Jimmy Elliott by Jere. Dunn.
 Governor Pattison sent message to the Pennsylvania Legislature stating that it had been publicly asserted that officers of the Standard Oil Company had paid a person employed by the State, in an action to recover certain taxes, to suppress the testimony he had collected, vestigation be appointed.
 A constitutional amendment provid- ing for biennial sessions of the Legisla- ture and biennial elections of State officers has been adopted by the Massachusetts Legislature.
 In the New Jersey Senate bill was passed a!iowing insurance companies to insure against storms and tornadoes.
 James Elliott, the pugilist, was shot and killed in Chicago dining saloon by Jerry Dunn, well known sporting character. The stories as to the shoot ing are of the most contradictory charac- ter, although the tragedy occurred in the presence of score of people.
 At Canton, Ohio, the body of man who had been missing for two months was found in the reservoir which supplies the inhabitants with drinking water.
 The captain of the City of Brussels has been exonerated from blame for the recent collision.
 The three naval cadets who refused to express regret for their conduct dur ing the recent demonstration at the Academy have been dropped from the rolls.
 Thomas w. Palmer was elected United States Senator from Michigan on the eighty-first ballot, thus ending 8 prolonged and remarkable contest.
 The public school buildings so far inspected in Chicago are found faulty and dangerous.
 In the New Jersey Senate the bill to reduce the legal rate on interest from six to five per cent. was defeated.
 It is alleged that there is deficiency of $40, 900 in the accounts of Louis P. Carman, the former secretary of the Manhattan Insurance Company of New York. who has disappeared.
 MT. Salmi Morse is declared to be only a figurehead in the Passion Play agitation in New York City. The ex- penses have been born by four copartners who have invested about $60,O00.
 Great excitement prevailed at Mil waukee, Wis, on account of threatened water famine.
 Two slight shocks of earthquake Friday. A violent shock was also felt at Norwich. Conn.
 At Hawley, Pa, sleighing party was precipitated into the empty Della ware and Hudson Canal, by which sev- eral of them were severely injured, one of whom died.
 Two young business men, at Sweet Water, Texas, were shot and killed for some cause at present unknown.
 Special Treasury Agent Adams has discovered that certain fashionable tail ors have long been in the habit of pay ing steamship employees to smuggle alo o1a ... -F the Atlantic.
 Robert 2. Cook, the teller of the Fifth Ward Savings Bank of Jersey City, confesses to having embedded over $10,- 900 of the institutions funds. He is in jail.
 There is much distress in the valley of the Ohio River that has not yet come to light in the farming districts, and re- lief will be necessary to save loss of life by starvation.
 The Judiciary Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives reported favorably the bill to remove the State capital to Philadelphia under certain specified conditions.
 -Gov. Cameron, of Virginia, is wag- ing war against the alien oyster dredgers OA tuC S1cdSpedho. h0 CLdIGcTSu tWO steamers, which sailed from Norfolk, filled with armed men, for the scene of his naval operations.
 Private intelligence reached Mil waukee that seventy lumbermen in the pineries of Northern Michigan had been fatally poisoned through the cook of the camp using strychnine instead of soda in making biscuit.
 At Milwaukee the Grand Jury has rldicted Schiller, the saloon keeper of the late Newhall House, for setting fire to that building.
 Typhoid and malarial fever and pneumonia have broken out in many of the hamlets of the Southwest that have been flooded.
 Miss Mary Daniels compromised her suit with the Hudson River Rail road on her injuries received at the Spuy- ten Duyvil disaster for $29, 900 cash.
 Gilbert l.. Crowcll, for years the trusted agent of the wealthy Tallman estate ill New York City, has confessed that he is defaulter to the amount of over $600,0O0 He was formerly cashier of the Peoples Bank, and became in- vowed in an unfortunate mining specu- lation soon after becoming trustee for the estate.
 William Helloram has been arrested in Philadelphia charged with personating dead man for the purpose of obtaining s, 900 from a mutual benefit association
 A large gathering at Rochester de- nounced the system of contract labor in State Prison and united in demanding its abolition by the Legislature.
 At New Brighton, Staten Island, Mrs. Hennessy and her two children Francis, four years old, and George, eleven months old-were burned to death. The house in which they lived was burned and the body of the mother was