Connecticut western news., 1883-04-18
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

GENERAL TTEMa.
 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has executed a mortgage to trustees to secure & loan of $12, 900, ,OOO at four per cent. interest for usein build- ing it's line from Baltimore to Phlladel- phia.
 -Stilwell H. Russell, late United States Marshal for the Western district of Texas, was sentenced to two years imprisonment for defrauding the govern ment of nearly $50, ,OOO.
 The Postmaster at Pipe rsville, Pa., has been arrested for affixing cancelled stamps to letters and retaining the money paid for postage.
 Sitting Bull will soon be admitted into the communion of the Catholic Church.
 The trial of suit for $50, ,000 dam ages for breach of promise of marriage, brought by Ernestina Cloos against David W. Bruce, the we'll known type founder, was held before Judge Van Brunt, in the Court of Common Pleas, in New York City. The jury gave the plaintiff verdict for $3, 792.
 The steamer Wiley struck the pier of bridge on the Chattahoochee River, Alabama. She turned, careened, and went to pieces immediately. Twelve of her crew were drowned. Henry ID. Mcdaniel has been nom- mated to succeed the late Alexander H. Stephens as Governor of Georgia.
 A Lehigh Valley engine ran into Philadelphia train filled with passengers on the Reading road, near Bound Brook. Nobody was killed, but thirteen persons were injured. One car was burned and another left in ruins. By the premature explosion of 6 blast at Lebanon, Pa., two men lost their lives.
 The steamship City of Merida collided with a schooner off Hatteras, during fog, and, leaking badly, left the latter and headed for the shore, landing her beaching herself near Fort Norfolk, Va. The schooner is supposed to be lost with all hands.
 The bill prohibiting the Passion Play passed the New York Senate and was referred to the Assembly.
 The improved new fve-cent nickels have the word ''cents stamped under the "V."
 A bill was introduced in the Penn sylvauia Senate to prohibit the manufac. trlre and sale of internal machines and devices to destroy life and injure prop erty. A bill was also introduced pre- venting any attempt to personate any being recognized as divinity 1n the New or Old Testament.
 Through the caving in of 8 mine nui In, xUpr buried alive. One of them was re- covered, but he was fatally injured.
 Arrests of citizens in South Carolina continue to be made on charges of fraud at the last election.
 A disastrous fire, caused by quar- ee, over game of cards, inflicted loss If two lives and over $l0O, 900 worth of property on the town of Westminster, Md.
 The recent death of Thomas H Blythe, at San Francisco, leaving no will but S4.OOO, ,OOO, has already raised up three female claimants as his wives. Several detective police officers are employed at Ottawa. Canada, to guard against the possibility of the execution of any plot, by dynamite or otherwise, to cause injury to the Dominion govern ment or to persons.
 By the falling of a large building in Rochester, N. Y., two men were killed and several injured.
 The danger of using anthracite stoves in bedrooms was again demon strated by the suffocation of detective and his wife in their bed at Rochester, N. Y.
 A panic was created in the Ansonia Hotel, at Ansonia, Conn.,, by an in cendiary fire, but the casualties were confined to one unfortunate domestic. | Bishop Fabre, of Montreal, refer ring to the case of the nun who desires to be released from convent there, says that she is not detained in the institu- tion against her will.
 | A colored murderer was taken from the jail at Amberson's station, Ala, and hanged by mob.
 The president and board of directors of the Central Committee on National Labor Legislation have petitioned the President to call an extra session of Con- gress for the purpose of accelerating such legislation.
 An accident, the most disastrous to human life that ever occurred in any of the Lake Superior mines, happened at the Keelridge mine, Menomenee Range, Michigan Iron District, Tuesday after noon, when about ninety feet of ground between the main engine house and Num- Der One shaft caved in. The engine house, in which were nine men and all the mine machinery and four large boilers, went down a distance of from 1000 to 2,000 feet. All the men were either killed outright or buried alive, except Ed. Wicks, who went down one hundred feet and then remained on top of the debris, with his leg broken at the thigh, and one of his ribs fractured. The mine was about to be abandoned, as the ore body was exhausted. All the men were on the surface hoisting the steam pipes out of the shaft | The term of the Marquis of Lorne as Governor General of Canada will ex- pire in October, 1884. | A destructive cyclone swept over a portion of Ark ansas on Sunday night.
 The Treasury Department at Wash ington has issued instructions for the enforcement of the law to prevent the importation of spurious and adulterated teas.
 The boat in which three men sailed from Havre de Grace having been found ! bottom up ill the river, it's occupants are supposed to be drowned
 The value of petroleum and petroleum products exported during February, 1883, was $2, 6S9, 721; during