Connecticut western news., 1883-05-16
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

ward MCOOllhey ""o h"hScoA o'o Pittsburg on Friday for the murder of George A. Mcclure. He declared him. self innocent and met death without tremor.
 A fall of rock in Mafett's mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, crushed two men to death.
 A horrible blunder is reported from s St. Louis, Mo-, hospital which resulted in the death by poison of two men and narrow escape of third.
 Two drovers were killed on the Hudson River Railroad by a collision near Highlands, N. Y.
 Gold is said to have been found on the Poorhouse farm at Buffalo.
 Two aged persons were burned .ts death in Baltimore, Md, through 8 house taking fire.
 The President selected MT. Charles Lyman, Chief Clerk of the United States Treasurer's office, to be Chief Examiner under the Civil Service Commission, vice MT. DeB. Randolph Keim with drawn.
 Several firemen were burned while fighting fire at Bridgeport, Ohio.
 The steamer Big Horn struck snag and sank near Bismarck, D. T. No lives were lost.
 Dodge City, Kan., is in the bands of roughs and desperadoes and the Gov ernor has been called on to place it un- der martial law.
 Six fremen were injured by falling wall at fire in New Haven, Conn.
 Miss Girouard, nun at Montreal, having been absolved by tue Pope from her dedication VOWS. goes back to the world.
 At Trenton, N. J., tramp made a murderous attack on an aged woman wLo had refused him food.
 Holders are now shipping their whis- ky to Bermuda intending to reimport it and ask the government to put it in warehouse for three years.
 The Pennsylvania Senate passed 8 bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale or use of any article, device or invention for taking life surreptitiously by explosion or fire.
 Governor Butler, after calling at- tention to the neglect of examining the affairs of insurance companies in Massa- chusetts, asks change in the law, to enable the examination to be made at once.
 Halifax, N. S., was excited over a report that Lieutenant Governor Archi- bald had received letter warning him of an expected visit to that city of two suspicious American vessels, and advis- ing him to adopt measures for the pro- 4on4iop of 1ifo ar,6 7,rOroortu thnro
 The excitement at Halifax, N. S., over the supposed intended visit of two vessels with torpedoes, in the Fenian in terest, continued, and extra guards were placed over the prominent government buildings.
 Referee John B. Ward has rendered his report in the suit of Minnie (Con. way) Levy the actress, against Isaac Levy the cornetist, in which he holds that the marriage of the parties was in- valid.
 A te;loring firm in Pittsburg has made contract for the labor of convicts at Clinton Prison as tailors at thirty-fve cents per day.
 The civil service rules were ap- proved by President Arthur.
 An old soldier named Brennan, who is supposed to be partially insane, shot twice at Rufus R. Wade, Chief of Dis trict police in Boston, wounding him each time
 -Jere Dunn was put on trial at Chi cago for the murder of James Elliott, the prize fighter,
 A brutal parent in Woburn, Mass. :, forced his three-year-o child to drink whisky until it died.
 Four men were arrested at Mon townsville, Pa., for passing counterfeit silver dollars.
 The State canals are open for navi- gation. A large number of boats have cleared at Albany for the West and North.
 Katie Judd, the Newport incendiag, having very nearly made her escape from prison, has been placed in solitary confinement.
 Governor ButleEof Massachusetts has officially announced that he will not sign the bill granting $264, 552 to double track the Hoosac Tunnel.
 Colonel Canto, of the Chilian army, has had two engagements with Caceri's forces at Balconiello and Pampas De Sieaya, Peru. In both cases he routed the enemy, capturing cannon and forty rifles. The Chilians had four killed and twelve wounded, and the Peruvians ffty-nine killed. Caceri is at Tarta. His troops are demoralizea.
 A large portion of Union City, Ind. :, has been destroyed by fire.
 Charley McComas, whose parents were killed by the Apaches, is still living, well, and in care of Chief Bonita.
 --The Irish Revolutionary Brother. hood met at Clarendon Hall, New York city, and its delegate to the Philadelphia Convention denounced the Clan-na-G Gael for surrendering to the Parnellite or con. stitutional agitation party.
 The application for the release oi Freeman, the Pocassett (Mass.) murder CT, has been denied on the ground that his religious insanity may possibly return. | Reports up to date show 267 person, to have been killed by tornadoes in thi country since January 1. During 1881 187 persons thus lost their lives, and il 1882, 369.
 The President has selected Boston Atlanta, and Chicago as the names fo, the three new steel cruisers of the navy The new dispatch boat will be named Eagle or Hiawatha.
 An explosion has occurred in the government powder magazine situated on Fridays Hard, in Portsmouth Har- Dor, England The building was com pletely demolished. Nine persons were killed and number injured by the ex 1 nlnsinn Parties were fillino shalls a1