Milford chronicle., 1883-01-19
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

The projected Worlds Fair tt Bos
ton next year IS now fully under way.
A whole block was burned in De-
Moines, Iowa. No lives were lost, bu
property was damaged to the extent o
$4,000
"A bill was introduced in the Florida
House Of Assembly Incorporating the
Florida Ship Canal Company, which
proposes to construct a ship canal from
the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico across
the peninsula,
The ice harvest ON the Hudson is an
abundant one, the yield being thirteen
inches thick and clear.
"A young lady disappeared mysteri-
ously at St. Louis, Mo, while on her
way to a convent where she had been
studying. Great excitement prevailed
in that city, and on Change $40, 900 was
soon subscribed as u reward for the
missing girl, dead or alive.
D. Samuel A. Mudd, the physician
who the broken leg of John Wilkes
Bcota, the assassin of President Lincoln,
d ed in Charles County, Nd.
The immigration to Canada from all
parts of the world during 1882 was 98,-
69l. In addition to these rs, 72S passed
through Canada en- route to the United
States.
The largest amount ever given in q
breach Of promise case is that in favor of
Miss Livingstone against Henry Fleming
IN New York City, the sum being $75, 900.
The Board Of Health, of Baltimore
report over 1000 cases Of smallpox in
that city.
"A civil service reform club was or
ganized at Newport, r. |.
Two men were killed by a boiler ex-
plosion at Summit, Miss
Governor Butler. of Massachusetts,
denies the report that meeting has
been held at his office with the object Of
putting him in the field as a candidate
Tor the United States Senate.
The Indian troubles at Metlakatla,
b. G., are causing considerable alarm
there, as the outlying settlements are at !
the mercy of the savages..
The Democrats in the North Caro-
lima Legislature have, in caucus, nomi- |
mated United States Senator Ransom to
succeed himself in the Senate
-Four men We're badlyscalded by the
bursting of a boiler at Lebanon, Pa.
Judge Moran, of Chicago, has
granted Mrs. Scoville a decree Of divorce
from her husband.
The Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill,, of Maine.
is dead He was born in Belgrade,
Maine, in 1915, and upon leaving college
the study of law He has
field the positions of member of the
State Senate and Legislature, Governor
If the State, and United States Senator.
Polk, the absconding State Treas
lrer of Tennessee, was rearrested near
Laredo, and is now in San Antonio,
Cexas, awaiting reqUisition.
The mills in the neighborhood Of
lamden, Ne, are almost entirely stopped
lv a drought most unusual thing at |
his season of the year.
A prohibition amendment to the con-
htutiOn Of Maine has been proposed in
is Legislature,
"A man named Braunagle lost his life S
{ Harrisburg, Pa, in saving those of a S
roman and her child
An accident is reported on the Penn
ylvania Railroad, in which, after col
sion, "a freight train ran into a house +
nd held the inmates captive.
By an explosion in a colliery in Hi
ois eight men lost their lives. Their q
.odies were recovered. /
The schooner Pilots Bride, which
allied from New London, Conn, in April.
5S1, on sealing voyage to the South v
tlantic, is believed to have been lost.
The sale of Plymouth Church Beech
r's), of Brooklyn, n Y, pews brought !
$4,000, or less than last year by over +
/ 900 :
Two boilers in the Bethlehem Pa,
ron Works burst and killed five persons r
esides iniuring several others and :,
rocking large portion Of the works. T
"A remarkable story comes from $,
ochester, n. Y, purporting to lie the q
)nfession Of one of the assassins of Lord II
frederick Cavendish and Under Secre-
ry Burke, in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in n
-ay last. y,
A violent earthquake shock was felt al
different parts of Northern Ohio, n,
aturday morning. Sc
"A man was killed, and two others el
ere seriously injured through being ia
ruck by locomotive on the New Jer- pl
y Central Railroad, near Glendon, Pa. fe
AT Reading, Pa, two butchers were ~
rested, charged with selling the meat
hogs which had been bitten by mad to
gs and died of rabies.
"A corner in corn is in process of de- Oh
lopment in Chicago.
Smallpox is raging at Salem, Roam of
e County, Va to
1t is now specifically charged that Or
e shelling Of the Alaskan village by ce
T naval forces was an act of unneces- pr
y cruelty to serve the purposes of a TO
,nopoly. an
AT Milwaukee, Wis, stormy scene
,k place in the city council on account
the Comptroller refusing to audit
Is contracted in 1882 from the funds
propriated for 1888.
One hundred and forty-seven medi- u
students in McGill University. Mon lar
al, have demanded the resignation OF lef
E of the professors. cIc
"A volunteer of the late war, living sb,
Trenton, N. j., recently secured a A.,
ision, with which he purchased a little 'Wi' W
ne. A creditor having a claim Of $50 e.s
inst HIM caused mortgage ON the cio
peHy to be foreclosed, and the ex- VIII
Hers house was sacrificed. lit
AT meeting in New Orleans, La. aec
orts were read showing that the con- 5io
on of most Of the iails in the State -
a disgrace to civilization. pr
1t is intimated that Princess Louise
snend the winter at Charleston S aIn