Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

Three persons were killed in mail coach while crossing 8 railroad track at Troutman's, Ind.
 "A demented baker named Syren, in Philadelphia, shot his brothers wife and himself after brief quarrel.
 A bill will be introduced this session in the Canadian Legislature restricting Chinese immigration into British Colum- bia.
 A police sergeant named Cromsk, of the Long Island City force, was shot dead by one of his subordinates named Patrick Casey on Sunday. Casey claimed that the sergeant was jogging him. News has been received from St. Pierre that boat was driven out to sea on Saturday. When overtaken by assist ance from the shore its crew were found frozen to death.
 On Sunday, Jim Elliott, the prize fighter killed in Chicago, was buried in New York City, his home. The gather ing was one of the largest seen in New York for many days. It embraced the sporting men and fighting men, with many known thieves. The route from ! the house to the ferry was thronged with spectators. McGloin, the murderer, who was hanged on Friday, was buried the same day, and the ceremonies called to- gether many of the roughs of the City. The Spinners' Union, at Fall River, ! Mass, complains that petty tyranny is ! practiced by middlemen and overseers to- ward the employees in the mills, and in- | inmates that if it is not discontinued a general strike will be ordered. Professor Wiggins, in an interview, expressed himself satisfied that the storm ! which he prognosticated had taken place \ as he announced, He also said that the danger was not yet over. FOREIGN ITEMS. The annual boat race between crews ! from Cambridge and Oxford Universities | took place on the Thames Thursday af- | ternoon. The course was, as usual, ! from Putney to Mortlake, distance of ! four miles and two furlongs. Oxford won by three lengths.
 ! A committee of English, Scotch and Irish members of Parliament has been constituted to inform public opinion in regard to Irish reforms.
 Frank Byrne and John Walsh are coming to America.
 MT. Parnell's bill amending the Land act was rejected on its second reading in the House of Commons yes- terday by 8 vote of 63 to 250.
 Under date of Jahutsk, Siberia, December 8, 1882, Lieut.. Harber writes to the Secretary of the Navy that he is unable to learn anything of the missing people of the Jeannette. The natives all along the coast have been interviewed, but all are ignorant of any intelligence of the party.
 At meeting of the Local Board o1 I Swineford, County Mayo, Ireland, 1t was reported that great distress prevailed i1 the district. Over thirty persons are in the poorhouse suffering from famine fever. There are seven hundred sea. men on the list of persons needing re. lief. The distress has not been so great since the year 1847. People who refuse to enter the workhouse are dying from want of food outside.
 ! Prince Gortschakoff, ex-Chancello1 of the Russian Empire, is dead. He was born in Moscow, in 1798, of noble family. At an early age he became con nected with official life, and occupied many positions of trust and importance He was always strong friend of this country, and so directed matters that { kindly feeling always existed in Russia for the United States.
 The commander of the Frencl squadron in Madagascar waters has beer ordered to blockade the shore and occu py several ports of the island, but not te send troops into the interior. Some attempts have been made b, Parisian socialists to hold meetings Sun day, but they were prevented from as sembling by the police.
 Foreigners are keeping away iron Paris owing to its unsettled condition.
 Twelve hundred persons have beer arrested for complicity in the anarchis movement in Andalusia.
 Prince Jerome Napoleon is said tt be cognizant of the doings of the Pari anarchists.
 French Ministers are considering sa, question of providing work for the un employed.
 The we'll known whisky and win, house of Ives, Beecher & Co.,, Nev York, failed Tuesday for nearly $500, 900
 The Hull fishing fleet has beer
 seriously damaged by gale; many live:
 were lost.
 Reduction of American duties has caused an advance in sugar in London. Eight dagger knives have been found in the Ringsend Basin, Dublin. , Spanish socialists threaten to break open the prison at Arcos to release mem bers of the. ''Black Hand" Society.
 The steamer Navarro, bound from Copenhagen to Leith, foundered during the gale of Thursday. There were eighty-one persons, mostly emigrants on board, only sixteen of whom were saved.
 Prince Bismarck is confined to his
 bed. He is again suffering with neural gia.
 4 Frank Byrne has been released iron custody by the French government.
 A Story of the Flood.