Connecticut western news., 1883-05-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

gery, pleaded not guilty, and h1s tf1al has been set down for the 9th prox.
 A conflict of authority of peculiar nature has arisen in Missouri-theju judges of the United States Court have sent the judges of State court to jail for contempt.
 The striking cigarmakers declare that they will leave the country before resuming work, unless their demand for S2 additional per thousand be granted by the Cuban tobacco cigar manu- lecturers.
 Many earthquakes and some volcanic eruptlons have occurred along the hne of the Andes mountains.
 It is said that the Central American federation scheme has been abandoned.
 A plot among the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion, Mexican Infantry, at Matamoras, to kill their officers and de- sert to Texas was discovered on Sunday, and frustrated. Some of the mutineers escaped.
 The Massachusetts Legislature con tests a veto of Governor Butler on the ground that he was out of the State al the moment 1t was presented to the House.
 President Soto has resigned the Presidency of Honduras, but Congress refused to accept his resignation, and in- stead granted him leave of absence, during which he will visit the United States.
 Nothing has been received at the State Department in Washington from the British Government on the sub- ject of conspiracies organized ln America.
 Governor Cleveland vetoed the pen sion for survivors of the First New York volunteers of the Mexican War.
 A New York State census in Feb. ruary, 1885, is provided for by bill introduced in the Assembly.
 Eliza Pinkston, the coiored woman yho figured prominently as 8 political witness before the Louisiana Returning Board, died at Canton, Miss, where she was serving 8 term ill jail for larceny, she was buried as pauper.
 Physicians declare that there is a necessity for instituting precautions against the landing of lepers in this country.
 Texas assassins visited the home of Doctor Rech at Lampossa, dragged him from his bed and killed him in the pres ence of his wife.
 A negro boy of twelve years, in Texas, murdered white boy by tying lis wrist to the pommel of saddle and galloping off to the prairie.
 The captain and first mate of the steamer Tropic after hearing in Phila, delphia have been held for trial on @ charge of violating the neutrality laws.
 -Owney Geoghegan, for permitting minor to frequent his saloon, was fined $500 and sentenced to months impris onment.
 -Jo l.. Sullivan is lying danger ously ill at Boston. He had been dissi- pating and was taken with hemorrhage of the lungs. His prize-fighting days are over.
 A negro woman at Norfolk, whipped md burned her eight-year- old child to death.
 General Crook has started in pur- suit of the marauding Apaches with 300 troops, 200 Indian scouts, and 21 wagons.
 The dead body of negro was found
 
 under circumstances showing that he lad been murdered and his clothing saturated with kerosene oil and set on fire.
 At St. Louis, Mo-, Matthew Lewis. colored, was sentenced to death for wife murder
 Troop l., Second Cavalry, had a skirmish with raiding British Gree In lians ill the Sweet Grass Hills. They killed two of the redskins, but the re- mainder of the band escaped with their polls.
 -Advices from Victoria, B. O., state that two Presby terian missionaries were drowned by the upsetting of boat; also that the Indians had risen against | the Chinese miners and were killing | them.
 -Ex-Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, gave bail in the sum of 5000 to an swer to the indictment recently found against him in Washington.
 Governor Butler pending the in- vestigation, summarily busted the Trustees of the Tewksbury Almshouse and ordered the State Board of Health to assume it's control. The latter Board object and have appealed to the Supreme | Court.
 The Commissioner of Pensions has ssued circular warning people against fraudulent pension examiners.
 At Dover, Del, O'Brien's circus and menagerie was attacked by mob which l lpened fire on the members of the con- pany with eech-loading guns, wound | uig several of them. One of the pro- | prietors was shot in the head, and, it is | believed fatally injured.
 The business portion of Aurelia, iowa, was destroyed by fire Saturday morning.
 | The wheat acreage in Minnesota will aIl some what below last year's In Da- sota the acreage Is almost doubled. Minnie E. Phip, s, aged twenty three, and Ella Roundsville, aged eight Zen, were drowned Saturday in Shows | Fond, Rochester, Mass, by the capsiz- ing of rowboat. | -The number of illicit stills captured | y Internal Revenue officers from July | 1, 1876, to March l, 1883, was 6,371 :; | persons, S,620 officers and employees killed, 32; officers and employees wounded, 56. | Six steamships brought nearly five thousand immigrants to New York on Saturday.
 l The General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service has issued circl1- lar changing. the designations of all the l stations of the service from their official nlimhers to local names. The change | '''ll go into effect in June next.