Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
NEWS OF TILE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

A brutal attack by whites in British Columbia on Chinese, Thursday, caused the death of one Ohinaman, and proba- bly several Others will die.
 Henry Fleming was executed fol murder at Pittsborough. Miss, Thurs day. While on the scaffold, and before his hands were pinioned, he inflicted ar ugly wound in his throat with pocket knife.
 The will of the late Elizabeth McEvers Bayard has been filed in the New York Surrogate's office. The tes- tatrix leaves $s, 100000.
 A fire in the village of Westchester, N. Y., Thursday. destroyed $2O, ,00C worth of property. Two horses were burned to death.
 The steamer Joseph T. Wilson foundered in Chesapeake Bay. All on board, except one man, were rescued.
 Captain F. Kring, who after eight years imprisonment and five trials for the murder of Dora Broesmer, had been discharged on bail, died in hospital at St. Louis, Mo-, on Thursday.
 Mrs. Warner, 8 wealthy widow, at tempted suicide by hanging at Warner vile, N. Y., on Thursday.
 At Canton, Texas, verdict of murder in the first degree was rendered against the Rev. Henry Smith, @ Baptist minister, for killing Deputy Sheriff Day, of Henderson county, three years ago. The tragedy grew out of the arrest of Smiths brother for cattle stealing. The prisoner was sentenced to imprisonment for life.
 Mark Spicker, a commercial sales man, obtained verdict of $5, 900 against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for his election from train.
 Edward Hanson, a young man thirty three years of age, killed MT. Charles R. White, man of sixty years, on We'd nesday, on the Hanson estate, near H. chester, Howard county, Md. After his crime he said that he had carried out the will of God and avenged the death of his mother and sister. He is undoubtedly insane.
 The reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, in Washington, consisting of 8 street parade, 8 reception at the White House, business meeting and an evening entertainment, passed of with great eclat. Gen. Newton was elected President. He received 155 votes and Gen. Grant 117. The next meeting will be held in Brooklyn.
 At Harrodsburg, Ky, the jury in the case of Phil B. Thompson, for the murder of Walter H. Davis, his wife's cousin, rendered verdict of acquittal, which was received with great applause by the crowd in the court house.
 Montana was visited by tornado which resulted in loss of life and con- siderable damage to property.
 .-Advices from Montana state that the expected advance of war party of Northern Cree Indians into that Terri tory had been stopped by the combined action of General Ruger and the mounted police of Fort Walsh.
 A destitute British subject, who is in charge of the British Consul in New York, claims to have been decoyed from the Island of Jamaica to Mexico in com pany with 109 others, who were all sold as slaves on trumped-up charge o1 debt.
 Wilmington, Del, having imposed tax of $1 on each telegraph pole, vii! cut down every pole on which no tax is paid.
 Three desperadoes in the Indial Territory were shot and killed by { sheriff posse.
 The commissioner of the Freed mems Saving and Trust Company ha | declared q final dividend of seven pc cent, making 62 per cent. in all.
 The town of Du Apelle and th' village of bennington, in British Amer ica, were both almost entirely destroyed by fire.
 A Treasury check for $125, 900 was payment for the Arlington estate $25, ,000 being withheld temporarily fo payment of back taxes.
 The discovery of new asteroid ha! been reported to Harvard College Obser vatory from Kiel, Prussia.
 The Catholic church at Ashland, Pa. has been robbed of altar ornament worth over $1 ,00O.
 In the glove fight between Sullivan and Mitchell, the English champion, a Madison Square Garden, Sullivan wa declared the winner at the close of tn third round. Had the fight been with out gloves Sullivan would have klle' Mitchell.
 There are grave fears that the lock out in Cincinnati will throw 4,000 o 5000 employees of the boot and sho manufactories out of work.
 The schooner yacht Grayling whil making trial trip was capsized by small whirlwind and sunk in the Lowe1 Bay of New York Harbor. Those on boar' were rescued by other yachts.
 Two lives are supposed to have beer lost through the giving way of bridg' on the Pennsboro and Harrisville Rail road, in West Virginia, and the precipi tatlng of passenger train into tht Hughes River
 -Ex-Governor Israel Washburn, O Maine, died Saturday at Philadelphia whither he had gone for medical treat ment. He was one of the Washbur1 brothers who achieved so much dis tinction in law and politics. He repre- sented the Bangor. Me-, District in Con gress from 1851 to 1861, when he wa, elected Governor. He was Collector ot Customs for Portland from 1863 to 1867
 The Irish Confederation of America which met in New York city on Sunday resolved to boycott all goods of English manufacture
 Two brothers quarrel1ed abou planting corn, near Paris, Ky, whel one shot the other, inficting probabl, fatal wound
 Henry D. Warren, seaman of tn Jeannette, member of Lieutenant Chipp' boat company, was adjudged to b. proven dead in proceeding before Philadelphia Register of wills. | Nina 1,1,iso11n1e 1rnrn Hnnond ot tl,