Connecticut western news., 1883-08-01
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

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 -Ex- Postmaster General Montgom- cry Blair has had paralytic shock.
 A log rush that inficts hundreds of thousands of dollars damage is reported on Grand River, Michigan.
 The Howe sewing machine factory at Bridgeport, Conn.,, was nearly de- stroyed by fire on Thursday. Loss, 1850, 900.
 -Cetewayo's wives and chiefs were killed with him.
 Marsh K. Polk, ex-Treasurer of Tennessee, was found guilty of embez- clement and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment and fine of $366, ,54O. Polk is 57 years of age, and connected with number of leading families of the State.
 Over one hundred persons were poisoned by ice cream at Joliet, Ill.,, op Thursday.
 The New Jersey Democrats have put off their convention until Septem- Der 18th, and the Republicans have de- termined to hold their convention later still.
 The National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, now in session at Denver, Col, reports an accession to their ranks during the past year of over fifty-seven thousand men.
 A mob at Miles, M. T., took bar keeper out of jail, where he was con- fined for disorderly conduct, and hanged him Thursday. Two hours afterward she place where the unfortunate man worked was set on fire and destroyed.
 Edward Hovey, the condemned mur- derer, has been respited by Gov. Cleve- land, of New York, until October.
 At Jeffersonville, Ohio, three chil- dren of Isaac Barry were killed by lightning. They were in the field hoe tug corn when storm came up and they took shelter under tree. Their bodies were found after an anxious search. The oldest child was only fourteen years of age.
 -Hanlan won the boat race at Full ton, N. Y on Thursday. Hosmer came in second and Lee third.
 By the capsizing of boat in the James River on Wednesday, eight ne- groes are reported drowned.
 The schooner Mattie Fidgett was found keel up in Chesapeake Bay, and only her captain of crew of four was rescued.
 A prize fight at Nanticoke, Pa., Wednesday, was broken up by crowd of armed women.
 The scow Seabird has been found overturned in Lake Michigan, and her crew of six men are missing.
 By an accident on the Wabash Rail- road near Lawson, Mo-, one passenger was killed and six injured.
 -Cetewayo is dead.
 During performance in circus at Portsmouth, Va., on Tuesday night the tent was struck and wrecked by gale. The oil lamps ignited the fallen canvas, causing panic among the people, all of whom, however, succeeded in escap- ing, although many were injured.
 Storms with fatally disastrous eff fects are reported from large portions of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
 The great cyclone storm that swept over Asbury Park, Ocean Grove and other villages in Monmouth county, N. J., caused 8 good deal of terror to the people in it's track and damage to prop erty. The record of the injury it in dicted in the brief space of four minutes IS almost incredible.
 M. A. Dauphin, of the Louisiana Lottery, has sued Postmaster General Gresham for depriving him of the use of ;he mails.
 Evidence of sad disaster has been discovered in Texas-the skeletons of 8 party of tourists supposed to have been killed by lightning over year ago in their carriage just as they had died. . There were 2,59O pounds of diseased meat seized in New York city by the sanitary inspectors last week.
 At ten o'clock Tuesday morning z pistol ball was fired through the window of the Western Union Telegraph office in Atlanta, Ga., shivering the large plate glass and striking the receiving clerk, Witt, just above the hip. The ball was spent, however, and the injury was not serious. The range of the bal indicates, that it came from an upstairs loom of the Markham, a hotel across the street. MT. Witt withdrew from the Brotherhood of Photographers the day before the strike. The company offers ( reward of $1.000 for the conviction o1 the party who fired the shot.
 Captain Matthew Webb, the Eng. fish swimmer, was drowned on Tuesday ia his attempt to swim through the whirlpool rapids just below the cataract of Niagara.
 Additional particulars of the terrible cyclone in the Northwest state that at least niue persons are known to have been killed and at least fifty injured, some of the latter perhaps fatally.
 Exeter, Ont, was visited by SC, were wind and rain storm on Monday.
 An accident occurred in blast furnace at Syracuse, N. Y., Monday, by which eight men lost their lives. A terrible storm was reported to be raging in the Mississippi valley, Tues day. Photographic communication be- tween Washington and St. Louis was cut off.
 Secretary Folger in letter shows that the President has no power tc cause trade dollars to be received by the Treasury at face value. The State Department at Washing | ton was informed that the steamship City of Washington, from Vera Cruz fol | New York, left several passengers sick with yellow fever at Havana, and tha five of those left had died. FOREIGN ITEMS. A deputation called on the Presi- | daDt of the Fnulish Roard OF Haaltb tc