Connecticut western news., 1883-10-17
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

with two others for the murder of two girls and boy. Two were wife mur- derers, and one was the slayer of the husband of his paramour.
 The October corn report for the De- partment of Agriculture fully sustains the report of injuries by the frosts of light frosts later, the most noticeable State average of condition show the ex- tent of the injury greatest in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and New York. The report says that wheat is not up to the average, oats, full average, and in bar ley the crop will be larger than last year.
 The constitutionality of the act pro- hibiting the manufacture of cigars Tn tenement houses in New York city was affirmed by Judge Barrett as matter ot form in order that the question may be presented to the General Term of the Supreme Court and taken thence to the Court of Appeals.
 In the Congregational Council, sit ting at Concord, N. H., the Secretary's report showed net gain of 262 churches of that denomination during the past three years.
 The Warden of the Massachusetts State Prison claims to have put an end to all the trouble in the institution caused by the previous mismanagement.
 It is understood that upon the re- tirement of General Sherman Major Gen. eral Hancock will succeed Lieutenant General Sheridan in command of the Division of the Missouri; that Major General Pope will succeed General Han cock in the Division of the East, and that Major General Scofeld will remain in command of the Division of the Pacif- ic. General Hancock was rendered Lieutenant General Sheridans com mand, and is understood to have ac- cepted it.
 The Chief of the Bureau of Statis- tics reports that during the month of September, 1883, there arrived at the ports of the United States 64, 507 passen- gers, of whom 45, 719 were immigrants, turned from abroad, and 5,250 aliens not intending to remain in the United States.
 While President Chandler, of the Fuller Electric Light Company and Superintendent T. R. R ,bbins were mak- ing tour of inspection in the rain at Cleveland, 8 lamp went out, Superin- tendent Robbins, in lowering the lamp, to examine it, took hold of the conduct ing wire where the insulation was worn off and fell as if shot. Before he died, which was three minutes later, he said, "The life is burned out of me"
 Although the fatal cases of the dis ease at Brewton, Ala, are character ized by black vomit, the physicians there persist in the assertion that 1t Is not yellow fever.
 The steamship Salier, of the North German Lloyd's line, collided with the bark Sarah M. Smith about eighty miles east of the Highlands. The bark's crew were taken on board the steamship. which returned to New York.
 Eleven Chinamen who landed on the coast near Port Townsend, W. T., will be sent back whence they came.
 The Mexican veterans are making ready for the National Convention, to be held in December.
 --TEe saloon keepers of Wisconsin have decided to open warfare on all can- didates who will not work in their in- terest.
 Work has again been commenced on the Cape Cod Ship Canal.
 A reward of $500 has been offered for the recovery alive of Willie Dickin- son, 8 boy who was stolen from his home in Wisconsin in November, 1881, and taken to Cornwall, England.
 The President and all the members of his Cabinet are now at the seat of government.
 A tornado struck the little town ol Arcadia, in Trempealeau county, Wis.,, doing much damage to property and in. turing several persons at that place and in the country adjacent.
 The exports of petroleum from the United States during August were valued at $4 ,229, ,292.
 A section boss on the Milwaukee car with his wife and baby, his daughter-in-law, her husband and child, when near Wausau the hal of the elder lady blew off and in attempting to grasp it her baby | slipped out of her hands in front of the car. The child was caught in the zeal of the wheels and was instantly killed The car was thrown from the track anG was hurled some distance. Both wome1 are fatally injured and the other chilc will die.
 At the Wisconsin State Saloon Keepers Convention resolutions were passed that, as heavy taxpayers, they are entitled to the same privileges as any other business men; that drunken. ness is not due to the saloons but to the lack of education in youth.
 Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, o England, was enthusiastically received by the ladies and gentlemen bidden to { reception at the Academy of Music 1T New York. He appears to be vel pleased with the United States.
 At the Lansingburgh, N. Y., schoo election 225 votes were cast by wome1 out of total of 1000.
 The text of what is known in Chi, as the Second Amendment, which has been adopted is as follows The manu facture of and the traffic in intoxicating liquors to be used as beverage are for ever prohibited; and the General Assem- ply shall provide by law for the enforce ment of this provision.
 The annual report of the Wester Union Telegraph Company claims th net earnings for the year ending Jun 30 is $7,OO0, 900, of which $467, ,00O ws paid in interest and sinking fund, an $5, 199. 900 in dividends to stockholders
 The Chiriqui Improvement Con pany have applied for mandamus t compel the Secretary of the Navy to bu thair lands op tho Totbpone
 The necessary security having bee deposited with the state Treasurer, tn Cape Cod Ship Canal will now be rapiC