Connecticut western news., 1883-05-30
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

ANAZ W N V A A A~ A A A
 GENERAL ITEMS.
 An express messenger was adroitly robbed at Cleveland, Ohio, recently. A Dr. Moore, while under the influ- ence of liquor, entered the Ci cult Court at Helena, Ark, and shot at and wounded Judge Saunders.
 The Captain and the first officer of the steamer Tropic were convicted in the United States Court at Philadelphia of violation of the neutrality laws in hay ing landed armed men and munitions of war at 8 Haytian port.
 In St. Clair county, Illinois, the strik- ing coal miners have paraded the streets in hundreds, armed with clubs, and have assaulted and driven away non-strikers The Governor has been appealed to by the mine owners for assistance.
 Helena, Ark, has succeededin com promising her debt at fifty cents on the dollar.
 A man suffered horrible death through being drawn feet foremost be- tween the rolls ill an iron mill at Rome, N. Y.
 -Guerneville, small town at the terminus of the Fulton branch of the Pacific Railroad, was almost completely swept away by fire. Thirty buildings were destroyed, including the railway station.
 Fifty thousand pupils and 2,OOO teachers of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union celebrated their 54th anniversary on Wednesday with singing, prayer, parades, and picnics.
 A special from Catlettsburg, Ky, :, says that two distinct shocks of earth quake were felt there on Wednesday, which shook the buildings in the town. Matthew Arbuckle, the celebrated cornet player and bandmaster, died ID New York on Wednesday,.
 The trustees of Williams College re- ceived 8 check for $50, 1000 from A. D.. German, of Albany, to found professor ship of natural theology in memory of his deceased son, who was student ln Williams College.
 The Presbyterian General Assembly at Saratoga charges the government In dian agents with so much wrong-dolng and injustice to the red men as to pre- vent the work of gospel missions.
 The Baptist Council at Saratoga, N. r., in which five hundred clergymen participated, abolished the American and Foreign Bible Society and authorized the issue of Baptist Bible from the publication house in Philadelphia.
 The place of holding the colored convention called for September next has been changed from Washington to Louisville, Ky.
  among cattle in the vicinity of Washing ton.
 .-The Grand Lodge of Good Templars meeting in Chicago, proposes to aid in procuring liquor prohibition enactments tn the several States. About two o'clock Tuesday morning man was discovered endeavoring tt force an entrance into the residence O the British Minister in Washington. H. was arrested and taken to the station house, where he gave his name as Will jam Looney, and said he was sixty two years of age and 8 native of Ireland Upon examination the man appeared tt be insane, and the station house officials | say that he has been removed to the in sane asylum.
 -,rhe storm on Monday night did { | good deal of damage along the coasts O New Jersey, Long Island and Slater Island.
 Lieutenant Bettini, the young Italian who shot himself in New York, was ar raigned in @ police court and permitted to go on peace bail. He says he will g back to Italy.
 At Linderville, Ohio, two children six and two years old, were drowned by their mother, who poisoned herself.
 The Baptists have commenced a Saratoga, N. Y., most exciting discus sion on the question of printing sepa rate Bible for that denomination.
 Snow fell at Cincinnati, Ohio, o1 Tuesday; in Illinois the fruit crop hal been injured by ice, and g. severe fros has seriously damaged the crops in Mis- souri.
 It was believed that upland cottol would suffer greatly from frost, whicl appeared in Arkansas and other portion of the South.
 The Catholic clergy of Montret have issued a pastoral letter urging tn Irish societies not to affiliate with tn Irish National League.
 The officers of the steamer Tropi have been indicted at Philadelphia for violation of the neutrality laws.
 The vicinity of Titusville, Pa., wa visited by heavy rain storm, causin damage to railroads by landslides, Sc and consequent interruption to travel.
 An extensive forest fire at Groto Pond, Vt., destroyed two railroad d. pots, large lumber mill and sever houses.
 Prayers for the repose of tLe sou of the Phoenix Park assassins were o cred at Toronto, Ont.
 An old man while walking on trestle near Trenton, N. J., was decal itated by train which struck him.
 Two driver boys who entered an ol mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa., were kille by the explosion caused by their make ''ghts.
 A political feud between readjustel
 d dstraightout republicans in Jerusalem Nra., resulted in the killing of John l lo r