Connecticut western news., 1883-10-03
The boy White, who was kidnapped Alabama, has been returned to his

 in Alabama, has been returned to his father. -Four men were drowned in Q shaft at Kingston, Pa., through the miscalcu lation of the engineer.
 The Western Union Company has lowered it's tariff.
 A singular discovery of an ancient document has been made at Erie, Pa., involving 8 claim against the British government for $2, 100000.
 A circus attendant murdered negro boy at Norfolk, Va, for attempting to steal sight at the show.
 POLITICAL.
 The New York Democratic State Convention at Buffalo on Thursday nom- mated thefollowlng State ticket: For Secretary of State, Isaac H. Maynard, of Delaware county; for Comptroller, Alfred c. Chapin, of Kings county; for Treasurer, Robert A Maxwell of Gene see county; for Attorney General, Den- his O'Brien, of Jefferson county; for En- gineer and Surveyor. E!nathan Sweet, of Albany county.
 The platform reaffirms the platform adopted at its last State Convention, and claims that every pledge therein made has been in good faith redeemed; valu- able reforms have been wrought; useless offices have been abolished; the civil service has been freed from the debasing and injurious influences of partisian manipulation; the freedom and purity of primaries have been se- cured; political assessments have been abolished; the principle of local self-gov- ernment has been adhered to, the efficiency of the National Guard has been increased /; taxa tion for the support of Government has been reduced; a State Bureau of Labor Statistics has been established; the rights of the workingman have been further protected, and the injurious competition of convict labor has been | curtailed. Business methods have been the rule in the management of State affairs. It fully endorses the admins tration of Governor Cleveland.
 The Maryland Republican State Convention nominated Hart B. Holton for Governor. The platform indorses the administration of President Arthur; declares that ]aboring men have an equal right with the owners of capital to make peaceful combinations for their own protection, and that such light should be secured to them by law; fayors protected tariff; favors colored schools and says that the system of hir- ing out the convict labor of the prisons of the State by contract is vicious and unjust to honest laborers and manufac- turers and ought to be abolished. | The National Colored Convention, in session at Louisville, Ky, adopted an address to the nation setting forth that in the Eastern States, almost without exception, the colored people are denied ustice in the courts; denied the fruit of their honest labor, defrauded of their political rights at the ballot box, and shut out from learning trades. It says the distinction made between the white and black troops in the regular army is un-American, unjust and ungrateful, and l demands that there shall be no further class legiSlation.
 In the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention Gov. Butler was re- nominated by exclamation with the fol- lowing State ticket: Ex-Mayor Prince, of Boston, for Lieut.. Governor; Secre- tary of State, Charles Marsh, of Spring field; Treasurer and Receiver General, Charles H. Ingalls,, of North Adams; Attorney General, Senator John Cummings, of Fall River; Auditor, John Hopkins, of Millbury. The platform says We reaffirm the prin- ciples of the State platform of 1882 which were indorsed by the people ol the Commonwealth. We believe ir the supremacy of the nation and the integrity of the State in equal rights without limitation of race or sex in inn partial freedom of the ballot in hon. est and economic expenditures in the State and nation; in thorough reform of the civil service, in which fitness, no favor, shall regulate appointments; in { tariff limited in amount to the sun necessary and adequate for revenue the abolition of excessive war taxes il these days of peace, and in stil further reduction of the extravagan State expenditure. We oppose al sumptuary laws which infringe upon tht sacred rights of personal liberty. W. favor the introduction of Q board O. arbitration for the purpose of recon cling differences between employers and employed, in order that bet ter understanding may exist be tween capital and labor and more healthful condition of the indus trial interests of the State be brough about, and commend to the careful con sideration of the Legislature the necesi sity of law which will secure to all em ployees compensation from their em ployers for any personal injuries the, may receive while in the discharge o | their duties
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 -Mottley, an important witness ill tht Phoenix Park trials, is not murdered and is said to be in Liverpool.
 It is rumored that several of tn, proposals of France have been rejected by China. Two thousand French troop have sailed from Algiers for Tonquin. Turkey and Russia are claiming tn right of interference in Bulgarian affairs -Roumania's entry into the Austro German alliance is considered certain.
 There was 8 rumor in London tha Parnell had been shot.
 Arms and ammunition have bee seized in the city of Cork.
 MT, Bradlaugh has informed Si Stafford Northcote that he will agai demand his seat in the House of Com mons.
 Tt is conjectured that about one hun dred vessels and seventy-fve lives wer lost during the recent hurricane at Mas sau. The destruction of property wa severe.
 A fire in the Kadi Keni quarter C Constantinople on Tuesday night de stroyed 300 houses.
 Later particulars of the accident the railway train from Paris for Constal