Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

State Department denying the report of an alarming outbreak of trichinosis at Tilsit, Germany, from eating American pork.
 The steamer Grappler, plying be- tween Puget Sound ard Alaska, has been burned. Sixty Chinese immigrants lost their lives by the disaster.
 General Crook and his command en- tered Mexico some days ago in pursuit of the hostile Apaches.
 W. B. Searight, Mayor of Vinoen- nes, Ind, committed suicide, owing, it IS believed, to his having been defeated at at the polls for reelection.
 Spruce trees are dying rapidly in the Aroostook (Me.) lumber regions for some cause at present unknown.
 The Delaware peach crop was not injured by the frosts of the latter part of April. Tine trees are healthy and in general bloom.
 A. H. Beal, who shot his partner on the steamer Bristol in mistake for a robber, was admitted to bail ill Boston the other day.
 Two relatives attempted to murder each other in New Orleans under the pretence of duel
 The brother of Macduf, the Brook Iyn murderer and suicide, is more than ever convinced that Mrs Macduff pro- cured the pistol, and opened the triple tragedy by killing the little boy Willie and she was afterward killed by the husband, who, seeing the result, killed himself.
 One constable shot and killed an- other in quarrel over the authority ot each at Moncton, N. B.
 Preparations for the reunion of the Society of the army of the Potomac are in progress at Washington.
 The convention between the United States and Spain concerning trade marks has been proclaimed by the President
 At Barnstable, Mass, Freeman, the Pocasset fanatic who killed his little daughter under, as he alleges, strong religious conviction, was formally pro- nounced sane and arraigned for murder.
 Sitting Bull and his tribe have started for the reservation, on which they will commence a career as farmers.
 A convict in Sing Sing prison smashed $1, 200 worth of stove patterns, and nearly two hundred men are idle fol want of mouldings.
 A Boston merchant named Albert H. Beal killed his partner named Pickett on the steamer Bristol of the Fall River Line. Both occupied the same state room, and Beal mistook Pickett for a robber.
 At Baltimore, on Monday, three men were arrested in the act of grave robbing.
 The decrease inf the United States debt for the month of April amounts to B, ,50O,OOO.
 A tornado in Louisiana wrecked many buildings, injured few persons, but fortunately deprived no one of life
 Miss Kane, the lawyer who was fined and sent to jail ill Milwaukee for throw ing glass of water into judges face while on the bench, says she will never pay the fiNe if she sta ays in jail all her life.
 A gang of men were employed 1T skipping pillars or removing the body oi coal standing between the breasts of the Keystone colliery, owned and operated by the Philadelphia and Reading Goa and Iron Company at Pottsville, Pa, ol Monday, when an explosion took plnce killing five men and injuring others.
 The prosecution in the Star Ront, trial refused to submit the case withou further argument, as proposed by tn, defense, and MT. Bliss commenced hi. summing up.
 A construction train on the Texa> and Pacific Railroad struck a steer when two cars were thrown from the track, killing three men and injurins others.
 The committee engaged in the re lief of sufferers by the Mississippi tor nado report many families in distress.
 The steamer Catalonia arrived al Boston with over 1,20O passengers, most If whom were sent from Ireland at the expense of the British government.
 During the affray at Port Royal, S. C., white man shot three negroes, kill ing one and mortally wounding another
 It appears, from the statements ot brother of Macduff, the Brooklyn mal who murdered his wife and child and took his own life, that Mrs. Macduff jealous imaginings were a source of domestic trouble and that the couple had separated.
 The cigarmakers of Philadelphia will not strike, the increased wages having been granted them.
 The Vermont State authorities, after legal contest, have secured the $2OO,- 900 bequeathed the common schools oi that State by the late Abraham Hunting ton.
 A gang of trade dollar counterfeit ers-eight in number, two of them being women were captured in New York city and lodged in jail. They have put thousands of counterfeit trade dollars in the market
 The volume of immigration this sea- son is behind that of last year by over th1rty-f1ve thousand, according to the records at Castle Garden, New York.
 The Board of Health of Massachu- setts has assumed charge of the Tewks- bury Almshouse.
 A child five years of age was so ter ribly mangled by a dog in Shenandoah, Pa, that it died soon after.
 Secretary Frelinghuysen says our troops have no authority to pursue the mnrierous Apaches beyond the Rio Grlnde into Mexico and Gen. Crook has been instructed not to do SO.
 The damage by the cyclone al Beauregard, Miss, alone, is now esti- tod 4 4 II