Connecticut western news., 1883-02-28
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,


 indictments for murder and his trial was set down for June next.
 The steamer Moro Castle, of the New York and Charleston hne, was to- tally destroyed by fire at her dock at Charleston, s. o. No lives lost.
 An aged colored couple named Townsend, who lived on their farm near Memphis, Tenn, were murdered in bed on Tuesday night. Their colored laborer, who is now under arrest, IS accused of the crime.
 The question of the successor of Lord Lorne as Governor General is agi- tating Canadian Political circles.
 The Coroner's jury made some wretched discoveries on their visit to the Fourth street Catholic school in New York City where the fire and panic oc- cured on Tuesday. Eighteen deaths have occurred and one or two more deaths are expected among the injured children.
 The levee of Columbus, Ky, broke on Sunday morning at daybreak and the town is submerged to an average depth of ten feet. Business is suspended. The loss is severe.
 News from South America is to the effect that the American, British, French aud Italian Ministers at Lima had agreed to write to their governments asking for their joint intervention to put g stop to the war between Chih and Peru on such terms as these ministers might deem satisfactory.
 The bill prohibiting the manufac- ture of hats in the New York State prison passed the Assembly.
 A dispatch from Hong Kong says the United States steamer Ashuelot has been lost in the Asiatic storm; eleven of the crew were drowned. The Ashuelot is rated as an iron vessel, with paddles, carrying six guns: of 786 tons burden and ], ,370 displacement. She has been abroad for some time. She was double ender.
 The New Jersey Senate concurrent resolution to adopt prohibitory amend ment to the State constitution came to 8 final vote in the House of Represents tives and was defeated.
 The Maine Central Railroad Com- pany was indicted, tried, convicted of manslaughter and fined $5, 900 at Bangor, Me.
 There has been very little loss of cattle on the Plains during the present season.
 The Board of Education of Chicago has ordered an inspection of every public school, with view to provide every necessary means of escape of the scholars in case of fire in either of them.
 -Dr. Orton, of Milwaukee, charged k1,a ,S fN xr,hN he was engaged to be married, by malprac. tice, was, on the finding of coroner's jury committed to jail in default oi @, ,OoObai
 A slight fire in the parochial schoo, attached to the Roman Catholic ChurcE of the Most Holy Redeemer, in B. 4th st. N. Y., caused 8 panic among the 70( children in the crowded class rooms. II the frantic rush for the stairways 8 frai balustrade gave way and precipitateo the children in heap upon the frs floor. Hundreds crowded and fell dowr upon those underneath, and trampled tc death or suh'ocated the children at the bottom, Sixteen were killed and ter seriously injured.
 A synopsis of Governor Morgan's will was filed with the Surrogate of New York City Tuesday. By 1t nearly one million dollars are given in personal lega cies and about three quarters of million to charities.
 The list of the dead at the Braid wood colliery is increasing eighty names now appear on the fatal roll.
 In the Lower House of the Nev Jersey Legislature the concurrent reso lution providing for prohibitory amend ment to the constitution was ordered t. third reading.
 The steamship Valencia, flying tn American flag, was fired at with soli, shot from one of the Dutch forts in tn harbor of Curaooa. Two United State consuls were on board at the time. It claimed that as the proceedings of tn Valencia were in every respect regula there is no excuse for the outrage.
 The elopement and marriage of wealthy Canadian belle to young man deemed an adventurer, has created quit stir In Dominion society.
 An aged couple in Baltimore bein in extreme want and preferring deat to beggary, committed suicide by takin poison.
 The captain of an abandoned brig antine with his wife, child and crew ( SIX, were for four days on the Spanis main in damaged boat before the were rescued. Their craft was only kel from sinking by constant bailiuR.
 By the explosion of kerosene lam four young children were burned to deat near Brackett, Texas.
 William G. Smith, an exprei messenger, fought 8 robber on an Alban and Susquehanna train, and thoug wounded twice beat of the thief an saved the $40, 900 in his charge.
 Eighty convicts in the shoe shop { Sing Sing Prison revolted against wor and were locked in their cells. lhe1 were at one time 152 rebellious cor vict looked up on bread and water diet.
 By the will of the late William Dodge, of New York, over $500, ,OOO distributed among charitable institution
 The movement for uniting all th Methodists of the Dominion of Canad into one general body meets with gener favor in nearly all the boards
 There are fears that the great snoy fall in Manitoba may cause terrible hooG when the thaw sets in.
 Eight men were overcome by u black damp in Nova Scotia coal min Five were rescued by party of volul teerA
 The New York Herad opened fund for the Ohio flood sufferers with subscription of $5, ,0OO..
 Suits for damages to the amount S350, GOO have been commenced by su ferers from the Newhan House fire Milwaukee.
 The iron house of John V. Aver Sons, of Chicago, has failed, with iabl ties aggregating S2, ,000, ,000.