Milford chronicle., 1883-10-26

An inquest was held in New Yor
City concerning the deaths of burglar
Walsh and Irving. The jury found tina
they killed each other, and Porter. VIII
was arrested as an accessory, was dis
charged.
The switchmen of the railroads il
Missouri and Kansas are on a strike.
Lieutenant Darlington, who was il
command of the Greely relief expedi
tion, has made his official report. He
thinks that if Lieutenant Greedy should
reach Littleton Island this season he
will divide his people among the differ
ent Eskimo settlements, and the stores
he will find on his line of retreat, sup
plemented by the game of that region,
will be sufficient food for his party dur
ing the coming winter.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
Daniel Lucy, bailiff to Mr.. Massey,
has been found dangerously wounded
on Mushera Mountain, in a wild district
near Macroom, county Cork, Ireland.
This is supposed to be an agrarian out
rage.
The Princess Victoria, daughter of
the Grown Prince Frederick William.
has been betrothed to the Hereditary
Prince of Anhalt.
-Trichinosis is more prevalent than
ever in Saxony.
"A dispatch from London says: Two
hundred and sixty-six persons were suf-
ering from trichinosis at Ermsleben on
Sunday. Only so out of 1874 houses are
rec from the disease. That morning.
Up to ten o'clock, % persons had died
There have also been several fatal cases
If the disease at AIKEN.
An avalanche at Asaro, in Catania.
taly, on Friday buried six men who
we're working on a railway, five of
whom were killed.
Three shocks of earthquake in |
uick succession were felt at Gibraltar
hOrtly after midnight and another at
To o'clock in the morning. The di-
9ction of the movement was from north
} south. The duration of the shocks
as from ten to twelve seconds each.
Mr.. James Russell Lowell, the
Inited States Minister, will be nomi-
ated candidate for the rectorship of
le Scotch University of st. Andrews.
"A new raw material for paper has
cen discovered in the white moss of
weden and Norway.
An explosion in a coliery in York
lire, England, caused the deaths Of I
7enty men. i
Two men were killed by the flooding &
the Severn Tunnel. \
bill posters refuse to adver- n
e Michael Davitt's lecture. /
The Lord Mayor of London will re- !
i've subscriptions for the relief of the :
ferers by the earthquake in Asia 81
inOr. u
Twelve brigands have been SEN ia
iced to death in Palermo. W
"A dispatch from Madagascar says Vi
It a fight has occurred between Hovas b
/ Sakalavas. 81
One hundred and fifty Annamite pl
lvicts, employed by the French, W
tinted, murdered a Frenchman and a n,
i've warder and seriously injured an q,
er Frenchman. Sixty of the convicts IL
n seized arms and stores and de-
lped in boats. The rest of the mutt M
rs fled to the WOO ds and hills. M
Among the villages destroyed by as
earthquake recently felt in the les
clan Archipelago and Anatolia were A.,
Oparaya, Refs, Dere and Lidia. The ~
er was celebrated for its baths. 1ol
Int shocks of earthquake are still felt int
he island of Chies. The British Ad- tat
Al Hay has sent assistance to Chesme Ter
Chios. n
The government of China is actively H.,
'arin g to close the port of Canton. m -.'
1t was the English schooner Ottome Br,
ch was captured while trespassing the
n the preserves Of the American 1o+
3ka Company. ~. ~:
The corner stone of church, to be 'lii' ~
ted in st. Petersburg on the spot un
re the late Gar was killed, was OF t
on Thursday. in v
Much damage to property and great the
OF life has been occasioned by an nan
hquake in Asia Minor. go
The village of Villa Alegno. near o1''s o1"i,
cia, Italy, has been destroyed by 0i.'L a.
M
There was considerable rioting at a let
uguese town, and government troops and
resisted, but quiet was restored. exal
An expedition to explore Now
lea has returned to Melbourne in M
equence of fever attacking its men, repo
"Mi
The trial of sixty-three members of in IL
Whilst Red Cross Society has Just Gov
concluded in Russia. All were 10y @oo
.nced to be sent to Siberia The SoO'.
nony of informers and others thin
ID that the society had ramifcations ing {
-ery part of the Empire. knew
uring the services in a Jewish svn- airy {