Milford chronicle., 1883-06-08
NEWS OF THE DAY
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piece of tanned human skin to the pa
ties who furnished it, on the ground thi
it is not property and must be decent
inferred
Bismarck has been selected as th
capital of Dakota.
"A heavy rain storm swelled India
Creek, which runs through COunc
Bluffs, to such an extent as to carry ava
seven bridges and damage property t
the extent of 100000.
"A young immigrant. separated iron
his family and friends, leaped Overboar
from a Sound steamer and was drowned
The Tooth anniversary Of the virtua
disbandment of the Revolutionary arm.
was duly celebrated at Fishkill, on TIN
Hudson.
-Incendiaries at Pittsburg, Va, sue
ceeded in burning the house of a hool
and ladder company while the apparatus
was at another fire.
during drunken quarrel a man
named Paddy Haunois killed his brother
and an Indian in the Cherokee Reserva-
ton.
Governor Butler having refused to
sign the warrants for the salary of the
institutions in care of the State Board OF
Health, the controversy is getting
warmer.
The police of Philadelphia are en-
deavoring to break up the opium dens
in the Chinese quarter of that city.
-Bya decision of Judge Wallace, the
bonds of the town of Caneada, n. Y,
given in aid of a railroad, are declared
void and the town is made free of that
Indebtedness.
The Mayor of Topeka, Kan, is to be
impeached for refusing to carry out the
provisions Of the prohibitory laws.
The will of Amasa Stone, the
wealthy suicide, is made public. The
estate is about 50, 100000.
Dispatches from Oposura, Sonora,
report threatening incursions Of Indians
at Nacori. They are renegades escap-
ing from General Crooks column ad-
vancing into the Sierra Madres.
John Bailey and Henry Wimbish
were hanged at Macon, Ca, on Friday
for murder. Robert Henderson was
hanged at Oxford, N. c., for killing his
wife
Three persons were killed and others |
fatally injured by the explosion of a
boiler near East Saginaw, Mich.
In Huntsville, Pa, Mrs. Martin
Douglas, an insane woman, killed her
-hree little childIen, ranging in age from
TX months to five years, and then com
nitted suicide.
Through the closing ofiron works at
Bay View, Wis, more than a thousand
men have been thrown out of employ
nent.
The bill to provide a new aqueduct
Or New York city has been signed by
Governor Cleveland.
1t is feared at the War Department
hat the hosiiIes will elude Crook by
reaking into struggling bands and re-
lrning to the reservations in New
LexicO and Arizona.
The striking coal miners at Des
loines, Iowa, set fire to the shaft of
line, destroying it, together with the /
lildings and machinery.
-Hanlan easily defeated Kennedy in
e boat race at Point of Pines.
Three men were killed and two seri-
lsly wounded Wednesday night, at
llida, Col Two drunken miners began
e afIray One was shot by an officer:
e other, who fled, will be lynched if il
ught.
Mrs. Philip B. Thompson SAYS that
alter Davis whom her husband killed, SO
IS wholly innocent of the charge of Y,
'Ong toward her. fo
"A writ of habeas corpus has been 81
anted the alleged murderer of Mrs. III
rlton at Watertown, Mass, who is in c.o0
stody at Digby, N. S. st
-Hayard College, in opposition to he
neral custom, refused to make Gov. hl
tier, of Massachusetts, an LII. D., ~
vote of 13 to II. AZ
= Striking coal miners at Des Moines. =
va, whose places had been filled bv
ored people, threw can containing
sting powder, with lighted fuse at 7
he'd, into house containing sleeping mu
ored men and their families. at night, eve
which two women and child were tir, ~
lred, the latter perhaps fatally. :
"A strike has been averted at Pitts.
g, Pa, by the iron manufacturers has
nting the scale Of prices demanded sas sne
the Amalgamated Association. scr,
An attempt was made to assassinate pur
postmaster of Selma, Ala. IN N
The decrease Of the United States and
t for the month of May is about 00U y.
100000. The bond redemptions for six
month amount to about $40, 500, 600, NM
the payments on account of pen .
IS to about $4,000, 600. men men
Decoration Day was generally oh. jon
ed in the cities Of the Northern, Cen =
and Western States.
Nine men were injured on the st. By q
renee River, near Quebec, by the -
osion of quantity Of powder. 4
The rioter killed by the militia fire y r
be Reineeke coal mine, in Illinois. NJ
buried by a large concourse of sym.
izing miners. opi
n the Massachusetts, Sonoto roso $50 D
N in favor of submitting the ques-
OF the abolition Of the poll tax to the
le was agreed to by vote of II
The Secretary of the Interior has Vii
led that the application Of the Cen y355a, 5S,
Pacific Railroad Company for pat tNeut
$s:$ + :;5,# f. a$a @ a;: $:;:pa f bsE' S'' 81 he UP
The State Committee of the new ma. i9i /
party in New Jersey met at Tren. per- sP0 I I
nd decided to issue a call for a "
convention at Ocean Grove
Igust 8 and 8. SHI
The British war ship Mallard
ed Halifax with the yellow fever
ard. e
'ne man was killed and one wounded SO