Connecticut western news., 1883-10-17
After a long and weary search secre

After long and weary search secret service agents hunted down gang of counterfeiters at Duluth, Georgia, and captured therl and their implements.
 -One of party of tramps was shot and killed while engaged in stoning & house near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
 A Coroner's jury in Philadelphia censures two railroad companies and their employees for the accident by which four lives were lost. The three perpetrators of the Paw ling, New York, dynamite outrage were captured and committed to jail on charge of murder in the first degree. A mob at Pawling threatened them with lynch law. The victim, Samuel Groner, was buried in the town poor lot.
 Mobile, Ala, has quarantined against Pensacola and the citizens of the latter place are very indignant in conse- quence.
 In Iowa, Governor Sherman (repub- lican) will have 3O,OOO or more over Kinne, and probably 12,O00 to 15,OOO over all Judge Reed will have nearly the same. The republicans have a majority of the Legislature. The chairman of the Canal Con- mittee of the Board of Trade announced at meeting in New York that the State canals are in neglected and dilapidated condition, and charged the Superinten- | dent of Public Works with serious mis- management.
 Senator Ednunds is reported as saying he will resign the presidency of the Senate on the opening of Congress.
 A severe shock of earthquake at San Francisco on Wednesday created general alarm.
 An epidemic of typhoid fever is feared at Waterbury, Conn. FOREIGN ITEMS. | The French transport Correze has started for Tonquin with 700 men and quantity of war material.
 The anniversary of the discovery of | America was celebrated in Madrid, Spain, with splendid banquet in the Opera House.
 It is reported at Hong Kong that the Black Flags have quarrelled with their allies, the Chinese regulars, in the provinces of Yun-Nan and Kwang-Si. | The Governor of Ekaterinoslav, Rus sia, has issued proclamation declaring that if the anti-Jewish outrages are re. newed they will be suppressed by force of arms. This action is owing to the fact that the instigators of the outrages have asserted that the government dare not employ arms against the people.
 The Danish polar steamer Dijmphna got clear of the ice on August 2. The vessel afterward lost her propeller and became ice-bound again in the Straits of Kara until September 26, when the ice became broken and released the Dim l pima. She then proceeded to Vardoe, where her arrival was greeted with great rejoicing.
 Floods in Spain have submerged five villages and caused the loss of sev- eral lives.
 Serious business failures have taken place in London.
 The Russian iron-clad Minin was seriously damaged in recent gales, dur ing which she collided with two Eng fish steamers. The damage to the Minin is estimated at G10,000
 An attempt was made on Tuesday to assassinate M. G. Notchevitch, the Bulgarian Minister of the Interior, while he was entering the town of Sobranje, Bulgaria, but without success.
 Five thousand miners in Lanark. shire, Scotland, have struck for an in. crease of wages.
 The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs threatens to resign unless the French government officially apologies to King Alfonso for the Paris insult.
 -O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, com plains of his treatment in Millbanl Prison.