Connecticut western news., 1883-04-25
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

the New York Assembly with telephonic and electric light wires exempted.
 The charges against MT. Hill, Super vising Architect of the United States Treasury, will be investigated next Mon- day. It is claimed that Government has lost SIC, O,OOO,OOO by his malfeasance in office.
 Three young men, suspected ot hav- ing committed series of robberies, were arrested at Norwich, Conn. One of them confessed his guilt and conducted the officers to secret place in the woods, where large quantity of stolen property was concealed.
 The count of the money and notes in the United States Treasury vaults has been completed. The accounts are cor rect.
 James Treglown's execution for the murder of Minnie Chergwin took place at 'Morristown, N. J., on Wednesday, iu all orderly and unexciting manner.
 The village of Oakville, Ont, has been totally destroyed through intoxica- ton in its Fire Brigade.
 In the case of George Scheller, who was charged with setting fire to the Newhall House in Milwaukee, the jury
  The committee having charge of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge have decided to report in favor of handing 1t over formally, May "A.
 Mss Kate Griffith, school teacher at Martins Ferry, w. Va, on attempting to punish William Beck, a fifteen year old boy, was assaulted by him and beaten so badly that her life is despaired of.
 It is understood that Patrick Egan, late treasurer of the Land League, in- tends to reside permanently in America. At Philadelphia, on Tuesday, six prisoners, while being taken to the Peni- tentiary, made desperate assault upon sheriff and several deputies, with the object of effecting an escape, but were l unsuccessful.
 An account of the career of Henry De Bosnys, who is to be executed at | Elizabethtown, N. Y., for wife murder, cidents, that he had descended from the | the level of common tramp. | Captain McGilvery, of the Brig James Miller, from Miragoane, Hayti, | gives the details of the battle between | the revolutionists, under La Forest, and the Government troops for the possession | of Miragoane, on March 31. He says thats2about eight hundred rebels were en- | gagged, and the Government troops were repulsed with the loss of seventy-two | killed. The rebels used two field pieces with terrible effect.
 The Atlantic House, of Albia, Iowa, WIS burned Sunday morning. Three guests named William McGill, Charles Quillan and Carl Spaigle, were burned to death. MT. Reams, the proprietor of the hotel, narrowly escaped with his life. The bodies of the victims have been re- covered.
 Two children, while playing in dry goods box filled with straw, at Fort Worth, Texas, Monday, set it on fire and were suffocated. The steamer Indiana saved the crew of the brig Mary, dismasted ir4 hurri- cane and sinking, and took them to Philadelphia.
 -Sixty-nine evicted Irish farmers from the counties of Mayo and Galway ar- rived in Philadelphia on the steamship Indiana.
 | Sixteen buildings were consumed by fire at Crisfeid, Md, on Saturday.
 The seven American citizens who were arrested and thrown into the dun- geons of fortress at Aspinwall without examination or trial, charged with rob- ping the Panama Railroad Company of $50, ,000, have been released, and num- Der of them have arrived in this country.
 --Bradstreet's Commercial Agency in New York City was burned out making a lively Sundays fire at Reade street and Broadway, with loss of $101, ,0OO
 A dispatch received from Will liam's Ranch, Texas, says that a great meteor fell in the outskirts of the town, killing several head of cattle and destroying the dwelling house of Marti- neg Garcia, Mexican herdsman, who, with his family, consisting of wife and five children, are buried beneath the ruins. The meteor was the largest ever known, and filled the air with sulphurous gas.
 The Yale class crews have decided that the annual class races shall be rowed in the New Haven harbor this year.
 At Dubuque, Iowa, the bodies of a woman and her three-year- -old-son were found at the bottom of well fifty feet deep.
 The testimony closed in the star :oute trial ill Washington and the clos ing arguments have commenced.
 The new postal law will effect ma- terial change in the pay of postmasters in small offices and the amount derived from such offices by the government.
 -Comptroller Campbell of New York city discovered recently that in the past four years the city had paid vast num- Der of interest coupons on outstanding city bonds 8 second time, and that a clerk in the Finance Department was responsible. The amount stolen is very large.
 The will of Peter Cooper has been probated He left $2,00O,00O dollars. for 8 Cooper Union fund, and the bal ance goes to his son and daughttr.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The eight men charged with being concerned in the dynamite conspiracy in England were arraigned in the Bow Street Police Court, London. Norman whose real name is William Joseph Lynch, turned informer. Norman was born in the State of New York. Norman testified to the existence of widespread secret conspiracy in New York and vicinity, known as a Fenian organization, the divisions of which were called Emerald clubs. The branch to which Norman belonged met at Odd Fellows Hall, at the corner of Second street and the Bowery. Norman was deputed by Dr. Gallagher, of Greenpoint. to go to London, receiv- ing a small box with concealed machin-