Connecticut western news., 1883-09-12
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

killed by two farm hands, companions of the murdered youth.
 The steamship Canima, of the Crom- we'll line, was lost on Gull Island, New fouudland. The passengers and crew Were saved.
 A stout lady passenger on the steamer State of Indiana was consldera- bly reduced in flesh after the Custom House Inspectors had unrolled sixty yards of silk from her body.
 The Maid of the Mist, small craft, w:.s sent through the Niagara Whirl- pool, on Thursday, sustaining no seri- ous damage.
 Frank James was acquitted by the jury on Thursday.
 The United States Court in Massa. chusetts decided that there was no con- structive fraud in the relations of the Credit Mobilier with the Pacific Rail roads.
 At Havre De Grace, Md, while a Post of G. A. R. was giving an enter tainment stand fell with 1000 women and children on it, and many were severely injured. Fortunately none were killed.
 An unknown steamer was seen to sink off Indian Harbor, N. F., and it is believed that all on board perished.
 The New York Greenback State Convention adopted resolutions favoring the establishment of bureau of labor statistics; against aliens being permitted to obtain title to land or to manage American railways; " that prison labor should not come into competition with the product of honest mechanics toll. ]" They also declare that both the old par ties depend on sectional prejudice for their continued existence, thereby ren- dering either unfit to make or execute laws for the whole country; and that the ballot box is the only place through which American workingmen can strike and obtain permanent relief from pres ent wrongs. A State ticket was nomi- mated, with Rev. Thomas K. Beecher for Secretary of State. -The fun at the sham battle in the Grand Army of the Republic encamp- ment at Princeton Junction, N. J., was so fast and furious that several of the veterans were slightly wounded with gun | wads.
 The opening exercises of the Amer | ican Exposition of the Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute in Boston took place on Wednesday. Gov. Butler made 1 the opening address, and was followed by Secretary Chandler, Gov. Jarvis, of North Carolina, and others. Much space upon the main floor is still vacant, and many of the exhibits are incom- plete. North Carolina makes the larg- est exhibit of any single State outside of Massachusetts.
 Maggie Ballentine was burned to taking fire from match which she had just used in lighting pipe she was smoking.
 The trial of James Mutt for the shooting of Dukes, at Uniontown, Pa has been postponed until December next. An explosion at the Pratt mines near Montgomery, Ala., resulted in the death of two white convicts and the wounding of two colored ones. Company A, Ninth regiment infan- try, State militia, while returning from the encampment of the Second brigade, met with dreadful accident on the St.. | Louis and Evansville Railroad, between Carmi and Grayville, on Tuesday. The train struck the centre of herd of cattle and ran over some of them. The car in which the members of the company were seated was overturned, killing nine of l the men and wounding fifteen others. Heavy frosts, that have effected seri- | ous damage to crops are reported from Northern New York and the Eastern | States.
 An embassy from Siam to the United States, headed by member of the Royal family, is en route for Washington, D. c.
 Nine lives were lost in the destruc- tion of the Cincinnati rag warehouse by fire on Monday night. l Reports from the terrific storms on the Newfoundland Banks, with loss of many lives and great destruction of property, are given in dispatches from St. Johns, N. F.
 There has been disastrous explo- sion in tn e Prattsville, Tenn, mines. A number of miners were killed, but how large number cannot yet be ascer- tained
 The steam yacht Atalanta, with MT. Jay Gould and his son George Gould on board, ran into and sank the tug Edwin Hawley in the North river, New York, on Tuesday; no lives were lost.
 The telegraph companies have been refused permission to erect new lines of poles or reset old lines on the streets of Washington, D. o.
 A correspondent at the Pensacola Navy Yard tells sad story of the out break and ravages of the yellow fever there.
 Tt is reported at Halifax, N s., that an ocean steamer, name as yet unknown, has been discovered sunk on the Nova Scotia coast near Indian Harbor. It is supposed that the vessel went down on Sunday night with all on board.
 A terrible drowning accident oc- cured Tuesday on the Genesee River, shree miles south of Rochester, N. Y. At two o'clock in the afternoon three young ladies, all between sixteen and twenty years of age, went out rowing for pleasure. About four o'clock they tried to change places in the boat when it upset and turned over them as they were thrown into the water. They were all drowned before any help could reach them, as they were seen only by two small boys, who gave the alarm. The ladies belonged to prominent families.
 Five women were burned to death and three persons injured at fire in Cincinnati which totally destroyed a large warehouse and the establishment of the IInaes-Star
 Orange county farmers threaten to stop the supply of milk unless they are paid three-and- d-a-haf cents per quart for it.
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