Connecticut western news., 1883-02-07
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS

liam Windom. He is the head of large manufacturing establishment He was born in Connecticut, and is 39 years of age.
 In duel with axes at Socorro, N. M., one contestant was chopped to death and the other arrested in a dying condition.
 George Biemiller was arrested in Pittsburg for brutally maltreating his wife on her deathbed.
 Six barrels of bones were found in the digging of the new sewers of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. and are supposed to be the remains of Revolutionary he- roes.
 The joint legislative committee on the bi-centennial of the New Jersey Legislature have decided to hold the celebration in the Assembly Chamber on March l.
 The Inman Line Dock, on North River, New York, caught fire at 2:10 o'clock Thursday morning, and was de- stroyed at 2:45 o'clock. The loss is $500, ,000. Several steamers loading at the dock were badly damaged. A Western Union Telegraph Com pany, capital $1, 1000, 900, has been incor- porated in Kansas.
 A most disastrous snow slide oc- cured about three miles from Crested Butte, Colorado, on Tuesday night, re- sulting in total destruction of the How ard F. Smith anthracite coal mine works, and the killing of seven and the serious injury of eighteen men.
 General Charles F. Manderson, of No oBo a1aofa6 TTni4a1 GRo4oc Senator on the seventeenth ballot. Gen. and has not been identified with any faction of the party in the State.
 "A January flash of lightning struck dwelling house in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Wednesday and stunned lady.
 The Illinois Legislature thanks General Sheridan for his report opposing monopoly in the National Yellowstone Park.
 The State Treasurer of Alabama has proved defaulter to the extent of $225, GOO, and has fled, leaving no clew as to the direction or end of his journey.
 In the lower house of the New Jer- sey Legislature bill was passed pro- viding that in all civil actions four men out of jury of six and nine out of a jury of twelve shall be competent to rem der 8 verdict
 @The Grand Trunk Railway officials have inspected the Kittery, Me-, Navy Yard in hope of purchasing it as rail- road depot.
 There is trouble in the Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis, Md. A spirit of in- subordination has been manifested by a number of the cadets, thirty nine of whom have been placed in the prison ship Santee for cheering in ranks.
 The injunction restraining workmen from entering shops and inducing or compelling men to strike is made per petual in Baltimore.
 Captain Payne has decided to go forward from Oklahoma into Indian Territory, and attempts to justify him. self by referring to the government grants to railroads of lands in the same territory.
 In the New Jersey Senate resolu- hon was adopted to the effect that no con- current resolution shall pass that body, except by vote of the majority of the Senators elected.
 The steamer Luray, of the Old Do- minion hne, ran into and sunk the steam CT Grace, on the Elizabeth River, near Norfolk, Va, during dense fog. A pas senger on board the Grace was lost
 It is stated that before next summer a passenger express train will run regu- larly between New York and San Fran cisco, with reduction of the present time of from thirty to thirty-six hours.
 A committee of the Massachusetts Legislature listened to discussion on he expediency of furnishing bounty or the destruction of the English spar TOW.
 -AtBaltimore, Charles Foote, colored, was whipped at the whipping post for brutally beating his wife.
 At meeting of the stockholders of the Flint Mill, Fall River, Mass, it was voted to erect mill on the site of the structure recently burned. The new mill will have a capacity of 35, 900 to 10000 spindles, and will have the latest and most improved machinery.
 Maggie Donahue, aged five, while coasting at Lost Creek, Penn., plunged into an opening in mine fifty feet deer and was fatally injured. The opening was caused by recent caye-in.
 The yield from the ice harvest along the Hudson River will be nearly 5000, 900 tons, probably the largest ever known.
 Two large piano factories, those o Hazleton Bros. and Behr Bros, were burned in New York on Monday. The aggregate loss is about $250, GOO. The fires were of mysterious origin.
 During the five years ending De cember 31, 1881, there were ,87O hotel burned in the United States and 360 il Canada. During the month of Novem Der. 1881, there were thirty-nine burned in the United States and six in Canada more than one for every day of thu month.
 Fire Marshal Sheldon reports tha 2,001 fires occurred ill New York Git, last year, involving loss of $4, 194, ,960 The insurance was $21 ,352, 401.
 Five boys were injured through coasting accident at Shanokin, Pa. Twt of them, 1t is believed, will die.
 The accountant who had been ex amining the books of ex-State Treasure Polk, of Tennessee, says the defalcatiol of that officer to be $292, ,427. 25.
 In Colorado, Thomas M. Bowen, o Rio Grande, was elected United State Senator for the term of six years iron March 4, and H. A. W. Taber, 0 Arapahoe, for the short term.
 At Cincinnati, Ohio, an impromptl shooting afray on the street, in whicl four Kentuckians participated, resulted in two of them being wounded, one per haps fatally.
 Incoming vessels report having gon through unusually severe weather Heavy seas, hurricanes, snow storms an hail storms were among the experience of all the vessels.
 A fire occurred in the Milwaukee EForoo1a Ho1laoa 11,bon tho civ tv atudppf