Connecticut western news., 1883-06-20
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Secretary Teller says the captured Apaches will not be allowed to return to the reservation, and that their leaders should be tried and punished.
 The trouble between the factions of Creek Indians has been revived and one man killed and two or three others wounded.
 Thirty murderers are to be tried at the present term of the County Court at Llano, Texas. State troops are guard ing the court officers.
 A little boy has been carried off by q bear in Kings county, New Brunswick.
 Canadian Gree Indians are reported fitting out for an expedition across the line to make war on the Gros Ventres and Assiniboines.
 Miss Annie B. Crandell obtained verdict for $15,OOO damages against William G. Quin for breach of promise of marriage.
 HI. E. Mccall, while affected by the the loss of three children, murdered his wife and himself with razor ill Boston, Mass.
 The jury in the Star Route trial came into court on Thursday morning and gave their verdict in the case, which was ,aot guilty. Immediately the de- corum of Court of Justice was forgotten, and cheers resounded from all quarters of the crowded room. Mrs. $. w. Dor sey sprang to her feet clapping her hands, while the tears streamed down her cheeks, and there were many ladies in the Court who were silently weeping.
 Detective Pinkerton testified before the Board of Aldermen Committee in New York city that Carroll did not use commercials in committing the coupon frauds, and that $35, ,000 at least of the iu-gotten proceeds was lost in gambling.
 Philip Gormley, an Irish immigrant, was assaulted at sea by steward of the ship British Prince Insanity followed. On his arrival at Philadelphia legal pro- ceedings were instituted against the steamship company. Gormley was taken from the almshouse and dragged on for Ireland. This proceeding was author ized by the Immigration Commissioners. The mans case has been taken up with vigor, and an investigation will be de- manded.
 At the dedication of the soldiers monument at Mystic Bridge, Conn, eighteen veterans were injured by the carelessness of the troops firing the salutes.
 Two men were killed by an explo- sion at the Trenton (N. J.) Rubber Works, caused by their own carelessness.
 The gold fields of Lower California are protected by government troops, and no locations will be granted for the present.
 -Pennsylvania has abolished the con- tract system in her prisons, prohibited political assessments and made away with ticket speculators.
 A member of the star route jury in Washington fell in fit while in the court room from the effects of prolonged drinking.
 The city of Beloit, Wis, was struck by tornado Monday evening, wrecking the business portion of the town, killing one man and wounding several others It first struck the western portion of the city, wrecking a number of dwellings,, and then passed through the heart of the place. The loss will be heavy, as the goods ill the injured buildings are damaged by water.
 The total number of prisoners taken by Gen. Crook in his late raid into Mexico will reach nearly four hundred.
 A house in Missouri was carried 500 feet through the air by tornado; of the two occupants one was killed and the other fatally injured.
 An Indian murderer, resisting arrest, WAS shot dead by an officer at Spring tield, Mo.
 IN. l.. Dukes, the slanderer of Miss Mutt and the murderer of her father, but Hho was acquitted on his trial, was shot and killed at Uniontown, Pa, by James Mutt. the son of the murdered man. Four shots were fired into Dukes. British war vessels have sailed to the relief of the icebound fishermen in the Straits of Belle Isle.
 The schooner A. A. Wilson was struck Dy lightning at sea and her main mast was shivered to splinters.
 An Italian laboref, in rescuing an- other from drowning at Fultonville, was himself drowned
 A mass meeting is to be held in Chicago to protest against Papai inter ference with the affairs of Ireland. Four young ladies, named Yates, Eddy, Hawkins and Reese, and young man n.med Yates, were drowned in Provo Lake, near Benjamin, w. T., on Sunday evening, June 10th, by the ac- cidental capsizing of boat while out with pleasure party. Four others were rescued.
 A ship seen in distress off the coast | of Newfoundland has disappeared and has probably foundered. General Crook has returned from the expedition and is encamped on Silver | Creek, at the south end of Chiricahuas | Sixty miles southeast of that place Saco 1 Chatto, with 230 hostiles, surrendered and were brought in by Gen. Crook, who recrossed the line on Saturday. Among the prisoners were seventy-tive bucks. Il is believed that Gen. Crook will re- turn and endeavor to capture the war riors. His command is in good fighting trim. There have been no casualties so far.
 The special agent sent by the Treas ury Department to British Columbia re- ports that no Chinese cross the border in violation of law.
 Liquor dealers of Virginia have been using bogus licenses, issued in Washington and Baltimore The State has lost over &20, 900 by the shrewd oper- ations.
 The sealing schooners from the Magdalen Islands are fast embedded in the ice ill the Straits of Belle Isle, and the crews are in starving condition. Speedy relief will be forwarded them.
 A riot at Troy between non-,lnion and union moulders resulted in the kill ing of one man and the wounding of two others. The mob also assaulted the po- lice with view to lynch the prisoners. Mayor Edson does not think that