Connecticut western news., 1883-01-31
NEWS OF THE DAY
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4uc Oupor1Or COUrG or bOSLOQ mas decided that any ordinance which re- stricts the easement of any individual in the public streets is illegal, and that no municipality can restrict or punish 8 peddler dealing under State license.
 Three e the election officers charged with making false returns of the votes cast were convicted in Philadelphia. -Forty-three of the victims of the Milwaukee fire were inferred with inn pressive funeral ceremonies on Thursday. The service of the Roman Catholic church was celebrated over twenty of the dead and that of the Protestant Church over the remaining twenty three. The bursting of 8 steam pipe at the Exposition building during the service created panic, but no one was injured. The funeral procession was more than two miles long,
 In the Massachusetts Legislature the proposition to make election day 8 legal holiday was killed, but municipal suffrage for woman is favored.
 Fifty acres of the town of Wilkes Barre sunk 8 couple of feet, cracking streets, shaking down ceilings and bulg- ing walls. The props of an abandoned coal mine had routed away or been stolen. Captain Pennafeather, of the schoon- CT Pearl, reports that upon hearing of the massacre by New Guinea savages of the crew, seventeen in number, of an- other schooner, he burned their villages and canoes.
 Senators McPherson in New Jersey, and Plumb in Kansas, were reelected by the legislatures of their respective States to the United States Senate.
 Arrangements have been made at Washington, Pa., to cremate the body of a child.
 The testimony of the night clerk of the Newhall House, Milwaukee, is to the effect that If he had not his office duties to attend to he could have had time to warn and save every guest in the house.
 The Montreal winter carnival was 8 great success. The formal opening and illumination of the ice palace, the snow shoers' torchlight procession, the steeple- chase and the citizens sleigh procession were notable features of the carnival.
 A mob armed with cannon at tackled the jail at Shawneetown, Ill, <, for the purpose of lynching a negro, but were repulsed.
 The municipal authorities of Mid dletown, N. r., have passed an ordi- nance prohi biting persons under the age of twenty-one years from playing bil- hards or pool in that village.
 Two sharp confidence operators in Virginia were taken from the jail in Rus sell County few nights ago and lynched.
 A gang of robbers attacked train on the Cantral Pacific Railroad, robbed the train hands, but were repulsed by the express messenger. :
 --Advices from Matamoras, Mexico, state that four customs guards and twenty ranchmen attacked body of hostile Indians, killing five of them and wounding several others.
 Through an accident to coal train on the Georges Creek and Cumberland Railroad, in Maryland, four employees were killed ard others injured.
 In the Connecticut Legislature a bill was introduced which provides that when presenting their ballots at the polls voters shall remove their hats.
 A Bohemian woman at Milwaukee in fit of religious frenzy murdered her three little girls.
 Six fishermen are reported lost in g gale from the fishing schooner James A. Garfield, of Gloucester, Mass. l..
 The accumulation of ice in the gorge at Niagara Falls is the greatest ever known, and is already doing much damage to property along the river.
 The charge of murder against Frank James has been withdrawn, and he is now looking for &, ,500 bail on charge of robbery.
 The mixing house and six packing houses of the Giant Powder works at Point Clement, near West Berkely, Cali fornia, exploded Sunday, there being seven separate explosions One white man, foreman named Cork, and be- tween forty and fifty Chinese were blown to atoms.
 A frightful accident occurred on the Sierra Nevada Mountain range, where S Southern Pacific overland train of sever coaches and baggage cars ran backward down steep incline without the loco motive, and all but two fell over an em bankment. Twenty persons were killed outright or burned to death and nearly as many more severely injured. Int wr.ck Is described as complete and tho scene that ensued terrible and heart rending one, for nearly all of the oceu pants were damned in the debris. ant were slowly roasted to death before tn eyes of those who had happily escaped but were unable to afford any succor o rescue them. Cries and shrieks for hell were heard, then faint groans of pain and all was over. The brakemen wer absent from their posts when the loco motive was uncoupled, hence the acci dent. Eleven bodies are so much burne as to be unrecognizable.
 The brig Mariposa, bound iron Perth Amboy to Boston with cargo o coal, ran into the steamer Canima, Cap tain Davis, on her way from St. Johl and Halifax, N. S., to New York, jus before entering Long Island Sound, of Fishers Island, at 3 a. m. on Friday and was sunk. All her crew, except on' seaman, were drowned. The Canim had one of her compartments stove in il two places, but arrived in New York a p. m. on Friday.
 A woman was found burned to crisp in her apartments in a Newark N. J., tenement.
 The book-keeper of Williamsburg N. Y., factory was waylaid by thret highwaymen, who robbed him of satchel containing S1 ,020, what he ha. just drawn from the bank to pay of tn employees. in the factory.
 Trustee Chaffee, of the A. & w. Sprague estate, after holding office fol eight years without paying dividend to the creditors, is now compelled to do SC by an order from the Supreme Court o Rhode Island.
 The Grand Jury of Rochester pre- sented five indictments against F. E Upton, president of the City Bank.
 The Peoples Savings Bank of Batb Me, suspended payment to prevent ,