Milford chronicle., 1883-12-07
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


broke, letting the culprit fall. After an
interval a stouter cord finished the exc
cutlon of the sentence.
"A woman in Baltimore, evidently
insane, killed her two children and then
committed suicide.
The New York State canals were
closed at midnight Saturday.
The loss of the schooner Royal Star
IN Placentia Bay with six lives is re-
ported, together with fears for fleet of
such craft and seventy-fve lives more.
The National Republican Committee
will meet on December 18th, when the
question Of where the Convention shall
be held will be decided.
After much suffering the crew OF
the abandoned barge Hamilton J. Mills
were rescued III Georgian Bay. Two ac-
companylng barges are supposed to
have foundered with all on board.
News has been received at Ottawa
OF a threatened Indian revolt in British
Columbia.
Joseph Jewell, hanged at San Jose.
Cal, was troubled on the scaffold to set
tie IN his own mind why he killed his
victim. Later he criticised the tie of
the halter, as the result proved, justly.
"A servant, who fell from third
story window Of a house in Jersey CITY.
n. j., was impaled on a railing and |
killed.
The Chief of Police of Milwaukee. |
Wis, has received a letter threatening |
him with assassination, and adding that
the town will be burned if work is not
soon furnished the large number of
Worklngmen now idle.
The Bankers and Merchants Tele-
graph Company have mortgaged their
plant for $4,000, 600 with which to ex-
tend their lines.
Furious cyclones have passed over
Wisconsin and Minnesota, doing serious
damage.
At Watertown, N. z, it has been
discovered that some of the parties
whose names appear on the pension lists
OF the government have been dead for
many months.
Two men were killed in the shaft of
a coal mine near Wilkesbarre. Pa Inv
falling from the bucket in which tbev {
with others, were being drawn to the
surface. +
"A dispatch from Matamoros Mex s
leo, says: The house of the Rev. Father I
Miguel Cabo, at Ixcaquintia. State of
Puebla, was attacked few nights ago o
by band OF robbers. The priest and a
two servants were killed. and a niece Of Ii
the priest was severely wounded The
robbers ritied the house of its valuables s.
Returns received by the govern Y
ment show that the present year will far
exceed any year in the export of cattle S,
and sheep from Canada. The total al
number Of cattle shipped and for which al
space has been contracted in steamships
to the 3lst of December next is Via n
Canada, 50,655; via the United States Fl
5j19. Total, 55, 674. Returns for sheep M
are: Via Canada, 100, 113: via the United a,
states, 1862 Total, 113, 725. There n,
Nas been no appearance Of scab since the fo
restrictions have been inforced Fl
The rear car of a Boston. Barre and al
Gardner Railroad train turned over and OF
vent down an embankment lust after
eavlng the North Worcester. Mass. M
tatlon. There were between forty and Al
ltty passengers in the car. all of whom Of
we're more or less injured during the two an
lstlnct somersaults made by the car in pa
Is descent, some quite seriously. is
Thanksgiving Day, W. H. Cudworth, Re
'astor OF Unitarian Church at East Bos- OF
on iei dead OF apoplexy in the pulpit of lne
ne maverick Congregational Church.
'oston, while offering prayer in the
mon services being held there. During A..
Is prayer he stepped back and said t0 Iue
ne OF his brother clergymen in the mil r. Pl1
1t: 81 must stop" and fell to the floor Ola
The Windsor Theatre, in New York n
ty, was burned down. The fire broke IL Iao
Ut about midnight, and in three vac
uarters OF an hour the building was G.
ompIetely Quilted. Hartmann's Hotel. oP'
hlch adjoined the theatre, was also al. lll'
Ost destroyed, and several buildings in @ ii''o
ie nelghborhood were more or less pas
lmaged. Thirty people, who were
seep In the hotel, escaped without in rem
ry. cisi
The town of Ocala, Fla, was almost 3lll %
tlrely destroyed by fire. the
In his report for 1888 to the State -
per1ntendent of Public instruction Was Was
perlntendent Jasper, of New York zen
y, reported the total sums expended yeal
the education of 237, 612 pupils to be sho,
626, ,32I53. pare
and
Officers and men of the navy are for Bets
ne reason averse to going to sea in to
} Shenandoah. now at Boston. Sine
= The Court of Appeals has reafirmed tiary
legality of the Western Union stock at W
tering. has
rbroo .,. and
io;I "a Ga...5I Slui1eieIS nave escaped trom Groy
Several State Senators in Pennsvl-
"a are resigning. This will break prin,
deadlock in the Legislature. IN +b
The murder of an uncla b,r -