Connecticut western news., 1883-07-11
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 Philadelphia thieves.
 The net funded debt of the City of New York is given at 1895, ,390, 173. 10 in the Comptroller's quarterly financial re- port.
 An excavation for a sewer at Albany caved in, burying two men, one of whom was taken out dead.
 Seven houses were struck by light ming near Dover. N. H.. on Wednesday. killing Martin Frost, of Frost Hill I. N. Elliott and Oliver w. Knowlton, of Durham.
 -General Crook has arrived in Wash iugton for consultation about the Indians.
 A German named Hartzen and his grandson were drowned while attempt ing to cross river in Anne Arundel county, Md.
 In Columbus county, N. C., four colored men and two colored women were drowned. They had attempted to cross river on hastily constructed raft.
 -Jamison, the hunter, of Skipwitn, Miss, placed the muzzle of his rife to his side, and then compelled his seven- year-old son to pull the trigger.
 A Washington judge decided that bicycles have the same rights on the roads as other vehicles.
 The cadets of the Virginia Military Institute visited the City Hall and re- stored to the city of New York the flag of the 164th New York volunteers Mayor Edson making the reception speech. The cadets called upon Presi- dent Arthur at the Fifty avenue Hotel.
 A revolt in the State Prison at Sa- lem, Oregon, resulted in the escape of eight convicts, the wounding of two and killing of three more.
 James l.. Jones, democrat, has been elected to Congress from the first dis trict of Alabama.
 A year-old child of John Darby was beheaded by the cars at Hoosic Falls N. Y. The frantic mother saw fifty cars pass over the infants body, and she car ried the head away in one hand and the body in another to her house.
 Mi. Enoch Pratt has presented to the city of Baltimore magnificent free library and 1883 ,333. 33 to be invested for its maintenance and support.
 MT. w. H. Vanderbilt has added $10O, 900 to the endowment fund of Van. derbilt University in Tennessee.
 A very severe storm swept Ozaukee county, Wisconsin, demolishing many buildings at Necedah, Fond du Lac, Belgium, Fredonia, Oakfield, Larmer- tine, Princeton, Port Washington, Hart ford, Ripon, New Cassel, Mayville, Brownsville, Kewaskum, and a dozen other places. A number of lives were lost.
 Damage by fire in shoe factory at South Abingdon, Mass, is put at $165, ,000.
 The Dauphin County Almshouse, Harrisburg, Pa., was burned Monday All the inmates were got out, two being severely burned. Loss $200,000.
 The Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments of the city of New York submitted their annual list of taxable property to the Board of Aldermen. The total value of real and personal estate in the city and county, as assessed for 1883, amounts to $1 ,276, ,677, 164.
 John Roach & Sons were the lowest bidders for the construction of the new naval cruisers, their bids being much be- low those of any other builder. They were as follows: For the construction of the Chicago, $SS9, ,OOO; Atlanta, $617, 1000; Boston, $619, ,O0O; Dolphin, $315, ,0OO.
 The State of Louisiana, not having sufficient money in her treasury. to pay July interest, has borrowed the amount.
 By the upsetting of boats six per sons were drowned at Charlottetown, P. D. l., and five at Madison, Ind.
 The town of Cottonwood Falls, Kan., was destroyed by fire.
 The uncaptured Apaches are again on the war path and committing outrages.
 Assistant United States Treasurer "Trade Dollar" is not legal tender and is not recognized or redeemed by the Government.
 A team attached to farmers wagon ran away in Milwaukee and struck procession of children from the Eleventh district school. Several children were killed or fatally injured.
 Major Ellis P. Phipps, ex-superin- tendent of the Philadelphia Almshouse, was sentenced to five years solitary con- tinement in the Penitentiary for forgery.
 Editor Bierne and Editor Elam, of Richmond, fought a duel with re- volvers at Waynesboro,. Va. Elam was shot in the thigh in the second round.
 Three men were overcome and killed by black damp in we'll at Shenandoah, Pa.
 During fire at Winnepeg an ex- plosion of powder shattered much prop erty and injured twenty people, some of whom have died.
 Nashville, which forfeited her ex- istence as 8 city to get rid of her debt, is paying interest promptly on her con- promise bonds.
 A young wife in Brooklyn dared her old husband to shoot her. He accepted the challenge, and she is now suffering from wound that is likely to be fatal.
 The public debt reduction for June is nearly $17 100000.
 Nearly seven hundred Mormon inn arrived at New York in charge of twenty-two missionaries from Salt Lake. They were taken directly to the Erie depot and started for the West.
 The new Child Labor law, prohibit ing t employment of children under fifteen years of age in any industrial es- tablishment in New Jersey, has gone into effect. The principal object of the law is to prevent the employment of children in the silk and flax mills of Paterson, where 1t is estimated nearly four thousand are employed.
 Miss Beckwith swan eighteen miles in an attempt to traverse the distance be- tween Sandy Hook and Rockaway, but, owing to miscalculation of the tides, she was unable to effect q landing at the latter D1ace