Connecticut western news., 1883-08-08
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL IINMS.

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 On the forty second joint ballot the long struggle between the republican factions in the New Hampshire Legis- lature was ended by the election of Austin F. Pike as United States Senator.
 A revival of the Ku Klux outrages has taken place in the vicinity of Nash vile, Tenn.
 Virginia presents claim on the Fed. eral Treasury for about $750, ,00O on ac- count of the distribution of surplus reve- nue forty-ive years ago.
 -The lockout by the firms belonging to the United Cigar Manufacturers As sociation in New York city, in conse- quence of which 10000 persons were thrown out of employment, has been brought to close.
 Tom Higgins, 8 schoolboy of 12, fell from the roof of 8 five-story house to the ground in New York city, on Wednesday afternoon. He lighted on 8 plot of hard ground, rebounded several feet and rolled over and over. His brother picked him up and carried him senseless into the house. In about 8 minute Tom recovered consciousness. He had broke no bones aud sustained no internal injuries. My backs little stiff, Cause fell on it, he said the day after.
 Serious charges respecting the treat ment of the killed and wounded at Carl. yon are made against the Rome, Water town and Ogdensburg Railroad Com pany.
 Mime. Minnie Hauk, Mime. Durand and Mile. Alice Urban, three celebrated prime dome now in Europe, are all Creole girls from New Orleans, and got their musical beginning at the French Cathedral in that city.
 General Pendergast, Captain Gen. eral of Cuba, has resigned.
 Negotiations are pen ding between Great Britain and Canada in regard to emigration.
 A severe shock of earthquake was heard and felt in California, on Tuesday, July 31st.
 Edward Ridley, head of the firm of Edward Ridley & Sons, New York, died of heart disease Tuesday morning at his residence at Gravesend, l.. l., N. Y. He sat out on the veranda of his villa until midnight, seemingly in good health, enjoying the cool breeze. One hour and 8 half after retiring he died. He left a fortune estimated in the millions. MT, Ridley was born at Newark, Nottingham shire. England, in 1916. He was de- scendant of Bishop Ridley, the martyr.
 While Frederick Hill. diver, was examining the suction pipe in the bot tom of the lake leading to the water works of Toronto, on Tuesday, the div ing bell became misplaced and after be- ing nearly an hour in the water he was taken out dead.
 The State Republican Committee of Massachusetts have designated Boston as the place of holding the State Con vention, and September 19 as the date Charles R. Goldman, of Boston, was in- vited to preside.
 The pilot boat Neca, of Savannah, Ga., defeated the Frances Elizabeth, of Charleston, s. O., in race for $1 ,O00, over 8 course of 11O miles.
 Mrs. Garfield has given the horse that General Garfield rode at the battle of Chickamauga to o. 0. Moore, of Kent, who assisted the General to mount 1t the first time he rode it.
 Dispatches from Montreal announce some wonderful cures of sick pilgrims at the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre.
 A Western Union manager in Texas having failed to prove charge of vio- lence against striker, was fined $25 for contempt of court, Wednesday.
 The coopers in nine different shops in North St. Louis struck for higher wages Wednesday.
 The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention at Harrisburg nominated the following ticket: For Auditor-Gen- eral, Robert Taggart, of Warren; for State Treasurer, Joseph Powell, of Brad ford.
 The platform adopted favors civil ser vice reform which consists in the election to office of honest, intelligent, capable and courageous public servants, who will faithfully administer their trust; favors such taxation of the people as is requis- ite for the necessities of the Govern ment, economically administered, and that import duties should be so ad. iusted in their application as to pre- vent unequal burdens, encourage pro- ductive industries at home; declares that the public lands shall be held for set tiers, and the public moneys are for pub- lie uses, and all appropriations should be the subject of rigid scrutiny to the end that these uses may be served with out personal or local favoritism, waste ol peculatioD.
 Amid great popular enthusiasm President Arthur started the machinery of the Southern Exposition, at Louisville, Ky, on Wednesday.
 Two freight trains collided on the Troy and Boston Railroad about nine o'clock Wednesday morning, between Peterson Jun ction and Pownal, Vt. 1 causing the death of six persons and the destruction of the trains by fire. The accident is said to have been occa- stoned by the negligence of telegraph operator.
 Charles Crocker, of San Francisco, has contributed $1O,O00 toward the res toration of the Golden Gate Park Con- servatory, which was destroyed by fire. While attempting to cross railroad track in wagon, near Essex Center, | Vt., on Wednesday, the driver was killed and his wife fatally injured by 8 passing train.
 The coroner's jury in their verdict as to the railroad disaster at Carlyon, N. Y., censure the depot agent and sug gest that the railroad company take ad- ditional precautions against accidents. Another collision on the Rome, Wa tertown and Ogdensburg Railroad oc. cured on Monday, and several persons were seriously injured. The accident happened at Charlotte, near Rochester A theatrical performance given al San Francisco, on Monday, for the benefit of the striking telegraph opera tors netted $3, ,0OO.
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