Connecticut western news., 1883-09-19
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Greedy relief ship Proteus was nipped in an ice pack at the entrance to Smiths Sound on July 23. The vessel foundered, but her crew after perilous retreat and dangerous voyage in whale boats across Melville's Sound reached the Yantic and were brought safely to St. Johns, N. F. Nothing was heard of Greedy or his party.
 Lord Lorne, ill farewell address at Toronto, announces high admiration for Canada and prophecies for her proud position among the great nations of the world.
 The New Jersey Gubernatorial Con- vention nominated Leon Abbett on the second ballot.
 A dispatch from Chatham, Ont, says the steamer Queen Victoria was burned to the waters edge on Wednes- day about six miles down the river Thames.
 A father and son in Texas, who roughly used an employee, were both shot by him, the son killed and the father mortally wounded.
 MT. Hugh J. Hastings, proprietor of the New York Commercial Adver- Hser, died at his residence at Monmouth Beach, N. J., on Wednesday evening, of pneumonia.
 Mir. Charles J. Foster, the well known sporting writer and editor of the New York Sportsman, died Wednesday morning at his home in Astoria, l.. I.
 Eight cowboys in Colorado settled dispute. One was killed and five wounded, one at least fatally.
 Complaint is made of the indiffer- ence of the Florida State authorities to the people on the Pensacola naval reser- vation who are suffering from the pres ence of yellow fever.
 Several more wrecks, with large loss of life, are reported from St. Johns, N. F.
 By the breaking of a steampipe on the steamer Rosedale, of the Bridgeport line, one child was killed and one man injured, Wednesday.
 -Canada proposes to refund some $50, ,000,0 900 of Dominion five per cent. bonds at lower interest.
 A Flathead chief defiantly told Senator Vest he would not go on res ervation alive; but later he concluded to go to Washington to talk with the OroaJ faunof.
 A fresh disaster, accompanied by loss of fife, was added Tuesday night to the tragic record with which the Long Island (N. Y.) Railroad closes the sum- mer season. Either through the care- lessness of an engineer or the use of de- fective air brakes, the train which left Manhattan Beach at six in the evening dashed into the North Shore locomotive at Hunters Point. The engine of the train, as well as that with which it col lided, was reduced to shapeless heap of shattered metal. The forward cars of the train were also crushed into frag. ments. In the sudden and terrible col lision many suffered injuries. Few of the passengers, indeed, escaped brulise o1 8 scar. Three men lost their lives in the disaster and three others had to be removed from the scene of the accident in an ambulance. The majority of the passengers were coming from the Sheeps. head Bay races. The hospital surgeons found the injuries of all these very seri- ous, and it is thought not improbable that the list of fatalities may be further extended.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has notified the Collecto of the Port that American vessels going to Annam with arms and munitions of war will be seized by the French authorities at Tonquin. Kate Colton, colored woman, be- came incensed at Ali. Miller, who re- fused to marry her, and put some poi son in the coffee at the house of Miller father-in-law Tuesday night, and the whole family was poisoned. One mem Der has already died and the rest are very low.
 The Postmaster at Pensacola writes to the Postmaster General that the yell low fever at the Navy Yard is of very malignant type.
 -Strychnine bought by a Canadian woman ''to kill foxes" was found in he1 husbands stomach.
 Reports from the Department of Ag riculture, at Washington, D. C., show tha the crops are late and much reduced and that considerable damage was don. by the late frosts.
 The Chamber of Commerce a Washington, D. O., received importan documents from the Secretary of Stat in relation to the illegal practices O. Russian merchants who, in Turkey, sel adulterated petroleum as the American article.
 On Saturday night mob of sixtee masked men forcibly entered the Ye county Jail, at Danville, Ark, and sei2 ing John Coker and Dr Flood, too them to the Iron Bridge across Pelle Jean River, and hanged them. Coke was accused of leading into ambus cade Sherifs party in search of tn Daniel outlaws several weeks ago, i which two men were killed. Flood wa accused of harboring the outlaws. Thei bodies were discovered and cut down O. Sunday morning.
 The taxpayers of the town of Strat ford, Conn.,, have offered $1 ,OOO rewar for the conviction of Rose Ambler's mul derer.
 Twenty three houses were burne in the village of Deep Creek, on tn canal of the Dismal Swamp, ten mile below Norfolk, Va., on Monday morn ing. The fire was the work of an o1 ganized band of incendiaries, who hay in that vicinity recently. Their ot village who have been rendered home less by the flames are in the greates distress. Several people were iniure by falling timber, some fatally. I'll damage will exceed $s75, ,OO0.
 Frost is announced as having al peared in large number of Mortimer and Western States.
 Two hundred and fifty Apaches 8,
 Ill Casos Grandes, Mexico, trading LII
 der the white flag. An encounter wit
 Mexican troops is expected.
 Mir. Blaine predicts that if Butlt
 IS again made Governor of Massach1
 setts he will be nominated for the Pres