Connecticut western news., 1883-06-13
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 At the session of the Congregational Home Mission Society in Saratoga, $1OO,O00 was promptly subscribed for mission work in the South and West.
 -Hessian flies have attacked wheat about Reading, Pa., and falling of of one third in the crop is anticipated.
 The surrendered Chiricahuas at San Carlos report little Charley McComas with the hostiles and well-treated.
 The Newfoundland sealing fleet are immured in the ice in the northern DOT tion of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
 Bids for the new steel cruisers will be opened at the Navy Department Jul y 2. Secretary Chandler has given notice that the maximum amounts which the Navy Department will pay for the construc- tion of these vessels are as follows:-For the 4,3OO ton ship, the Chicago, $1, PAS, ,OOO; for the 5000 ton ships, the Boston and Atlanta, $783, 800 each; for the dispatch boat not yet named, $399, ,O00, and that no bids in excess of these figures will be considered.
 The Barber brothers, two Western desperadoes, were captured near Waverly, Iowa. after they had killed one and wounded three others of the posse after them.
 -The Secretary of the Chinese Lega- ton at Washington expresses the opln- ion that in war between China and France the advantage would be with the former Power.
 The introduction of digging ma- chimes in the Illinois coal mines pre- cludes work for the miners, and trouble is inevitable.
 Mrs. Susan B. Street, widow of the late Francis s. Street, publisher of the Neao York Weekly. died at her home in Brooklyn, of a broken heart less than two months after her husbands death.
 Some menhaden fishermen in Long Island Sound drew in their net the body of man with many wounds in it. It is believed he was killed and thrown overheard from Sound boat.
 The Postmaster-G General has selected metallic red as the color for the new two. cent postage stamp. The vignette which will be used on the stamp is copied from the life cast used in making Houdon's statue of Washington.
 Thomas l.. Shields, revenue agent in North Carolina, shot and killed Joseph G. Dillon, the superintendent of the Charlotte copper mines.
 A mob at Hermann, Mo-, broke into the jail and lynched prisoner named Whitney because his trial had been put over to the fall term.
 -Barnum's main circus tent was de- stroyed by fire in Chicago; and Nathan s tent was entirely destroyed by storm at Suspension Bridge.
 The Lighthouse Board has approved plans for the electric light tower at Hal lett's Point, N. Y.
 In the case of the schooner Adriana, whose captain was sentenced to five years imprisonment for smuggling at La Paz, Mexico, the government is taking active measures.
 A negro woman more than hun dred years old has just died at Trenton, N. J.
 Two men convicted of having coun- terfeit money in their possession were sentenced at Trenton, N. J., to three years Imprisonment.
 -Irish-American organizations in Massachusetts have issued a call for 8 State League Convention in Faneuil Hall, Boston, July 12, the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne.
 The father of the late James Fisk, Jr., died at Brattleboro, Vt
 -Supt Martin of the Brooklyn bridge said at the inquest: "As far as I can learn the panic occurred from woman falling who had miscalculated the number of cfn Ae ell, Ho11 screamed, and the cry was raised, The bridge is falling On that day there were twenty-twopolicemen on the bridge. I appoint the policemen. Quite num- Der of them are men who have been en- ployed on the bridge for years, and I knew their capacity; others were recom- mended by reliable men. They were not in uniform, but they all wore shields. Since the accident we have put railing in the middle of the steps and extended 1t about twenty-five yards on the prom enade."
 Special advices from Toronto, Ont, !, relate that an alleged plot to blow up the Welland Canal with dynamite was dis covered and defeated.
 William H. English, the Indiana candidate for Vice. President, compro- missed the suit of Murphy, his campaign speaker, by paying the plaintiff $500.
 The Massachusetts Legislature hay ing refused Governor Butler the power to reform existing abuses in the State institutions, he now begs them to inves- tigate them thoroughly, that they may be reformed
 Fifty of the members of the Texas Legislature have been indicted for gamb- ling; the indictments were, however, all stolen from the County Clerks office by burglars on Saturday night.
 Maryland has refunded $3, GOO, ,O0O of it's six per cent debt due in 1884, at 3 65-lOO per cent.
 Major Wasson, the army paymaster, will plead guilty to embedding $5, 400, but will insist that he lost the other $18,0OO.
 Mrs. Mary Joyce, of Fall River, Mass, was beaten to death by her drunken nephews.
 -Greenville, Texas, and Decatar, Ala., were devastated by wild storms.
 Two ruftians who undertook to in- timidate the town of Wiston, Iowa, on Sunday, were shot and killed by the in- dignant citizens.