Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
 -Thirty-fve young women graduated with the degree of M. D. from the Wo- mans Medical College of Pennsylvania.
 The Tennessee Legislature have passed the bill compromising the State debt at fifty cents on the dollar, it now awaits the Governors signature.
 The Treasury Department at Wash ington placed $11 ,00O to the credit of Massachusetts for expenses in recruiting volunteers.
 The President has appointedA. N. Wynn an to be United States Treasurer vice James Gilfllan resigned.
 The New York State Press Associa- ton have decided to hold the next annual meeting in New York, June 18th and 20th.
 At an indignation meeting held at Uniontown, Pa., speeches were made and resolutions passed condemnatory of the action of the jury which rendered 8 verdict of acquittal in the case of Dukes, who killed Captain A. c. Mutt. Dukes was hanged in effigy.
 The Republican State Convention of Rhode Island, held at Providence, nom- mated A. O. Bourn for Governor, and Oscar D. Rathbun for Lieutenant-G Gov ernor.
 In the New Jersey House of Assem- bly, the joint resolution providing for an amendment to the constitution touching Senatorial representation on basis of population, was defeated.
 The Independent State Convention met at Providence, R. l., and nominated ex- x-Governor William Sprague for Gov ernor without dissent.
 A bill prohibiting the cremation of human bodies under heavy penalties has been introduced into the Pennsylvania Senate.
 Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, in vetoing the Appropriation bill for the State institutions, says he will not allow it to become law, because it is too ex- travagant and there is nothing to pre- vent dishonesty in the expenditure of the money.
 In the case of Nicholas l.. Dukes, tried for the murder of Captain A. O. Mutt, whose daughter he had seduced at Unionto wn, Pa., the jury found verdict of not guilty. The verdict was not satis- factory to the people and an indignation meeting was held.
 A salvage steamer which returle( from the scene of the wreck of the steam CT Cimbria reports that number of th, bodies of the victims are damned among the gear of ife-boat on deck. Tn, entrances to the cabins are closed by {. compact mass of bodies. To save tht cargo three decks would have to be re- ! moved by explosives and the explosions would shatter the 400 corpses in the hole.
 The Court of Special Sessions in New York City dismissed the case 1 against Salmi Morse, Justice Kilbreth 1 dissented from it's decision. The Madagascar Treaty was ratified at the State Department. l A dangerous counterfeit of the standard silver dollar has appeared il the West.
 The suit of Edward Schnell against his uncle Frederick Blohm to recover damages for the alienation of his wife't affections was brought to conclusion in the Kings County Supreme Cour ] with verdict for plaintiff for $5, 900. l It has been discovered that Emmet O'Neill, the Schenectady broker wht recently failed, has fled. The liabilities in Schenectady and Duanesburg ar' $250,O00. Nearly all his family are ren dered penniless through his crimes.
 MT Patrick Egan, one of the found CTS of the Irish National Land League and its treasurer until the organization nominally passed out of existence, to b. succeeded by the National League, is nov in this country.
 The New Jersey Senate Committee O, Revision of Laws reported adversely thu bill providing that the real estate of pri vate corporations shall be taxed the sam as the real estate of individuals.
 Governor Cleveland, of New York signed the bill prohibiting the manufac ture of cigars in tenement houses.
 Two men were fatally injured by al explosion of sulphur in coal mine nea Shenandoah, Pa.
 The relief expedition made thei official report to the State Board at In dianapolis. The condition of the suffer ers is fearful. Disease has begun it ravages, and more medicine is needed a } well as further supply of food for tn starving.
 A fire occurred at Grove Station few miles from Pittsburg, Pa., result ing in the total destruction of two fram houses, in one of which two childre named Crawford, aged respectively fiv and three years old, were burned t. death.
 -AWColumbia, s. O., lunatic in tn asylum cut the straps which bound hi hands and then attacked fellow pa tient, striking him on the head with heavy piece of wood, in6icting injurie which caused death.
 Hood & Scott's lodging shell at tn Brownsville wood camp, 8 terminus o the Black Hills and Fort Pierre Rail road near Deadwood,, D. T., wa destroyed by fire at midnight Sunda, when eleven persons were burned to death. The fire burned so rapidl, that the men could not escape from tn, burning building.
 | In Philadelphia, Thomas Maher, Jr. Isaac l.. Street, and Joseph Myers, con