Connecticut western news., 1883-06-06
GENERAL ITEMS.

An attempt was made to assassinate the postmaster of Selma, Ala.
 The decrease of the United States debt for the month of May is about S3, ,5OO,O ,OOO. The bond redemptions for the month amount to about $10, 500, 900, and the payments on account of pen sions to about $12,O0O,O00.
 Decoration Day was generally ob served in the cities of the Northern, Cen. tral and Western States.
 Mine men were injured on the St. Lawrence River, near Quebec. by the explosion of quantity of powder.
 The rioter killed by the militia fire at the Reinecke coal mine, in Illinois, was buried by large concourse of sym pathizing miners.
 In the Massachusetts Senate reso- lution in favor of submitting the ques- tion of the abolition of the poll tax to the people was agreed to by a vote of IT to II.
 The Secretary of the Interior has decided that the application of the Gen. tral Pacific Railroad Company for pat ents to certain lands lying opposite a dCCORUCu Et1Ao OA oAAO road must be granted.
 The State Committee of the new na- tional party in New Jersey met at Tren- ton and decided to issue a call for gubernatorial convention at Ocean Grove on August 8 and g.
 The British war ship Mallard reached Halifax with the yellow fever on board.
 The dissatisfied ironworkers in the rolling mills at Cincinnati, Ohio, have agreed upon an increased scale of prices, which is to be at once submitted to the m anufacturers. At Pittsburg, Pa., 1t is considered probable that an extensive strike in the iron business will take place ill about two weeks.
 A double tornado swept by Clay City, Indiana, on Tuesday, the extreni- ties being mile apart. At Neal's Mill, on one side, house was swept out of existence, six persons killed, 8 bridge destroyed and general havoc prevails. On the other side, in little settlement, five persons were killed, houses were blown to pieces, and one child was blown away and has not yet been found. In all twelve persons were injured besides those killed.
 -One man was killed and one wounded by company of militia, who were fired upon by strikers at Reinecke Mine, near Bellville, H. The troops hold the mine.
 Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, has ordered 8 military company to guard Mount Sterling Jail, where five hundred lynchers threaten eleven persons accused of murder.
 During the negro riot in Alachua county. Fla, one of the rioters was killed and the town marshal fatally wounded.
 -Wr1le returning home from church in Jefferson county, Mo-, young man and woman were met by an acquaintance, who, with shotgun, killed the former, mortalIy wounded his companion and then committed suicide.
 A brig from the Philippine Islands brings details of cyclone in which eighteen vessels were blown ashore.
 A southern mob murdered jailor and prisoner who had been arrested on suspicion of arson near Helena, Ark.
 Yale beat Harvard in champion ship lacrosse match at New Haven.
 The Graves of the Confederate dead in the Gave Hill Cemetery were quietly decorated by surviving comrades, Sat- urday. No ceremonies preceded the strewing of flowers other than a prayer by Bishop Dudley and the singing of hymn.
 Thirteen prisoners in the Lancaster Co.,, Pa., Prison are now ill with the small pox. while number of others are af- ficted with the preliminary symptoms.
 Aunt Dinah, noted Onondaga squaw, no years old, has gone to the happy hunting ground.
 A large number of the rioters in the Coal regions of Illinois have been arrested, the military assisting the officers in the work.
 At the military drill in Nashville for best Infantry Drill, the Mobile Rifles won first prize, $4 ,O00; Crescent Rifles, second prize, S1,OOO; Treadway Rifles, third prize, $500. The score was as follows, out of possible ten:-Mobile Rifles, 926; New Orleans Rifles, 9.14; St. Louis Rifles, 8.86 Houston Light Cards, 8. 79 and the Boston Light Infantry, 6.24. The artillery drill score was:-Battery c, Louisiana Field Artillery, 9.55; Bat tery B, Louisiana Field Artillery, 9. 15: Battery 0, Alabama Slater Atillery, 8. O2: Washington Light Artillery, of New Orleans, 8. 01, and the Burns Artillery. of Nashville, 7.O1.
 The graves of soldiers in the Brook. lyn cemetries and at the Naval Hospital burial ground in Brooklyn and the Lin coin monument in Fort Green Park were decorated on Sunday. Sermons on Dec oration Day were delivered in New York and Brooklyn.
 Over 100000 people crossed the Brooklyn bridge on Sunday.
 - The news of Crooks victory over the hostile Apaches in the Mexican mountain businesses is fully confirmed in dis patches from the Hera1d's special cor respondent in Chihuahua Thirty h. dlans fell in a general battle, after which the hostiles scattered, retreating before the energetic movements of the Ameri- can commander. He is believed to be in swift pursuit, and his complete suc- cess ln wiping out the bands who have long preyed upon Northern Mexico and the adjoining Territories of the United States is confidently anticipated.
 Several serious blockades of foot passengers have already taken place at the New York end of the bridge, and it was necessary to turn the passengers into the carriage ways to save trouble.
 -Atlantia, Ga, was startled by the an- nouncement that the examination of the accounts of Joseph Nell, assistant post master, showed him to be $8,O00 short.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 Fighting between the forces of the Ameer of Afghanistan and the Shinwaris