Connecticut western news., 1883-04-11
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Four members of farmers family, near Oneonta, N. Y., were burned to death before any of the neighbors could arouse and rescue them from their burn- ing dwelling.
 Two children, locked in their cabin by their mother, were burned, with the building, in Tennessee.
 The Pennsylvania Legislature, by 8 vote of 37 yeas to 130 nays, in the House, defeated the bill exempting those who observe the seventh day of the week from the penalties of the Sun day laws of 1794.
 President Arthur has gone to Florida on fishing vacation.
 --Brigadier General Joseph K. Barnes, retired, late Surgeon General of the United States Army, died at his resi- dence in Washington Thursday morning of Bright's disease.
 Verona Baldwin, who shot" Lucky " Baldwin ill the Palace Hotel, San Francis co, was acquitted on the ground of insan- ity. The verdict was received with ap- plause.
 In Doddlilge county, w. Va., man named Doyle and his little daughter  pose of robbery.
 All fishing, shooting, hunting, gam ing, public sports and disturbances on Sunday are forbidden by the Sunday law as passed ill the New York State Assembly.
 Nathan $. Morse, the business man. ager of the New York Daily NeaUs, con- mitted suicide by shooting himself, in the business office of that journal, on Wednesday,.
 The venerable Peter Cooper, of New York City, died on Wednesday morning. He was 93 years of age when bis long and useful life was brought to close.
 Mexican advices report that the marauding band of Alaska Indians has been driven from Sonora into Arizona. but before crossing the line the savages killed fifty-two people south of the Mexican boundary.
 Four convicts who attempted to escape from the prison at Chester, Ill.,, were brought back quickly, three of them being shot by the guards.
 The President appointed Judge w. Q. Gresham, of Indiana, Postmaster General.
 A Sioux Indian, at the Pine Ridge D. T.) Agency, having lost one of his eyes while chopping wood, writes to Washington asking that the "Gfe~t Father will send him another one, as, agency.
 About forty citizens of Hastings, Neb., at eleven o'clock at night lynched two men for the murder of Cash. M. Mil let, grocer of that town.
 Two men were killed and number of others injured by gas explosion in Baltimore on Wednesday,
 Mine fremen were hurt by an explo- sion of gas in the Palace Hotel, at San Francisco.
 MT. Salmi Morse attempted to pro- duce the Passion Play in New York city Thursday night, but was prevented by the police.
 General Grant has been elected President of the National Rifle Associa- tion. Preparations are making for the rifle match at Wimbledon next July.
 A priest and archbishop in Massachu- setts are being sued for $5,00O damages for depriving sick child of its only toys anu soIace.
 Dispatches from Silver Cliff and Querida, in Colorado, convey the inteli- gence that the trouble growing out of the discharge of number of miners at the Bassick mine near Querida has caused bloodshed. Over 50 men were ordered to leave the mining locality by the citizens.
 --'The one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Washington Irving was cele- brated at Tarrytown, N. Y., on Thurs day. There were many visitors present.
 The Senate at Albany, N. Y., passed 'iiie bill extending to two years the terms of New York Aldermen.
 A Methodist minister having dreamed that he could discover the body of a drowned man succeeded, and now claims tine dream as direct revelation from Heaven
 The prisoners in the jail at Portland, Me-, struck work on Monday, because they claimed that they were not given enough to eat.
 The Newfoundland seal fisheries have been unusually successful.
 In the murder case of Charles F. Kring the United States Supreme Court, by majority of one, reversed the judg-. ment of the Supreme Court of Missouri and remanded the case for further pro- ceedings. Kring has been tried seven times for the same murder and is, by this decision, finally released from the sentence of death which has been three times imposed.
 Thirty y-seven loaded coal barges broke adrift from Pittsburg, and went down the Ohio wrecking everything in their way.
 The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided that palace car companies are common carriers and must furnish &C., commodations to passengers who de- mand 1t.
 The reduction of the public debt of the United States for the month of March is estimated at about $9, 800, ,OOO
 The vote of the Quarterly Boards of the Methodist Church in Canada on the question of Methodist union is as fol- lows: For, 614 boards; against, 81 :; evenly divided, 10.
 R. X c. Degener, of New York, one of the largest shipping firms in the South American trade, failed with liabilities for $500, ,OOO and assets of $625, ,O0O, so it is claimed.
 Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, addressed large mass meeting at Provi- dence, R. l., ill favor of the election of ex-Governor William Sprague as Gov ernor.
 The bricklayers at Chicago have struck for s4 per day as the minimum rate for union wages.
 Carefully prepared statistics show that the value of property destroyed by fire in the United States and Canada last year was ninety million dollars, which is