Connecticut western news., 1883-07-25
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

| GENERAL ITEMS. Three vessels lying at Harbeck's stores, Brooklyn, caught fire from burning shed on the wharf and were almost entirely destroyed. Two men were drowned and eleven fremen are in- jured.
 In New York city eleven thousand cigar makers have been locked out by the firms belonging to the United Cigar Manufacturers Association. Those who thus presented themselves before the factories Thursday morning to find the doors locked against them were almost without exception non-unionists and foreigners, as are, in fact, upward of two-thirds of the locked out operatives. In New York city there are two cigar makers unions-the International Union and the Progressive Union. The leaders of these two bodies have long been at war, and few days ago, on account of a triaing dis pute in one factory, the Progressive Union men demanded that the In. ternational Union men should be dis charged. This the firm refused. The Progressive Union men would not return to work until the Interna- tional Union men were discharged. The United Cigar Manufacturers As sociation then declared that unless the Progressive Union men returned by Wednesday they would begin lockout, and it was begun. The affair has caused much distress among the cigar makers.
 Frederick Schultz, New York city boy of eight years, who aided in check ing @ panic in public school, was re- warded by gentleman, who presented him with handsome gold badge.
 In the neighborhood of the scene of General Crooks exploits, Apache braves have just defeated body of Mex ican troops, killing seven of them.
 --Hanlan defeated Ross in their four miles race at Ogdensburg, N. Y., on Wednesday.
 Naval orders directing changes in officers uniforms were proposed some time since, but issued from the Govern ment printing office few days ago and distributed without the special direction of the Secretary of the Navy, who has now stopped the innovation.
 The hay crop of New England is one of the heaviest on record, New Hampshire leading off (proportionately) with an estimate yield of 631 ,536 tons. -Postmasters are notified by depart ment circular of the reduction of letter postage on the first of October to two cents, and are directed to prepare there- for.
 The entire debt of the city of Bos- ton is $41 2S1 ,000, an increase of $1 118, GOO over last year. The debt less the means of paying it, is $24, 1858, 900.
 A furnace explosion occurred at Kutztown, Pa., on Tuesday morning, by which one man was killed and several injured. The eight boilers of the an- thracite furnace owned by the Philadel- phia and Reading Railroad Company ex- ploded, reducing the furnace to 8 mass of ruins.
 A horse standing in front of dwell ling in Syracuse was stung by bee on Tuesday. The horse ran into yard and upset several bee hives. The bees swarmed upon him, and stung him so that he died in few hours.
 Bill Davis, widely known as bur- glar, was found hiding between two bed ticks in Sherman, Conn.,. on Tuesday, and Is now in jail.
 Philip Smith, a farm laborerin Wash ingtonville, Orange county, 60 years old, killed himself on Monday because his wife had died.
 The first arrest in Boston under the new Chinese law was made on Tuesday morning. On June 19 the British bark Erne, Captain J. Douglas, brought from Manila, as ship carpenter, Chinaman named An Chung, who was discharged and allowed to go ashore. The captain was arrested, and was held to answer on Thursday, the Chinaman being held as witness.
 The lockout by the firms belonging to the United Cigar Manufacturers As sociation has begun. Over ten thousand hands have in consequence been thrown out of employment in New York city.
 The Sprague mansion at Providence, with the other property of tbe estate. Low prices were the order of the day.
 Canned fruit poisoned upward of twenty five persons at Clinton, Mass. !, on Wednesday, July 18th. ...
 A woman has been made chief clerk of the mortuary statistics in Canada.
 The office of the United States Con- sul at Monterey, Mexico, has been raided by a mob, those in charge maltreated and the books and papers destroyed.
 A colored mass meeting at Athens, Ga, Tuesday, passed resolutions ob- jecting to the regular police custom of shooting negroes before they have been regularly tried and convicted of theft or malicious mischief.
 The Cunard steamship line have entered into contracts for the construc- tion of two new steamships for their line between New York and Liverpool. The new vessels will be of 5000 tons burden and 13,0oo horse power each.
 George G. Brenner, City Marshall of Wellington, Ohio, was shot and killed while pursuing two men whom he had discovered in the act of committing a burglary.
 In New York city on Wednesday over four hundred blind persons, whose worthiness had been carefully verified, received $38 each as their share of the sum annually appropriated by the State for the sightless poor of the city.
 The Bijou Opera House, New York city, will be rebuilt at cost of about $60, 1000.
 The relics of mammoth, said to have been one-third larger than Jumbo, have been discovered near Syracuse, N. Y.
 Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, says that the extirpation of the train l o1>l h.e, #