Connecticut western news., 1883-12-05
NEWS OF THE'DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

were rescued in Georgian Bay. Two ac- companying barges are supposed to have foundered with all on beard.
 News has been received at Ottawa of threatened Indian revolt in British Columbia.
 Joseph Jewell, hanged at San Jose. Cal., was troubled on the scaffold to set tie in his own mind why he killed his victim. Later he criticised the tie of the halter, as the result proved, justly
 A servant, who fell from third story window of house in Jersey City, N. J., was impaled on railing and killed.
 The Chief of Police of Milwaukee, Wis.,, has received letter threatening him with assassination, and adding that the town will be burned if work is not soon furnished the large number of workingmen now idle.
 The Bankers and Merchants Tele- graph Company have mortgaged their plant for $lO, 900, ,000 with which to ex' tend their lines.
 Furious cyclones have passed over Wisconsin and Minnesota, doing serious damage.
 Scarlet fever has made it's appear. ance in the Brooklyn, N. Y., Orphan Asylum. Nineteen children are pros- trated with the malady.
 A hanging in Georgia was badly bungled. On the first attempt the rope broke, letting the culprit fall. After an interval stouter cord finished the exe- cution of the sentence.
 A woman in Baltimore, evidently insane, killed her two children end then committed suicide.
 The New York State canals were closed at midnight Saturday.
 The loss of the schooner Royal Star in Placentia Bay with six lives is re- ported, together with fears for fleet of such craft and seventy-tive lives more.
 The National Republican Committee will meet on December 18th, when the question of where the Convention shall be held will be decided. The rear car of a Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad train turned over and went down an embankment just after leaving the North Worcester, Mass. station. There were between forty and fifty passengers in the car, all of whom were more or less injured during the two distinct somersaults made by the car in its descent, some quite seriously. Thanksgiving Day, W. H. Cudworth, pastor of Unitarian Church at East Bos- ton, fell dead of apoplexy in the pulpit of tie Maverick Congregational Church, Boston, while offering prayer in the union services being held there. During his prayer he stepped back and said to one of his brother clergymen in the pull pit: ':I must stop," and fell to the floor. The Windsor Theatre, in New York city, was burned down. The fire broke out about midnight, and in three quarters of an hour the building was completely gutted. Hartmann's Hotel, which adjoined the theatre, was also al- most destroy ed, and several buildings in the neighborhood were more or lese damaged. Thirty people, who were alseep in the hotel, escaped without in- jury.
 The town of Ocala, Fla, was almost entirely destroyed by fire.
 In his report for 1883 to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction Superintendent Jasper, of New York city, reported the total sums expended in the education of 237, 612 pupils to be s, ,626, ,32753.
 At Watertown, N. r., it has beer discovered that some of the parties whose names appear on the pension lists of the government have been dead fol many months.
 Two men were killed in the shaft o1 coal mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa., by falling from the bucket in which they, with others, were being drawn to the surface.
 A dispatch from Matamoros, Mex. ico, says: The house of the Rev. Father Miguel Cabo, at Ixcaquintia, State of Puebla, was attacked 8 few nights ago by band of robbers. The priest and two servants were killed, and niece oi the priest was severely wounded. The robbers rifed the house of its valuables.
 Returns received by the govern ment show that the present year will fal exceed any year in the export of cattle and sheep from Canada. The total number of cattle shipped and for which | space has been contracted in steamships to the 31st of December next is Via | Canada, 50,655; via the United States, 5,019. Total, 55, ,674 Returns for sheep are: Via Canada, 100, 113; via the United States, 13,612. Total, 113, ,725. There has been no appearance of scab since the restrictions have been inforced. 1 The enrolment of the Republicans l of New York city was concluded with about twenty thousand names on the list.
 Mrs. Ellen Long still insists that she alone murdered the little boy Charles Whittemore at Princeton, Wis. | The wet and warm weather has seriously injured the quality of poultry and game, and prices for prime fowls are rising rapidly ill the Eastern cities | Joseph Jefferson, who was to have played at Peoria, H., was prevented by the fact that at four o'clock Tuesday morning he was stricken with sudder and complete loss of voice. The sup posed cause was his playing at Rock ford when suffering from severe cold His physician says he may possibly be able to talk again before the expiration of next month.
 A fire early Monday morning al most entirely destroyed the town o Albany, Wis. Not store or residence of any prominence remains uncharred and every hotel, the post office and news paper offices are in ashes. The weathe is bitter cold, the thermometer being helow zero, anu all exposed to the blast of the fierce wind are in danger of freez ing to death.
 Governor Newell, of Oregon, has signed the Woman's Suffrage bill.
 Two graves were accidentally dis covered near Plymouth, Mass, which disclosed the skeletons of two of the frs settlers.
 Four persons returning from hunt ing excursion were drowned in the Mis- sissippi.
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