Milford chronicle., 1883-02-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
aENERAI ITEMS.

/ Court Chambers of New York decided
the matter of Mace and Slade, the priz,
fighters, that the evidence in the cas-
did not show any violation of the law
and they were discharged. They wi
now 60 on with the match and poun
each other as much as they please.
General Ketchum was confirmed q
Appraiser of the Port Of New York o
Saturday.
-Boice, Shaw and Beach, the official
OF the broken Jersey City bank, wer,
arraigned ON twenty-six indictments anC
entered pleas Of not guilty.
"A number of convicts testified before
the Assembly Committee on Prisons tha
the treatment they received in Sing Sing
was barbarous and inhuman.
In the closing of the colored schools
IN New York City, the Commissioners
of Education believe that no hardship
will be done except to the teachers, in
asmuch as the colored people prefer to
send their children to the regular
schools.
John Kenny, the Brooklyn bill poster
who was sentenced on Friday to life I'M
prisonment for the murder of John Len
non, shot himself in his cell in Raymond
Street Jail the same night. He left a
letter behind requesting his brothers not
to drink liquor
After twenty-three ballots, Dwight
NJ. Sabin was elected United States
Senator from Minnesota to succeed Viii
liam Window. He is the head of a large
manufacturing establishment. He was
born in Connecticut, and is 80 years OF
age.
In a duel with axes at Socoro,
n. NJ, one contestant WIS chopped to
death and the other arrested in a dying
condition.
George Biemiller was arrested in
Pittsburg for brutally maltreating his
wife on her deathbed.
Six barrels of bones were found il
the digging of the new sewers of tho
Brooklyn Navy Yard. and are supposed
to be the remains of Revolutionary he
roes.
The Joint Legislative committee on
the bi-centennial Of the New Jersey
Legislature have decided to hold the
celebration in the Assembly Chamber on
March /.
There is trouble in the Naval Acad-
emy at Annapolis, Md. A spirit of in
subordination has been manifested by
a number of the cadets, thirty-nine Of
whom have been placed in the prison
ship Santee for cheering in ranks.
The injunction restraining workmen
from entering shops and inducing or
compelling men to strike is made per-
petual in Baltimore.
"A January flash of lightning struck !
a dwelling house in Brooklyn, n. Y, on |
Wednesday and stunned lady.
The Illinois Legislature thanks /
General Sheridan for his report opposing
in the National Yellowstone
Park.
The State Treasurer of Alabama has
proved a defaulter to the extent of 1928
lOO and has fled, leaving no clew as to
he direction or end OF his journey.
In the lower house of the New Jer-
ey Legislature a bill was passed pro
'iding that in all civil actions four men !
mt of jury of six and nine out of
ury Of twelve shall be competent loren
Ter verdict.
The Grand Trunk Railway officials
AVE inspected the Kittery, Me-, Navy |
ard in hope of purchasing tia a rail
Dad depot.
The lnman Line Dock, on North
river, New York, caught fire at 2:10 | I
clock Thursday morning, and was de-
troyed at 2;45 o'clock. The loss is
300, ,O0O Several steamers loading at {
he dock were badly damaged.
A Western Union Telegraph Com
any, capital 81, 900, 900, has been incor-
GRATED in Kansas.
"A most disastrous snow slide oc-
lrred about three miles from Crested
lutte, Colorado, on Tuesday night, re-
llting in a total destruction of the How
"a r. Smith anthracite coal mine works,
nd the killing of seven and the serious
Jury of eighteen men.
General Charles T. Manderson, of
ebraska, was elected United States j.,
enator On the seventeenth ballot. Gen
al Manderson is a straight republican, G
I'd has not been identified with any /
ction of the party in the State.
"A committee of the Massachusetts !
legislature listened to discussion Oh ! -
e expediency of furnishing a bounty
r the destruction Of the English spar
W.
Captain Payne has decided to go Il
rward from Oklahoma into Indian
,rritory, and attempts to Justify him e
If by referring to the government W
auts to railroads of lands in the same "
rritory. t'
In the New jersey Senate resolu-
n was adopted to the effect that no con b,
trent resolution shall pass that body. at
'ept by a vote of the majority of
, Senators elected. &c
The steamer Luray, of the Old Do
Mon line, ran into and sunk the steam te
Grace, on the Elizabeth River, near pe
rfolk, Va, during a dense fog. a pas
ger on board the Grace was lost. -,
1t is stated that before next summer p;
passenger express train will run regu-
" between New York and San Fran
20, with reduction of the present ~
e of from thirty to thirty-six hours.
Maggie Donahue, aged five, while an
sting at Lost Creek, Penn, plunged m
, an opening in a mine fifty feet deep ou
was fatally injured. The opening
caused by recent cave-iu. Asa
The yield from the ice harvest along ~
Hudson River will be nearly 3,O0O,- 10
tons, probably the largest ever IN
WI.
AT Baltimore, Charles Foote, colored, XII
whipped at the whipping-post for
ally beating his wife. ere
AT a meeting Of the stockholders of In,
Flint Mill, Fall River, Mass, it was
d to erect a mill on the site of the On
sture recently burned. Inc new ere
will have a capacity of $4,000 to
DO spiDdles, and will have the latest t,t
most improved machinery. IT,, H.
Two large piano factories, those of "N''