Connecticut western news., 1883-10-31
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

1t has been made free has increased so far this season, as compared with the last season, over six hundred and eleven thousand tons.
 The acting Secretary of the U. s. Treasury does not know how Chinese who arrive in San Francisco with cer~ tificates from their government as ''traders" can be kept out.
 The fat girl whose recent marriage in 8 Bowery museum created such sen- sation died suddenly in Baltimore of fatty degeneration of the heart.
 The registration of voters in Boston has been very large.
 -Colored citizens of Chicago protest against the civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court. A Mexican murderer was hanged to a saddle on the back of horse and driven to horrible death.
 A young lady of Germantown, Pa., died of hydrophobia superinduced by trifing bite from a pet dog six months ago.
 The Naval Advisory Board recom- mend the construction of seven new war vessels.
 The official list furnished to local representatives of Hayti shows that only thirty persons lost their lives during the massacre instead of l, 800.
 A horse thief in Beverly (N.J. Jail is endeavoring to starye himself into freedom.
 At Newcomerstown, Ohio, 8 man killed his wife, three children and him. self. He could not obtain work and be- came insane.
 Forty of the switchmen who struck work in St. Louis have been indicted for interfering with the railroads
 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ill Boston has been present. ed with $265, ,ooO.
 The straight damocratic city ticket was elected in Baltimore. The City Council is equally divided.
 A dispatch from St. Louis gives particulars of alleged gold discoveries on the Cheyenne River, in Dakota.
 A broken rail on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad near East St. Louis caused the wreck of two coaches and the wounding of thirty-seven passen- gers.
 In the criminal court at St. Louis colored man and woman were sen- fenced to death for murder, while an other prisoner was consigned to the Penitentiary for ninety-nine years for having killed man.
 Congressman Phil Thompson says MT. Carlisle has the requisite number Of 4o %o E1c election to the speakership.
 Lord Lansdowne took the oath of office at Quebec as Governor General of Canada, with impressive ceremonies and amid hearty demonstrations of pop ular welcome.
 The strikers from the St. Louis roll ing mills are fighting among themselves One man has been fatally shot.
 Indians who have been on the war path are now seeking peace and winter quarters.
 -Incendiarism at Middleville, Mich, caused the killing of two men and 9 boy, and the ipjury of two men, one of whom is expected to die.
 At Fleetwood, Pa., @ church worker before committing suicide wrote letter giving $500 to the church.
 W. W. Neelson, attorney for Miss Hill in the charges of adultery preferred by her against Senator Sharon, and which were dismissed, has on his own account filed complaints in the Superior Court of California, to recover $120, ,000 from Senator Sharon for alleged islander. A Kentucky editor being attacked on the streets of Flemingsburg replied with his pistol and fatally shot his two assailants.
 A terrible riot took place at 8 negro oall in Charleston, s. 0. Several men and women were killed. The steamer Rio Janeiro, for Hong Kong, carried away about LOGO China men and about $750, 900 which they carry off with them out of the country. They carry return certificates. -Disagreements in the President s Cabinet exist which may result in some changes.
 A fire at Annapolis, Md, resulted ill the loss of two lives, an aunt and her nephew, the latter heroically sacrificing his life in an attempt to save the former. Tt is reported that Chatham,
 
 twelve men, who went out after shoal | of mackerel. The cook and one man were left on board who took the vessel into port.
 Secretary Newman furnishes the following totals of the vote for Governor as the result of the late election: Hoad- ley, 359, ,593; Foraker, BAY, ,O64; Schu- macher, 8,361; Jenkins, 2,795; total vote, 721, ,464; Hoadley's majority, 1888; ma | jority for judicial amendment, B, ,413; second amendment fell short of major ity 9,543; regulation amendment re- ceived 98, ,050 votes. | The International Railroad in Texas decline to furnish separate cars for the two races, but say the negroes must take the seats assigned them.
 The Commissioners of the Pennsyl- vania State Sinking Fund Aare called by mandamus t" answer for neglect O duty.
 By the careless use of wood fire il the midst of open kegs of powder 8 car fridge or mining squib factory was blowr up at West Kingston, Pa., and eigh whom will die.
 Thomas Burke, prisoner, leaped head first from the third tier in the Es. sex Market prison, in New York City and sustained comparatively slight in jury, his body having turned in midair
 An inquest was held in New York City concerning the deaths of burglars Walsh and Irving. The jury found that they killed each other, and Porter, who was arrested as an accessory, was dis charged.
 The switchmen of the railroads il Missouri and Kansas are on strike.