Milford chronicle., 1883-07-13


Cromwell, about fifteen miles below Hart
ford, on the Connecticut River, Monda.
evening, and wrecked nearly ever,
house in the village. A number of live
were lost. In other sections of the Stat,
serious damage was done by the cyclone
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The London Observer says that the
coming rife match will be the most sue
cessful one held for many years, and
that interest centers in the American
team.
The English House of Commons, by
a vote Of 13O to ia, rejected a motion
made by Mr.. Hugh Mason advanced
! LiberaN. member for Ashton-under-
Tyne, in favor of female suffrage.
"A dispatch from Sidney, N. S. W.,
saws that French man-of-war has
hoisted the French flag on the New Heb
rides Islands.
Five hundred members of tribe of
natives attacked a detachment of British
troops which, with political agent, had
been sent to chastise a refractory village
in Assam, India. The natives were re-
pulsed with a loss Of fifty killed. The
British did not sustain any loss.
"A terrible tragedy has occurred at
Ricksdorf, a village near Berlin, Ger
many. The wife of a small shopkeeper
cut the throats of her two children, and,
after setting the house on fire, cut her
own throat. The cause for the committal
of the deed was poverty.
"A dispatch from Copenhagen says a
prisoner named Nielsen, who is charged
with committing arson there, has con-
fessed that he set fire to the Victoria
Docks. London, in 1881, with view of |
plunder. The opinion hereto
fore entertained regarding the origin of |
the fire was that it was the work of |
Fenians.
"A German named Hartzen and his
grandson were drowned while attempt
ing to cross a river in Anne Arundel
county, Md.
In Columbus county, N. o., four
,olOred men and two colored women
we're drowned. They had attempted
% cross a river on hastily constructed
aft.
The King of Saxony came very near
'elng killed by the fall of an elevator
weight while inspecting a factory at
lilan.
Gases of cholera have broken out
mong the soldiers forming the sanitary
ordon in Egypt.
"A fire at the town of Fredrichsstadt,
.ussia, on the River Duna, has de.
.royed fifty buildings, including tie ,
'ost Office.
Tho RroI-o C,,;,,,;,,,. am Il NJ
y has been burned. Twenty-seven /
lousand spindles and large stock of t
0tton were destroyed. The damage is
25, 600. /
The Parnell Fund amounts to i
1905.
While the steamer Daphne was be-
g launched at Glasgow she fell over ON {
er side, precipitating a number of peo- I
e into the water. According to the L
spatches there were over one hundred a
'rsons were drowned. r
Sir William Gull does not believe Il
at the cholera will spread to Europe. 2
Mr.. Lowell, the United States Min !.
ier to Great Britain, gave a reception II
Americans on the Fourth, at his resi- e e
nee in London, where there was a. ~
rye attendance. y
At the inquest into the recent dis =;
ter at Victoria Hall, Sunderland, Eng q
ld, by which 182 children lost their -
es, several children testified that they a
W man bolt the door as they de- .,
ended the stairs, but they varied in ~
cir descriptions of the man. N,
The iron trade of England, the Lon tn
II Times says, is more active because
the increased demand from the United
ltes, owing to the new tariff. Numer- z,
$ shipments have been made in order th
take advantage of the new scale of il
ties. m
"A sad accident occurred during a tn
nperance fete at the Botanical Gar nm
IS in Sheffield, England. There we're Gu
,usands of school children on the to
unds A number of them climbed
IN a dray, when the horse became
yhtened and caused a panic among T.
little ones, two of whom were killed NJ
about twenty injured. tn,
The American Rifle team at prac- dr.
/, in England made the following 4
Paulding, Sergeant VII
an and Sergeant Van Heusen, at 500 L..
1s, made % each, the highest possi- ttS' ty'
score; J. NJ. Pollard made %. and Wc
or Denman, F. Stuart and G. w. Bu
man made 20 each. y