Connecticut western news., 1883-09-05
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

along Iu0 1dcluC COuSG were ChIlSCu by the earthquake that destro yel Anier and other towns in Java on Aug rlst 27. There was similar occurrence on December 23, 1854, when the town of Simoda, ill Japan, was destroyed and a Russian frigate in the harbor over whelmed. The waves were recorded on three coast survey tile gauges then used on the Pacific coast,
 Sixteen volcanoes have appeared ill the Strait of Sunda, causing death and destruction.
 The constitutional party in Colom- bia has put down 8 rebellion.
 The Freethinkers commenced their annual session at Rochester, N. Y., Wednesday, with about eight hundred delegates present.
 Engineer Hall, of the Wabash Rail- way was killed Wednesday near Clifton, Mo-, his engine being derailed by strik- ing COW.
 A Corean embassy, composed of men of high rank, has been appointed to live in Washington.
 Atlantic City, N. J., was visited on Wednesday by an unprecedentedly high tide, which swept away more than hali the business portion of the island, in. cluding houses, stores, bath houses, etc. Fears were entertained that the next tide would entail additional destruction. At Nova Scotia tempest Sraged which it was feared would prove disastrous to shipping in that vicinity. The sea was unusually high at Newport, R. I:
 A grindstone burst while on trial in Richmond (Va.) factory, and one fly ing fragment killed negro who stood thirty feet distant.
 The Worlds Arbitration League passed resolutions favoring worlds ex- position of art and industry in 1892.
 Senator Sherman has stated to per- sonal friends that under no circumstances will he be candidate for the Presidency.
 The loss by the Williamsport (Pa.0 fire reaches $6O0,O0O.
 A loss of $20O,O 900 and the injury of firemen by fire is reported from San An tonic, Texas.
 The French Commissioners to the Boston Exposition called upon Mayor Edson and told him that Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty would be ready for de- livery by the 1st of January next.
 Indignant at losing suit at law, Jacob Oldenberger killed his opponent, Jacob Brush, @ man named Campbell, and himself, with revolver, in Indian apolis.
 William Henry Jones (colore6 was hanged in Raleigh, N. O., on Monday, for the murder of Avis H. Blake, deputy sheriff, in February, 1882. The spectators - ninety in number were greatly moved by the religious fervor of the culprit, who confessed his guilt, ad- mitted the justice of his punishment and asserted his penitence, exhorting all to lives of godliness.
 The New York city Superintendent of School Buildings under the Board of Education, reports that he will have about one hundred and twenty-seven public schools ready for the reception of the children when they return from their vacation.
 The distribution of new two-cent postage stamps will begin on Septem- Der 1.
 The Garfield Memorial Hospital is progressing to completion and will be opened very soon.
 An attempt to stop fox hunting at Newport will be made by the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Society.
 At Colquitt, Ga., on Sunday night number of masked men overpowered the guard at the Miller County Jail and, etfecting an entrance, shot and killed Lewis Warren, negro prisoner charged with assaulting white lady.
 At Milwaukee, on Monday, rats were found eating the corpse of wife and mother, who, it is believed, had died of starvation.
 Six or seven naval cadets on the practice ships are under charges ot hazing.
 Two young men were instantly killed in tunnel near Peekskill while stealing ride on top of @ train on the Hudson River Railroad.
 Claims aggregating about $3, 800, 900 have been filed at the Treasury De- partment for rebate of tax on tobacco.
 General Crook forcibly argues in favor of strictly keeping faith with the Chlricahua prisoners, who surrendered under the condition that they are not to be held responsible for their warlike acts whi4 in hostility.
 A dispatch from Utah startled the country on Sunday that there was plot on foot among the cowboys of the West to kidnap President Arthur and party, carry them off to the mountains and demand a heavy ransom out of the secret service fund.
 The immense raft from the province of New Brunswick has arrived safely and been lowed to the Erie Basin in New York harbor.
 A committee of war veterans has prepared memorial to be presented to the wife of General G. K. Warren, vim dicating that officers course through the war.
 At Macon city, Mo-, one wealthy citizen murdered another, who it is alleged had betrayed his sister and then, after being forced to marry her, had be- gun suit to set the marriage aside.
 The loss to farmers in Olmsted Co.,, Minn., by the recent cyclone, is estimated at $2OO,00O Two more deaths of in- iured persons have occurred at Rochester
 Fire broke out in tenement house at Boston, Mass, by which five lives were lost and two persons severely in- jured. The origin of the fire is not known.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The conductor of an excursion train near Scranton, Pa., killed young nan on Thursday. by pushing him off a train going at speed of thirty miles per hour.
 A passenger train on the Philadel- phia and Atlantic City Railroad (narrow gauge) was thrown from the track and wrecked at the latter place on Thursday morning. The accident was caused by the switch becoming loose and displaced. More than score of persons were in inred