Connecticut western news., 1883-03-28
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Postmaster at Green Horn, M. T., has been hanged by the vigilantes.
 The First Comptroller of the Treasury has decided that no appropria- tion was made by Congress for payment of rebate of the tax on tobacco.
 The remains of John Howard Payne arrived in New York from Tunis via Marseilles on Thursday. The body was taken at once to the Governor room in the City Hall, where it lay in state and was visited by thou sands. They were then taken to Georgetown, D. C., where they will rest. On the 9th of June, the ninety-frst anni- versary of the poets birth, the final in terment will take place with appropriate ceremonies.
 In the New Jersey House of Assem- ply resolution was adopted authorizing the Speaker to appoint special commit tee to investigate the accounts of the State Comptroller, State Treasurer, Sec- retary of State and other officials, the committee to sit during recess and re- port to the next Legislature.
 -Carelessness on the part of coal miner in the Packer Colliery, Pa., led to an explosion of firedamp and severe injuries to six men.
 Alter g four hours session the Coroner's jury in the case of George W. Conkling, who shot and killed his sis ter's parameur in New York, returned a verdict that the shot which killed Will jam H. Haverstick was fired under great provocation.
 The overturnipg of a converter in the Cleveland Rolling Mills before the laddie was ready to receive its contents resulted in the burning of eighteen men by the flying liquid metal.
 -Caspar Liebman, who was to have been married at Middletown, N. Y., Wednesday, shot himself on Tuesday night because he had failed in his efforts to borrow money. He will probably die.
 Duncan Doles, ninety-eight years old, was found dead with rope around his neck in his burned house hear Byer's Station, Ohio.
 At an auction sale In Canastota, N. Y, a carriage in which Lafayette rode during his last visit to this country was sold for $9O.
 Secretary Chandler has directed that eight hours be regarded as work ing day for all employees in the govern ment yards until further notice.
 --Ex- Governor Sprague has been in- dorsed as the peoples candidate for Gov ernor of Rhode Island by the Demo cratic Convention.
 The bill requiring electric wires to be put under ground was passed in the New York Senate.
 The bill to pension aged teachers in New York City schools passed the New York Senate.
 A bill providing that savings bank deposits unclaimed during twenty years shall be advertised was passed in the New York Senate.
 The President on Tuesday ordered the suspension of Judge Everton J. Oonger, Associate Justice of the Terri tory of Montana, against whom charges of drunkenness and gambling have been preferred.
 Governor Ludlow, of New Jersey, has granted James Treglown 8 respite until April IS; he was to have been hanged Wednesday.
 Two men were hanged near Helena, M. T., by vigilance committee for alleged incendiarism.
 The milk producers on the line of the Erie Railroad will send no more milk to the New York market until the dealers agree to pay three and one-haf cents per quart for the pure article. Mean time milk is being spilled by the farmers who will not ship.
 In the county of Dorchester, Que, three children were burned to death through the house taking fire in the ab- sence of their parents.
 -Incendiaries are at work all along the New Jersey coast. A conversation was overheard between three of them in which plan was laid to destroy Asbury Park. They appeared at the place as arranged, but did not carry out their de- sign, and seven watchmen permitted them to escape.
 A Coroner's jury has established the fact that the two spinsters named Jud- son, whose charned remains were recently found in the ruins of their home at East Hartford, Conn.,, had been murdered, and the house set on fire to conceal the crime.
 The entire business portion of the Town of Forest City, California, was de- stroyed by fire on Saturday.
 The Malley fire case, in New Haven, has not yet been settled. Thirty insur- ance companies have been sued on their policies for the amount of the loss which the companies refuse to pay.
 A fire in the Delevan House in AL bany turned the guests out in their night @11 11S SosHA &l>o fire in the kitchen being discovered be- fore it had made much progress.
 At Watertown, Mass, on Sunday, woman was beaten to death with piece of rock while standing in her own doorway. The murderer escaped.
 The New York State Board of Health discovered that out of 119 sam- ples of food 60 were adulterated, and that of 75 samples of drugs 32 were adulterated.
 Three men were fatally injured by falling wall at Indianapolis, Ind.
 A railroad collision is reported from Tennessee in which several persons are said to be injured.
 An entire family at Hamilton, Ont, were overcome by gas from self-feed. ing coal stove and two of them are dead.
 -Retaliatory measures are likely to follow, on the part of this Government, the exclusion of American hog products from Germany.
 Lieutenant Harber has been author ized to continue the search for Ldeuten- ant Chipp and his party during the con- ing summer.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 French troops have captured Bama- kere, situated beyond the Niger.