Connecticut western news., 1883-01-03
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

act the operations of horse thieves have organized vigilance committee and are iynchlng the thieves as fast as they cap- ture them.
 At West Belleville, H., William Walton shot Jane Milburne because she would not marry him and then shot him. self. Both died almost instantly.
 At New Haven, Conn. the Supreme Court has decided that the ballots cast by thu Democrats in that city at the re- cent elections were illegal This has caused sensation, inasmuch as similar tickets were cast in other portions of the State, and it is asserted by Republicans that their candidates, including Cover nor, will now be declared elected instead of the Democratic candidates. The bal lots were black groundwork on white paper.
 The State Treasurer of Tennessee says he will not pay the interest on the funded bonds of that State.
 The destruction by fire of jewelry establishment at Attleboro, Mass, in- volved a loss of $10O,00O and threw BOG men out of employment.
 A judgment for $339, 145 was entered against the city of Pittsburg for in Engagement of pavement patent.
 John Pooler was killed at Fairfield, Me, by falling pipe in an explosion.
 A fire at Macon, Ga, destroyed cotton and other property worth over $10O,
 Miss Kate Field calls the trouble of the New York Cooperative Dress Associ- tion merely suspension, and MT. Ran dall, the secretary, describes 1t as an or dinary business failure.
 The Governor of Pennsylvania has ordered that death warrant be issued for the execution of Uriah Mayer, con- victed of participation in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Kintzler in December, 1877.
 The attempted whipping of negro in the mountains of Tennessee by party of white men resulted in the shooting of two whites and two negroes.
 The City Treasurer of Tucson, A. T., has fled to Mexico-a defaulter.
 Seven volumes of the most import ant public records of Atlanta, Ga., have been stolen by burglars.
 Three cowboys were lynched on general principles" at Pineville, Wy. T.
 Boston sugar importers and refners urge reduction of tariff duties on sugars of foreign growth.
 Fitzpatrick, ''The Kid," who swim dled Mir. Charles Francis Adams at ban co, asks for writ of error.
 A fight in which several persons were killed is reported between two bands of Creek Indians.
 An effort to make up lost time through watch being slow caused a collision on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the loss of five lives.
 The uses of cottonseed are so various that it's treatment will soon be a leading industry in the South.
 Joseph s. Strichell, a student at the Greenwich Academy, son of widow in Washington, D. O., broke through the ice while skating at Providence, R. l., and was drowned, after struggling for three-quarters of an hour, in the sight of persons whose efforts failed to save him.
 Captain Mackenzie played twenty two games of chess at the same time, of which he won eighteen.
 A little girl in New York City was accidentally shot by her playmate with 8 toy pistol. The wound is probably fatal.
 A brave little girl of ten years was drowned with her older sister while try ing to rescue the latter f,san s,s.n inc ice si Mention .oS. oSs..
 The Cooperative Dress Association, of New York City, has failed, the i'm mediate cause of its distress being at- taehments of several creditors. Lack ot practical management is set down as the cause of the failure.
 Merriam A. Montgomery, about twenty eight years of age, shot his two little children, George and Eva, aged re. spectively six and four years, at Pack ardsville, in the town of Pelham, Mass. on Tuesday. George was instantly killed and Eva is probably mortally wounded. Family trouble was the cause
 The Mayor of East Liverpool, Ohio has issued proclamation warning tho working people who are on strike ther' to refrain from all acts of disorderly character under penalty of the law.
 Of forty Chinese women imported into British Columbia thirty-two wer sold to Chinamen in the United States.
 The Mutual Union Telegraph Com pany has commenced suit against tn Western Union in Chicago, praying tha it be compelled to forward the dispatche of the former without discrimination o that its business be stopped in the Stat of Illinois.
 Commissioners have been appointe in Vermont to examine into the mean of protecting and preserving the forest in that State.
 A boiler that had been condemne, exploded at North Adams, Mass, killin two men and injuring two others.
 -Carlotta Sturla, the Chicago mul deress, after being sentenced to one yea in the Penitentiary, announced her ir tention to go on the stage after her re lease.
 The bark Goodell, Captain GoodeI which left Liverpool October 23, arrive in New York, having lostthree men ove, board during the voyage.
 During the Christmas festival of tn Presbyterian Church at Montgomery, N T., the Santa Claus of the night too fire and was severely burned. The acc dent caused panic, but no other init ries are reported
 The president of the defunct Cit Bank of Rochester has been arrested, receiver for the bank has been appie for, and one depositor in suing for tt recovery of his last deposit uses hars language against all officially connecte with the institution.
 Numerous marine disasters are sai to have occurred on the coast of Ney foundland during the late gale.
 Judge Arnoux dismissed the injun tions obtained by the east side Hebre merchants permitting them to rema open on Sundays. He holds that the must obey the laws, as Christians a obliged to.