Connecticut western news., 1883-12-19
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

GENERAL. ITEMS.
 Three men were killed and eleven wounded at fight during the primary elections in New Orleans.
 Burt Ellis, negro, was hanged at Shelby, N. C., for the murder of Mrs. William Logan.
 Tt is charged in the Dominion that deserters from the American army have been followed into Canada and there arrested by United States soldiers.
 A wife turned out of the house, at Rockille, Ind, was burned to death while kindling fire to warm her little ones.
 Lorenzo Turner, of Richmond, Me-, says rum caused the murder of Indian Joe, and he did not know the crime was committed until arrested for it, because he was drunk.
 A boy was beheaded by the elevator he was attending in Baltimore.
 At the burning of the Harris Mill, Lowell. nine firemen were severely in- jured by falling walls.
 -Firemen gallantly rescued two of the crew of the burning steamer Napo- leon III. at Halifax.
 The liquor dealers of the Eleventh and Twentieth wards of New York city organized to defend their business against the present aspect of legislation and court decisions against them.
 The Standard Theatre ill New York city was destroyed by 8 fire which broke out in the flies before the opening of eo,s ance. A frame house in the rear of No. 1O8 West Thirty-tbird street was crushed by falling wall. A man and 8 girl among the crowd were injured by railing giving way and letting them fall into the sub-cellar.
 A verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the Dwight case on every question of fact submitted to the jury was given at Norwich, and the insurance companies have been refused new trial.
 Mrs. Christiancy, the defendant in the celebrated divorce case in Washing ton, died insane in Brooklyn, N. Y. Her death was caused directly by Brights disease.
 In both houses of the Virginia Gen. eral Assembly joint resolution was in- 'Aoo"S0o uooAolAnS, oAIOuS ObHoI 1Ah0- ters, that the people of the State have accepted the "Riddleberger bill'' as the ultimate settlement of the State debt.
 Two trains collided on the Georgia Central Railway. The trains were wrecked, one person killed and four in- jured.
 Seven men of the British bark Benefactress, lost at sea November 2S, arrived at New York on the steamer State of Pennsylvania. They had been eleven days without water when reached. Fifteen of the crew left the vessel two days before, and are supposed to have been lost.
 Four Mexican murderers are said to have been lynched.
 The feeling of opposition to the Dominion government in Winnipeg is said to be on the increase.
 The Victoria Parliament. sick of the Chinese, will restrict their immigration.
 At Rockport, Mass, the Annisquam Cotton Mill was almost completely de- stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $40O,0O
 .-The Mount Hickory Rolling Mills, at Erie Depot, Pa., were destroyed by fire, involving loss of about $275, 1000.
 The exploring expedition into the Everglades of Florida has successfully accomplished its object.
 Certain slavery issues have been re- newed in Texas by the commencement of suit against the United States for the value of the slaves manumitted dur ing the war.
 A curious story comes from the N. Y. Custom House of 8 prominent merchant who called on the Collector and handed in his check for $1O,OO for the ''con- science fund" The money was for duties of which the government had been defrauded.
 -Yanktonais warriors are deserting their reservation in Montana, asserting that they are not properly cared for by the Poplar River Agency, and that they will resist any atte mpt to take them back.
 The court house at Butler, Pa., was totally destroyed by fire.
 A commercial treaty has been made between Canada and France.
 A Kentuckian, finding he could not stop fight between four men in the southern part of that State, drew his re- volver and shot them all.
 Orange county (N. Y.) farmers deride the statement that in many instances the COWS drink impure water, which injures the milk, and they ask an investigation by the State Board of Health.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 In the Republican caucus for Secretary of the Senate General Anson G. McCook was nomi- mated on the first formal ballot, receiving 19 votes to Gorham IS and Ramsden 3.
 The total values of the exports of petroleum and petroleum products from the United States in October were $4,233,2 ,2l0, and for the ten months ended October 31st, $S9, ,924, 332.
 The Supreme Court decided in favor of Jeff Davis in the suit brought by the relatives of