Connecticut western news., 1884-06-11
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Central Railroad of New Jersey was defeated in the Supreme Court on the subject of taxation. Lccal taxes on the road, etc., were affirmed.
 An affray among the Indians at the Rose bud Agency growing out of the return to The Reservation of Crow Dog, the slayer of Spotted Tail, resulted in the killing of Chief White Thunder and the fatal wounding of two other Indians by the son of Spotted Tail.
 The body of the missing man, James We'd der, participant in the mysterious tragedy on Luna Island, was found under Niagara Falls, in the Cave of the Winds, well preserved by the ice.
 Lieutenant Rice, of the United States Army, was killed by stepping off train in Missouri.
 Two bags of corn sent to Baltimore from Kansas to ard the Home for Disabled Confed- crates realized $167.
 John c. Enc, the New York Bank President, was held in Quel ec to await the arrival of De tective Fahey, who is to give evidence in the proceedings. Bail was refused. The attempt to have Enc indicted in Montreal was aban- doned, the Grand Jury be ng reluctant to find bill. An indictment Was found by the Grand Jury If New York county.
 All the bodies, seven in number, of the killed by the fall of a warehouse in Baltimore, are now recovered.
 The Methodist Conference at Brockville,
 
 to home interests.
 -1he members of the Massachusetts Legis- lature have raised their salaries $50, over the Governors veto.
 The corner stone of the new Episcopal Cathedral at Albany was laid with becoming ceremonies.
 President Riddle, of the Penn Bank of Pittsburg, after swearing to his published statement, assigned all his property for the benefit of the banks creditors.
 Fourteen of the crew of the brig Confed- crate, stranded on the ice foes of Labrador, are known to be lost.
 An unfortunate mau was fourd paralyzed in the strc cts Of Buffalo. He had A, 1S6 with him. .....@
 A number of men were washed away and drowned by the breaking of the dam of New foundland saw-mill. ....
 The will of the late g. W. Swett, of Jamaica Plains, Mass, bequeaths $24O 900 to public in stitutions.
 MT. Vanderbilt has sailed from Liverpool for New York.
 Extensive fires prevail in the Di-mai Swamp. One fatality is already reported.
 -An old man committed suicide over his daughters grave, near Birmingham, Ct.
 The boiler of burning saw mill in Mount ta'sco, Me-, exploded, killing one man and in- turing another.
 The Mountain House, on Englewood Cliffs, N. J., which was just ready for guests, was burned on Wednesday morning, with loss of over $200,000.
 The boiler on the dredge Norwalk. lying in the Harlem River, exploded, killing one nan and seriously injuring another.
 A ticket agent who shot himself in Atlanta on Saturday was $15,00 short.
 The convict who murdered B keeper in the Eastern penitentiary of Pennsylvania on Sat urday is now shamming insanity.
 By the sinking of steamer in the inland waters of North Carolina three lives were lo-t. At the Cleveland Rolling Mills two men lost their lives in torrent of molten metal from one of the furnaces.
 The Residing Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States died at hi. residence ill New York city, at the age of ninety
 -Brigadier General Henry ". Bonham, of the United States Cops of Engineers is dead He was native of Connecticut and when a boy served as an apprentice i'll the printing office of & newspaper i'll that State.
 It was estimated that 50,000 persons at tended the annual meeting of the Dunkards near Day ton, Ohio.
 Two boilers exploded in a sawmill, in Mont. calm county, Mich, killing three men and severely injuring others.
 Harvey D. Parker, the proprietor of tho Parker House, Boston, and one of the best known business men of that city, is dead Ht was born in Maine in 1895.
 General Samuel Graham, who, at tht breaking out of the war, raised the Fifth regi ment of New York artillery, is dead.
 By the laundering of the schooner Annie Jordon off the Georgia coast, four lives wert lost. Three of the crew were rescued from [ raft.
 A convict in the Eastern Penitentiary Q Philadelphia murdered keeper.
 The frost of Friday night caused grea damage to fruit and vegetables throughout New York State and New England.
 -The defaulting cashier of the First Nation al Bank at Monmouth, Ill, was arrested.
 President Riddles (of the Penn Bank, former broker in oil was arrested in Jersey City and returned to Pittsburg.
 The trouble between the iron manufactur ers and the Amalgamated Association has beer uo&kz frxx