Connecticut western news., 1884-11-12
GENERAL ITEMS

GENERAL ITEMS.
 A man and wife got drunk in Louisville, Ky, and lighted fire in the middle of the room. The woman was fatally burned and the man seriously.
 The president of the Hooking Valley Rail- road las re Quested the Governor of Ohio to order out the militia on account of the burn- Ing of bridges in Hooking county.
 -The town of Leno, Iowa, is said to be de- stroyed by. fire.
 Seven we.kmen we're killed and many in- jnrrd through the falling of the walls of a furnace at Iobesonia, Pa
 A dynamite factory at Stouchsburg. Pa, blew up. Three workmen lost their lives. Those living in the vicinity were terrified at the force of the exposi m.
 Father Chiniquy, the lecturer against tLe Catholic rtlig on, was mobbed and had to Ice for his lifo at Montreal.
 News has been received at Columbus that in tls riots at Hooking Tullov three bridges were destroyed by the mob.
 The amount to be paid by New York city for services of poll clerks and inspectors and for incidental expenses in general election is upward of S150,000. Most of the employees Sell their pay certificates to ''shavers" at heavy discount to avoid waiting three or four weeks for the money.
 A repeater trying to escape jumped from window at Troy, N. Y., and was killed.
 There is a water famine in Quebec and water Is selling at five and ten cents bucket.
 Ut is said that the Cunard line has arnalga- mated with the Guion line.
 The bodies of the four workmen who were droN ned on Sunday night in Princes Bay, while going to the government dredger, have not been recovered.
 John oypher's wife DelaphiDe, his boarder, Augustus Walling, his daughter and ther trunks all left Slng Sing, N. r., on Mon day evening without notifying him.
 In the Criminal Court of Washington, be- fore Judge Wylie, the case of William Jones, indicted November 25, 1881, for an assault and on the 18th of the same month"; was taken up and tried. The jury, after an absence of twenty minutes, found verdict of not guilty.
 The United States Supreme Court has de- eided that an Indian who has separated him self from his tribe and taken up his residence among the white citizens of State is not citIsen of the United States and not entitled to vote.
 The re ent decision of the U. s. Supreme Court on the question of longevity pay affects nearly one thousand army officers, and nearly half million dollars will be required to settle their olams.
 William c. Rhinelander was released from the New York Tonbs in s10,000 bail He will go into the country, hoping to improve his Shattered health before the trial takes place.
 Eight hundred barrels of flour have been successfully delivered to the starving Labrador fishermen.
 One man vas killed and one fatally injured by railway collision near Sturgis, Mich. 1.-The North Carolina State Exhibition has been closed.
 An explosion in basement machine shop in New York city, which injured a workman, wa found to have been caused by mysterious box containing cartridge of dynamite or giant powder.
 The commission appointed by Congress to visit Mexico and the South American States, in the interest of the commerce of the United States. leave New York on the 10th inst. fol the City of Mexico. --Sardine factories and other establishments at Luhec, Me-. were burn d. Loss, $50,0O0 The authorities at the Naval Academy deny the clements made that the death of Cadet 6iraug resulted from injuries received through hazirg.
 An entire family named Dietrich, living iii Macursie, Pa, were poisoned from eating Bo- logna sausage
 "A premature explosion of powder at Bed ford ation. Ont, killed one man and seri- ou-ly injured another.
 During the month of October the United National debt was reduced by $8,307, ,192, mak- II a total decrease in the current fiscal year of nearly S33.000,009
 ~-The German schooner Carl Augusta. loaded with machinery and dynamite, blew up oh the North Carolina coast. She was bound from Hamburg to Vera Cruz and trying to make Q harbor. Captain Dohren and all of the crew but one were lost. .. Mrs. Virginia l.. Farragut, wife of the late Admiral Farragut died in New York on Friday, in the sixty-6rst year of her age, from Bright's diseas,.
 = Arrangements are about completed for the holding of the Plenary Council in Balti- more. A Mississippi negro was shot by white man for not calling the latter "Mr."
 "A band of highwaymen fired into nov man.
 Seven prisoners escaped on Thursday night from jail at Beaver, Pa.
 --Messrs. Moody and Sankey have begun convention of Christian workers at Worcester, Mass.
 Three Hungarians were cutting coal in mine breach near Centralia, Pa. huge rock above them fell, fatally injuring all three.
 Recorder Smith of New York city decides that William O. Rhinelander is sane and fit to be tried for shooting Lawyer John Drake. In so ing the Recorder disagrees with Dr. Det- mold and Patrick Nolan, the majority of the mnacy commission which tried Rhinelander's sanity, and agrees with the minority, Edward Patterson, the lawyer on the commission.
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 .-The outbreak of cholera once more in France is causing some uneasiness in that country.
 The French Parliament has voted more money for endorsements for Tonquin.
 --The Chinese are rebuilding the Kinpar forts.
 -ln the case of the captain of the yacht 1hgnnnette, and his companion, charged with DIc murder of the boy. Parker, the jury asked that the decision be left with higher court.
 Tine Arabs arc concentrating their forces on he roads leading to Khartoum.
 Negotiations for peace between France sn.i China arc progressing through the ChIn sr legations in Europe.
 Baron de Stleglitz, the Russian railroad magnate and banker, is dead.
 M Ferry has informed Lord Granville that if China accepts mediation without de- lay he will reduce the indemnity to 10000, 000f.
 The Grown Prince of Germany has become Regent of Brunswick. The title of Duke has been dropped. The Princes eldest son will succe to the regency when hls father be- comes Emperor of Germany.
 thanksgiving Proclamation.
 WAsBNGToN, Nov. The President has issued the following proclaim ation:
 The season is nigh when it iS th- yearly wont of th people to observe a day appointed for that purpose hy the President as an especial occasion for thanksgiving unto God.
 Row. iheref 'fe, In recognition of this hal- low q cnstom, !, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, do hereby designate as such day of general thanksgiving, Thursday, tie 27lh day of this present November.
 And do recommend that throughout the