Connecticut western news., 1884-08-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.

Some three thousand Piegan Indians more or less, are reported starving.
 At Lorimer, Pa, the rumor of 8 murder and conceament of the body has led to the digging up of an old well hole.
 The Town Treasurer of Southboro has been arrested for embedding the public funds. The passengers of the steamer Amsterdam when landed on Sable Island. fell in with B crowd of thieves, the liquor and provisions of the vessel were stolen by officials of the life saving station, and the passengers Jewelry was appropriated by some of the emigrants
 Several cases of Texas fever and pleuro- pneumonia have beon discovered among the cattle in Lane tster, Pa. The State authorities have been notified aud the infected herds quar- antined
 Washington monument has reached the height of 500 feet and is ready for the roof.
 In 1883 suits were brought by the United States government against 1l2 delinquent otfi- eials claiming $497, 7,083. Judgments were re- covered for SIP, TAT and $51, ,264 collected.
 News has been received of great prairie fire about 150 miles northeast of Denver, Col, on the range between Denver Junction and the Frenchman The burnt district extends about thirty miles along the Platte River, and back from the river great distance, covering g portion of the Jed Brush, Gov. Proutt, and Bruce Johnson ranges It has inflicted great loss upon the stock interests of that region.
 Notice has been given to the Iowa State Board of Health of the outbreak of & fatal cattle disease at Le Marc, seventeen head of cattle having died in twenty-four hours. The State Veterinary Surgeon has been sent to in- vestgate.
 An epidemic of malignant and pernicious fever is prevailing at San Carlos, a village 38 miles from Panama. Nine deaths occurred in from 24 to 37 hours. The inhabitants are pan ic stricken. It is believed that the epidemic is due to intense malaria poisoning. Panama is very sickly. From 10 to 15 funerals occur daily. The heat is intense.
 Our naval officers attached to the steam ship Trenton were treated with marked con- sideration by the government and people of Corea.
 The Agricultural Department at Washing ton estimates the wheat crop for this year at about S5,000,000 bushels.
 The officers of the Planters and Merchants Bank of Petersburg, Va, have been indicted for felony and misdemeanor in connection with the failure of the institution.
 Four the crew of B racing gig were drowned by the swamping of their boat at regatta at St. Johns N r.
 A counsel who refused to divulge the con- fidental statements of his client was punished for contempt by Montreal judge. - Two men were killed by the foul air in well they were digging near Wnkesbarre, Pa. The desecratols of suicide murderer's
 
 authorities.
 A boy of ten years of Piketown, Mo-, mur- dered his brother, aged twelve, during quar- rel
 Nineteen lepers were sent back to China from San Franclfco, Cal, on the steamer Oceanic. One of them escaped before the sail ing of the vessel, but was recaptured. The city paid the full passage monty of the lepers, and gave each one five dollars.
 The remains of Lieutenant Lockwood, of the Greedy expedition, will be buried at An- napolis.
 A family, with four boarders and ser want. were poisoned at Yonkers, N. Y., by eat ing food which was cooked in water drawn from cistern near cesspool.
 The National Executive Committee of the American Political Alliance, in secret session, at Boston, Mass, ordered all the councils In the country to make nominations for President and Vice. President of the United States, the nominations to be forwarded to the National Council to be acted upon in convention.
 Since last fall trouble has existed between Elmer E. Mowry and Theodore T. MoWry o1 Manvile, R. l., arising from horse trades, and on several occasions the latter has used hard words against the former. Theodore drove up to the Woonsocket Water Works reservoir on Wednesday, where Elmer Mowry was employed, and after calling hIm harsh names, raised a shotgun and shot him in the side. He cannot recover. The murderer then drew revolver and sent bullet into his own brain. His wound will also prove fatal. Theodore is S5 years old, well educated, and has wife and two children. His victim is 29 years old and unmarried. The men are not related.
 James Garland, a teacher of music, com mitted suicide at his home in New Brunswick, N. J., early Wednesday morning, by shooting himself four times in the head. He had pre- viously made some desperate efforts to kill his wife and himself.
 It is said that the Greedy survivors are to be promoted. Lieutenant Greedy IS said to have refused to accept the promotion to cap taincy outside of the ordinary course.
 The United States forces are concentrating in large numbers in Western Kansas for the purpose of ejecting every white squatter on Indian Territory.
 The Common Council granted the applica- lion of the Broadway Surface Railroad Com pany to construct a line on Broadway, New York.
 George W. Funk, New York brewers collector, saw i'll the dark head pressed against the window shutters of his residence, and, thinking it & burglars, fired two shots- girl named Louise Haltzman was soon after found near by with two bullets in her brain. The New York, Ontario and Western Rail- road Company obtained an inj uncton restrain ing the Western Union Telegraph Company from interfering with the wires owned oy the EduNdy hlOup tuo IIIS ol ho Aoooo"
 Mexican cattle destined for an American port may be shipped through Canada in bond One young man of a party enga ged il robbing orchard at Eau Clair 6, Wls., wal fatally shot by son of the proprietor.
 An incendiary fire in the busine ess part O Akron Oho destroyed several fl anne build ings occupied as stores. Loss, ,0OO; Ill surance. $S,000.
 Three packages of dynamite were found il letter box at Nottingham. ...
 The Texas fever still exists among the cat tle in the Western State $, and 1t IS proposed tt schedule all infected districts to prevent thu spread of the disease.
 A series of violent thunder storms passed over Lancaster county, sPa., on Tuesday after noon and evening doinW@nuch damage Man. buildings were struck by lightning and severa barns were destroyed by fire. Hail stones large size accompanied the rain in some sec tons, badly emitting the growing tobacco, nov nearly ripe and in large leaf.
 While impressing on his wife the necessit. for carrying out recommendations In regar' to the care of their children, Charles H. Yogt of No. 118 South Fifth avenue, New York pounded table with his fist. The shocl broke plate and threw fragment of it ol his youngest child's neck, cutting the jugula vein.
 Winner Brothers Bank, at Suspension Bridge, N. Y., failed on Saturday
 -lhe schooner Marcena Munson, Jr., wal run down and sunk by the Sound steamer Pilgrim.
 While practicing with 8 pistol one of party of young men shot and seriousl, wounded another at Fall River, Mass
 The Central Labor Union intends to holt monster procession of 4O,000 worlmen or the 1st of September.
 .-Ihe rear portion Of the United States Ho tel at Washington, D. O., fell, burying severa persons beneath the ruins. A female servan and boy were extricated, both having sus tained severe injuries. Five of the hotel em ployees were missing, and it was feared tha they had lost their lives by being crushed un der the debris.
 The Green Mountain House, at Bar liar Dor, Me, was totally consumed Saturday nigh by fire that broke out in the roof and mad such short work of the building that scarcel anything was saved. Fortunately it occurred at such an early hour that no lives were lost hn nilronl ,,I ,un t1r.,orn ara s,,.o