Connecticut western news., 1884-06-04
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 NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.

-An old violin, supposed to have belonged to Tom Paine, was found in an attic in Borden town, N. J.
 The Presbyterian fight over instrumental music is to be referred back to the several Presbyteries by the Synod at St. Louis. A domestic quar~el over pecuniary mat ters followed by a blow, induced an unkortu- nate mother in Albany to kill her five children and to destr. V herself. The wom-n lost her savings bank book, and this ltd to quarre' which rendered her insane.
 While digging for Indian skeletons in Connecticut village the operator fonnd the watch of pcddler who was said to have been murdere fifty years ago.
 The Fourth Ohio militia are to be disband- cd and several offers court martialied for their bad conduct as soldiers during the Gin einnati riots.
 By the falling of scaffold in Krupp's Tunnel, the South Pennsylvania Railroad, several men were killed and wounded.
 -James Tucker (colored) was executed at Paris, Ark. for murder, and William Brown (colored) met similar fate at Belleylle, H., for like crime.
 By the overcrowding of goods into Balti- more warehouse the building was c: ushed and six persons were killed and four injured.
 The Episcopalian Convention at Baltimore, Md, having failed to elect bishop, adjourned to October next.
 The beat ra e betw. en Courtney and Ross did not come of on Decoration day, as the water was too rough for the shells. A large crowd assemble d and Courtney was very badly treated, as it was supposed to se his fault that the Ia 2 did not come oiT.
 William Mcdonald, while asleep, fell ovcl the river bank at Niagara Falls and was killed on the rocks below.
 The New Jersey Catholic Tot Il Abstinence Union has declared a determined war agains, rum in that State.
 A serious fire broke out in Union City, Pa. doing damage to the amount of over 9l00, 900. The General Confererce of the Methods, Episcopal Church adopted a strict report on the questions of marriage and divorce. It also adopted report admitting colored people to a its churches, Sabbath schools and col leges on the same votiug as white people.
 The will of the late Charles O'Conor has been offered for probate. He leaves S20 000 and certain books to the Law Institute of New York city.
 By the collision of two steamboats on the St. Johns River, Fla, nelr Palatka, one pas senger was drowned.
 A conflict with moonshiners in Kentucky, resulted in the killing of bsliff and capture of the criminals.
 MT. Libby has increased his donation to the College of Mechanical Engineering of Cor nell University to s15O 900.
 A mob completely destroyed the property of lawyer at Madrid Iowa.
 Clara and Lulu Snyder, aged sixteen and fourteen years respectively, were killed by lightning at Dayton, Ohio.
 The hall in which the Republican Conven- ton is held in Chicago will seat Is, 0O1 persons Communication has been established be- tween Dover Bay and Cape Ann, the Faraday having successfully laid tLat section of the commercial cables.
 The Anthracite coal companies, in order to keep up the present high price of coal will stop production two weeks during June.
 The Governor Of Rhode Hand was in- auguratei at Newport with becoming cere- monies.
 The Methodist Episcopal General Con- ference, at Phila ell hia, declined to make any change in the time limit of the pastoral terms.
 A terrible boiler explosion took place in Dubuque, Iowa, sash and door factory, by winch four persons were killed and number of others injured.
 A collision occurred on the West Shore Railroad at Savannah, N. T., owing to one train crashing into another while the latter was in tie act of switching at the station. Three psrsons were killed and several others injured. some of them, az is supposed, fatally.
 Company D, of the Twelfth Regiment New, York National Guard, took the pledge for life as tle meeting of the Manhattan Temperance Association al Cooper Institute, N. I.
 -Heavy rain falls in Texas and Louisian, have caused an overflow of the streams aut much damage to property.
 A strike of hricklayers and stone mason is expected in Buffalo.
 Adam Brabender. the defauIting pre- iden Of the Erie County (Pa) Savings Bank, wa removed from his residence to the county jai for the purpose of protecting him from mol violence.
 The veterans of the Twenty-eighth Ney York regiment visited ex-Confederate soldier in Virginia, and express themselves as beinJ de ighted with the kindness and hospitalit' which they have received in that State.
 At the Presbyterian General Assembly a Saratoga, N. r., the cause of the lack of min isters to fill the pulpit was discussed, and va rious remedies proposed.
 The Brooklyn bridge celebrated the ami versary of it's first birthday on May 18th. Dur ing the year 6,0S3, 100 foot passengers, repre- seDting S60, ,S31, have traversed it. The yehi cles have numbered 5S7, ,024 and realize S71,57s. The railroad has taken 5, 151, ,220 peo ple across the East river and contribute &257, 6Gl to the treasury. Altogether $39l, VI