Connecticut western news., 1884-04-02
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NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITENL,,

An appeal is made for relief for tn, families left destitute by the terrible dis aster in the Pocahontas mine, Virginia
 On Friday five murderers wer, hanged at Tombstone, A. T.; one a Placeville and one at San Bernardino Cal, and one at Sumter, s. c.
 In Denver, Colorado, fifty buildings of all sorts were unroofed by winC storm.
 The Illinois State Trade and Labol Convention at Chicago Friday drew up a memorial to Congress opposing the importation of foreign labor.
 Owners of bonded whisky are mak ing arrangements for the exportation o large quantities, since Congress failed to pass the whisky bill.
 Michael Dinner, a prominent resi- dent of Dayton, Ohio, is held in captiv ity by Dakota Indians until he engages never to return, and to remove all the men and machinery he took with him tc Dakota with view to mining.
 The Germans of Cincinnati, indig- nant at the impunity with which murder has been committed there, held mass meeting and then attacked and captured the jail, threatening to hang all the mur derers confined there. At the jail 6 serious conflict took place, four persons being seriously injured.
 The women of Canton, Kan., raideo the saloon of man who opened in de- fance of the prohibition law and emptied all his rum into the street. They are sustained by the citizens generally.
 Letters of convocation have been sent to all Catholic Bishops of the United States convening plenary coun. cil at the Cathedral in Baltimore on the 9th of November next. The provincials of religious communities and superiors of seminaries will also attend.
 The House Judiciary Committee O the Massachusetts Legislature reported adversely upon a bill requiring news paper articles to be signed by tho writers thereof.
 Carl Schurz declines to receive the $10O,000 his friends are raising for him.
 The Portland (Me.) Society of Ari has adopted resolution requesting Con. gress to admit works of art free.
 The Legislature of Rhode Island ir the Lower House has passed resolution for an amendment to the State constitu- tion reducing the property qualification to $134 and taxes paid to $1 per annum. This promises Republican form of gov ernment.
 The first through train from the city of Mexico passed through Kansas City, Mo-, few days ago.
 The first tow from New York city reached Albany Thursday.
 The late Augustus Schell, who died ill New York city. was born in Rhine beck. He was admitted to the bar in Albany in 1883. He was an active Democratic politician for nearly fifty years. He joined the Tammany party ill early manhood. He was it's Grand Sachem for twelve years. Although always prominent ill the party councils he held no office of trust except that of Collector of the Port of New York, which he filled under the Administration ol President Buchanan. He declined the Tammany nomination for Mayor in 1876, but ill 1877, at the. urgent solicitation oi the Hon. John Kelly, consented to run for State Senator in the Seventh District He was defeated by John Morrissey Jn 1878 he accepted the Tammany nom ination for Mayor and was beaten by Edward Cooper.
 A letter has been placed in thu hands of the Dominion government set ting forth that extreme destitution exists among the Indians in the North west Territory, and that twenty deaths from starvation had occurred there since February 1.
 Terrible cyclones visited the Soutl and West. Several persons were killed and many injured, while the destruction to property was excessive.
 The New York State Senate passe' the annual appropriation bill and tn, General Street Surface Railroad bill.
 In the Connecticut Legislature th' bill favoring female suffrage was de feated by vote of 95 to 83. The Hous passed bill preventing freight discrimi nation by 8 vote of 116 to 43. Statements of masters of whaling vessels indicate that the offer of re ward for the discovery of the Greely party would insure much careful searcl in those regions frequented by whaleTI and sealers.
 The floods are having a very disas trous effect in Louisiana, and appeals have been made to the Representative from that State for government aid.
 A female inmate of an insane asylum at Columbus, Ohio, squeezed hersel through the bars of window, and falling the distance of seventy feet, wal instantly killed.
 -Sharpers abstracted g., 300 from tn, satchel of Q bank clerk at Augusta, Ga They were pursued and captured and th honey nearly all recovered. > | The remains of an unknown ma were found after midnight on the "L track a little below the station at Han over square, New York. They wer frightfully mutilated, the head bein torn from the trunk and thrown into tn street below.
 The President will send message Congress urging the importance of COT | tinuing the construction of the ne7 navy.
 The New Jersey House c1 Assembl passed resolutions appealing to Senate and Representatives from that State Congress to vote for bill to prohib the Importation of foreigners under col tract to perform labor ill this country.
 The jury in murder case in Cincil natl were jeered and hooted at for bring ing in verdict of manslaughter only.
 The bill providing that wife beatel shall be publicly whipped has been d feated in the Massachusetts Legislatur
 -Epizootic prevails at Dayton, Ohi' to a remarkable extent among horse and is reported as being worse than evt before.
 Information has reached San F'ral cisco that yellow fever has broken oI on the United States steamer 1roquoi now on her way to Alaska.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The Senate passed the bill providing for tl offer of reward for the discovery Of Gree and party.
 bill will be favorabyl reported to the Hou from tine Labor Committee, providing that shall be unlawful for any person in the empl, of the United States or of any State to contra with any oue to hire out the labor of prisone confined for violations of the laws of u