Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS

pany's mines were attacked and dr1Ven 70 Gne woods by miners
 A bureau of information and accommoda- tions, free of charge to visitors of the Exposi- tion, has been established at New Orleans The persons indicted for participation in the Chicago election frauds gave bail in $10, ,000 each
 Governor Pierce of Dakota, has ordered troops to move to Redfe1d to preserve order. An insane neEn at Worcester, Mass, has received $10,Sp0 back pension and will receive $50 per month through his gurdian.
 The bondsmen of the defaulting State Treasurer of Arkansas have been released Pirate Walker, who stole vessel and her cargo, has been sentenced to six years impris- onment.
 Mother Mandelbaum and her companions have been released by the Court at Hamilton, Ont.
 A passenger train was nearing Ephrats. Pa., when a child was discovered on the track; :; the fireman crawled out on the cowcatcher and grasped the child just az the wheels were about to pass over it.
 There has been decrease of over six thousand tons in the marine shipbuilding in- teress of Maine as compared with last year.
 The Pennsylvania State Grange have adopted resolutions favoring the teaching of agriculture in the public schools.
 It is suggested that complications may possibly arise with France and England owing to the Nicaragua concession.
 In the suit of James J. Martin. as commit tee of the estate of John Gill, the aged lunatic of New York city, to recover from Alice and Harriet Woodhan about $100, ,000 worth of personal property, which they were charged with fraudulently inducing Mir. Gill to trans fer to them, resulted in verdict for $S1, ,Sl9 l2 in favor of the plaintiff.
 The Fall River spinners are about to pub- fish monthly journal and favor the Senate kho fron rho%s oF contract labor.
 Wilkinson & Co.,, bankers of Syracuse, N. Y., have failed; liabilities, $50O,O0O assets, about $150, ,000.
 Several large failures are reported from Connecticut and Massachusetts,
 Mrs. Ernst Hulskamp, nee Morosini has commenced suit in the New York City Court to recover from the Hanover Bank the sum of $1, 100 deposited there to her credit by her father before her marriage with his coach man.
 The jury in the Stewart-Huntingto suit, ln New York, gave 8 verdict for the plaintiff for S102. .82 and interest.
 In the South Carolina Legislature Wade Hampton was elected United States Senator as his own successor, receiving the entire vote of both Houses with the exception of three votes for SmaIls
 In the last hours of the recent session of the Plenary Council in Baltimore 8 formal offer of gift of $3ee, 900 for the founding of national Catholic university was made by Miss G. Caldwell, of New York city.
 -Mobs in Dakota Territory and in Missouri broke into jail, took out murderers and lynched them.
 Hugh O'Brien, the Democratic candidate for Mayor, was elected in Boston by plurality of 3,424 over Augustus P. Martin, the present Mayor, who was the Republican and Citizens candidate. The total vote was 51, 900.
 An appipp nrnw oD tha TnhiUh Valnv Railroad while passing Trenton, 8 mining patch, discovered house on fire, and gave an alarm. The neighbors rushed out in their night clothes, but it seemed impossible to arouse the occupants of the burning building, and six persons, four of them children, lost their lives.
 Peter H. Mitchell 6 Co.,, bankers, of Schen- evus, N. Y., have closed their doors.
 "A judgment against General Grant for Wm. H. Vanderbilt's loan of $150, 900, with in- terest and costs, was entered in the county clerks office of New York city.
 The outbreak of smallpox at Hungerford, Ont, and vicinity, although under control, is of an alarming character. Three boys went gunning on Harvey's Canal, near New Orleans, and were used as targets by party of men; two of the boys lost an eye.
 President Arthur does not favor the pre- sentatlon Of his name as candidate for Uni ted States Senator from New York State.
 The Washington Monument cspstone was placed In position on Saturday with simple ceremonies.
 "A heavy rain has fallen at Petersburg, Va.s ending the drought.
 Controller Grant, of New York City, has adjusted the claim of the city against the IL" roads for arrears of taxes and interest from 1873 to 1884, inclusive. By the terms of the settlement the city is to receive BI 285 533 51 of will draws all suits and claims for the $2 843, 511 IS which it was claimed these companies owed.
 The State Legislative Committee of Penn sylyania have failed to find proof of the bribery charges against the Standard Oil Company.
 "A large fire occurred in West Randolph, Vt, on Saturday, destroying a large part of tho business portion of the town.
 According to the Columbus Board of Trade, the business interests of that city have sustained because of the strike direct loss of $3,5l1, ,O00, while the miners have lost $500, 900 in wages.
 The Signal Service station at Chincoteague saved the new three-masted schooner, Mar garet A. May, which went ashore there in gale.
 -:m-Masked robbers captured train on the Little Rock and Texas Railroad and robbed the passengers of $4, 900. The leaders of the gang were caught with the aid of bloodhounds. MT. J. W. Foster, United States Minister 70 Spaln, says the proposed Cuban treaty with span will benefit the United States largely by opening markets that are now closed against us. He says that the treaty will not iniure the cigar or sugar manufacturers' here.
 -Dr. Cyrus Edson, of New York, said the smallpox, so prevalent now in London and Canada, was likely to break out in New York, put the Board of Health was taking every step 10 prevent it's becoming epidemic.
 William McCabe, aged 24 years, miner fell into pit 316 feet deep at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Ills body was crushed into an unrecogniZable mass
 Mrs. Sarah B. Howe, of Woman's Bank notoriety in Boston, who had just served a term of imprisonment, started her bank again, but the police interfered
 Miss Florence Marryat, the authoress. is seriously ill in London, Ont.
 The troubles between the manufacturinp shoemakers and their employees in Philadei- phla eliminated Saturday in a general stoppage and the throwing out of employment o9 at least 5000 operatives-men, women and girls
 Mrs. Schmidt, who was supposed to be the victim of the Carleton House mystery in New York city, is alive and well, and the mystery is not yet solved.
 The New York Chamber of Commerce Committee on Silver Coinage approved oi Congressman Buckner's new measure to stoI the coinage of the cart wheel dollar.
 -Oydyke & Co.,, bankers, suspended pay ment with obligations of about $200, GOO and assets enough. it is believed, to pay creditors in full.
 -Raymer, Seagraves & Co.,, bankers, of To ledo, Ohio, have failed for $500, ,000; cause, de preciation of real estate securities.
 It is said that twelve Chinese men-of-wal are on their way to Formosa to attack the French.
 Two Tennessee rivals in love quarrele6 while out hunting and killed each other.
 The Southern plague has been much ex aggerated; physician who travelled through the afflicted district says that there have beer but 276 deaths since July.
 A farmer living near Topeka, Kan, wal killed by gas at the bottom of we'll
 A man at Galena, Kan, killed the chiei Yitnnag aoainst hia hrnthnr iI, q rnI,rdar trial