Connecticut western news., 1884-01-30
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

 Sprague's house, beat and robbed Mrs. Sprague, who was alone ill the house, and then departed, taking nearly $40 with him and leaving the woman badly frightened but not badly hurt.
 Two boys, each nineteen years old, were hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind, for the murder of a lad two years younger, in order to take from him e few dollars which he had earned and saved. They sang and prayed on the scaifold, exhorting the crowd, to beware of evil associations.
 The twin babes of Isaac and Re- becea Martin, of Liberty Mills, Ind, were frozen to death in their crib, which had been placed in a fireless room. They were three months old. Martin visited the crib during the night and found one babe dead. The other was suffering severely and soon died. The clothing was frozen to the bodies of the infants.
 An epidemic of typhoid fever has broken out at St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec, necessitating the closing, for an indefinite period, of the colleges, schools and convents there Five nuns, acting as nurses ill the hospital, have died, and many members of the religious communities are very i'll. The cause of the epedemic has not been ascertained, but the disease has assumed alarming proportions.
 A wife at Elgin, H., whose throat was cut by her husband, in her death agony fatally stabbed her husband.
 The wife of the notorious outlaw, Abe Buzzard, leader of the Welch Mountain (Pa.) robbers, and three others of the gang, were arrested near Reading, Pa.
 The assessed value of real estate in New York State in 1882 was S2, ,657, 218,- 86I. The assessed value of personal es- tate in 1882 was $315, O39, ,085, decrease from 1881 of $35, 9S2, 104.
 At Crested Butte, a small mining camp in Gunnison county, Col, terri ble explosion occurred Thursday morn ing. Sixty seven men went down the Colorado Coal and Iron Companys coal mine. Of these, eleven men, who were just about descending into the mine, were hurled back by the force of the explosion. They were thrown back distance of fifty or sixty feet, and 1t is miracle that they escaped. Only five of the victims have been brought to the surface of the earth. Those remaining are lying dead in @ chaos of coal, earth and timber, killed by the explosion of the gas. The five men who were saved were about to enter the mine when the explosion occurred. They were thrown back with such force that they were all badly injured, and all of them will probably die.
 The engine and machine shops, which were located 100 feet from the mouth of the mines, were totally wrecked,
 Divers went down in the hold of the City of Columbus. No bodies were seen.
 Special advices from St. Johns, N. F., report the probable loss of O crew of six men, whose vessel was carried out to sea by the ice.
 The North Carolina merchant who eloped with a thirteen-year. old girl was arrested in Asheville, N. c. One hundred and four Italian i'm migrants have hbelled the German steamship Prinz Georg at New Orleans.
 The State Senate passed bill ex- tending the present term of the New York county Oyer and Ter miner Court in order to give the special Grand Jury opportunity to continue the investiga- tion into municipal frauds.
 The body of woman we'll dressed was taken from the water at 121st street and East River, New York. About her waist was stout cord holding two flat irons
 The principal business block in Woodhaven, N. Y was burned on Tues day night, causing loss of $65, ,000 and rendering twenty-tour famili es homeless.
 Hope is abandoned for the safety of the schooner Kuutsford, of Gloucester, Mass, on q fishing cruise to the Georges. She carried a crew of fourteen men.
 Action in the Iowa Legislature seeks to restrict national liquor selling license by requiring that the applicant shall first have State license.
 At Pittsburg, Pa., James Mutt, the slayer of Dukes, having been examined and pronounced sane by medical con- mission, was discharged from custody.
 The governor of New York has re- ported that 449 applications for pardons, etc, had been presented to him during the year 1888 Thirty-nine pardons, reprieve and IT communications had been granted, 181 applications had been de- nied and 2l1 were now pending.
 The reception to President Arthur at the Union League Club House, New York, was attended by e large and dis tipguished gathering of men prominent ill every walk in life. The President held levee in the ball room of the club house, which was followed by dancing and supper.
 Luke and Bill Jones, under sentence of death for Murder at Jackson Court House, Ohio, broke jail, but were re- captured after fight in the woods.
 The jury in the Mutt murder trial rendered verdict of acquittal on &C., count of insanity when the act was com mitted.
 Official reports laid before the Do- minion Parliament show that the na- tional debt has materially increased since 1878.
 George W. Lathrop, an actor, was found frozen to death in an area in Will liamsburg, N. Y. He was out of em ployment, and had been on a spree.
 An accident occurred on the Nickel ldtS 1eOduj uedE ulEhey, CudIGtlqud county, Ill.,, by which a snow blow and two engines were thrown from the track. One of the train hands was killed and another was fearfully mangled.
 At Antioch, Cal, hotel was de. stroyed by fire and two men perished iD the flames.
 William r. Kirk '(Tammany) was electt d president of the Board of Alder men, Of New York city, four Republican members supporting him.
 It is declared that National Pro- hibition Convention will be held and a prohibition ticket placed in the field in 1884.
 A man at Chardon, Ohio, confessed Ihnt hn nLl l. ]