Connecticut western news., 1884-10-22
GENERAL ITEMS.

rags from districts infected with cholera, will not be reecinded before December 1. Valuable c, dar timber and large Gan- berry bog in New Jersey have been destroyed by fire.
 A young lady stepped in front of moving train at Harrisburgh, Pa. A checkman sprang 'o her rescue. The lady was killed and the caeckman is dying .
 An express ran into gravel train near St. Thomas, Ont. The engineer was killed and several persons were injured.
 Frost occurred on Thursday morning in north Carolina, ant SHOW fell in New Hamp- shire.
 "A probably fatal explosion of naphtha gas occurred at mill in Lawrence, Mass.
 Frank Hatton has been promoted by Pres ldent Arthur to be Postmaster-G General Justin & Merrill was elected United States Senator in Vermont, by . vote of, Morril, 204; Redfeld, 29; Scattering, s. Absent, or not voting, 27 members.
 A negro assaulted ten-year-old girl near tended himself against the attacks Of lynch ing party.
 Two lunatics were discovered among the passengers on the steamer Pennsylvania from England for Philadelphia; they were sent back It is said that the Pennsylvania coal com bination has ordered suspension of the mines during one week in November and two in De- oember.
 A woman's medical college has been opened ct Kingston, Ont.
 Smallpox is raging in Dakota.
 The new Christy Oil We'll made 5,2O0 bar Hels in 24 hours. The well has averaged 230 barrels an hour or nearly 6, 900 barrels per day. This large flow weakened the oil market. The number of voters registered in Brook lyn on the first two days of 1880 was 91, ,918: of 1881, 67,54i; of 1882, Fl, ,732; of 1885, 70,S86; and of 1884, 1859.
 The registration in New York city on the second day was 77,640. For the first two days he registration was l52, ,41s, or HAS over that The French bark aalathea, of 1,2O7 tons burden, from Havre, with a cargo of coal ar rived in Valparaiso, Ohh, Monday. While rounding Cape Horn sn explosion of gas oc- cured in the hold, necessitating the throwing overheard of 100 tons of cargo. One of the crew was killed by the explosion.
 Captain Charles B. Dix, of No. A7 South street. New York, has received 6 letter from one of his ship captains in Greenland convey ing information of the finding of more Jean nette relics.
 A patient who was being taken to clinique in the Cincinnati Hospital fell both were killed
 A dispatch from Montevidso, says The steamer Ramses reports having passed the steamer Articque, abandoned and burning, of Virgins Cape. The Ramses signalled her, but received no reply.
 Almost the entire business portion of Liberty, Va, has been destroyed by fire.
 The Kansas Prohibitionists have put H. L. Phillips at the head of their State ticket.
 Through 8 collision of freight trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad one man was killed and another severely injured.
 A commercial traveller st Waterbury Ct . was mistaken for burglar and fatally in- jured.
 Hog cholera prevails in the western part of New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania.
 A colored murderer was lynched by negroes at Rolling Fork, Miss.
 FOREIGN TTEMR.
 The cargo of the Guion steamer Nevada, from New York for Liverpool, caught fire GU Wednesday. She put into Queenstown, re- ceived assistance in quelling the flames and proceeded on her voyage.
 The Ministerial deadlock in France st,ll continues.
 Wilhelm L, Duke of Brunswick, is be- ieved to be dying.
 Reports are current in Vienna that Ger many is about to send more men-of-war to the west coast of Africa.
 General Briere de rIsle sends an official account of Colonel Donnier's engagement on the Loo Chuan River, reporting that an en- brenched camp was stormed and three thou sand Chinese killed. -Osman Digna is massing bis forces at Ia mai, and the English have lost their opportun- ity 10 crush him.
 MT. A. M. Sullivan, the well known Irish leader and one of the founders of the home rule movement. died at Dublin.
 A Hungarian from Philadelphia was ar rested, on landing at Liverpool, with large quantity of dynamite.
 It is expected that the Congo conferenc, will be preliminary, and it's sessions short Mir. Stanley says the interior of the Congo country is as healthy as America.
 There is strong anti-English feeling a Hong Kong. A riot occurred there in whicl several persons were killed.
 A grave crisis is at hand in France, tn, Cabinet and the Budget Committee being un able to reconcile their differences
 It is proposed in England to raise G2O, ,OOC in America for the restoration of Shakespearei burial place.
 M. Henri Rochefort says that the FrencE government has received alarming news iron China and Tonquin which it is keeping secret Miss Ida Therese, daughter of Captail Foote, U. s. N., was married in London t Lord Henry William Paulet, son of tn Marquis of Winchester.
 -Seditious placards have been posted il different parts of Lyons.
 At secret trial in St. Petersburg si officers were sentenced to death.
 The Mahdi is colec ing Q strong force t invest Khartoum and starve out the garrison -Twenty-eight Cuban flibusters and over hundred packages of dynamite and other mu nitions of war were found slowed away on th Spanish steamer San Jacinto.
 A collision on the West Jersey road 6 Camden killed one man and wounded several A farmer near Quebec was mistaken for duck and killed by neighbor who was hunt ing.
 A young lad living in Mecklenburg county Va, accidentally shot and killed his brother.
 Two thousand Turkish troops have beel ordered from Bagdad to attack the Hauoven KuIds, who have revolted.
 -Catania, in Sicily, has been visited by an other cyclone. Thirty persons were killed King Humbert has sent E4OO for the relief o the sufferers.
 The new university building in Vienna wa opened by the Emperor Francis Joseph ol Monday.
 - On Sept 16 Yokohama and Tokio wer viRited by terrible typhoon. In the latte city 5000 houses were wholly or partially de stroyed and twenty persons were killed. Tn loss of life at sea was appsllng. No estimat could be made of the number of lives lost The typhoon was followed on tho 17th b another of great force, but of brief duration The cholera in Spain is officially an nounced to have ceased.
 -El Mahdi IS sending two large armies t attack Dongola,; It is believed that Colone Stewart was not in command of the part which was massacred at Wady Garna.
 England has established aprotectorase owe New Guinea.
 Admiral Courbet is blockading sewers ports on the west coast of Formosa
 England has sent an ultimatum to th Boers, and is said to have in contemplation a expedition of 8,OO0 men.