Connecticut western news., 1884-03-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

1QV6SIlSaIluR GUY dudlrS, IOOh u0ClSlNc action by bringing in indictments against Sheriff Alexander V. Davidson, Deputy Sheriff David McGonigal. who is Chief of the Order Of-Arrest Bureau; | Warden James Finn, of the Ludlow Street Jail, Deputy Warden Philip Kiernan, and Jacob Wertheimer, a clerk in the Sheritf's office. Perjury, extortion and grand larceny are among the offences charged.
 There were 192 failures in the United States last week, against 166 in the preceding week. Of these there were 43 in the Middle States, 2l in the New England States, 39 in the Southern, | 69 in the Western and 20 ill the Pacific | States and Territories In Canada there were 37 failures.
 The price of milk per eight and one- half quart can, delivered in Boston, | Mass, for the next six months, is thir- | ty-four cents.
 The celebrated case of Cashier Bar ] ron, found tied, gagged and dead in the safe of the bank at Dexter, Me-, is like | ly to give rise to another sensation--a woman, it is said, being ready to confess @ full knowledge of the tragedy.
 At Harrisburg, Pa, the Governor granted respite until June to Jessie Garter, of Allegheny county, sentenced to be hanged on April Sd.
 The City of Chester, which arrived | in New York Thursday after @ very stormy voyage, brought to port the first white elephant that ever visited America | He is of an ashen gray color, and is con- signed to Adam Forepaugh. Willard G. Craver, an insane man, shot himself through the heart at No 107 East Thirty-rirst street, New York, on Thursday, and, strange as 1t may seem, afterward secreted the revolver. The Chicago and New York express train on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, met with ter. rible accident two miles east of Salem. | O., Thursday morning. While rounding sharp curve, the train running at high rate of speed, the boiler of the engine ex- ploded with terrible violence and hurled the engine down fifteen foot embank- ment. The engineer and fireman were blown 400 feet away and instantly killed. Several others were seriously injured.
 A mixed train on. the Utica, Ithaca < Elmira Railroad ran off the track near Perryville, Madison county, New York, on Thursday morning, causing a pas. senger coach to roll over three times and land upside down against tree. Half dozen persons were injured but none fatally.
 Four children of G. D. Alsop, hv- ing near Louisville, Ky, were given opium on Wednesday by their mother in mistake for powdered rhubarb. Two have died and the others are not ex. pected to recover.
 A young woman claiming to be the wife of the son of a prominent merchant of New York city petitioned the Su- preme Court to restore to her her little son, who, she ayers, is kept from her by professional nurse. She says that few days after its birth she was told the boy died and was buried. The 1 coffin was opened since, she states, aud was found to contain girls body. The petitioner claims that her alleged hus- band, the nurse and female doctor con- spired to deceive her.
 A most sweeping measure of taxa tion on the business and occupations of Massachusetts is proposed to the State Legislature by the Assessor of that State.
 The Yellowstone National Park Im- provement Company, of which MT. Rufus Hatch was founder and is the president, is in the hands of receiver. Adverse legislation in Congress pre- vented the company from issuing it's stock and raising money. MT. Hatch is the heaviest creditor.
 Mime. Anna Bishop, who has been known for almost fifty years as one of the leading soprano singers of the world, died on Tuesday night at No. 1,443 Park avenue, New York.
 The Mormons now on trial for vio- Iating the Edmunds law, claim that polygamy is an exercise of their religion and cannot constitutionally be meddled with.
 The Grand Jury at New Lexin gton, Ohio, has found twenty three indict- ments for murder in recent lynohing case, and seven in the McDevitt cruelty case.
 Dennis Reilly, who shot Celia J. Ranney in Brooklyn on Sunday last with an "unloaded pistol" was held by the Coroner for manslaughter.
 At Honesdale, Pa, man encoun- tered an enormous wildcat in his bed room and, after being severely laceratea by the animal, succeeded in killing it.
 In the New York Senate the bills making the Comptroller and the Presi- dent of the Board of Alderman, of New York city, elective by the people were passed.
 The Virginia Legislature, before adjourning, authorized the forwarding to the President of the United States Senate copy of the resolutions recently adopted requesting Senator Malone to resign.
 Three men were burned to death at Cleveland, Ohio, by the expios of an oil still, on Wednesday.
 The breaking of the levee at Roberts Island, near Stockton, Cal, Tuesday night, destroyed 27,000 acres oi wheat, valued at $5O0,000.
 -Ex- Governor Horatio Seymour sends letter to the chairman of the Canal Committee at Albany, embodying his views upon our canal policy. He strongly advocates taxation of tho State IS the best means for maintaining the water routes, and says that when well managed they will serve to keep down exorbitant railroad freights.
 A severe shock of earthquake was experienced at several places ill and near Newfoundland on Wednesday. The in- habitants were thoroughly alarmed.
 The dynamite scare at Ottawa. Ont, has not yet subsided, and extra guards are still watching the Parliament buildings.
 The ship Elizabeth Nicholson re ports feeling a severe earthquake shocl at sea.
 -One million dollars is to be divided
 pro rata among the creditors of F. Shaw X Brothers, of Boston, who suspended