Connecticut western news., 1884-09-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
GENERAL ITEMS,

GENERAL ITEMS.
 The town of Pierre, Dakota, was nearly destroyed by fire.
 The action of Riel, the rebel of 1870, in the Northwest, is causing fears of another out break of the Indians and haR-breeds.
 The scheme for founding 8 national war school for naval off cers has been submitted to the Secretary of the Navy and approved by him.
 The Alaska exploring expedition, under Lieutenant Stoney, in the schooner Ounalaska, has been heard from. The explorations are progressing favorably.
 Burger, Hurlbut & Livingston, sugar re- liners, of New York, made an assig gnment, with preferences of $175,000.
 Suit has been commenced against the bondsmen of the fugitive Captain Howgate
 -J. H. Squier, private batker of Wash ington, who recently became involved in busi- ness troubles, committed suicide.
 "A dispatch from Augusta. Me-, says: ''The total vote of the State will reach 142, 410 and Robies majority over Redman, 20 615."
 A very favorable condition of the crops is shown by the report of the Department of Agriculture.
 The canal tonnage reported for August shows considerable reduction as compared with the same month of last year.
 . Gold is reported to have been discovered in the Little Rock Mountains, M. T., and there is a stampede to that place.
 By the explosion of still at Pekin, H., on Wednesday three persons were killed.
 State Conventions were held in New Hampshire by the democrats and the pro- hibitionists in O nnecticut by the green packers; in Massachusetts by the prohibition ists, and in Nebraska by the anti-monopolists.
 The japanning works of A. Cragin, in Sandford street, Brooklyn, N. Y., were on Wednesday completely destroyed by fire, in which one man lost his life and two others were in all probability, fatally injured. The factory consisted of & rough two story wooden structure, with tall brick chimney.
 Edward Murray driver employed by Mail Contractor Otis in New York, was caught in the act of pilfering from mail wagon. His accomplice jumped of ferryboat into the river to escape arrest.
 "A cyclone in the West almost annihilated the town of Clear Lake, Wis, on Wednesday.
 "A little girl. found sleeping in the streets of New York, said she had done 80 for three weeks, having been cast of by her father.
 It is probable that some of the directors of the New Jersey National Bank, of New Brunswick, whose president and cashier con- mitted suicide, will be locked up and made to give an account of their stewardship.
 A telegraph operator was killed by one of the mine guards in the Hooking Valley, Ohio, why imagined the unfortunate man was striker seeking to set fire to the works.
 -The Republicans carried Maine by about fifteen thousand plurality and elected the en- tire Congressional delegation. The prohibit ton amendment was carried by large ma jority.
 The failure of the fishing season on the northeast coast of Newfoundland, caused by the foe, renders famine imminent.
 The Lincoln Savings Bank at Fayetteville Ky, suspended.
 -Advices from Trepassey, N. F., report two more dismal marine disasters in consequence of Mondays hurricane. A large Western schooner, with all hands on board, was lost on Virgin Reefs, Placentia Bay. Another was lost with every soul on Mistaken Point.
 Senator Anthony's funeral at Providence, R. l., was very imposing.
 "A clergyman was instantly killed while walking on the railroad track near Southport, Conn.
 -Highwsymen are operating on tourists In the great National Park
 At Troy, N. T., young man was fatally shot by a policeman while running from the latter after being ordered to halt.
 A confagration brokeRnut in Cleveland, Ohio which caused immense destruction of property and threatened to lay waste large part of the city.
 The amount of the deficiency in the New Brunswick National Bank was rumored on Saturday to be as high as S260, ,0O0
 POLITICAL
 The official returns from Arkansas show the vote cast for Governor at the State election to be as follows Hughes (Dem. ), 99,972: Boles Rep.), 55,S36; Hughes's majority. A,l86
 The Colorado Republican State Convention nominated Ben. H. Eaton, for Governor on the eighteenth ballot. Ex-United States Sen ator labor and Lieut.. Gov. Meyer were candi- dates.
 The Tammany General Committee adopted the report and resolutions to ratify the nomi- nation of Cleveland and Hendricks by vote of 810 to 87.
 In the Greenback State Convention in Con nec1cut, James L. Curtiss, of Stratford, was nominated for Governor, and H. l.. Soper, for Lieutenant-Governor.
 The New Hampshire Democratic State Con- vention nominated John M. Hill for Governor. John H. George, Joseph 0. Moore, Frank JGnes and Irving w. Drew were chosen Presi- dential Electors. The platform endorses the Democratic National platform, and declares that the purchasing of nominations and cleo tions in the State has given New Hampshire 8 reputation for bribery and corruption, which is a reproach to every honest citizen.
 The Massachusetts Prohibitionists at their State Convention, nominated Prisident Seelye, of Amherst 0 llege, for Governor, and Henry H. Faxon, of Quincy for Lieutenant Governor.
 FOREIGN TTEMS.
 The King of Italy has given $60, GOO for he relief of the sufferers by cholera at Naples and the American Minister to Italy has sub Scribed $1,000 to the relief fund. Italy has abolished the quarantine agalnst cholera on the French frontier.
 The foreign merchants at Shanghai have protested agrinst the blockade of the river ihere by the Chinese.
 General Lord Wolseley has made prepara- 4<N& &olr1 case the continued falling of the Nile should make it necessary.
 The French government denies that China has declared war.
 In the city of Naples on Thursday there were 966 fresh cases of cholera, and BPS deaths. Some of the doctors and officials of the city have failed in their duty in the emergency. In other parts of Italy numerous deaths are reported.
 Fully a thousand arrests have been made at Warsaw in connection with the visit of the Czar. The imperial party have now arrived at Wilma.
 Tt is officially stated in Paris that war will shortly be declared against China. more important French expedition is in preparation.
 The city of Warsaw is under extraordinary police regulations during the visit of the Czar, who, it is said, will have himself crowned King of Poland.
 The cholera continues to make dreadful Tavages in Italy, especially in Naples, where 9o6 fresh cases and 391 deaths are reported in two days.
 General Wolseley and Lord Northbrook have arrived at Alexandria and wilt proceed at once to Cairo.
 A grand ball was given on Wednesday at Warsaw in honor to the Czar's visit, and seven hundred people were present
 Lord Dufferin has been appointed Viceroy of India.
 The Chinese government has made dec- laraton of war in the form of 8 manifesto from the Emperor to the people.
 The Chinese have apologized to the Eng fish for having fired, in mistake, upon one of their vessels.
 The effect of the cholera in Naples is that all business is at standstill. Camps are to be erected for the poor outside the city