Connecticut western news., 1884-01-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

nearly dead from wounds inflicted by himself with the intention to cheat the gallows.
 Two children were burned to death, with their dwelling at Mechanicstown, Ohio, on Friday, and four met similar fate at Bradford, Pa..
 A boy whose habit of throwing stones, at New Haven. caused the death of a playmate, was sentenced to Q fine and two months imprisonment for manslaughter.
 The dwelling of J. v. Carver, near Duke Centre, Pa, was burned and Mir. Garvers four children, aged from one to six years, perished in the flames. The fire, caused by overpressure of the natural gas used for fuel in the house, occurred during a short absence of Mrs. Carver.
 Representative of various commer- cial organizations in New York city formed the Association of New York Ex- changes on Legislation, its purpose be- ing indicated by its title.
 Edward Rector, who was hanged at Baton Rouge, La, on Friday, after bid ding farewell to his child, fought on the scafold with the sheriff's deputies, and 1t required the assistance of several of the by islanders to throw the man down the trap.
 A train of twenty cars loaded with live stock was showed under on Tuesday night few miles from Chicago, and all efforts to reach the animals with food anu water proved fruitless. It Is be- lieved that the stock have perished.
 MT. Henry Willard has resigned the presidency of the Northern PacIhc Rail- road. The directors accepted his resigna- tion, but retain h m ill the Board of Di- rectors. They voted him sympathetic resolutions and $10, 00O year salary for the period he served as president. MT. Willard has turned over 10 the Northern Pacific, and to the Transportation Com pany property sufficient to pay what he owed both.
 The schooner Adrianna went ashore on Block Island, R. I. Two of her crew were frozen to death.
 A fire damp explosion in a Scranton, Pa., colliery injured fourteen men.
 A cotton fire in Savannah, Ga, caused loss of $200,000
 The mine inspector for the middle district Of Luzerne county, Pa, reports that during the past year there were 48S accidents in the mines, of which number BOA were slight, 196 serious md S8 at- tended by fatal results. As a result of the fatal accidents 36 women were wid- owed and 95 children were made orphans.
 A serious inundation caused by an ice jam in the St. Lawrence took place at Montreal and much damage was done.
 During the late cold snap the ther- mometer was 30 degrees below zero in various parts of Minnesota.
 The Haytian Consul at New York has received authentic information that tue city of Jacmel, following the example set by Jeremie on the 18th ult., has sur- rendered to the governmental authori- ties. This virtually ends the rebellion in Hayti.
 Robert Martin and James B. Graves were executed on Thursday at Newark, N. J. The moose slipped about Martin s neck and he was strangled to death, the scene being o shocking one.
 Two men drank lager beer in an Ithaca. N. Y, saloon and one died, the other having narrow escape from death.
 The jury in the Bond girl case, in Southern Illinois, brought in 8 verdict of not guilty against the three men charged with the crime. The people were very indignant and threats of lynching were heard on all sides.
 -Four accidents took place on the Grand Trunk Railroad in one day, none of them were serious.
 James A. Wallace, cashier of the Bank of Hopkinsville, Ky, has fled. He IS said to be defaulter to an amount exceeding S3O.OOO.
 The Dominion government has de- clded to remove certain restrictions pro. hiblting the importation of American hogs.
 The lockout by the window glass manufacturers has resulted in the estab- lishment of eight or nine cooperative establishments by the operatives, all now ready to begin work.
 A carter at Paxton furnace, near Harrisburg, Pa, dumped load of hot cinders over an embankment, buryina an unknown man under it. His body was burned almost to crisp. A terrible disaster occurred on the Great Western division of the Grand Trunk Railroad, just west of the city limits of Toronto, Canada, and immedi- ately upon the edge of Lake Ontario, on l Wednesday morning. The cause of the disaster was collision between a special eastern bound freight train and a suburban train which was composed of dummy, engine and two passenger cars. The freight locomotive drove the dummy engine clean through the Car to which 1t was attached, and mounted both, piling freight cars still higher What had before teen Car full of strong, hearty men became in an instant a sickeuing death trap filled with mangled, 1 bleeding humanity. A second later the boiler of tie dummy engine exploded, and the steam and water carried death or awful injuries to 0 majority of the poor creatures. Fire followed and completed the calamity. The agonies of the sufferers were indescrib- able. Some of them piteously besougLt those near by to pour water upon their scalded limbs and bodies, to do anything to ease their intolerable pain. Their limbs were bruised, mangled, half eaten away by fire, or swollen by the action of the steam and water. Tweuty-seven passengers are said to have been killed and as many injured. It was fifty minutes before any man could walk back two miles through the snow to the telegraph ofioe and apprise the railway officials of the disa ter. The headquarters of the Great Western branch are in Hamilton, forty miles distant. Word was at once sent to Agent Gormally in Toronto, and he sent out relief trains. The dead and wounded were brought to the city in passenger cars.
 Charles Stevens, life prisoner for murder, has been pardoned by the Governor of Missouri for kindness to bis recently deceased child.
 Governor Jarvis, of Georgia, has committed the sentence of Lynch King to Imprisonment for life, and respited Benjamin Gillian to February 29.