Connecticut western news., 1884-05-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.


 A heavy frost took place in Wisconsin. Three negro murderers were hanged at GIeauyile, s. O., and two white men for the same crime at Ashland, Ohio.
 A man arrested in Philadelphia for mal- practice was found dead ill his cell.
 The coal tonnage of the anthracite carry ing companies for Aprit amounted to }, 828, 209 tons, an increase of 316 499 tons compared with the corresponding month of last year. There were IS! failures and suspensions in the United States reported to the agencies during the past week against 132 in the ore ceding week. and 166. 116 and 8S in the corre- spending weeks of 1883, 1882 and 1881, respec- lively.
 Began Clsh, the fugitive murderer, was overtaken by posse near Cheraw, s. O., but, on answering with a shotgun summons to surrender, the entire posse fired and he fell pierced with twenty balls.
 Joseph Baring, sixty-four years old, while walking along Third avenue, New York city, at noon, attacked by three men, who dragged him into 8 hallway, and, after robbing him, choked and beat him to death. His murderers were arrested.
 lin the New York State Senate bill allow ing New York city to contribute $50, 900 for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Pedestal Fund passed.
 Lieutenant Emory, commanding the Bear, reports from St Johu's generally favorable conditions in the Arctic for the relief of Greedy and party.
 Six men were badly scalded by the burst ing of an eighteen-inch steam pipe, which fed three large boilers at the Pennsylvania Steel Works in Harrisburg.
 in South Worcester, Mass, the Papachoag mll owned by George Compton, was burned. The mill was four stories high aud built of brick. It was used for the manufacture of woo.en yarn, and was running day and night. The fire originated ill the picker room, and T I,- kl,af, lad to jump from the upper windows. Fully 20 of them were badly injured and some of them it is feared fatally.
 The bodies of two fishermen in dory were picked up by Gloucester schooner.
 After & fight in which he was stabbed, man walked away and bled to death in the streets of Utica.
 -Tha officers of the New England Tobacco Growers Association have inaugurateda move ment to secure the repeal of all internal reve- nue taxes on tobacco.
 The bill providing civil service examina- tions for the employees of the cities in the State of New York, passed the Assembly and now goes to the Governor.
 A reduction of $2,00O, 900 from the New York State taxation of last year is made in the bills which passed the Assembly.
 The witnesses who acknowledged their perjury in the Hill-Sharon case in the San Francisco trial have been arrested and placed under heavy bail
 Two fatal cases of criminal negligence on the part of druggists occurred in PItteburg.
 The Seymour Satin Company, of Minne- apols is ill the hands of receiver.
 Cyrus H. Mccormick, head of the great harvester manufacturing company, and one of the richest men in Chicago died Tuesday, aged 75. He had been an invalid for several years He was never known as politician.
 The Governor of New York vetoed the Broadway Arcade or Underground Railroad bill.
 Tn New York, the notorious James Irving, an ex-Alderman and ex-Assemblyman, was surrendered in court by his bondsmen and sent to the Penitentiary to serve the two years sentence imposed upon him by the Court of General Sessions in May
 The Grand Jury of Cincinnati report thel findings i'll the riot matter with hfty-four in dictments.
 Captain Munro of the City of Rome, positively denied that any signals of distress were observed on board the ship Louisa or that any signals at all were raised by the bark Theresa, which vessels had on board the sur viyors of the State of Florida disater.
 A man who was helping to hoist a safe into third story window in Ncw York had his fip- ger. caught ill the tackle so that the ropes had to be cnt to release him, the great mass of metal fell to the sidewalk, demolisbing the cellar roof of the bnilding.
 At the interstatn drill and encampment in Texas, the infantry fret prize of S5,000 was awarded to the HOust,n Lisit Guards
 Lieutenant Sehuetze has made report of his search through the Lena delta for Lieut. Chipp and party, embodyin2 description of the country, character Of the inhab tants. local government, etc., of the regions through which he iourneyed
 "A prominent barrister Of Winnepeg ran of with $70. 0GO of othtr people's money. The expected results of Canadian irnni- grafton are greatly lessened by the number of persona who immediately cross the border and settle in the United States.
 The Norwegian bark Theresa, having on board the remainder of the survivors of the collision between the steamship State of Flor ida and Pomena, has arrived at Quebec.
 A young man named Walls became insane through accidentally killing his mother in Sussex county. Del.
 Trouble is feared among the Choctaw In- diaus owing to some of them being dissatisfied vitn a recently enacted law regarding the tral of criminals The militia have been called oul and stationed at different parts of the Na- tiun.
 The spinners' strike at Fall River, Mass, is practical y ende ', and d astrou.ly for the eplnners.