Connecticut western news., 1884-01-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 mortally wounded and thirteen others seriously injured in the religious riot at Harbor Grace, N. F. The Catholics Orangemen paraded through the streets of the city, wearing their uniform and offensive regalia, they would obstruct them, even at bloody cost. The Orange men carried banners, flags and various symbolic devices, and were accompanied by bands of music. They numbered in all about six hundred persons. They wended their way unmolested through Harvey st. to junction road, and then were about to deploy into Water street, distant about fifty yards, when they were suddenly y attacked by partially armed mob numbering about 300 men. The whole sanguinary affray did not occupy five minutes. Had the Orangemen been even partially armed scores of lives would certainly have been lost. Of the killed two were Roman Catholics, and were shot by guns used by their own party, they having been mixed uI accidentally in the ranks of the Orange men at the moment of tue attack.
 The division of the money paid by the New York Elevated Railroad as damages for injuries to Major John T. Harold gives that gentleman about $17,347; his lawyers, $12, ,040, and his doctors, $2,000. Legal expenses about $3, ,690, and $l, 800 is in doubt between lawyers and doctors.
 The records of the Building Blu year on new buildings as compared with 1882, when plans representing $44, 793,- 1S6 were filed.
 The Socialistic Labor Congress at Baltimore, while advocating radical change in the system of republican gov. ernment, condemned the radical ideas of Herr Most.
 At Trenton, N. J., an aged farmer was swindled out of $1,610 by buncc men.
 -Brigadier-G General Andrew A. Humphreys, U. s. A. (retireD, died suddenly in Washington, from au attack of angina pectoris. He was a notable officer of the Engineer Department and was born in Pennsylvania.
 General Grant fell on the sidewalk in front of his house, in New York, on Monday evening and has since been confined to his bed. The exact nature of the injury has not been ascertained, but no serious results are looked for.
 The shipbuilding trade of Maine was better than expected during 1882.
 The miners are protesting against the introduction of Hungarian serf labor into this country.
 Two train hands were killed by the carrying down of trestle and train over Long Creek, North Carolina.
 Five men dead and two dying is the result of a lynching case ill McDade, Texas.
 In 1883, there were laid 6,600 miles of main railway track, at an approxi- mate cost of $165, 5,000,00 making the total number of miles of railway in the country to date about 100000. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming are the only States and Territories in which no new road was built.
 A most disastrous accident happened on the Louisville and Chicago road near Salem, Washington county, Ind. Pas senger train No. 4, south from Chicago, went through bridge ut that point at daylight. The cars were crushed and burned, and six passengers were killed while large number were seriously in- jured.
 In fashionable boarding house in St. Louis, before all the boarders, the husband of the proprietress shot his stepson, the husband of his stepdaughter, and himself
 National salutes were fired from all the forts in celebration of the centennial anniversary of Washington's retirement from the army.
 While family named Gray, con- sisting of man, wife, and child, and two middle-aged ladies from Illinois, were attempting to cross Petit Jean Creek, near Paris, Arkansas, they were all swept away by the swollen stream and drowned.
 Two fires on Monday night caused the destruction of $500,000 worth of property, two lives and injuries of six men at St. Louis, Mo.
 Topeka, Kan. has elected Mir. Brad ford Miller, a strict prohibitionist, as it's Mayor.
 The proprietor of gambling den in New Orleans shot and killed one of the frequenters of his place, Q city official.
 Six miners were killed and others seriously injured by an avalanche at Ouray, Col. The snow was started from the high mountains and buried the house in which the miners slept.
 While cage containing twenty con- vict laborers was descending a shaft in Pratt mines, near Birmingham, Ala, the engine became unmanageable for a mo- ment, and the cage fell to the bottom, a distance of 204 feet, and rebounded 60 feet. Most of the men fell out. One of them was killed, and thirteen were in- iured, two of them seriously. Two of the men were whites and the others col ored.
 A telegram from the Prefect of Arequipa says that the evacuation of that city by the Chilians has been con- pleted, and that everything is quiet.
 Mrs. Mary Kirwin, of Newington, Ct., is dead at the great age of 105 years She was born in the county Fermanagh, Ireland, in IT'S, and did not come to America until she was eighty-two years old. She has had exceptional good health, never having been sick an entire week in her life. Death resulted from old age. Her eldest son is aged sixty five.
 Three men were caught in the burn ing caboose of 8 shattered freight train at Minneapolis, Minn., and seriously in- jured.
 Two women and a child were mur- dered by unknown parties near Moncure, N. c. Each victim was struck several blows with an ax.
 At Philadelphia society for the pre- vention of cruelty to children has been notified by the United States Pension Office that there are several thousand dollars there belonging to ward of the society.
 Two men were killed by boiler ex- nI