Connecticut western news., 1884-04-16
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Senate.
 In the New York State Senate the Adirondack Commission bill, the Tene- ment House Commission bill, the bill to lay out parks in the annexed district of New York and the bill prohibiting the sale and manufacture of oleomargarine were passed.
 Captain Schoonhoven, of the wrecked steamer Daniel Steinmann, has made his formal statement of the terrible disaster. He says he had overrun his reckoning in the fog, and, till fatally too late, mistook Sambro light for that it another point. He thinks if guns had been fired by the watch ashore he might have been warned ill time to es- cape the peril.
 Cincinnati has empanelled special Grand Jury to investigate her riot. A German killed himself in Will liamsburg, N. r., because his wife scolded him for being out of work.
 A large mass meeting at Cooper Institute, New York, was very enthu- siastic upon the proposition to build a home for disabled ex-Confederate sol diers. Corporal Tanner, General J. B.. Gordon, Judge Albion G. Tourgee and others spoke, and letters were read from Grant, Sherman, Hancock and others. Western stock raisers a4e talking of sending cattle to England by way of anada, and thus leaving Chicago in the | iurch.
 The result of the Cincinnati riot has been to kill the amusement business for the present. Strangers will not visit the city and ladies are afraid to be out at night.
 David Wells, who shot constable in Scott county, H., was removed to the Sangamon County Jail to prevent his being lynched.
 The wrestling match, at Cleveland, between Duncan c. Ross and Matsada Sorakichi, the famous Japanese, was won by Ross, although he Esd rib broken ill the affair.
 A fire in the St. Georges flats, East Seventeenth street, New York city, which were guaranteed as "absolutely fireproof," completely gutted the build ing. The structure burned with the rapidity of Q finder box, and, although the fire broke out in the day, when every 1 body was astir, some of the occupants narrowly escaped with their lives. Elijah Brown, in Baltimore, saw & stranger strike woman ill the face. He gallantly interfered, when the other man drew revolver and fired, the ball going through Browns brain. Both the wo- man and the murderer walked quietly of, no one attempting to detain them.
 Trouble from striking miners is an- | ticipated in Western Indiana.
 The emigration of workiugmen and their families from Canada to the New England States this spring is said to be unprecedented.
 There is considerable excitement among the Indians in British Columbia, owing to the recent lynching of one of their number by disguised Americans, who having kidnapped the Indian took him across the border and hanged him 10 tree.
 Six New York police captains denied before tue Roosevelt Committee that they had ever received money, directly or indirectly, from policy men or gam blers. Captain Killilea said no policy was being played in his precinct, but another witness declared that he had played the game inside of twenty-foul hours in that precinct. Anthony Com stock testified that he had been obliged to fight both gamblers and police to- gether.
 John Smith, miserly bachelor, who lives alone in a lonely place about nine miles from Rising Sun, Indiana, was tortured by robbers to make him tel where his money was hidden. Smitf was burned so badly that he will die The thieves found $20.
 A prize fight came off at Hyndman Pa., near the Maryland State line, be tween O Hungarian named Nickvest formerly St. Louis sport, and a BOstol pugilist. After 53 rounds a riot tool place in which Nickvcst and two other were killed and several others wounded by pistol shots.
 A narrow gauge railroad is projected be tween Boston and Worcester, Mass. | A Legislative Committee of the RhCd Island Legislature has reported adversely O Inc bill providing public whipping post fo wife beaters, on the ground that 1t was goin backward ill the march of civilization" { The strike of the unpaid railroad men i Ohio has been euded, and they have been pal for the work done last February A brutal fellow ill Philadelphia againS whom a siX-year-old child stumbled kicked tn little fellow so that he died in few hours. Seven cattle companies have leased 3, ,100 poo acres of land at two cents an acre per an mum for ten years from the Indians in til southwestern portion of Indian Territory. } --Neaf Beaver, West Virginia. Ht,l girl carried away by full grown bea1 The child was playing little way from he home and when sought she could Imt be found It wes discovered shortly after that q bear ha been near and carried her away. A large part of men started in pursuit. -Aprn returns of winter wheat and ry show a largely increased area planted, and , better average ill condition than i'll 1853. A wife ill Philadelphia sues another woma for $lO0,OOO for deprlvinS her of her husband and his fortune.
 Nova Scotia has granted electoral suifrag to all widows and unmarried women, so far a municipal electious aIe concerned.
 A woman in Illinois to frighten her hus band burned herself to death.
 The Delaware peach crop is reported unin
 ured by the recent storm.
 An aged couple were found dead in be- with their thrOats cut, at Rarltan, Coles county Ill.
 A wife beater in Philadelphia on being con fronted with his wife before magistrate dre, knife and nearly murdered her in the cour room.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The House passed the bill offering 1925, % | reward for rescuing or ascertaining the fate o the Greedy expedition.
 The committee resolution declaring that Mr Refers charge against H. V. Boynton was no sustained by the evidence, and that there wa no ground for any action by the House, wa adopted. Keif,r was present, but did not offe any objections.
 | The Committee on Public Lands reported bill forfeiting the Northern Pacific land grant
 The President sent to the Hruse, with an ,tp proving message, q special estimate of tn Chief of Ordnance asking permanent annua appropriation of 2 300, 900 for arnaments tu | sea coast for itications
 The House Committee on Judiciary adopted Representative Maybury's adverse report ot the J"lnt reso oution proposing a constitutions amendment to give women the right of suf fraSc. Mr. DorsheiIner was of opinion that i VIII be advisable at some future time to giv, women the right to vote