Connecticut western news., 1884-02-13


 during the fire. The structure had been erected as hre-proof. The roof was of brick and arched with iron girders, but hardly had the fremen put their ladders up when the power of the steam inside burst the building with loud explosion, aud a sheet of flame sixty feet wid @ swept out with Q horrible hiss. Ladders and men went down beneath the falling walls, and the men were buried in the ruins. The flames that illuminated the scene died away almost as quickly as they had ap- peared, leaving all in darkness, with the wounded lying almost within reach of their friends.
 The City Chamberlain of Troy, N. r., has disappeared so has $80,000
 A juvenile Jesse James gang at Min neapolls, Minn., took lad named Johnny Nolan to 8 neighbours barn and hanged him. He was struggEog in death throes when found and cut down.
 The water at Wheeling, W. Va., rose forty-ive feet and large portion of the city was under water. Fifteen lives were lost by the floods, and the damage to property was great.
 In New York city,A Billy McGlory was sentenced to six months in the Peni- tentiary, by Judge Cowing, for violation of the Excise law. A writ of habeas corpus was sued out by his counsel, re- turnable to-day. Billy did not look very repentant after the sentence.
 The steamer Alvena brings news from the island of Hayti that the rebels, who were defeated by President Salomon's troops, and who tried to es- cape by way of the seaports, were killed in great numbers. Kingston, Jam., is filled with fugitives.
 In the Upper Elkhorn valley, Ne braska, 'sKid" Wade, leader of the Mo brara outlaws and horse thieves, has been hanged by vigilants at 8 place called s'The Pen" at the mouth of Long Pine. They have arrested large mum Der of men in various parts of northern Nebraska. They have lynched clever men and others have met the same fate.
 The bill to abolish the contract labor system in the New Jersey State prison and in county jails was passed by the Assembly by vote of 49 to 7.
 A negro, charged with the murder of @ deputy sheriff, was taken from the jail at Crockett, Texas, by hundred masked horsemen and hanged.
 A grain warehouse at Fergus Falls, Minn., burst and 10000 bushels of wheat were lost.
 The protracted libel suit of Gaston Feuardent, 8 dealer in antiquities, against General l.. P. di Cesnola, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, which has been before the U. s. Circuit Court for three months past occupying it's attention for fifty-two actual days-was concluded by 8 verdict of the jury in behalf of the defendant in the material point-the charge that the director had altered certain figures in the Cypriote collection.
 Wendell Phillips died at his home in Boston Saturday evening. He was born in Boston on Nov. 29, 1911, and lived there all his life. In the height of the anti-slavery movement, when its advo- cates were often treated with obloquy, his voice commanded attention and re- spect from many who went only to scoff and jeer. His oratory was peculiar to himself. At the close of the war MT. Phillips came prominently to the front as an advocate of the principles of the Greenback-Labor party. He got 10000 votes as labor and temperance candi- date fol" Governor of Massachusetts in 1870, and soon became celebrated for as marked utterances on the labor question as had characterized his antl-slavery speeches. MT. Phillips was in great demand as lecturer.
 Harry E. Packer, president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, died suddenly of internal hemorrhage at his home in Mauch Chunk, Pa.
 The Queen of Tahiti, who is travel ing under the name of Mrs. Solomon, after witnessing the sights of Chicago left that city en route to New York.
 Active efforts are being made by Southern men to raise by subscription end otherwise fund wherewith to es. tablish home for indigent and wound ed ex-Confederate soldiers, who are the only veterans for whom no special pro- vision has been made.
 A diabolical crime was revealed In Gentry county, Mo, by the discovery of the body of farmer who is believed to have been tortured by fire and after ward beaten to death by robbers.
 Cold lead helped to make Sunday a lively day. A Texas desperado, having had some of his peculiar ways comment ed on by an Austin newspaper, entered the office with a revolver in his grasp, and, having driven the compositors out, proceeded to ''pi" the galleys.
 Attempts were made to assassinate a Polish Catholic priest at Grand Rapids, Mich., by shooting at him while in his study.
 The Brighton Ranch Company hay ing placed 8 wire fence round 52, GOO acres of grazing land belonging to the public domain in Nebraska, suit has been commenced in behalf of the gov ernment to have the fence removed.
 The explorer, O'Neil, has returned from a fourteen hundred mile trip through 8 hitherto unexplored part of Africa. Of course he found thickly populated countries and some hitherto unsuspected sources of rivers.
 The Ice Carnival at Montreal opened with plenty of glory, ice, cold weather, electric lights, Indians and other people.
 The dwelling of William Morrison, in Pocohontas county, ". Va, was burned, and two children were burned to death.
 Judge Henry Cooper, formerly United States Senator from Tennessee, was killed by robbers near Culiacon, Mexico.
 The Civil Rights bill in the Ohio Legislature has become 8 law. It is the same as that declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court.
 The Kentucky Democracy have pro- noted Representative Blackburn to the Tnited States Senate,