Connecticut western news., 1884-12-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS,

with coal drove on the reels In tDe nelghDOf- hood of Channel and went down with all hands. Further fearful disasters are appre- hended.
 The Pittsburgh Base Ball League for next season represents cost of over $31 ,000, which includes S6,050 paid for the release of the Columbus players
 The powder magazine of tho Virginia Military Institute at Lexington exploded with terrific force Thursday night.
 An eleven-year old child at Cambridge, Mass, while playing execution accidentally hanged himself
 Three boys of Rondout, N. Y., went on the ice of pond and were drowned.
 An overloaded floor in malt house at Geneva, N. I., fell with thirteen men, two of whom were killed.
 Two miners were fatally injured by an ex- plosin of iiredamp near Coal Bluff, Pa.
 In Fhiladelphiaa 8 woman was sentenced to SIX months imprisonment on conviction of be- ing nuisance and common scold.
 While the Salvation Army were holding a meeting at Biddeford, Me-, some one set fro to the hall, but all escaped.
 Postmaster Cesar Bazaar, of Charco, Texas, was mudered by Mexicans and the office was robbed.
 Il. V. Simpson and Dr. Calhoun Lawrence, of Nechesville, Texas, being unable te agree upon the settlement of debt, killed each other.
 Sullivan, the negro, who murdered little Ella Watson at Yorktown, N. J., was hanged at Salem.
 The Utah Commission, in their report to the Secretary of tine Interior recommend some very vigorous legislation for the suppression of polygamy.
 "A gang of thieves robbed and murdered man in Texas and was pursued by posse of officers. battle ensued, and two were killed on each side
 America and Russia are said to be protest ing against the proposed increase in France of the duty upon corn.
 Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, in the Leman-Brand contested election case awarded the certificate to Leman, Republican.
 Hog cholera IS prevailing to an alarming exent ill many sections of the East
 Two men, with masks and dark lanterns, robbed the house of Farmer Barss of Chester, securing about SLIGO.
 Two graduates of the Moraviau Seminary, at Bethlehem Pa. have accepted calls to take charge of the Esquimau mission in Alaska.
 Four men on scaffold at Syracuse fell sixty feet on account of the giving way of the supports.
 A farmer near Syracuse hunting pole cats shot and killed tramp who was about his hay stack.
 Joseph Thorp, who is engaged to Miss An nie Long fellow, one of the daughters of the late poet, is the of a wealthy Wisconsin lum6erman. His sister married Ole Bull, tho 7iolinist.
 Exporting apples to European markets is now being largely carried on by farmers i'll Columbia, Greene. Ulster, Duchess, and other Hudson River counties, The farmers say they can clear from 8 to S6 per barrel on choice fruit. Newton pipping, Bald wins and Northern Spies are the principle varieties shipped.
 In New Orleans Georgiana and Josephine Conway, sisters, aged twenty and twenty-two years respectively, nieces of ex-AIayor Conway, shot two young men on Canal street. Geor- giana shot fatally John D. Logan, son of ex- Alderman M. D. Logan, and Josephine shot Joseph A Devonsbre. United States Deputy Marshal. The young ladies claim that they were betrayed by the men they shot.
 A cable dispatch announces the death of Fanny Elssler, the famous dancer. She was born in Vienna in the year 1911, and had world wide reputation.
 Capt. David L. Payne, the famous leader of the Oklahoma Boomers, who is known throughout the land as Oklahoma Payne" died suddenly while eating breakfast at the Hotel De Barnara, ill Wellington. Kan.
 Major General Gershom Mott, of Borden town, N. J., died suddenly while passing through Courtlandt street, New York city, on his way from the Jersey City ferry. He was we'll known veteran of the Mexican and late wars. and was 62 years of age.
 Mrs. John Wattacounlt and her twelve-year- old daughter attempted to walk twelve miles at Oconto, Wis. They lost their way and per ished by severe cold in extensive swamp surrounding Shawano Lake.
 The total registration of women voters for school committees in Boston this year was 1,109. Last year it was 701.
 One of the men employed on the Wash iHgton Monument was standing on one of the inside scaffolds near the top of the shaft ,whon he lost his balance and fell of. The sleeve of his coat caught on large nail which projected from another scaffold about ten feet below, and there he hung suspended until rescued by his fellow worllrnen. Had the nail given way, he would have fallen distance of over five hundred feet.
 The net revenue of the federal govern msnt for the last fiscal year was $248, ,519, ,869 being $49, 767, 712 less than the previous year.
 Crawford county Ind, is terrorized by band of masked robbers.
 The Americans who got into fight with Mexicans at mine in Sonora have surrendered to the Mexican authorities.
 The Montreal ice palace is larger than any of those i'll previous years and will cost 46, 900.
 A brute in New York city, tore ont the balls of his wfe's eyes with 8 shoemaker's awl, .blinding her for life.
 Fatal railway collisions occurred near Mem- phis and near Cedar Rapids, an engineer and brakeman being killed in the former and fire man in the latter.
 Further particulars of the failure of the Middleton, N. Y., National Bank indicate that the total loss will exceed $3OO, ,0OO. Brown, the speculative borrower, is missing, while King, the president, is lying in 8 very low condition at hls residence.
 Governor Click, of Kansas, announces himself as decidedly opposed to the proposed cattle trail.
 It is asserted in Baltimore that Archbishop Gibbons is to be created Cardinal before the new year.
 Manufacturers of cigars are alarmed at the proposed reduction of duty on Cuban cigars.
 The choleraic epidemic ill Virginia and Kentucky is said to be abating. Reports from Lynchburg and Louisville relate the horrible suferings of the afflicted.
 Three masked men entered the residence of George Broadhead, in lonely spot at Port Ewen, assaulted Mrs. Broadhead who wsR alone in the house with her childyen, and robbed the house of $62
 The football game between tho freshmen classes of Yale and Harvard was abandoned.
 In the twenty largest cities of New Jersey there are 183, 400 school children, and the vari- ous cities of the State contributed $1, ,207, 190 for school purposes
 A little boy at Warrenton, Va., tied his four-year-old brother to 8 cows tail and be- fore the COW could be arrested in her flight, the little fellow was dragged some distance and badly bruised.
 The boiler of sawmill near Elizabethton, Ky, exploded, tearing the building to pieces and killing seven men. Two others were fatally injured.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 It is known that for the present quarter s17.0OO,O00 are demanded for pensions. lii order to prevent an unfavorable debt state rnent for November $9,000, 900 of this amount were carried over to December, yet notwlth- standing this the public debt was increased h. stead of being reduced as usual.
 Chairman Buckner will take the initiative in bringing forward a measure for restricting the coinage of silver dollars.
 A bill, which has passed the Senate and is n0w on the House calendar, will increase the present pension payments about $25, ,000, 900 a year if it becomes law.