Connecticut western news., 1884-09-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.

A dispatch received from the Adirondacks announced the sudden death there, from hemorrhsge, of ex-City Chamberlain J. Nelson Tappan, of New York city.
 A young man named John H. Slavin shot and instantly killed his father at Johnston, R I.
 An officer on one of the Greedy relief ves- sels discredits current statements regarding the retreat, and speaks in high terms of Gree H's pluck and ability.
 An attempt was made to assassinate Sit ting Ball as he was leaving the theatre at St. Paa, Minn.
 The skeleton of mastodon, twelve and one half feet in height, has been exhumed in Mich i@nn.
 In the Blaine libel suit the defendants, the editors of the Indianapolis Sefatinet plead the truth of the allegations made, and file a mum ber of interrogatories for plaintiff to answer. Canada proposes to lay thorough em- bargo on United States cattle, to prevent the advance of pleuro- pneumonia in her territory. Mrs. Belva A Lockwood, of Washington, D. O., writes letter accepting the nomination for President of the United States rendered by the Woman's National Equal Rights party.
 ID. s. Secretary of the Treasury Folger died at his home in Geneva, N. Y. His death was so sudden that there was not time to summon his children.
 A woman named Mrs. Washington Keller, succeeded in dying after forty-eight days voluntary starvation, at Strausstown, Pa
 The car drivers at St. Louis are striking against decrease of wages.
 Bishop Pierce, of the Methodist Church South died at Sparta, Ga.
 The complimentary resolutions passed by the Chicago Convention, together with an ad- dress were informally presented to ex-Gov- ernor Tlden at Greystone.
 The half-starved Indians at the Poplar River Agency threaten to take the warpath un- less better fed They have been kept on half rations for year.
 Another attempt to burn the town of Missoula, M. T., has been foiled.
 The master stonecutters of New York city have issued notices to the men employed by them that if they did not at once withdraw their support from the bricklayers on strike the bosses would order general lockout. The men at once stopped work.
 Martin Weinberger was hanged at Pitts burgh for murdering companion two years ago.
 Colonel Cash, of South Carolina, was set free by the action of the prosecuting attorney, who had determined not to prosecute him. There is much feeling against Cash and the officers.
 Congressman Casey Young was thrown from 8 carnage in Washington and severely bruised
 Diaries of members of the Greedy Polar Exploring party show that it was divided into two factions, which lived as separately as two tribes.
 The reduction of the debt, less cash in the Treasury, in August was in round numbers eight millions and half ($S, ,s5a) The total debt less cash on hand, is now $1, ,514, ,09471.
 -J w. F. Ruttenber, editor of the Fonda, N. T., Democrat has been arrested charged with causing the late fire at Fonda, which did 50 much damage. He claims that he is inno- cent.
 Frederick Kopf, who had charge of the lunch counter on barge which took the em- New York harbor, was brutaly murdered by roughs on board the vessel.
 At Emporia, Kan, burglars blew open the safe of the Post Office and secured @1, 900 worth of stamps and a large number of reg istered letters.
 The striking miners in Hooking Valley, Ohio, attacked with guns the guards sta tioned at the mines to protect property. One of the guards was killed and two wounded.
 The sailor who died in New York, of yell low fever, is supposed to have arrived there in the brig Garnet from Port-of-Spain, West In- dies.
 At Cincinnati the last name has been se- cured to the agreement which establishes the whisky pool by which distillers are not per
  capacity until the expiration of one year.
 The coinage at the United States Mint for the month of August was 1,2OO, 900 dollars, 402 900 five cent peices, 1, ,390 900 cents, mak- ing S,992, 900 peices with total valuation of s1,284, ,00O.
 It is reported that Chief Engineer Mel vile is to command 6 new Arctic search ex- petition.
 Armour terminated his pork corner in Chi -A An knn hAn -n- Eastern spectators lost heavily in the corner.
 POLITICAL
 The Massachusetts Republican State Con vention re-nominated Gov. Robinson and the old State Ticket. The platform adopted an nounces zealous and loyal support of the national ticket, and then gives review of the Democratic party's record. It indorses the Administrations of President Arthur and Gov. Robinson, and the national platform.
 The Massachusetts. Democratic State Con- vention nominated William 0. Endicott, of Salem, for Governor. He is an ex-Judge of the State Supreme Court who retired from the Bench two years ago. For Lieutenant Governor, James 5. Grinnell. For Secretary of State, Jeremiah Crowley. For Treasurer Charles Marsh. For Auditor, John Hopkins For Attorney General, John w. Cummings The platform congratulates the Democratic party of the Union on the brilliant prospects IOf bn6 elecblOn or ltS CanQlQabeS Tor RroB1- dent and Vice President; declares approval of the platform adopted by the Chicago Conven- ton; demands a careful husbandry of the pub lie domain for the use of the people, advo- cates 8 judicious, but rigid economy in ex- pending the peoples money, never niggardly, but always just to the people who pay, and to those who receive; calls for 8 system of taxa tion by customs duty that shall impose no un necessary burdens on the people; urges the es- tablishment of an American navy.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 -Extraordinsry precautions are being taken for the safety of the three Emperors at their meeting in Poland.
 There has been an alarming increase in Italy in the number of deaths from cholera, and In the number of fresh cases.
 The French fleet have again opened fire upon Kelung. The Chinese flooded the coal mines and destroyed the machinery, thus rem dering the mines useless to the French.
 The British squadron has arrived at Alexandria. At Kassals, which was closely in- vested, the rebels were defeated. All is quiet on the Abyssinian frontier.
 The cholera is giving rise to scenes of ex- citement and panic in Italy, where even doc tors have been wounded by patients.
 General Gordon says in a letter that Khar- toum can hold out till the middle of October. There are reports that the British Govern IuCht ID oOOub " ocuu A1ol1Iy Ius DtoAhCy tO Egypt on private mission, which, however, is connected in some way with the relief of Khartoum.
 -Placards declaring war against France have been posted in the streets of Pekin.
 The cholera panic is increasing at Naples. There is order in Foo-Chow, but it is maintained only by the presence of the British and American fleets. German officers in the service of China have been ordered home.
 The cholera at Naples is very severe and in several places in Spain is also raging. At Castellamare, in Italy, the sick and the dead while being carried through the streets cause no alarm.
 Admiral Courbet has orders to attack Can ton in case the Chinese should refuse to reopen negotiations. The Extreme Left of the French Chamber threatened to appeal to the country on the subject of the war
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