Connecticut western news., 1884-05-07
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 Two children a girl aged years and a 5-year-old boy, disappeared from the homes of their parents near Medtord, Wis. The prevail ing opinion Is that they were carried of by bears.
 A bomb, with an ignited fuse attached, was thrown upon the porch of the Crawford House, at Colorado Springs, and exploded, shattering the doors and windows of the hotel and houses in tue neghborhood. Tho act waS directed by some saloon keeper against the proprietor of the hotel, who had been Very ac- tive in the suppression of the liquor traffic in that town.
 At Omaha Neb, fully fifteen hundred employees of the Onion Pacific Railroad Com pauy struck against reduction in wages. Later in the day, after conference with some of the strikers, the general manager issued notice cauceiling that of the previous day an nouucIng the reduction.
 Forest fires have been unusually deStruc- tive this spring, and the smoke llaa caused re- ntarkablc atmospheric phenomena as far east as New Haven. The storm King, Shawan- Smk Mountains and the Catskills are crowned with smoke that betokens damage. distress and suffering tu the farmers. In Pennsylvania Inl- men-e damage has been done, several mining towns partially destroyed, powder mills blown mp and lives lost. Arnot, Brisban, Emporium, California, White Haven, Ster ing. Rldgeway aud St. Marys are reported to be whole On par tial victims to the flames. Ten Ru. sian Poles who were kidnapped in New York city last December and sent to Cuba to work on sugar plantation have re ched New York again, having been released through the efforts of the Americ ican Consul They make serious charge against a New York em- ployment agency.
 Gales visited Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Schenectady and Troy, doing much damage. Burlington, Vt., had her breakwater washed away during their prevalence, and two scLoon- erS Np19 wrecked on Lake Erle
 The Legislature of Rhode Island adjourned sine die on Friday.
 Gold is said to be found in large quantities at Kaladar, Ont
 The Massachusetts Legislature are con- sidering bill to loan $3,0O0,O00 to provide homes for the people, the same to be paid back ill stated charges.
 The masons and bricklayers in Troy are idle because their helpers have struck for | $2.50 per day.
 Massachusetts proposes to tax all legaeies and successions two per cent. on the clear | value thereof
 About 14 500, 900 feet of lumber have been shipped by water from Ottawa to the United States during this week. The Thetis of the Greedy relief expedition, set sail for the Arctic on Thursday, after an in- | spection by Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln. l The departure was witnessed by thousands of citizens and friends of those on board.
 The falling of the wall of the Cincinnati | Court House killed one of the laborers em | ployed there, thus adding another death to the l fatality caused by the outbreak. A general strike is expected on the Unior | Pacific Railroad in consequence of two reduc | tions in wages during the month of April At sale of imported cattle in Philadelphia the prices ranged from $100 to $500. Fifteen thousand people witnessed the opening game of the League baseball cham pionship series between the New York and Chicago nines in New York city, on Thursday The New York won by score of 15 to ?.
 A Connecticut negro, while crazy witt rum, at Poquonnock, killed his tive-year-old child with an axe. The New York Assembly passed the bill | extending the powers of the Broadway Under | ground Arcade Railroad Company. | Woman suffrage received the indorsemen | of thu New York Assembly in vote ordering | the bill to & third reading.
 In the New York State Senate the bill for bidding the manufacture of cigars in tenemen | houses passed.
 Forest fires are prevailing in several sec tious of Michigan, and doing much damage t property.
 The disease now affecting Pennsylvania cattle is declared catarrhal and not pleuro pneumonia.
 The interstate conference of colored meI | assembled at Pittsburg, Pa, about seventy-hyt delegates being present, representing some tw,lve or fourteen States. Spirited addresses We're delivered setting forth the present condi ton of the coiored race in the United States and urging further efforts for their social moral and political advancement.
 The steamer Falmouth was burned at heI wharf in Portland (Me.) harbor. Three of the crew lost their lives.
 Several disgraceful rows took place be | vile, Ky.
 An electric Congress will be held in Nev York in September next.
 During fog off Newfoundland the Nor wecian bark Venus run down the Frencl schooner Paquebot killing or drowning twelv of her crew. The captain and six of tho creN were saved.
 By the explosion of pan of dynamite at
 fire ill Elletsville, Ind, one man was killed alt | thirteen in ured.
 The poor house of Van Buren Count, located near Hartford Mich, was burnC Tuesday night, and fifteen or sixteen of the il mates lost their lives in the flames. The To: on the buildings is LOGO; insured.
 Samuel F. Donnelly, a tSun reporter, WIG killed while on duty at fire in New York cit!
 Allen Jngalls, one of the burkers f tl Taylor family at Avondale, Ohio hanGe himself in his cell
 | } cartridges in the Ontario Parliament House : T,ronto has created intense excitement there A schooner was stolen from Key Layo ' Cubans for fill ustermg expedition. An insane mother at Philip>burg, N. J , cut her own thu ca and those of her two babe , A cyclone in Ohio was att, nded with les . of life and considerable destruction of lrvI
 erty.
 The body of man, fea fully mangl,( l A fOnn1 Dn ttoa aly aF ,l Md, and IS supposed to have been placed ther } | after death.
 A severe drought is said to prevail in Wcs
 eTn Texas
 WASHINGTON NOTES 1 The House Committee on Rivers and Ha , bo have completed consideration of the Riv l and Harbor appropiiit,On b Il. The lot } l amount appropriated is between ?l2, ,U0J Ot and S13, ,UOO, 000 Not all the appropriation
 have yet been agreed upon. The Mississp gets c2 200 100. the Missouri SOC, 000, the oh
 5600, ,U00, and Hell gate S3r0,000
 Representative BaIleutine was instructed
 the House Commit. .ec on Naval Affar, to a
 versely report a bIli providing tor the diStrb
 tion of prize mOuey growing out OG the Ca
 ture of the Merrimac. A minority report W also be offered.
 The House Committee on Invalid Pension
 instructed Representative Morrill, to repo
 favCrably Mir hyau's bill repeating the limit
 ton m the Arrears uf Pension act This Is tl
 bill introduced in the Senate by senator l.
 gals.
 Senator Lapham introduced in the Senate
 bill to provile that the provisions of the a approved August 2, 1882, to encourage aI
 promote tel,Srdphic commune ttIon betwee
 America and Europe be extended to cover Il
 period until the Sth of August, 1oS6.
 The decrease of the public debt for ApI | Onta tn a