Connecticut western news., 1884-02-06
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 OCT moved for copies of all papers re- Iating to the arrest by United States soldiers, on Canadian soil, of the men charged with being deserters from the army.
 The recent disturbance at the Naval Academy is said to have been the result of Q private quarrel between cadets and uot of hazing.
 An aged German, who lived near St. Albans, Vt., having disappeared, 1t Is believed that he was murdered by tramp in whose company he was last seen.
 The meeting of the cotton spinners at Fall River, Mass, resolved to resist inc proposition to reduce wages by a strike, which will begin Saturday and will include every mill in the city.
 The Massachusetts legislature re- gently passed the Elevated Railroad bill for Boston.
 The New Jersey House of Assembly passed a resolution having for its object the enforcing of the reserved rights of the State to take the property of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company at the first cost of the road.
 ". A.s couple were burned to death through their residence taking fire.
 The Monon passenger train, due at Indianapolis. Ind, at 1O:30 a. n., met with terrible accident at the bridge across White river, seven miles from Indianapolis, Thursday morning. At Broad Ripple, where the disaster oc- cured, the railway crosses the White river on truss bridge of two spans, each 150 feet in length. The baggage and smoking cars and 0 passenger coach dropped through the bridge and were piled up in one mass at the foot of the pier, the smoking-car being partially crushed by the baggage-car. The wreck above water took fire and was burned. Six passengers were either killed outright or burned to death, their bodies being charred almost beyond rec ognition and horribly mutilated. The only means of Identification was by in- combustible trinkets known to be the property of the dead. Eight others were more or less seriously injured.
 The sealing steamship Bear has been purchased at Newfoundland by the United States government for the Greedy Relief Expedition.
 Resolutions were submitted by the Dominion government to Parliament to authorize 0 loan of $22, 800, ,000 by the government to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
 Charles H. Rugg, the negro who beat Farmer Sealey Sprague, of Hemp stead Plains, l.. l., nearly to death, IS proven beyond doubt to be the unas- sisted murderer of Mrs. Lydia Maybee and her daughter Mary Ann, who were found strangled in barn in Brookville, in the town of Oyster Bay, on the even- ing of November 17. He is also believed to be the man who assaulted Mir. and Mrs. James 0. Townsend in their home in Oyster Bay on January ',
 There is evidence that twelve small children, whose names were not on the passenger list, were lost on the City of Columbus
 The United States fishing fleet and other fleets have obtained splendid car goes at the fisheries.
 In working the telegraph lines the Canadian government has sustained loss of over fifty per cent.
 An acrimonious personal discussion took place in the lower house of the Texas Legislature, one of the partici- pants virtually challenging the other to mortal combat
 The New York State Senate debated at length bill to prevent employment of boys in factories.
 A high scaffolding, attached to 8 building near Pottsville, Pa., collapsed. One workman was killed, one fatally in- jured and six others seriously injured.
 At Philadelphia a writ of habeas corpus was issued commanding the father of the young woman who recently married the {" living skeleton to pro- duce her in court.
 The seven months strike of the Pittsburg Pa.) glassworkers ended largely in favor of the workmen.
 A terrible explosion occurred at the powder mill at Gambo station, Windham, Me-, one man was killed.
 -Thomas O. Richards, superintend- ent of the Bull Run Colliery, of the Le- high and WiILesbarre Goal Company, fell from bridge 300 feet high. at Potts vile, Pa, and was instantly killed.
 -Abbe Chubert was fined $40 in Montreal or two months imprisonment in default of payment, for kissing his landlady.
 At the New England Freethinkers' Convention, in Boston, Mass, an asso- citation was formed which demands, among other matters, that all laws en- forcing the observance of the Sabbath and Christian morality shall be repealed.
 A child, four years old, was burned to death at Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday, and its mother became a raving maniac.
 In Howard county, Ark, two judges of the Supreme Court were hanged in | efigy, because they granted an appeal in the cases of three colored men sen- fenced to be executed for murder.
 --Gov. Abbett sent a communication to the New Jersey Legislature on the re- cent refusal of cemetery company at Hackensack to allow the burial of col, cred man ill it's grounds.
 Three shocks of earthquake were experienced near St. John, N. B., OF Monday.
 Gilbert Hayes, seventy-three years old, fell from third story window at Camden, N, J., and was killed.
 The returns of the production of pig iron and Bessemer steel in this coun- try during the past year show slight decrease in both commodities as com pared with the preceding year.
 In Waynesboro, Pa., an imm e1se bob-sied, fourteen feet long, was started from the top of hill loaded with thir- teen passengers, all young men. The sled struck Q house, and all the party were injured, four of them seriously.
 A destructive fire occurred at Xenia, Ohio.
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