Connecticut western news., 1884-09-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.


 A savings bank at Adrian, Mich, not hay ing the funds on hand to cash $1, 500 check, were by resulting run compelled to suspend. A cyclone in Manitoba crused great dam age to property, blowing down houses and churches. No personal injuries are yet re- ported.
 The Wisconsin greenbackers and anti monopolists nominated State ticket with Col onel William l.. Utley for Governor.
 The Republicans of Milwaukee nominated James E. Davis for Governor, with full State ticket.
 The galantry and coolness of the officers and crew of the steamer Rose Standlsb, run down and sunk in Boston Harbor, quelled the panic among her passengers and caused the rescue unhurt of every soul on board
 The Nebraska Republican State Conven- ton nominated James W. Dawes for Governor with full State ticket.
 -Ex-Senator s. c. Pomeroy, of Kansas, who was nominated for President of the American Party. at the Convention held in Chicago on June 20 and 21, has withdrawn in favor of St. John.
 The Anti Monopoly Greenback- Labor Party of Illinois nominated Jesse Harper for Governor with full State ticket.
 -Gov. Ireland, of Texas, was not arrested by United States marshal, as proposed, be- cause the latter found his warrant imperative. The Second National Bank of Xenia, Ohio, succumbed tO the effects of speculation in grain.
 Richard Tweed, son of William M. Tweed, of New York, died in 8 madhouse in Paris. He left no property.
 The Peoples Bank, of St. Paul, was robbed of $1O, 900 on Sunday.
 A Norwegian vessel from New Orleans put into Pensacola Bay with yellow fever and was sent to Ship Island
 The American consul at Marseilles reports pitiable condition of destitution in that city from the effects of the cholera, and appeals for aid from the citizens of the United States. Propositions have been presented by the United Telegraph lines to the Postmaster Gen. eral in view of the plans for the establishment of postal telegraph system.
 A negro named Jones was hanged at Daw- son, Ga., for criminal assault
 -Messrs. St. John and Daniot. candidates of the National Prohibition pa fot President and Yicc-President, were formally notified of their nomination, at Cuba, N. Y.
 The payments from the U. s. Treasury during August amount to $25, ,000, ,0C0. This in- cludes about $10,000 900 on account of pen sions and about $2, 900 on account of awards made by the Court of Commissioners of Alabama claims
 The dory in which Traynor expected to cross the Atlantic is now ct St. Pierre, Micque- lou badly smashed.
 The school at Markdale, Ont, was the scene of double tragedy, the principal shoot ing the second teacher and himself.
 A bond call for S10,OOO,0OO was issued from the United States Treasury Department. Commander Merry's official report of the sinking of the Tallapoosa is published. One of her men-Willam Jones-reported lost was saved on the Gate City. Efforts will be made to raise the steamer.
 Heavy frosts have taken place in New England and Western New York, and much damage to crops has been done. Buckwheat has suffered severely.
 During & fight between Italian laborers at Dixon, III, several were wounded.
 "A will was admitted to probate in Phila- delphia that disposed of $1, 100000 in just four lines
 Many valuable horses were burned at Cynthiana, Ky.
 The hog cholera, which caused such a heavy loss in that section last fall, has re- appeared near Hamburg, Pa. A large num- Der of swine have died already.
 -Advices from Washington set forth that millions of acres of public domain in the West have been arbitrarily fenced in by cattle com panies while additional millions have been fraudulently entered at the government land offices, and thus taken possession of.
 At 8 meeting of the Central Labor Union, in New York, protests agsinst inviting General
 
 parade were presented on the part of several labor organizations. It was decided not to in vie General Butler.
 Fifty Indian children from Albuquerque, N. M, are now en route to the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa.
 The Webster County Bank, at Marshield, Mo-, was compelled to suspend by reason of too heavy speculations in grain.
 The wives of nearly five hundred strikers arrested in the Pennsylvania bituminous coal district for conspiracy demand support from the authorities on the ground that they are pcnniless.
 The Dominion government has refused permission for Wyoming cattle to be shipped to England through Canada.
 A steamer came in from the Mediterranean and her master says no health officer came on board to ask whether or not the ship had brought the cholera with her.
 Captain J. w. Norman, ice master of the Thetis of the Greedy relief squadron, denies that he ever told any person or led any one to believe from hls conversation that cannibalism had been practiced by Lieutenant Greedy and his command, newspaper reporters to the con- trary notwithstanding.
 In Middlefeld, N. T., farmer named Clayton, while suffering from the effects of in temperance, took his two-year-old son from the house into the yard and shot him through the head.
 FOREIGN rTEMs
 R. Weinrich, 8 large sugar dealer and re- finer, of Vienna, has failed for $4, 900, 000 Overproduction of beet root sugar, which has declined ten shillings per ton, is the cause o1 R. Weinrichs embarrassment.
 The spread of the cholera in Italy is caus- ing riots among the peasants and lower clas' of townsmen.
 The Russian government is thinking o establishing polar stations at the point touched by the crew of the Jeannette.
 The loss of China at the bombardment o Foo Chow is estimated at 1000 killedand 300 wounded.
 General Wolseley is to command the relic expedition in the Soudan.
 "A spy reports that General Gordon ha gained considerable victory at Khartoum.
 Germany and England have another csus for quarrelling in regard to the appropriation of territory in West Africa.
 A Castellamare correspondent cables tha there is an alarming increase in Italy in mum b, r of cholera cases.
 Soldiers from Berber repo~ at 63 Egyptian officers and soldiers hand of the rebels, who treat them as ~yes Tn rebels pray for the Mahdi instead of for tn Sultan, and declare the Turks heathen wh are to be killed or expelled.
 The Foo Chow arsenal, in China was de stroyed after three hours bombardment The French fleet sustained no damage. number of Chinese gun boats were sunk.
 Thirteen peasants in the village of Andre iewka near Odessa, have been attacked wit symptoms similar to those of the rinderpes Two of the patients died. Troops have forme cordon around the village.
 An outbreak has occurred at Kutais, il TranscAucasis, owing to 8 report that the Jew had stolen Christian child. The mob as saulted the Jewish quarter and made threat of general massacre of the Jews. The rioter only desisted when the child was found.
 Three thousand nine hundred and ninety two is the number now given as that of thu victims of the cholera in France.
 THERE is but one good wife in thi town" said clergyman in the course o his sermon-the congregation looked X pectant-"a land every married mal thinks he's got her" added the min isteI