Connecticut western news., 1884-09-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
 The New York clothing trade was startled by the failure of Rindskopf Brothers & Co wholesalers, with preferences for over SSo9' 900. The house suspended to protect friends. Overproduction is said to be the cause of the failure.
 Mrs Morosini's recent illness was due to three attempts at suicide. She has gone abroad with her two daughters. Victoria will go upon the stage and Ernest will become 8 Catholic.
 -W.H. Payne's flour mill in Harlem, N. r., was burned down. The loss is $60, GOO. A gang of pickpockets who had worked the fair grounds at Worcester, Mass, took passage on the same tram with James G.. Blaine and robbed the crowds gathered at the stations on the route to greet the Republican candidate.
 Lively earthquake shocks were experienced in Iowa. Indiana, Ohio and Michigan on Fri day. No damage is reported, but there was considerable alarm.
 A husband was killed by jealous wife near Clearfeld, Pa.
 Many lodges of the oath-bound Molly Maguires exist in the Pennsylvania coal dis tricts where the lives of prominent citizens are threatened The murder of one Hun garian and fatal wounding of another are charged upon these Mollies.
 "A Virginia hunter shot and killed boy who refused to carry beer keg for him.
 Two men were killed at Ashland, Pa., by being accidentally thrown down colliery shaft.
 The name of ex-Seoretsry McCulIoch is now mentioned as the successor of the late Secretary Folger.
 The monument to General Reynolds was unveiled with becoming ceremonies at Phil adelphia.
 "A marshal, while serving dispossess war rant in Albany, N. Y, was killed by the wife of the tenant by being thrown over the banisters It is stated on authority that Postmaster General Gresham will be appointed Judge of the United States Circuit Court, to succeed Judge Drummond, who has rendered his resig- nation.
 A west bound passenger train on the In- diana Bloomington and Western Railroad was thrown from the track near Farmer City by a broken rail Attached to the train was President Henderson's private car, containing the Hon. T. A. Hendricks and party 6n route to Peoria, ILL This car rolled down an embankment 6f- teen feet and turned bottom side up. It was with much difficulty that the occupants got out The entire party were pretty severely shaken up. Governor Hendricks was slightly bruised, but not so as to interfere with his engagements
 -Governor Cleveland, of New York, says he cannot visit Chicago as proposed.
 Pre- ident Seelye, of Amherst College, Mass., has declined tho nomination for Gov ernor, rendered him by the prohibition party. The wife of the school treasurer of Wash ington township, Iowa, was murdered by rob Der who hoped to get the funds in her hus- bands charge.
 Several inches of snow have fallen in the maritime provinces of the Dominion.
 The bodies of B man and woman, each shot through the head, were found near San Bruno, Cal
 By the explosion of it's boiler the great cotton compress st EufaulR, Ala, was de- stroyed with the loss of ten lives and many per sons injured.
 "A lunatie who emptied Winchester rife promiscuously into dwelling houses in Yelling ton, Kansas, was taken from jail and quietly lynehed.
 Fire broke out on Sunday in the Episcopal Orphanage at Cooperstown, N Y. Ninety children were rescued before the flames were extinguished.
 In Missouri the Republicans and Green packers have united in making up State and electoral ticket.
 The discovery of some bones in 8 well on Staten Island, N. r., led to the suspicion that Wall street clerk who lived in the house on the premises and who disappeared fifteen years ago, may have been murdered.
 FOREIGN TTEMA
 The recent meeting of the Emperors ai Bkierntwice will, 1t is said, result in securing the peace of Europe.
 
 lend Egypt E8,0O0,0 900.
 China is reported to be making efforts to resume negotiations with France.
 The cholera epidemic is spreading in the west end of Naples and is again reviving i1 TouIon.
 The Italian government will bring in g bill to abolish the slums of Naples.
 General Gordon telegraphs to the Khedive and Sir Evelyn Barring that he exp. cts 20, COG Turkish troops at Khartoum and wants money He had sent relieving force to Berber, anC ordered the town tn le burned.
 Two thousand French troops landed at thu Kinpai Pass, on the Min River, below Foe Chow, and attacked the Chinese. The latter were defeated with heavy loss and retreated. It is announced that the village of Rotten berg, in Styria, has been burned.
 "A dynamite cartridge has been found at Leeds in 8 petroleum cask which came from America.
 The strike of the pork butchers in Linn erick throws 1000 men into idleness, and the trade in bacon is virtually suspended.
 The authorities at Constantinople are about to send thousand endorsements to Albania to quell the disturbances along the frontier.
 Several floods are prevailing around Gerona, the rivers Ter and Ona having risen. Considerable loss of life and property is re- ported and railway traffic has been suspended. The Czar has pardoned forty-two nihilistf and commuted the sentence of seventy-three others.
 General Gordon is reported to have cap tured two islands near Senaar, and it is sai6 that the Mahdi has been again defeated by hos tile tribes.
 An inundation in the province of Kiang see, China, swept away fully seventy thousand persons.