Connecticut western news., 1884-10-29
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
 The steamboat Henry Frank from New Orleans, for Memphis was burned to the wat r's edge on Thursday night near the Davis Crevasse. The boat and cargo are a total loss. No lives were lost The Frank was owned by Captain Frank Hicks and Alfred Grisson. It was valued at $40. 600 and was insured in Gin cinnati and Louisville for S35, 900.
 Two hundred thou and bushels of this years Manitoba wheat have reached Montreal, via the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
 Fire in the Pittsburgh Penitentiary on Thursday, damaged the Warden's residence to the amount of S10,0OO.
 The house of William Pancoast, in Port land, Me, was burned Thursday night, and his children, Clifford and Mamie, aged and years, were burned to death. The Western Union Telegraph Company, resisting the claim of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company to extend it's line along the Texas and Pacific railroad, has received another judicial check.
 The Washington, D. O., banking firm of Cooke q Co. has made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors.
 The dry goods establishment of A. Chap man at Milwaukee was destroyed by fire Fri day.
 The defence of Gilbert W. Hazeltine, charged with the murder of Mamie Thorpe, in Baltimore, is insanity.
 
 a cable between Nova Scotia and Sable Island. Mrs. Annie Logan, of Philadelphia, killed her boy and herself. Cause, desertion and poverty.
 The child of eolored woman in Norfolk, Va, was found burned to death. Her little brother was playing by the corpse
 An attempt was made to steal the body of Robert Phelps by breaking into the Phelps family vault at Binghamtown. N '.
 -Rog cholera prevails to an alarming ex- tent on farms near Shamokin, Pa.
 Great fires are raging in the woods in Greenyille and Brunswick counties, Va. The shops of the Milwaukee and North ern Railway at Green Bay, Wis, were burned Friday. Lost. e25.000.
 A Pennsylvania murderer who had served out bis time was struck by an express train and killed.
 The Congregation Beth Ahaba, of Rich mond are preparing to celebrate the centen- nial of Sir Moses Monte6ore.
 Nearly four hundred persons are homeless and starving in the buried Canadian towns of Gaspe and CloRydorme.
 They have had snow in parts of Canada and Ohio.
 "A sleeping butcher at Cleveland, Ohio al- lowed his horses to run into a coal train and was killed, the wreck of the wagon dersiling four cars.
 An express train ran into 8 cattle train near Montreal, 120 sheep were killed, an enpi- neer was burned to death, several persons were injured and sl00,0OO worth of property destroyed.
 The Adams Express office at Woonsocket L, was robbed of s16,0O0 on Tuesday night.
 Lt-General Hagen, in his annual report to the Secretary of War, speaks of the failure of the first Greedy relief expedition, and suggests Congressional investigation as the only way to get at the facts.
 Receivers were named by the United States Court at Baltimore, Md, for the Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Company of that city.
 The New Jersey Central Railroad depot at Easton, Pa, was burned on Wednesday. A young man of Richmond, Va, who was to have been married Wednesday evening, ac- ciden ally shot himself a few hours before. -ronr children put powder into a stove at St. Jacobin, Ont, to see what it would do. One will recover.
 The town of Carthage, N r, was almost entirely destroyed by fire.
 "A family in Quebec got drunk, and the wife set fire to her clsthing and was burned to death.
 --Ansonia, Conn, was swept by waters es- eaping through broken dam from large reservoir. Many families fed for their lives and lose large share of their household ef- fects.
 "A postal convention has been concluded between the United States and Mexico.
 The Tallapooss is afoat, and it is expected to take her to New York in 8 few days.
 Two murderers. named respectively Court right and Mcintyre. have been arrested in Northern Texas, charged with killing num- Der of Mexicans two years ago in New Mexico. Scarlet fever has broken out in tn Girls Industrial School at Milwaukee, Wis.
 -Two-thirds of the town of B Gainesville. Ga. was destroyed by fire.
 Spring wheat touched the lowest point ever known in Chicago.
 A large lithogrsphic firm of Toronto, Ont, has failed; liabilities $60,000
 The Dominion government will not pre vtnt Chinese citizens from entering Canada. Another fatal result of the Cincinnati cleo tion riot is reported.
 The unostentatious gift from Mir. W. E Vanderbilt of $500, 900 to the College of Physi cianF and Surgeons is commended by the pro fession as benefit not only to this community but to the country at large by furnishing tht means for extending and elevating the course of instruction in medical science.
 Fires occurred at New Haven, Conn, lost $25, GOO, at Edgefeld, s. O., loss $100, ,000, and at Easton, Ps., loss 1000.
 A fatal shooting afTray, caused by whisky occurred at Bois d'Arc, Missouri.
 Snow fell in the Catskin Mountains ol Friday.
 A prominent clergyman of Troy wal stricken with paralysis ct 8 theatre.
 Fatal railway accidents occurred in Ohio where a train plunged through bridge; or the Hudson, where a Boston and Albany ow train was maliciously wrecked, and near Read Ing, Pa., where superintendent of sigma towers was killed.
 Forest fires are raging in several countie of Mississippi, causing great damage.
 Several of the suspended Georgia mill have resumed operations with reduced wages Very extensive destructive rains hay, occurred in Jamaica. An unprecedented drought in Alabama i causing much suffering to man and beast Vegetation is rapidly drying up.
 A resident of North East, Pa., attempted to rescue hIs insane brother from padded cell in burniDg building; he failed, and wa badly burned in the attempt
 FOREIGN ITEMS
 The Duke of Cumberland is determined tt be King of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick o remain as he is.
 Russian Nihilists attempted to wreck snt rob train near Khartoff, but were routed
 M Bemaert will form 8 new Belgian Cabinet.
 The police of Paris closed three gamblnt houses on Thursday.
 MT. Treyelyan, recently Chief Secretar. for Ireland, is under police protection.
 The Chinese are pushing their advanc IT. au11rr k1 hauan