Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

On Friday Daniel Ort, young Hollsnder, shot st Emma Storch, who had supported him, but who had cast him off, in Chatham street. New York, concert hall, but she tainted as the revolver was discharged and escaped in- jury. Ort thinking the woman was dead killed himself.
 -Beniamin Thomas, a Narragansett In- dian, was killed by train near Wood River Junction, R. l.
 Virginia magistrates decided that farmer who shot a chicken thief was right and dis charged him.
 The strike of the Pittsburg stove moulders is over. the men accepting the ten per cent. re- duction in their wages.
 The collapse of & caisson of the new bridge at Havre de Grace, Md, caused the imprlson- ment for several hours of six men sixty feet below the surface of the water. They were eventually rescued in an exhausted condition. Two drunken Hungarians were run down by train in Pennsylvania. When the bodies were picked up they vigorously called for beer. A citizen of Chicago returning home in- toxicated picked up his dead child and with it beat out his wife's brains.
 In his will, Mir. John W. Garrett leaves sU,OO0 year to the poor of Baltimore, $50, 900 year for educational purposes and the rest of his estate to his three children.
 The North Carolina Exposition was opened at Raleigh, on Wednesday.
 A man at Philadelphia attempted to shoot pipe out of another's mouth, but killed him instead; he was convicted of involuntary man. slaughter and recommended to mercy.
 Fireman Kercheval of Texas Pacific train was scalded to death near Plaquemines, La, on Wednesday, his engine being derailed by running over 6 horse.
 The receipts of the Kings county, New York, Penitentiary for the last year, according to the annual report of Warden John Green amounted to $91, 702.84, and the expenses to n There were 934 prisoners in confinement at the close of the year.
 MT. St. John in letter formally accepts the nomination for the Presidency rendered by the national prohibition party.
 An aged woman wandered into a swamp near Bedford, some weeks ago, and her body has now been found partly eaten by dogs. A son of Colonel E. W. Cole the wealthiest man in Nashville, Tenn, and known in New York as Southern railroad magnate, fell from tran and had his arm crushed. He will probably die.
 A sick shoemaker was discharged by Philadelphia firm. but two hundred of his fellow laborers struck work until the firm took him back.
 MT. John McCullough's career on the stage is ended, for the present at least, his mind being unbalanced. His managers have can celled all his engagements.
 At Lachine, Quebec, Tuesday night twenty three houses were destroyed by fire, causing loss of about S35, 900; partially insured. Some fifty families are rendered homeless. This is the second disastrous confiagration that has visited Lachine within short period.
 A tramp on Monday entered the house of Mrs. Ruth Brown, 8 lady eighty-seyen years of age, residing near Port Jefferson, N. Y, and seizing the old lady by the throat threatened to kill her if she made any outcry. After searching the house and finding nothing of value except Mrs. Browns spectaoles, he took them and left.
 A train on the Canadian Pacific Railway got loose Monday on 8 down grade with 70 workmen aboard. Nearly all were badly in- jured by jumping from the train. The engine was demolished.
 The Secretary of War has decided that Signal Corps.
 Continued low water n The Welland canal is driving large class of American shippers to withdraw their bus.ness from the Canadian waterways.
 During thunder storm at New Haven, Conn.,, on Monday, lightning struck fire tower, ringing the bell
 A cloudbUrst near Dayton, Ohio, caused floods and breaks in the canals.
 The International Meridian Congress met on Wednesday morning, in the Diplomatic Hall, Department of State, Washington.
 The commission appointed by the Pres ident to facilitate the commerce of the United States with the Central and South American countries held meeting at the Custom House, New York, on Monday, at which the diplomatic representatives of Mexico, Peru, Brazil and other Southern countries were present Several merchants gave their views of the question. The boiler in the engine room of the Mill wood coal shaft exploded Sunday evening, kill ing John Hanna, the fireman. Several others were seriously injured, and one or two will probably die. The boiler house was completely demolished, entailing loss upon the company of S5,000. The cause of the explosion is not known.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 Forty prisoners have been sentenced at Pressburg Hungary, to from three months to years confinement TOT JeWlsn persecutlons in Groswajendorf.
 Tt is reported that the Austrian budget of the current year will exceed that of 1888 by two millions of forins, the increase having been expended for artillery and new iron-clads. The Austrian authorities, in view of the decrease in the ravages of cholera, have de- cided to defer their projected close quarantine. In Italy the disease has caused rlotlng near Turin, and fears of a financial panic are entertained in Naples.
 -Reinforcements, numbering 15,000 men have been sent to Kelung and Tamsire by the Viceroy of Tuhkien.
 Experiments with 1OO-ton gun at Spez zice demonstrated the uselessness of plate armor for vessels or forts.
 The citizens of Salmas, Mexico, revolteG against their tyrannical Alcalde, and killed hin and his chief of police, after losing thirty oi their number.
 General Gordon after bombarding recap tured Berber and caused the rebels to fly.
 The late Countess Bose, of Cassel, has be aueathed e39, 900 to the Berlin University fol the benefit of poor students.
 The searching of neutral vessels by thu in ia complications with the Powers.
 Another revolution is reported ss unde way in the United States of Colombia.
 The quarantine on Spanish vessels ii Cuba is removed, except on those arriving fl ou ports in the province of Alicante.
 There are rumors that the Empress o China has decided to conclude peace wit France.
 -Acloudburst occurred at Pachuca, Mexico on the afternoon of the 27th inst, causing terrible inundation. The Amaigamatin Works were destroyed, and considerable silve which was under treatment was lost. It i estimated that thirty persons were killed. great deal of property was destroyed, an many cattle were drowned.
 The famine in Bengal is serious, and tn native bodies complain that the governmen system of relief is inadequate.
 A London dispatch says: An attempt wa made on Sunday to blow up the Council Hous at Salisbury. number Of windows wer smashed by the explosion, but otherwise nC damage V as done. No arrests have beer made it. connection with the outrage.
 Since the outbreak of the disease in ItaI, 3,220 persons have been attacked and 9, 48 have died.
 Belgian liberals are combining to oppos the education bill demonstration was helC on the Bourse at Brussels.
 Mime. Ristori will sail from Havre, France for New York on the steamer St. Germain, O October IS. Her American tour will last fou months.
 The workshops of the General Transat atlantic Steamship Company, in St. Nazart have been destroyed by fire. The loss heavy.
 The Emperor William and Empres Augusta have presented stained glass windo' to the garrison church at Torgau, in memor of Martin Luther.
 IL is reported that the English govern ment has ordered the bombardment of Dove