Connecticut western news., 1884-04-30
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NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Virginia tax collectors must now take cupons of the State debt in payment of tax bills.
 A plucky jailer in Kentucky held mob at bay and saved prisoner from being lynched. The only change i'll coal prices for May IS an increase of ten cents per ton on pea coal.
 A disease, resembling pleuro-pneumonia, has broken out among the cattle in Washington county, Pa.
 At Toronto the Grand Jury returned true bills against all four of the alleged conspir- aiors against the government of Ontario.
 There was a sudden advance of four cents Il bushel for wheat at the New York Produ, Exchange on Saturday. Several failures oc- cured and were officially announced.
 The Canal Committee of the New York Assembly reported fayorably bill providing for testing plan of towing by locomotives to run on tracks in the bed of the canal.
 The Dominion Commissioner appointed to investigate the loss of the steamship Daniel Steinmann in his report states that the catas- trophe was due to the mistake of the Captain in not hauling of shoreS Suntil he was able to verify his position and obtain pilot.
 Superintendent of Public Works Shanahan has issued orders for the official opening of the New York State canals on May 6.
 Governor Cleveland, of New York, signed the bill prohibiting the manufacture of oleo- margarine, and nominated Josiah k Brown of Oneida for State Dairy Commissioner to carry out the law.
 The American Oak Leather Tannery, in Cincinuati the largest works of the kind ill the woIld was destroyed by fire. There were 45,- coo hides in the factory. The loss will reach S400,000 insurance, $500, 900.
 The Bear, of the Greedy expedition, started for the Polar Regions on Thursday.
 The coal mining companies of Western Pennsylvania are united in an organization
  They met in New York city to agree on basis of restricting the coal production during the summer. The meeting was not harmonious, and no conclusion was arrived at.
 A proposition has been made to purchase fl om the State of Massachusetts the Hoosac Tunnel, railroad and other property erected therewith for $4, 000, 600.
 The reported abduction of child by a gang of gypsies is causing much excitement in the neighborhood of Esopus, N Y.
 The managers of the Henry College lottery have been arrested at Covington, Ky.
 Five shad fishers from Verplanck's Point were run down and drowned in the Hudson River.
 The Alert of the Greedy expedition, ar rived safely after 8 stormy voyage, in which she behaved admirably.
 Tho president of the Effingham Qll. Bank IS missing, it is said, with $25,000 or more of he banks funds.
 Six families were poisoned by arsenic in 'ake sold them by confectioner in Louisville, Ky.
 The Captain General of Cuba reports that order is restored over the whole island A number of Chinese laborers were killed by the falling of snow shed on the Central Pacific Railroad near Summit Cal,
 An aged couple blew out the gas in a Chicago hotel and the usual result followed.
 A discharged Japanese waiter, at Ogden, Utah, shot and mortally wounded the woman in whose employ he had been. He was placed in jail and a mob took him out and hanged him