Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.

= Thres cul iosities in the way of well-sxe- cuted counterfeit Bank of England notes for $50 each were sent into Wall street brokers for exchange.
 The introduction of steam engine to lessen labor, by pipe-laylng contractor in Pittsburg, led to riot by his workmen and the destruction of the engine.
 Two men fell from train seventy feet through trestle in Ohio, and one survives the fall.
 The schooner L. and A. Babcock was wrecked at Barnegat and five lives were lost. The cattle drovers of Texas object to pay ing the Indians any toll on cattle herds driven thI ough their reserSetions.
 A yonng colored girl in Newburg, N. Y., poisoned her mistre because scolded her. HI. S. Strathy las resigned manager ot the Federal Bank, Toron O, Ont, and w. J. Ingram has t,ken his place. The stock of the bank has failed thirty points, and there is great excitemnt.
 Nine Italian railroad laborers attempted to cross Corson's Inlet, J., during the storm on Thursday. Their boat was upset and six out of the nine men were drowned. Their bodies have not been recovered Another man whose name is unknown, was drowned in Egg Harbor Inlet.
 The man who attempted to defraud insur- ance companies by burning down his house and placing skeleton therein, to pass for his own remains, was arrested in Ashland, Cal.
 The Bunk of St. Petersburg, Pa.,. failed.
 The late Mrs. Eliza Cody, of Philadelpl ia left S150,000 in public btquests.
 The State Bunk of West Virginia, at Charlestown, will pay ten cents on the dollar
 The new class of West Point cadets, sixty nine in number, has been sworn into the vice.
 The general freight agents of roads run ming into Iowa have prohibited tho landing of any iouor destined for that Stat,
 The anthracite coal producers have shut down work in tlr mines and raised the pricc
 "A terrific hurricane visited Council Bluff !, Ia., on Wednesday afternoon. The Exhibition Building at the race track, which cost $11 ,0)0 was leve!ed to the ground and torn into shreds. DaylS's circus was blown down, caus- ing loss Of $50 0. A large number of shade trees succumbed to the storm, while chimneys were blown over and houses unroofed.
 A special dispatch from Coal Bluff, Pa, says: Last Saturday evening eleven persons ate ice cream in Conlin's saloon, and within two hours the whole party were attacked with vomiting and violent pains in the stomach. Their sufferings were intense, and several of them were thrown into convul- sions Two are already dead and others are not expected to recover. It is supposed that the cream was poisoned from the vanilla havoring. There is great excitement over the afr ir Coal Bluff is a small mining town on the Monongahela River, sixteen miles from Pittsburg."
 There are 12 cases of smallpox at Vest phalia, She by county, III. The disease was brought thither by German family directly from the old country. At Boston the vessel on which they arrived was quarantined but phy- sicians pronounced the case measles Soon after their arrival at Westphalia two of the family died and the whole neighborhood at tended the funeral. In few days 10 persons tn L9Io pox, and the people are greatly alarmed
 The bridge over the Delaware River at Calhoun street., Trenton, N J., was burned down to the piers. Ths cause is unknown. The fire started at the Trelton side of tho bridge about six p, m., and rushed like the wind from span to span, making grand spec tacle. The loss will probably reach $40, 000. The bridge, including the piers, originally cost $60, ,00O.
 A convention of teachers of deaf mutes has come together in New York city to discuss the best methods of instru ting the afflicted ones uTder their care. The delegates to the Convent 'n are 200 in number and come from all patls of this country, Canada and England.
 A serious break in tho Erie Can Il is re- ported from Rochester. It will stop naviga- on for one week.
 Numerous fatalities by lightning occurred i'll New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
 Tine bursting of bn1ler in Iona. Mch. on WedLcs"sy, killed four persons and wounded sev ra' more.
 By cloud burstin Montana three Chinese miners were drowned and several houses washed away.
 The president of brick company at Will m!nSton, Del. has absconded, leaving all his laborers unpaid and destitute.
 -Maddened by his inability to pay his creditors in full, Mir. Burnham, of the firm of Hotchkiss, Burnham & Co.,, No 36 Broad street, New York, sh)t himself through the head at his home in Yonkers. He d:ed sh ,rtly after being shot. He had been insane for sev- eral days.
 Captain Young, of the schooner M B. Millen, reports sailing through school of over one hundred sperm whales, seventy miles off Cape Hatieras, which were from thirty to forty fe long and as tame and playful as kittens.
 In the extradltion trial of John c. Enc at Quebec, the cashier of the Second National Bank testified to the falsifcation of entries by the accused and the payment of the deficits by his relatives
 "A needle that ten years ago entered the foot of woman who resided in Harlem, N. Y., parne to the surface, and w&s removed from her stemach on Saturday