Connecticut western news., 1884-08-06
GENERAL ITEMS.

street, New York, Friday morning. Before rescue came one of them, a child, was dead and two other persons died subsequently,. The two survivors are in critical condition. The dam age done by the fire is $35, ,O00
 Charges have been formulated for the trial of General Swain and Colonel A. P. Nor row by court martial
 Official intelligence indicates that the re- ports of epidemic yellow fever in Sonora, Mex ico, are exaggerated.
 F-John Caswell < Co, importers of teas, of New York, has suspended. The firm was one of the oldest in the trade, aud was rated as having a capital of from $750 GOO to S1, COG, 900 and very high credit. It's business has con sisted of importing teas and exporting cotton goods.
 In Burns, Ky, the brother oi young wo man who eloped to marry a young man threatened to kill the husband. The parties meeting, a fusilade took place. resulting in the killing of one and the wounding of two per sons one of the latter being the bride.
 Alexander Jefferson. the negro murderer, was hanged in the Raymond Street Jail Brooklyn, N. Y on Friday. Through the bungling of the hangman the prisoner was slowly strangled. He succt eded in tearing the black cap from his face. post mortem ex- animation of his brain showed that the mur- derer was sane. Three men were hanged at ScoIlsboro, Ala, for arson. Executions for murder occurred in Maryland, South Carolina and Arkansas.
 The Greedy relief vessels arrived at Ports mouth, N. H., on Friday, with the survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay party and the bodies of their dead comrades.
 Quincy, Ill, was the scene of a wife mur- der and suicide, on Friday, caused by recent sunstroke-
 Two prisoners broke out of jail at Belvi- dere, N. J., and on stolen horses reached the Pennsylvania wilds in safety.
 The body of Warner D. Hatch, president the Hatch Lithographic Company, who disap- peared on the 18th of last month, was picked up in New York bay on Thursday, of Sandy Hook Hghtship, by the schooner Thomas O. Rackett. A bunch of keys with his name on was found in his pockets.
 The First National Bank, of New York, has brought suit against the St. Nicholas Bank to compel the latter to pay $37, 900 as itsshare of the $115 900 worth of bogus checks of Fer dinand Ward growing out of the Marine Bank failure
 pr. Lockwood of the New York Petroleum Exchange, whose whereabouts were for some time unknown, is at Gibraltar, en route for N. Y. city.
 Three children were buried alive by a land slide on one of the Thousand Islands, Friday. The Bible has been made an agent for smuggling on tho St. Lawrence River.
 British Columbia is discontented over the incompetency of the commission appointed to deal with the Chinese immigration question. Mir. Samuel W. Davenport, well known crockery merchant, of Chambers 8 street, New York, and prominent citizen of Somerville, N. J., while walking on the railroad track from his residence to the station, struck by the 7.45 B. m- express train to New York and al- most instantly killed.
 The opposition to the Western Union Telegraph Company have now united their or ganizations and will work together.
 -Mr Gye has definitely declined the man. agement of the New York Metropolitan Opera House.
 A horse car on the Middlesex railroad was demolished by freight train in Cambridge, one, escaped injury by miracle.
 At Charter Oak Park, Conn.,, during an exhibition of Buffalo Bills Wild West show, Frauk North, one of the principal equestrian performers, was thrown from his horse and perhaps fatally injured, having five ribs broken.
 The coinage executed at the United States Mint in Philadelphia during the month ending July 31 amounted to 1000 900 silver dollars. No other coins were turned out.
 F. M Hargrave, banker at Lampasas, Tex as has made an assignment His liabilities are $40, 900; assets about the same The cred itors are chiefly local
 The British steamer Roma, Captain Shu- Ter which arrived in New York Thursday from
  No. 22, and sunk her. The cook of the pilot boat, James Freeman, was lost. He resided on Staten Island. The rest of the crew succeeded in getting on board the steamer.
 The gas tank on the New York ferryboat Manhattan Beach, of the East River Ferry Company exploded on Thursday morning, while the boat was lying in the slip. A gas filter was seriously, if not fatally, injured. The engineer was also badly burned about the face and hands. 
 It is estimated that the decrease of the public debt for the month of July is about $5, ,000, 900.
 Great preparations are being made al Portsmouth, N. H., to welcome the returned Arctic explorers Lieutenant G1eely's wife and mother will be among the guests.
 A farmer who had SI3, ,Oo0 in his safe al St. Joe, Pa., was robbed thereof by three masked men, on Thursday. The Brushy Creek bridge, an immense span, seventy-ive feet high, and situated with. in twenty five miles of Austin, Texas, on the Missouri Pacific road, was burned Wednesday afternoon. As 8 result all the trains on that road were blockaded.
 Our Southern frontier is to be strictly guarded to prevent importations of yellow fever from Sonora, Mexico.
 The Texas fever is still agitating Western cattle markets.
 At Saratoga on Wednesday, a portion oi the COmm1ttee 8ppOlnBeu DV the recent D0ulO- cratic National invention for the purpose Oi notifying the Presidential candidates called upon ex- x-Governor H, ndricks at his hotel and formally discharged the duty imposed upon them
 The customer who caused the ruin of D. Wolf & Swan, the New York stock brokers proves to be w. E. Scovil, stenographer em ployed by Lord, Day Lord, lawyers. H. took about $200 GOO worth of Mir. Days securi ties, substitu ed commercials for the genuine ones and forged MT. Days signature on tht genuine stocks
 The Treasury figures show 8 shrinkage O the currency in circulation during the sever months prior to July amounting to abou $32, COG, 900.
 For improving the harbors of Lake Su perior and the northern portion of Lax Michigan the estimates of cost for next yea are $786, 900.
 A SO called basement burglar" who ha robbed over forty houses in Harl' m, N. r., Il five months and who has succeeded admirabl in keeping out of the hands of the police, wa captured at his work wagon load of stolel property was found at his home.
 A dispatch from Reading, Pa, says: Dur ing Wednesday night John Flowers, aged for ty-five, an insane man, and an inmate of tn County Hospital, killed Thomas Louth, hi roommate, by battering in his head whil Louth was asleep. Louth was found dead in tn
 
 herc from England. As Flowers is 8 lunatic h. will not be tried for murder, but will be con fined in the iron-cad cell.
 A severe thunderstorm visited the regiol of Beatr1ce, Neb., before daylight Wednesda! morning. Lightning struck the farm house of Nathan Miller, Tt ar Maryville, Kan, killinI his four daughters while asleep. Their age were seventeen, thirteen, nine and seven re spectively. The mother is in 8 critical condi tion from her bereavement
 
 -J. s. c. Harrison, of the broken liar Tlsons Bank, and receiver of the Indians Banking Company, has been arrested flor em bezzhng $95, 900 in Indianapolis.
 A surveying party of four persons wer drowned in Spanish River, Canada, Tuesday.
 The Notification Committee of the Dem ocratic National Convention for officiall apprising Governor Cleveland of his nomins tion for the Presidency, accompanied by tn National Committee, waited upon the nomine at the Executive Chamber on Tuesday an performed the mission with which it had beel