Connecticut western news., 1884-03-26
The New Jersey House of Assembly

The New Jersey House of Assembly passed @ bill which makes it a mlsde- meanor for my cemetery association to refuse burial to @ person on account of color.
 The Western Wool Growers Con- vention at Denver passed resolutions asking Congress to restore the tariff of 1867 on all foreign wool and woolen fabrics, and also pledging the wool growers to stand by and support every effort to secure full and complete pro- tection to all American industries ill need of the same.
 The slaughtering trade of Chicago presents the following statistics for the year 1888 = Hogs killed, 3,9l2,000; 1; cattle l, 1,1s3,000.
 An insurrection has recently oc- cured in the Province of Santa Clara, Cuba. The nucleus of the rebel organ. ization was party of bandits under Vic tor Durace, to which recruits were added. from the numbers of partial freedmen on the plantations. The bandits were de- feated. A battle fought resulted in the killing of three leaders and the cap- ture of eleven. Twenty-two of the ban dits gave themselves up. Durace and seventeen of his confederates escaped.
 The number of deaths recorded last week in New York was 673; marriages, 176, and births, 569.
 The poisoning of six members of the Grace family, at Cape May Court House, N. J., by one of the household, and their narrow escape from death, is reported from Philadelphia.
 In the New Jersey House of As sembly the resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution prohibit ing the manufacture and sale of intoxi. eating liquors in that State was defeated by vote of 26 to 30.
 A German family, near Latrobe, Pa, was taken with trichinosis after eating unsparingly of raw pork. The mother has died and the fathers death is hourly expected.
 St. Patrick's Day was celebrated with enthusiasm in many of the principal cities throughout the United States and Canada. At the national capital the street parade was reviewed by President Arthur from the portico of the White House.
 In view of the recent mine disaster in Virginia bill was introduced in the Legislature of that State, to provide for the public inspection and government of mines.
 The brig Screamer, from Cuba for Portland, Me-, having on board twenty four Cuban men, women and children, claiming to be refugees, was boarded at Vineyard Sound by an officer of the reve- nue cutter Dexter and brought to Vine yard Haven, Mass.
 -Dr. A. B. Elliott, United States Consul at Morrisburg, Canada, died after long illness, at his home in Lan- singburg. He was member of the New York State Press Association.
 --Denn1s Riley flor fun" pointed a revolver at Celia Renney, aged seven- teen, in Brooklyn, and pulled the trig. ger. The girl was instantly killed by 8 eullet that struck her in the forehead. Riley says he did not know the revolver was loaded.
 Murder will out. At Dayton, Ohio, an aged woman on her deathbed con- tessed that she had killed her daughter, young woman, the mystery of whose murder, in 1867, completely bafled the authorities.
 At Neosho Falls, Kan., the Quaran- tine Committee ordered the killing and burning of several head of cattle SUD- posed to be infected with foot and mouth disease.
 A thirty-six irch vein of sapphire corundum has been discovered near Line Mountain, Northumberland county, Pa.
 Two important failures took place on the New York Coffee Exchange Saturday.