Connecticut western news., 1885-04-29
NEWS OF THEDAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

of Capt. Posey, was lifted into the air dashed against 8 tree and instantly killed. Several dwellings were demolished and two lifted up and carried several hundred yards and de- posted without being seriously shattered
 George Smithley, young married man, died from over exertion caused by roller skat- ing in Pittsburg, Pa.
 While strong barricade was being erected, entirely enclosing the Central and South American Cable Company's office at Panama and great preparations were being made for a fight, the Americans arrived, knocked down the barricades and took charge of the town. The insurgents were recalled to their barracks by bugle.
 Martin Mitchell shot and killed three men who had been trespassing on his gronds-and one of whom had previously wounded him near Memphis, Tenn.
 Two troops of cavalry have been ordered to the Cheyenne Indian Reservation to pro- tect cattlemen from depredations by the h. dians.
 The bill establishing Labor Bureau was passed in the Connecticut Legislature, and that body adjourned sine de.
 The search for bodies among the ruins of the late fire in Vicksburg, Miss, leads to the belief that twenty persons lost their lives. Six were recovered, two of which, the bodies of negroes were recognized.
 Prof, Ludeking, to whom the stomach of O. A. Preller, the victim of the St. Louis tragedy, was submitted for analysis, has made partial investigation, and will testify before the Coroner's jury that Preller came to his death by inhaling ohloroform.
 Margaret Shaw, under life sentence in Rhode Island, for the murder of her husband by chopping off bis head with an ax in 1878 died at the State prison.
 Four men in the Chickasaw Nation, for whose arrest on charge of horse-theft war rants were issued by the United States Commits sioner, have all been shot dead by cattlemen In the Indian Territory.
 The Isthmus of Panama is well guarded by United States troops, but great fears of anarchy nt Panama are entertained when General Aizpuru the rebel leader, is attacked by the Colombian forces-an attack which is daily expected.
 A wave eight feet high came rushing down the Rio Grande with terrific force, carrying away portion of the Mexican National Rail road bridge. In few hours the water in the river rose twelve feet and then rapidly sub sided. The high water resulted from great waterspout which fell some miles above Laredo.
 Calvin Porter, a travelling agent was burned to a crisp in hotel fire at Lyons, New York.
 Frank Watson and Francis Copeland settled horse race dispute in the Indian Ter. ritory with Winchester rifles. Both men were killed.
 The suit of Kennard Philp against the New York Tribune Association to recover $50, 900 damages for alleged libel in charging him with forging President Garfeld's name to the Mercy letter, was tried in Brooklyn and the jury found verdict of $5,0OO for Philp.
 -Alyah Strong, of Rochester, for thirty years~publisher of the Rochester Denlocrdt, died, aged 76 years.
 -Four hundred Polish laborers who had been employed on sewer at East Buffalo, struck for an increase of pay, which was re- fused, and their places filed with Irish and German laborers. The Poles attacked the Irish and German workmen with sticks and stones. The police were called on to quell the disturbance, which was accomplished after some trouble. Two men had their heads cut open and several others were more or less severely hurt.
 At Newburg, N r., Joseph Myers cut the threats of his wife and James Barclay, who is alleged to have eloped with the woman, and then cut his own throat.
 Philadelphia weavers, who have been on strike, are to resume work.
 The striking coal miners of the Primrose, Briar Hill, Jumbo and Willow Grove pits, on the Pan Handle Railroad, have returned to work at two and a half cents a bushel, the price offered by the operators.
 Extensive preparations are being made at Baltimore for the annual reunion of the Army of the Potomac, which is to be held in that city May and 2. A committee of citizens has been at work for several weeks raising the necessary funds and making arrangements for the large number of visitors that are expected, and they are confident that the reunion will be the most successful the society has ever held. Private telegrams say the people of Pan- anna are apprehensive of the destruction of that city by the rebels.
 In consequence of the depression in the cotton trade, the Wilmington cotton mills will R... oe,rk~v 1n-~. proves in the meantime. The mills manufac- lure print cloth exclusively. About 125 hands will be thrown out of employment.
 The fact has just been made public that William H. McCleary has rendered his resigna- ton as postmaster of Pittsburg, Pa. Nine months of the term of his commission are un- expired.
 At the coroners inquest in the Preller case iu St. Louis, Charles Beiger said T first saw Maxwell on April 6. He brought two trunks to my store. I asked his name so that could deliver the valise he bought, but he carried it with him. On Tuesday was called to the hotel to open trunk. 1 noticed blood where the trunk lay. I could not unite the rope as 1t had been sealed in different places Some one shouted cut the rope cut it and when lifted the lid the dead mans leg fell outward over the edge of the trunk. When the man bought the trunk he said that he wanted TO tray with it. "
 In Covington, Ky, horse attached to laundry wagon became frightened, and dashed up Madison street sweeping everything before 1t. More than Q dozen people were injured, some of them fatally
 A dispatch from Indian Territory states that all settlers have been removed from Okla homa, but that the cattlemen still remain.
 Commander Kane reports that he retook the steamer Colon from the Columbian insur- gents within few hours of its seizure, and that he did all he could to prevent the city of Auw,i hasp hr1rv property belonging to American citizens.
 Dan Mace, trainer, driver an owner of trotting horses, died at his residence in New York city, of Brights disease. He had been a sufferer for many months, but he had only been confined to the house little over two weeks.
 The two-story frame summer house on the track farm of Augustus l.. Wentzel, two miles below Reading, Pa, burned and four persons lost their ives-two children and two gar dencrs.
 A fire broke out in the Colored Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn, N. Y., in one of the rooms on the third floor. The children were removed in squads in an orderly manner. They were marched of from the grounds and distributed in other asylums in the vicinity, and no lives were lost.
 A Milwaukee street car was stopped .by two men late at night, who, at the muzzle of arevolver, compelled the driver, Sam Zata- bern to surrender his cash box, containing $20 in change.
 WASHINGTON NoTEa.
 Judge Durham First Comptroller of the Treasury, in an opinion on the refunding of interest collected on direct taxes, holds that under the decision of the Court of Claims all interest collected for the period prior to the expiration of the sixty days immediately fol- lowing the fixing of the taxes shall be re- funded.
 A delegation of Georgians invited the President to visit Atlanta, Ga.. during the commercial convention to be held there in May. The President agreed to accept the in- vitation provided his duties would permit his absence from the capital at that time.