Connecticut western news., 1885-09-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 "A short time ago Nicholas Snowdon, a worthless negro, brutally assaulted Alvina F!sher, a little girl of his own color. A small party Of masked men, all colored, took sum- maly vengeance uIon Showden on Friday by GrsyS ing him from the jail at Ellicott City, Howard county, Md, and hanging him to a tree.
 Mrs. Wilson, of Montreal, Canada, tri d 10 kill her husband by putting ground glass in his food. The guilty and inhuman Niie, hear ing thai her murderous plans had been dis covered and that her husband know all, hur- riedly left the city, thereby avoiding prosecu- tion. She is now in Boston, stopping under an assumed namc at one of the principal hotels.
 Patrick Collins, John Butler and Wm. Me- Grotty were killed while at work on the new aqneduct in New York.
 Official eturrs at the Health Office in Montreal, Can, on Friday, show that twenty nine deaths from smallpox occurred in one day. There are some hundred cases of small pox in St. Cunegonde and several in Griffin town.
 Two men lost their lives through the cap sizing of yacht on Lake St. Francis, Ont. John Stanis was fatally injured by falling to the bottom of Black Rock Mine, near Butte, M. T.
 Louis Riel the leader in the late North western rising, has been formally notified of his respite to the 18th of October next.
 The Price Curen: says it's reports in- dicate that the present corn crop of the coun- try will aggregate 1,990, COG, 900 bushels, an in crease of l95,o00,t { 00 bushels, or nearly Il per cent. over last year. From the 18th to the 14th inst, the date of most of the returns, about three-fourths of the crop in twelve Western States, which produce 77 per cent. of the entire crop, was out of danger from frost Ten to fifteen days moro will render the re- maining portion safe. After Sept. 25, with the present favorable weather, the danger line will be crossed.
 A fugitive balloon decended on church in Monmouth, H., demolishing the chimneys. The @ronaut, Prof. Williams, is missing. The wrecking schooners Edwin Post and Rapidan were struck by Perth Amboy tow, and tho former was overturned and swamped, tho captain and cook being imprisoned in the cabin.
 Red Eagle, The Hole, Poor Crow, Red Bean and Left Hand have been found guilty of felony for their participation in the battles of Duck Lake and Ba'oche
 Three men were killed in Makeup Jim Shaft, near Bu.e, M. T., by the falling of bucket.
 "A cowboy, one of party of three who at tackled and fired upon sta5 coach, was shot and killed by passenger.
 In Wyoming Territory the Knights of Labor have taken decided stand against the Chinese, and their ultimate expulsion from the Territory is regarded as probable.
 
 leading citizens there, have been placed under honds, charged with burglaries committed in that town.
 A passenger train on the Kentucky Central road plunged down an embankment near Ham, nton Station, Ky. The engineer and fireman were killed, and a number of passengers seri- ously injured.
 -Riel, the Canadian rebel has been re- spited, and his case will be considered by the English Privy Council. It is believed that Riel will not be executed.
 Striking iron workers at Cleveland Ohio attacked 8 foreman on the street, when the latter drew his revolver an1 shot at his assail- ants, wounding two of them.
 In Chinatown, San Francisco, Chinamen were discovered boiling down the remains of their countrymen in order 10 send their bones home.
 Press reports from the corn belt of the West are very favorable. Little damage has and most sections report that all fear of the frost is past. The crop will be very large.
 A drunken mother in Toronto, Canada, Ut the throats of her three little children.
 Henry Arthur X Co.,, dealers in leather and findings, New York, have failed, with liabilities of S100,000 and actual assets of S60,G0l. The nominal assets are S100.0o0. At colliery near Shenandoah, Pa., two miners were instantly killed, through being run over by loaded cars, which had become un- manageable.
 Mrs. Barbara Reutlinger and her six months babe plunged through an air shaft in East Eighty-frst street, New York, while es- caping from fire, and both mother and child were killed.
 Rev. T. De Witt Talmage arrived home on the Anrania.
 Santos, released from prison in Ecuador at the instance of the United States Govern ment, claims over $100, 900 damages from the Ecuadorian Government.
 The first section of the Panama Canal will be opened in October.
 -1he Dominion Inspector of Prisons re- ports that owing to the large increase of crime among the Chinese in British Columbia, it will be necessary to enlarge the penitentiaries of that province.
 WASHINGTON NoTEa
 The President has appointed Lemuel B. Fowler to be Postmaster at Augusta, Me-, vice Joseph Manley. MT. Fowler is successful dry goods merchant and prominent man in Augusta.
 It is probable that some action will bo taken by the Knights of Labor soon in re- gard to the rapidly increasing number of Chinese aundries which have been started in Washin gton in the past year. There are about sixty Chinese laundries now in Wash ington, thirty having been added in the last twelve months.
 FOREIGN rrEMS.
 -Advices from Massowah in the southeast ern corner of the Soudan. give deplorable account of the condition of the Italian mili-