Connecticut western news., 1885-11-11
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

~ASAHNEJ O"Ssg were lost.
 The pilot boat Mary Catharine, No. 6, was run down by an unknown steamship off Bar negat. One of her crew was drowned. The others escaped after great sufferings.
 Judge Rouean, of Battleford, Canada, tried forty-six Indian prisoners, engaged in the Northwestern difficulties Sixteen of these were discharged, twenty-nine were sent 10 the penitentiary for periods ranging be- tween twenty and two years, and eleven were sentenced to be hanged November 27. These were known to be directly concerned with the Frog Lake massacre. Of the eleven, eight will certainly be hanged, the sentence of two will be commuted, and possibly that of 8 third.
 A man was arrested snd held for examina- ton In Boston on charge of swindling under pretence of teaching the art of telegraphy.
 Three miners were terribly burned in shaft No. 9 Sugar Notch, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., by gas explosion.
 A young man while on hunting expedi- tion near Thorpe, Wis, accidentally shot his companion in the back, inficting serious wound.
 The three-mile singIe-scull race for $500 between Peter H. Conley, of Portland, Me-, and John Mckay, of Boston, at Lake Quinsg- amond, Mass, was won by Conley by less than two lengths Time, 20m. POS. Mckay lost the race by blunder.
 The police authorities of St. Louis, Mo-, have captured several men who confess to having been instrumental in placing dynamite upon the street car tracks in connection with the recent strike in that city.
 Eddie Townsend, twelve years old, and Fred McAllister, five years inmates of the Catholic Orphan Asylum, of Troy, N. Y, left that institution and lost their way. Search was made for them, and McAlister was found dead, buried in clay bank up to his chin.
 In view of possible further trouble growing out of the anti-Ch1nese sentiment In Washing ton Territory, Governor Squire has issued a proclamation calling upon all citizens to assist in the preservation of order.
 The French sculptor, A. Bartholdi, author and designer of the Statue of Liberty, has ar rived in New York.
 The owners of the fishing schooner Daisy Spraiker have given up all hopes of Der re- turn, and there is little doubt that she is lost, with all on board. She sailed from New Lon don with crew of eight men.
 A farm hand was beheaded by thrash ing machine at Hastings, Ont.
 A terrible calamity, by which six lives were lost, occurred near Race Rock Light in the l.. I. Sound, caused by the explosion of the boiler of steam dredge No. 4, of the At lantic Dredging Company, of Brooklyn, N: r., which was being lowed to New York. The captain, mate, steward, fireman and two men were killed.
 Ferdinand Ward was sentenced to ten years in the State Prison. He received hls sentence Saturday. and by night was safely put away in the State Prison at Sing Sing. He will have to serve about seven years if he se- cures communication for good conduct.
 At & mass meeting in San Francisco, called to consider the matter of the Chinese cigarmakers striking work rather than assoc1- U, ;4ox hat a united stand be taken against further Chinese dictation.
 The tug Frank Moffat bound down with four barges, rounded to because of thick wea- ther at the wharf at Sombra, opposite Marine City, Michigan, when her boiler exploded, killing four men and iniuring several others. Political riot has been carried on in Mexico between tho Spanish-Mexicans and the Mexl- can-Indian factions for the control of the town offices at the local elections. A number oi persons have been killed on both sides.
 An engineer and brakeman were killed near the Minnesota line on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad by the wrecking of train.
 The condition of John Mccullough was reported improved by Dr. Engel on Friday. He says that crisis has been passed, and the result is favorable to the actor.
 WASHINGTON NorEs
 The Dolphin controversy has been settl ed articles of agreement having been; signed bJ the proper parties containing provisions for its transfer to the Government, and both par ties to the transaction are satisfied"
 The annual report of General Benet, Chief of Ordnance, U. s. A., shows that the expend- iture of the bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30 were $1, ,831 ,674. Respecting the militia the report urges the great need ot larger appropriations for farming and equip ping the whole body of the militia" or even a reasonable fraction of it.
 General John Newton, Chief of Engineers in his annual report invites the attention oi Congress to the defenceess condition of the sea coast and lake frontier, 8 subject which he remarks, received careful attention in the last annual report of the Chief o1 Engineers He expresses hope that the beginning of al elaborate system of defence may no longer bt delayed for lack of appropriations. The linn tied amount of funds available during tn, past year has been mainly applied to placint in serviceable condition the platforms o heavy guns and mortars bearing upon tn, channels of entrance to the various harbors.
 In his first annual report upon the opera tions of the Labor Bureau, Commissione Carroll D. Wright rays the bureau has beer Investigating questions of industrial depres sion. This involved study of their character and causes and whether, as to duration, sever ity, and periodicity, they are alike in all grea producing countries. Such an investigation included the question of the influence of de pressions on the cost of living, the extent tt which industries are involved the cost of pro duction as influenced by the use of machinery aud other kindred questions Between Marcl IT and June 27 twenty special agents wer appointed, and at the close of the fiscal yea fifteen of these agents were employed in tn United States and five in Europe, collectin, tue information required. The results of tn Investigations will be embodied in the repor of the bureau, which will be submitted earl in the coming year. The appropriations fo the bureau for the year ended June 30 wert ample, and nearly $9,0O0 were covered int the Treasury.
 ---Adjutant- General Drum in his annual re port says that the number of assertions iron the army the past year has sensiLly decreased being 7454es than during the previous year Of the ', ,164 accepted recruits during the pas year 4,222 were native born, and 2,942 O foreign birth; 6,587 were white, and 57 colored.
 The Director Of the Mint estimates tn, amount of gold and silver coin in the coun try on July 1, 1885, at $820, 900, ,000 of whicl &542, GOO, ,030 consisted of gold and $278, ,0OO. 900 of silver. This amount was owned al follows:-By the Treasury-Gold, $53, ,223, ,160 silver, $95 119, ,065; & total of $148 342, ,225 By national banks-Gold, $165, ,575, ,S67; silver $11, ,978, ,833; total of SIC, 554, 700. By othe banks and private hands-Gold, $323, ,375, ,602 silver, $l7l, ,726,303; total of $495, 101, 1912 The director has deducted the amount of coil jn the Treasury represented by gold and silve certificates outstanding, and added it to tn stock of coin in active circulation. In addi tion to the coin in the country there was il the hints and assay offices on July 1, 1885 gold and silver bullion available for coinage a follows:-Gold bullion, value $66, ,847, 095 silver bullion, cost, $4 654, 5S7; total of $71, 501, ,692. Adding this to the amount of gol and silver coin in the country it gives the to tai coin and bullion at that date as 1892, 800, 519.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 An alarming conspiracy in the interest of Prince Peter Karageorgevitch has been dis covered in Servia Many of tho ri, da,