Connecticut western news., 1885-08-19
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL rrEKa-

Y., and in other sections of the country. The farmers of Georgia have asked the Governor of that State to appoint day of thanksgiving for "the good crops and the prospect of a bountiful harvest"
 In Peru, Canton has been occupied by the Government troops The rebels fled on their approach. News from Arequipa say that great misery prevails there, owing to the exactions and tyranny of the Cacerist authorities. "A collision occurred between two sections of Forepaugh's travelling circus train, near Eddyville, Iowa. AS result of the collision anumber of train men and others were in iurel, none of them fatally. number or animals were killed.
 Tho prohibition party of Massachusetts will place complete State ticket ln the held, and will hold the State convention h Worces- ter-on Sept 10. Ex-Gov. St. John, who was the pariys candidate for President last fall, will be present and address the Convention. A band of twenty marauding Pigean In- dians with stolen ponies in charge, had hght with cattle men in Montana, which resulted in the killing of tho entire party of Indians. is expected that this will make trouble among adjacent tribes.
 A kernel of corn lodged in the windpife of & little son of MT. J. Murdock of Pelhamvile, N T., recently, and all efforts to get it ont have been unavailing. He was taken to Belle vue but the doctors there gave up the case. The corn has now, it is feared began to swell
  strangles at times
 Gen. Hancock has issued general order acknowledging his obligations to all who as- sisted in the conduct of Gen. Grants funeral. He notes as especially gratifying the presence of Gen. Gordon and Gen. Lee among the aides-de-camp, ard praises the skilGul hand ing of the police force by Superintendent Murray
 The President of the local Board of Health, of Montreal declares that smallpox is now epidemic there.
 James Horace Jones was hanged in the Troy N. Y., jail on Friday, for the murder or his wife, Amelia Jones, on July 5, 1881.
 On the approach of & thunder storm six men who were working five miles from Ithaca, N Y, took shelter in 8 shed at the base or perpendicular ledge of boulders. The ram de- scended in torrents. and in some way loosened several of the great stones overhanging the cabin in which the men had taken shelter These fell. completely dcmolishing the wooden structure and crushing to death three men. Tim M Carthy, the New York dive keeper. is back ac ain in the station house. woman elugged in his Oak street dive made complaint and he was arrested
 Much sympathy is shown in favor of Riel among the French Canadians.
 In Jersey City the lower part of the block bounded by Newark and Railroad avenues and Warren and Henderson streets was burned causing loss of 100000; seventy-ive families were rendered homeless.
 The pilgrimage to the tomb of General Grant at Riverside, New York, continues, large numbers from the city and surrounding coun- being present every day.
 A waterspout near Deadwood, D. T., re- suited in the loss of the lives of four women and two children, and considerable damage to property.
 At Bay City, Mich. ,a..fght occurred between & sherif's posse and riotous strikers, during which clubs were freely used and several shots fired. The sheriff was shot in the forehead Four prisoners scaled the wal Of the fail at Lewiston, Pa, and fed. Two of them were subsequently recaptured.
 There is no longer any mystery about the murder of Albert k. Herrick, who was shot and killed at his residence in Brooklyn. His step-son, Armstrong, admits that he quarreled with his father and shot him.
 Experiments by Chinese at Merced, Cal, in the culture of the opium poppy, have been successful. But the California drug proves to be too strong for the Asiatics, and they prefer the imported article. = "A heavy bank caved in at the government works on the csnal at Louisville, Ky. and killed Peter Decoucey and seriously W, un led Thomas McCann and Mike Cusick, workmen. Two brothers were killed near St. Paul, Minn., by bull which they were leading to pasture.
 The Indians on the Indian reserve at Des- eronto, Ontario, becoming displeased with the clergyman, Mir. Baker, assaulted him on Sun day night They dragged him from his pulpit and threw him out of the door of the church. An officer of the Lake Mistassini explor- ing and surveying expedition reports it's ex- treme length to be 120 miles, and it's average breadth 20 miles.
 William Allanson, of Fishabee Falls, Ala, was bitten by large rattlesnake on Sunday. Whisky was the only remedy at hand, but as Allanson had identified himself prominently
 
 take it. He died in great agony.
 The head of rotary rag boiler in the Ivanhoe paper mill in Paterson, N. J., blew out, seriously injuring number of people. In the mine of the West End Coal O., op. erated by Conyngham, Teasdale & Co.,, at miners, killing number of the party.
 In New York city the new trial of Timothy McCarty has been postponed, and he has been placed under $2,000 bail. Tim is the very wealthy dive keeper who declared that he would not go to prison, after he was tried, convicted and sentenced. Judge Gildersleeve granted him new trial. \
 -Th5 boilers of the steamer Paquite dc los Velos exploded while she was on a voyage from Coquimbo to Valparaiso, killing five per sons and dangerously wounding six others.
 The steamship Zealand q, having on loard detectives of St. Louis, Mo, who had in custody Waiter Horace Lennox, alias Maxwell, alias Theodore Cecil Daughter extraditcd as the murderer, in St. Louis of c. Arthur Preer, arrived in San Francisco.
 "A severe thunder storm passed over Rock Rapids, Iowa. A farm house about twenty nlilcs south of the town was struck by light n'ng, and all the inmates-who were Jobn Mcclure, his wife, and three children-werC killed.
 The New York Club beat the famous Chi cago Club by score of 12 to @. @u A train, in full speed, plunged through partially opened swing bridge into the Vel land Canal, at Merritton Olt. Engineer Col was instantly killed, and William Jenning probably fatally injured.
 Two men fell from the tower of Method ist church at Grand Rapids, Mich., and wert killed.
 "A race between picnickers in wagons, nea Jcffeison, ILL. resulted in the death Of on man sni child, an injuries to several othe persons.
 At Carrolltown, Mo. man on com:n; out of church saw another in the act of assist ing his divorced wife to mount her horse, and s'epping up to her, placed his pistol at he head and discharged it. killing h.r instantly He afterward committt q suicide.
 WASHINGTON NoTEA
 Colonel Wright, the Commissioner Of tn Labor Bureau, had the ap o:utnent of 0. P Judd as special agent of tie bureau revoked because of h's recent arrest in Colc rado on charge of horse stealing and his admitting hi guilt, and also that he had seved two terms il penitentiary for the same offence
 The unfinished cruisers Atlanta, Chicago and Boston will be completed under the super vision of the Navy Department at the shiI yards of MT. John Roach. This was virtual. agreed upon at a consultation on Tuesday be tween Secretary Whitney and the assignees fol MT. Roach, and their counsel The work vii be done under the supervision Of naval officers
 Secretary of State Bayard received a teIt gram from the American Consul at Guayaqui Ecuador, saying that he had positive informs tion that Santos had been liberated
 FOREIGN TrEMa
 -Adviccs from St. Paul de Loanda, Wes Africa, under date of July 15, report that petty king, Coanhama Huilla, died recently att fbuting his death to the witchcraft of tn whites, massacred twenty Europeans, includ ing three French missionaries. The same ad ,inn, sta Ia thnt M do Rrauu nLilI tl,o