Connecticut western news., 1885-12-30
.OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL TTRlES.
 Two children were burned to death in house at Wadesvil e, Va., during the tenn norary absence of their mother.
 An attack was made on worki miners near Monongahela City, Pa., by strikers, who fl, ed numerous shots from guns and revolVer', without, however, wounding any Of the work CTS.
 The family of George E. Korell are on the point of death at their home iu Cleveland, Ohio, suffering from trlchinosis, the result of eating raw ham.
 A Norwegian named Dreyer threw himself m front of the midday express train at Meri- den Conn.,. and was instantly led.
 Chicago thieves robbed the posi- master Of Mount Forest, H., and one of the four thieves was shot.
 Two children and young man, who ran to their rescue, were bitten by a mad dog, in the village of Wauwatosa, Wis.
 The leaders in the recent revolutionary movement in Panama, have been tried and convicted by a court-martial in Bogota, and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. "A complaint for murder has been made against the Newark, N. J., policeman Baum CT, who shot Bartley Rice on the pretence Of belief that he was burglar.
 Three children of Patrick Driscoll, la borer, living in 8 little house at 166th street, New York City, were burned to death early in the morning. Drlscoll, his wife and another child were also injured.
 In Hackensack N J., Eva M Hasbrouck was married to George Ryerson Skinner, while the latter lay on his death bed.
 A gentleman just from the scene of the Indian outrages in New Mexico says that every body is leaving the country and desolation and depopulation Is visible everywhere; that even the cowboys are leaving. Dead bodies are met with all along tue line of the Apaches' raid.
 Jacob A. Stivers farmer at Beemervfle, Sussex county, N. J.. fell while climbing over fence and broke his neck.
 Tho forty-two shoe factories in Brockton, Mass. which have been silent for so long time, have opened their doors for work, and are once more busy.
 Ut is said General Crook is now in favor of employing b!oodhoands as auxiliarles to the army in hunting down the Apaches. and has communicated with the War Department with the object of securing the dogs.
 The 250th anniversary of the CongreGa- tional Church at Stamford, Conn.,, was cele- brated with appropriate exercises.
 At Caledonia, Ohio, & man attempted to cut the throat of young woman because she declined an invitation to go for drive with him.
 William Heath < Co.,, the suspended New York brokers, have offered to settle with their creditors at sixty-tive per cent.
 A father i'll Buffalo discovered the muti- lated remains of bis son, which had dlsap- peared from their grave in the cemetery, on dissecting table.
 "A boiler explosion occurred at 8 dstilleIy at Trebeins, near Dayton, Ohio, Ly which two men were He'd and two others seriously in jured-
 -Advices from San Francisco state that the German war ship Nautilus has raised the German flag in the Marshall and Gilbert groups Of islands, in the southern Pacific.
 From Milwaukee, Wis, comes the story Of man who had been bitten by dog and who showed symptoms of hydrophobia, being ap- psrently cured by the prompt use of hot baths.
 The two hundred and sixty-ftth anniver- sary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plym outh. Mass, was celebrated ill au appropriate man ner at that place.
 An attempt to assassinate l.. Lum Smith, edltor and publisher of the AgeJttS' Herald, Of Philadelphia, was made Monday. Mir. Smith was seated at q desk In his office, bullet came through the window just missing him.
 Near White House, N. M., a company of United States cavalry troops nnder Lieutenant Fountain were ambushed by hostiles with dis astrous resnlts. Surgeon Madox. Priyates . Collins Gibsnn. Hutton and McM Ian were killed. Lieutenant Cahill and Corporal Me Farland were slightly wounded. The Ind ans numbered twenty-one.
 In an official communication Secretary Lamar assures Governor Zniich. of Arizona that the Apach who left their reservation wil be pursued by the troops until their cap ture or utter destruction is accomplished, and that no effort will be spared by the Govern ncnt to bring to deserved punishment those renegade hostile Apaches
 The bids for the New York State printing were opened, and the contract awarded to Weed, Parsons Co, of Albany.
 The Montana Indians are on the war path
 -Of seventeen persons who ate ham at a birthday celebration in New York on Thanks giving eve, seven still lie in the hospital suf- f, ring from trichinosis. They are in critical condition.
 Charles Miller attempted to shoot dog supposed to be mad in Jersey City, when the animal sprang at him and bit his hand. The dog attacked several other dogs, but later in the day was shot and killed.
 William Heath, of the bankrupt firm of Heath & Co.,, was released from Ludlow street Jail, in New York. His bail, in the shit of G. P. Morosini, had been reduced from $5OO, GOO to $100, 0,O00, and bondsmen had been red, because his family physician and others had certified that his longer confinement would probably terminate fatally.
 --Ex-Congressman William Pitt Lynde, a prominent lawyer of Milwaukee, Wis, is dead.
 -Hiland Hall ex-Governor of Vermont, died suddenlv at the residence of his son, in Springfield, Mass.
 Governor Hill, of New York, has commis- stoned the sculptor Palmer to cut the State arms for the Washington Monument at the national capital.
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