Connecticut western news., 1885-11-18
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS

RENbnAil I1EAS
 "A derrick on which a number of men were at work f,ll at Broadalbin. N. Y, killing Charles Grant and seriously injuring George Smith.
 The dismembered body of Gustsvs Schra- ven who went over the Horseshoe Falls, Ni- agara, in his skff on Sunday, have been gath cred together and buried.
 Three men were killed at Hopkinsville, Ind, by the explosion of boiler.
 Tho death Is annouGced of William Sharon, late United States Senator from Nevada, and one of the wealthiest men of the West. He was born in Smithfed, Jefferson county, Ohio, on January Q, 1922, and was of Quaker descent He went to San Francisco at an early day. His name has lately been connected with a noted divorce suit, he being sued for share of his estate by Sarah Athea Hill, who claims to be h;s wife.
 At Boston the Rev. Mr. Downes and Mrs. Taber were held for the Grand Jury on the charge of adultery.
 The lynchers in Edgefeld, s. O., were in dicted for murder, and thirty-one men held to answer for the execution of Culbreath. They comprise the leading citizons of the sec ton.
 -Gusie Eyanson, a Iunatic, was Btrangled to death by fellow lunatic, in the asylum at Jefferson, Ill.
 Patrick Ford and Patrick Murphy, under sentence of death for the murder of Captain 4 for thirty days.
 An accident occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near Bluestone Quarry An express train was thrown into the Youg hi- ogheny River and sixteen persons seriously in- iured.
 -One of the medical commission appointed to examine into Riels sanity has declared him an undoubted lunstio.
 Smallpox is decreasing in the city of Mon- treal but the disease is said to be increasing in vii ulence in the suburbs
 Three workmen were badly burned by a gas explosion at Pone Iron Works, a village near Reading, Pa.
 The funeral of John Mccullough, the actor, at Philadelphia, was attended by large and brill ant gathering of professional celebrities from all parts of the country. vessels of the United States. as prepared by the Commis sioner of Navigator, shows as follows compared with the list of the previous fiscal year: Total number of vessels-18S4, 26, ,630; 1885, 25.5l3; decrease, 1,l17. Sailing vessels.is84 l75ss 1885, IF 1e7 joss decrease ass decrease, 405. Unrigged vesse!s-18o4, 2, ,92l; 1885, 2,64O; decrease, 28l.
 The conrt martial at Fort Myer, which tried eighteen signal service men on charges of insubordination, found all guilty and sen tenoed them to be publicly repr. handed by the Chief Signal Officer.
 The will of General Mcclellan was offered for probate. He leaves his entire estate to his wife, with reversion to his two children upon her death. William 0. Prime is named as his "Gterary executor."
 While working at the ceiling of public building in Montreal six men fell distance of fifty feet. Three were killed, the others seri- ously hurt
 Typhoid fever threatens Montreal in ad- dition to smallpox.
 MT. Charles J. Osborn, the well-known Wall street operator, who retired from active operations on Change last April, died in New York. He commenced life as 8 clerk, and died worth $4,0O0, 900.
 John Foley, an actor, shot and fatally wounded Allen Flack, then killed himself, at Butte, M. T.
 Gas from 8 stove caused the death by suf- location of Michael Kehoe at Plttston, Pa.
 A young woman was burned almost to a crisp at New Castle, Pa, by the explosion of an oil lamp.
 In Boston, Judge Allen, of the Superior Court. filed with the clerk of said court the dec sion in the famous TabVr divorce suit. Judge Allen grants the petition of Fred J. Taber for divorce from his wife, Annie J. Taber on the ground Of adultery, and dis misses the latter's cross-libel The decision caused considerable surprise.
 LII, Tenn, forty-two moonshiners were tried, ani All except four were convicted.
 In Fannin, Texas boy thirteen years of age deliberately shot and killed his mother be- cause she scolded him.
 Arrests of snti-Chinese agitators have bean made i9 Washington Territory. Citizens are foefAiag rifle clubs to preserve order after the troops depart.
 Two seamen were lost from the schooner R B. King, wrecked in 8 gale on Lake Mchi- gan.
 Four men lost their lives by the breaking down of scaffold on which they were work iDg ct Keithsburg, Ill. "A serious accident has occurred on the West Shore Road, about one mile west of Lit tie Falls, N. Y. Six passenger coaches ran into ditch. Mrs. O. R. Platt, of Rochester, was killed, and Mir. Plstt seriously wounded. number of other passengers were very badly hurt.