Connecticut western news., 1885-03-11

 samples were asserted to be oleomargarine and were taken to Albany for analysis. It is now claimed by the grocers that agents of oleo- margarine establishments have sold the spu- rious article to farmers, who in turn have sold it to the grocerymen outright or mixed with genuine butter.
 -SiI convicts in the prison at Lansing, Mich, escaped through long tunnel they had been constructing; one, too fat to run, was re- captured.
 The agitation in Manitoba for separation from the Dominion is increasing, and there is talk of annexation to the United States.
 A negro who had assaulted little girl, causing her death, was lynched by citizens of Union county, N. c.
 The Post Office at Ozark, Ark, was robbed of $500 by burglars, who blew open the safe. Several Kentucky desperadoes were cor nered in their mountain cabins by a Sheriff and ten picked men. They only surrendered after severe fighting.
 Den Carlos, the Cuban leader, was shot down and killed by the Spanish civil guard at Amarillas, Cuba
 In Baltimore a shot was fired at the train containing the New York County Democracy to Washington, the ball passing through the hat of one of the passengers.
 -Gov. Hill of New York has dismissed the charges against Sheriff Davidson of New York city.
 A Chicago judge has decided that boy is not obliged to attend worship in public school. The receiver of Grant & Ward has brought suit to recover money from number of banks being double the amount of interest illegally exacted.
 "A little Chicago schoolgirl left her home for school, but never got there. She is be- heved to have been kidnapped.
 A Missouri grand jury has indicted eight prominent citizens for murder in the belief Shat they lynched an Irishman, thirteen years ago.
 A Buffalo oil firm is suing Rochester con- cern, which is backed up by the Standard Oil Company, for attempting to ruin them.
 Some British sailors in the cabin of steamer at Baltimore were suffocated by coal gas from the stove, which did not draw; two were killed.
 Three robbers entered the State Treas urers office at Lincoln, Neb., and made tue deputy hand them out money; two of them were caught.
 Rockwell, the slayer of Wainwright. the hunter, was convicted of murder in the second degree at Toms River. N. J., and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment.
 A murderous outrage was committed on an old farmer named Tyler Smith and his wife, at place near Buttermilk Falls, fifteen miles from Scranton, Pa. Both were badly injured. The tramp was arrested.
 Gen. Grant is so seriously ill at his home in New York city, that his relatives are feeling very uneasy.
 A car load of powder exploded on the Corning, Cowanesque and Antrim railway near Elmira, N. Y., the engine and seventeen cars, with their loads of freight, were blown to atoms.
 The Revolution in Colombia is acquiring formidable proportions. In the battle of Bar ranqullla the Government troops were defeated with a loss of 60 killed, 200 wounded, and 300 prisoners, includ ng Gen. Urrueta, the com mander, and many officers. Foreign vessels have been fired into in Carthagenia.
 -Rear-Admiral George H. -Preble, U. S. A, died at his home in Brookline, Mass. Admiral Preble was born in Portland, Me-, and in 1885 was appointed a midshipman.
 At Erie, Penn, Nathan Kingston fell from 6 building upon a stake which pierced his body through Death was instantaneous.
 The constitutional amendment taxing the gross earnings of railroads 211 per cent. passed the Senate of California. The same measure has already passed the Assembly.
 The annual eclipse of the sun will take place on the 16th of March that will be visible as partial eclipse throughout North America and adjacent portions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
 The strike among the spinners at the Troy mill, Fall River, is virtually at an end.
 A bill was introduced in the Canadian Parliament and read for the first time pro viding for the punishment of burglary by im- prisonment for life.
 -Ithas been shown by the gas investgati on in New York that gas which costs the comp any 46 cents is sold to the consumers at S2.16.
 A fire broke out in the male ward in the City Insane Asylum on Wards Island, N. Y., but was extinguished before serious damage was done, although much excitement was caused.
 Unknown parties made an attempt to blow up Rainey's Dam at Newcastle, Pa, with dyna- mite. The dam has long caused great anxiety because of the ice gorging on it and flooding the town. The explosion caused much excite ment. No damage to the dam, but much to private property.
 The immense freight depot of the Susque- hanna Railroad, Albany, 600 feet long and we'll filed with freight. totally destroyed by fire. The losses to various railroad com panies is $250.0 900.
 Dewitt 0. Sprague, of Washington, who delivered the poem at the last Decoration Day services in New York, has been selected as poet for the annual reunion of the Army of the Po- tomac, which is to be held in Baltimore on May and '.
 In the New Orleans assassination case Judge Ford was convicted of manslaughter and Pat Ford, his brother, of murder in the first degree.
 Two men making signals of distress were seen just north or Chicago, floating ln the lake on a large cake of ice. No news of their rescue has been received, and it is feared they are lost.
 WASHINGTON NOTES
 Gen. J c. Black. of Illinois, has been ap- pointed Commissioner of Pensions. He is a veteran soldier.
 The paragraph abolishing the census of flee, which was struck out by the Senate, was restored to the Appropriation bill, in Confer ence Committee. The total expense of the Inauguration will not fal short of $45,000 which is $l0,000 more than was calculated upon by the com mittee.
 On Friday the Senate confirmed the Cabi- net nominations and President Cleveland signed the commissions of the new officials. President Cleveland also signed Gen. Grants commission, in accordance with the bill re- gently passed.
 The President ordered court-martial for the trial of General Hagen on charges con- nected with certain criticisms by the accused on the Secretary of War.
 In the House, MT. Mills, of Texas. moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution ''that the committee appointed to arrange the inaugural ceremonies having declined to give to the Representatives in Congress their proper place, we will decline to take any part in said at fIo aoyDifc cl