Connecticut western news., 1885-12-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL TTKMs.

over the citizens candidate for the office, by a large majority.
 The striking glass workers of Pittsburg, Pa., who have been out for over year, re- turned to work on the basis of compromise with their employers.
 "A revolution has broken out in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and fight between the revolutionists and tho Acting Governors forces resulted in the defeat of the latter. There were killed and wounded on both sides. Forest fires in Southern Arkansas threaten very serious injury to that section of the State.
 An Indiana family who took morphine in mistake for quinine were dangerously poi soned.
 A towboat exploded her boilers when on the Allegheny River, near Pittsburg. One man was killed and six others injured.
 The Apaches are on the war path again. Five men have been slaughtered by rading hostiles in New Mexico. The settlers are very much alarmed.
 A serious collision occurred in Workman's Cut, half mile east of Washington, Pa., on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Two mon were killed and three fatally injured, while every hand on the colliding trains was more or less ini ured.
 Charles Ray, aged twenty-six, kissed his wife, Marion, aged twenty-three, at the resi- dencc of his stepfathor, Horace Hayden in New York, and, drawing a revolver, shot her in the left breast, int1cting fatal injuries. Then he placed the revolver to his own head and blew out his brains. Jealousy is said by the police to be the cause of the tragedy, while his mother says he was crazy from over work.
 The boiler of the propeller Dorrie Emery exploded in the East River, N. Y. The boat was destroyed ar q her crew of six men killed. The debris effected quite an amount of dam age to the houses on Riverview terrace.
 The body of William L. Connery, Boston merchant, was cremated at Lancaster, Pa.
 The extensive iron and wire works of Barnum & Co.,, at Detroit, Mich, were de- stroyed by fire, involving a loss of $262, 900.
 A large number of children in Newark have been bitten by a dog supposed to be rabid, and hydrophobia scare Is the result. It is proposed to send the children bitten to Paris for treatment
 The will of Vice President Hendricks, which was made nearly twenty years ago, gives all his estate to his wife.
 A school girl was inveigled into vile den in Richmond Vs., and detained there several days. The parties accused are in jail.
 An express passenger train on the Vest ern division of the Erie Railway, near Scio station, was thrown from the track by mis-
 
 the baggage car, with quantity of mail mat ter, destroyed by fire.
 GENERAL. ALEXANDER SHALER, president of the New York board of health, and com mander of the first division of the Stat, militia, was arrested a few days ago on { warrant charging him with accepting brib, in connection with the purchase of armory sites.
 A FIRE has destroyed every business house except two in the village of Savannah, N. Y, The total loss is estimated at $110,OOO.
 A MATTRESS caught fire in the home ot Patrick Fitzgerald, at Providence R. l., anG three of his children, aged respectively one three and four years, were burned to death
 HENRY MASON (coloredl, incarcerated in the Campbell county Va.) jail on the charge of murdering and robbing a farmer named Hammersley, was taken from confinement by crowd of masked men and hanged to a tree
 SADIE HAYS, young colored woman, is to be ha ged in St. Louis on January l5 next for tie mur Ter of Police Sergeant Jenhs.
 GOVERNOR SQUIRE, of Washington Terri tory, in his annual report, gives the popula. bAOA OA bAO 1cAIAsOaJ lLlC16ttS0 Ol S6,930 in two years. The assessed value of property is 50, 4e4, 437, and there are yet 23, 00o,0O0 acres of til public land unsurveyed, of which 16, 000,0 0JJ are good agricultural and timber land.
 ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi dent: John c. Thompson, of Harrisburg, Ky, to be surveyor general of Wyoming. To be registers of land ofices-Samuel c Williams, of Querida, Col, at Dol Norte, Col Nathaniel H. Harris, of Vicksburg, Miss, at Aberdeen, D. T.; David Webb, of Covington. Ind, at Salt Lake City U. T; Frederick A. Mcdonald, of Oregon, at The Dalles, Oregon. To be receivers of pub lie moneys-J. Massie Martin, of Opelousas, La, at New Orleans, La. William L. Gar rard, of Lawrenceville, Ill. at Cheyenne, Wy. T. John w. Causey to be collector of inter. nal revenue for the district of Delaware.
 KING THEEBAw, of Burmah, has surren dered Mandalay, the chief city, with his whole army to the British expeditionary force which recently entered Burmese terri tory. This virtually ends the war, and adds another province to the British-Indian em- pire.
 THE Arab followers of the late False Prophet are again on the warpath in the Soudan
 ROBERT GooDALE, a market gardener, was nged few days since in Norwich, Eng Ia d, for wife murder. The execution was 10 bunglingly performed that when the drop tell Goodale's head was severed completely from his body.
 GOVERNOR HILL issued proclamation on the 27th ordering all ths flags on the public buildings in New York to be put at half mast until after the burial of the late Vice-Presi dent Hendricks.
 A PITTsBURG dispatch states that the pro tracted strike of the coal miners on the Mo nongahela river has resulted in riot anc bloodshed A body of 800 miners, some masked, drove out the men at work in severa mines, and severely beat several of them.
 WASHINGTON NoTEa
 Representative Henley, of California, has b.D in regard to the Chinese question, whict he thinks, if it is passed Will prevent it's con tinual agitation. The bill, in brief, aims a exclusion in it's fullest sense. It proposes tt prohibit the coming 10 this country of an! more Chinese laborers and also to proven
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 The report of the Labor Bureau will no be in shape to present 10 Congress for thre' months yet.
 The annual report of Wm. F. Vi'as. Post. master General, for the year ending June 30, 1885, shows considerable incr, ase in the de ficiency of the postal revenues to sustain thu cost of the public service. During the pas two years a cash surplus of nearly $2,OOO, OOC has been changed to an outlay of over $7, 100000 surplus ot cost; or, reckoning tn amounts also credited to the Pacific railroat companies for mail transportation, the differ ence in the pecuniary results of the servlc realized during the two years exceeds $9, 400, GOO. This is explained by decrease of $2, 947, ,8I8 78 in the revenues of the department and to an increase of $6, ,466, 955.S0 in the ex penditures, nearly half million of whicl went to the Pacific road. The decrease is ac counted for by the diminishing result to tn revenue of the two-cent postage, while the in crease is generally explained by largely ex tended service. MT. Villas, after stating thes facts, still believes the service will becom aolF-a11ataIninO aOaiD. He arouPs that th