Connecticut western news., 1885-06-17

Governor HUI, of New York, has notified Secretary R. O. Smith,, of the Association or Stationary Engineers that he has signed the bill transferring the $2 tax for the benefit of the police pension fund from the engineers to the boilers Hereafter each boiler inspected, in- stead of each engineer licensed, will pay the $2 tax.
 The regimental monument of the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers was unveiled on Round Top, Gettysburg, Tuesday.
 The little villages of New Albin and vic- tory, forty miles south of La Crosse, Wis, were almost destroyed on Sunday by & tornado. The loss is estimated at $5O,0O0.
 Ten of Big Bears captives including two women. have escaped, and are in camp at Fort Pitt. They were not injured by the Indians.
 Mrs Mary Ann Simmons of London, Ont, refused to give her husband money to buy whisky, and he drew S knife and stabbed her in the breast, killing her instantly. Simmons has been arrested.
 Nicholas Cook and Philip Weis, sons well-known residents, were drowned in the Delaware at Trenton.
 The London Daily TelegrdpRs St. Peters burg dispatch says that the report that the Ameer of Afghanistan was murdered by his l suite in Persia is false.
 The statue of the Pilgrim, by J. Q. A. l Ward, was unve lied in Central Park, N Y., in the presence of 8 large assemblage of ladies !
 | Reports from Big Bears Indians'.say that none of the women captured have been sub l iected to indignities of any kind. Gen. Mid | lleton is following Big Bear as closely as pos | sible.
 Secretary Sanborn of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, estimates the yield or I winter wheat in that State at 5000, 900 bushels, l the condition being % per cent. Spring wheat l acreage and condition is placed at 91 per cent. l The harvest, according to this estimate, will | not be sufficient for home needs. | Gov. Moody Currier, of New Hampshire, in his inaugural message said: "During the | fiscal year ending May 31, 1885, reduction ot nearly $150, 900 was made in the State debt" | A terrible runaway accident occurred at Erie, Pa., which will result in the death of three out of the five persons injured. Judge Mackey father of Mir. Mackey, | United States Consul at Rio Grande, who in 1 self-defence shot 8 rowdy editor, has received | the following dispatch from Rio Grande dc | Sul, Brazil "Consul Rockford Mackey has been absolved unanimously by jury. All hon. i orable citizens celebrate the event" WASHINGTON NOTES. | Commissions Sparks, of the Land Office, is about to render null the patents to 2,000, 900 acres of land in New Mexico. fraudulently ob- tained, known as the Maxwell claims. 1 Illinois Railroad Commissioners before the Senate Committee strongly advocated the es- tablishing of national commission to super | wise the railways.
 | -Postmaster-G General Villas has decided not | to use the $400, 900 appropriated by Congress | to make the mileage contracts with ocean | steamers. | There is no truth in the report that Score tary Manning contemplates recognizing the l present Sub Treasury system, and making the | national banks in various large cities where Sub-Treasuries are now located public depos- | itories Such change was suggested in New roR Aba,-a 6oFo l as & suitable safeguard and remedy to prevent future dedication, but beyond making the change in New Orleans the proposed scheme has never received serious consideration at the Treasury Department.
 George Wilson, of Peoria, was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District of Illinois, vice Howard Knowles, sus- pended.
 Lieut.. Col. l.. N. Batchelder has received from Mrs. Grant and taken to Washington the swords, medals, and other tokens of honor presented to Gen. Grant both in this country and on his trip around the world and to South America and Mexico. These articles were turned over to MT. Vanderbilt to go toward the liquidation of the $150,000 debt which Gen. Grant incurred to Mir. Vanderbilt in con- nection with the Grant & Ward trouble.
 -Adjt.-G Drum has completed list of casualties in the Federal army during the late war. The aggregate number of deaths is shown to have been S59, ,496. Of these 29, ,498 occurred among Union soldiers held as prison CTS of war; The total number of troops re- ported as furnished by the various States un- der the various calls is 2, TIP, 408. Some of the | returns were duplicated. and it is estimated that the actual number was about 2.500.000.
 General Logan called on the President and very pleasant meeting followed.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has been informed that Aufdemorte, the defaulting officer at the Sub-Treasury at New Orleans, has fled to New Mexico, where he is interested | in some mines.
 Over $15O,00 have been spent in experi- | ments and in purchase of the plant of the American Wood Preserving Company; naval | Board finds that the process does not pre- scrYe wood and that the patent is valueless.
 POLITICAL.
 The platform adopted by the Ohio Repub- lican State Convention favors 8 National Bureau of Industry; demands legislation that shall harmonize capital and labor; denounces the importation of contract labor; demands a protective tariff, and the restoration of the wool duty. ......
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The Queen has accepted the resignation of the Gladstone Ministry and has summoned the Earl of Salisbury to form new Cabinet, The Marquis started secretly at midnight for
 BalmoraL
 A fire broke out in the India Museum
 fannex" to the great building in which if being held the International Exhibition of In ventions in London. The damage is serious.
 The treaty of peace between France and China, which has just been signed, stlpulateE that the Chinese Government shall collect the taxes at Paoshun and Laugson, but tha | French Consuls shall be stationed at those
 places to guard the interests of France. The
 treaty is to hold good for ten years, and doei not prejudice any former treaties between tht two countries. .-.- ..
 Cholera in Spain is spreading, and the in
 crease in the number of cases now daily re ported is causing great alarm among the peo
 pie. In Valencia there have been 45 nev
 cases reported in one day. Castellana de IL l PIana announces IS deaths and there are 6t suspected cases in the province of Murcia. Tn,
 Spanish government has prohibited choler,
 inoculation in districts where the disease haI not appeared.
 } The St. Petersburg NoUosH reafirms it statement that the Ameer of Afghanistan i dead. It says rumors are being received
 continually, both from the Caucasus and tht Afghan frontier, of the assassination of tn
 Ameer. The NoUostl adds that the people O Afghanistan are in a state of great excitement the rumors of the death of the Ameer havinj 7 reached them, followed by the other rumo that Ayoub Khan, now informed in Persia, vii
 take the place of the murdered Ameer, througl
 the machinations of Russia
 a Three quarters of the town of Grodno a Russia, including the Government offices ant
 numerous churches, has been destroyed b fire. The loss amounts to several millioi . roubles.
 l. The British Resident of Cashmere report j that earthquake shocks of great severity con
 tinue. The towns of Baramulla and Sopu a have been utterly ruined and 400 person killed
 /, "A French gunboat, having on board crev of 92 persons, is reported to have been los
 during the hurricane in the Gulf of Alden o Q June 3, with all on board. Several vessels al ]. irving at Alden report having sighted foatin
 wreckage in the Gulf.
 !. The earthquake shocks at Serinagur an other points in the Vale of Cashmere continu
 at intervals, averag ing three hours in length . Whole villages have been engulfed, and tel @ rible subterranean oises are heard, drivin
 the people frantic W ith fear. The horrors Q j. approaching famine are added to the other re