Connecticut western news., 1885-03-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.


 time in many years dined together.
 Ex-Governor James H. Berry has been elected Senator by the Arkansas Legislature, to succeed MT. Garland, the recently appointed Attorney General.
 Secretary Manning sees no reason for haste in paying off the Government bonds; the Treasury surplus has reached $151 ,000, 900. A railroad is being constructed through Guatemala, and patriotic Central Americans are said to oppose the Nicaragua canal.
 At Des Moines, Iowa, Mir. Cattell, Gov. sherman's appointee, took charge of the State Auditors office, and the militia, which had been on duty, were relieved.
 Inspector Thorne, of New York, died sud- denly in store on Broadway of heart disease. The strike of the employees of the Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Company is over, the company having promised to pay in full -Colored men in Mississippi lynched man of their own race for wife murder.
 The great strike of coal miners in the Hooking Valley is at an end, and the half-fam- lshed miners who have remained idle for nearly nine months are seeking work in the mines that they abandoned because of reduc- tion in the price of mining from 70 to 60 cents per ton.
 The Connecticut Legislature finally killed, by vote of 96 to fl, the bill giving women the ballot in school district meetings. An inju- dicious amendment giving the ballot to all wo- men instead of limiting the franchise to prop erty holders, aS prescribed ln the original biu. defeated the measure.
 Oklahoma boomers await the withdrawal of General Hatch's troops to move into the h. dian Territory.
 Chief of Police Drummond captured two Polish Hebrews in New York on Friday en- gagged in counterfeiting penny pieces, three cent and ten cent pieces by means of very in geniouS machinery.
 Some American vessels have been seized hv CnlOmbian Alliance has been ordered to Carthagena with instruc- tions that the vessels may be forcibly recoy- cred.
 Several vessels sailing between this coun- try and Europe are reported as being missing for & long time. Woman suffrage scored point in the New York State Assembly. where the Suffrage bill was ordered to third reading, only twenty-five members voting against it.
 The Supreme Court at Baltimore decided in favor of 8 eolored lawyer who had been re- fused admission to the Bar of that city.
 Fifteen thousand Mexican troops are on the way to the Guatemalan frontier to prevent President Barrios from carrying out his an- nexation schemes.
 At Waverly, Mo-, there has been serious loss of life and property through an ice gorge overflow. It is reported that a dozen persons have perished-
 -Fourteen persons had narrow escape
  number of people, all colored, were asleep in cabin, and over the heads of the sleepers were 1000 pounds of meat attached to the rafters by withes Fire broke out in the roof and the souhdly sleeping negroes were awakened by the meat falling upon them as the withes burned. All escaped saving no clothes. The house was entirely consumed.
 A serious accident occurred on the Texas and Pacific Railroad at Village Creek. The through express train from San Francisco to St. Louis was wrecked by going through bridge. Three passengers were killed and number of others injured.
 In an attempt to rescue moonshiners in North Carolina one man was killed and two mortally wounded by the revenue officials.
 A tramp was ordered to leave James Brooks's hme-kiln, at No. 6l1 West Fifty-fifth street, New York, Monday night but remained in the vicinity, and when the policeman left went up to one of the kilDs and lay upon the wall. During the night he rolled over into the kiln and was burned to death.
 Charles Briggs, the wife murderer, was executed at Philadelphia
 Tine Connecticut Legislature refused to investigate Mir. Pigotts charges or to permit him to resign. Mir. George Gray was elected by both houses of the Delaware Legislature as United States Senate to succeed Mir. Bayard.
 The Supreme Court of Iowa rendered an
 
 Prohibition law. The opinion is conclusive and complete. It sustains tho validity of in functions to abate the nuisances which exist as saloons, and in every particular maintains the provisions of the act as it stands on the statute books of the State.
 St. Patrick's Day was celebrated by nearly all the Irish societies in New York, Brooklyn and the New Jersey towns. There were pa rades, banquets and social entertainments and the observances passed without disorder, notwithstanding that in nearly all the cities the Ancient Order of Hibernians marched as rival bodies.
 The Chicago Prohibitionists, in conven- tion Monday, nominated 8 full city ticket headed by ". H. Bush, for Mayor.
 A frightful accident occurred on the Penn sylvania Railroad, at Carpenters Station, Pa. Twelve cars attached to freight train jumped the track, causing the death of three persons. In the second trial to elect Mayor in Portland, Me, the total city vote, lacking the island vote, is 6, 402 John W. Deering Oem.) received 3,347, which elects him by l45 major ity, or 292 plurality over all. John H. Fogg Rep.) received 2,910, and A. F. Cox (Prohib.) 145
 -Senor Romero Rubio, Secretary of the h. terior of Mexico, said to the Associated Press that the Mexican Government had no inten- tion of becoming involved in the Guatemalan affair any further than was necessary for the protection of the frontier. The Secretary
 
 Barrios mean his certain defeat and ruin"
 Joseph Cohen, dry goods clerk, who ap- peared in the recent six day roller skating match at Madison Square Garden, New York, died from over-exertion in that contest.
 MT. J. c. Long, of Anderson county, s. O., left his wife in field where some brush was burning, and when he returned found her burned to death. The fire catching in the grass, burned so fast that she could not escape from it.
 At Dunlap Sequatchie county, Tenn, William B. Elliott, Treasurer of the county came very much excited, and while making a gesture, dropped dead. He was very wealthy citizen.
 General Hagen testified that his letters to the Secretary of War were written to clear himself of the imputation of being respon- gible for the fate of the Greedy expedition.
 Attorney General George Gray, of Della ware, has been nominated as successor to Mir. Bayard.
 The will of Willard Dodge, probated at Kalamazoo, Mich, leaves $40, 900 to the Mich igan Female Siminary at that place.
 The Postmaster of New York controls an army of 1,730 able-bodied men, sells postage stamps to the amount of $4, ,OO0, ,OOO annually, and handles $100, ,0O0, 900 every year,
 A committee of citizens of Dallas, Texas, raised several hundred dollars for the Dallas Railroad strikers, paid all expenses of the men for the coming week, and deposited S215 in the bank. They guarantee the strikers to stand by them as long as may be necessary, provided they remain as sober and orderly as they have thus far. The great strike is now ct an end, the men going back to work at old wages.
 Colonel Joseph H. Taylor, U. s. A., died at Omaha. He was nephew of President Tay- Tor, and g son-in-law of General M. 0. Meigs. A well-known business man of Montreal has eloped with 8 woman who has married daughters. The man left behind 8 wife and two children, and the woman leaves a Dumber of tradesmen whom she swindled to