Milford chronicle., 1885-01-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

dENEhAL ITEMS
not puDin Meinecke, the Elmira murdere
Sussex q1 BARN Sngna%t0R 1ea4 SRsgo jail y9s ca
That is nCmly and was taken back to jail.
1isbad tlo rrel at New Orleans one policema
Hsheu Ineied another.
,-ne spinners Of Fall River Mass, hay
resolved not to strike They will accept tn
reductions in prices.
"A bill has been introduced in the Dakot
marck TO Pierre
LIhe ne special Grand Jury appointed by tn,
SooA county ILL.,, Criminal Court returned in
NlctueIls against large number of person.
@si Ia So win having been engaged in the Chi
ca8o election frauds.
Seventeen invalids were brrnad or s,ao-
Gated 10 death in the blazing ward of a lunatic
asylum at Kankakee, tH. There was absolutely
no provision for extinguishing the fire. There
we're many narrow escapes and gallant rescues.
ne corpses of the victims were so charred that
taey could not be recognized.
AT West Attleborough, Mass. officers can
tufed three ''moonshiners" in an old hanfy
''5e.hef with the worm and other implements
oi whisky manufacture.
AT lire in Mobile, Ala, two women were
burned to death.
At Abraham Ernst's sawmilI. o,,.Ass,.1.i,
anon and fremont Railroad a. I,,sn' wy t9o- g.
to Pa, boiler expods kiIi;ne- tbroo r,e,
and injuring two pisi55srs - Aiiii's 'nieo H'en
d.
,,5r,s-s..2-a - -a.iui, Mimi, D. E. Swami, the
slefn Pacific embezzler was sentenced. on
two indictments, to imprisonment, at hard
labor, Tor thirteen years and six months.
The Republican Senatorial caucus at DEN
YER Cox declared Secretary H. NJ Teller as
ITS ehNlee for United States Senator.
Two young ladies were poisoned at st.
Adams, W. Va, through some person having
put arsenic IN water which they used in pre-
pairing their breakfast
n
at Petersburg Va, by her clothes catching
DR.. NJ. +. Carver completed his weeks
work Saturday night and scored CO. 600 hits al
9'4s, and at 800 retired with 6O,Ol6 to his
credit. He made $4,000 hits out Of 81, ssi
shots. His exploit caused little excitement
even among sporting men.
Five KioWa Indians we're found frozen to
death in Indian Territory
A young man undergoing imprisonment in
the jail at Parkersburg, W. Va, claims to be
a grandson Of Thomas Campbell, the Scotch
poet
There is another filibuster excitement at
Key West, and the authorities are taking verv
active measures to discover an alleged expedi-
ton.
The Ohio Legislature is about to investi-
gate the Hooking Valley strike
The liabilities of Oliver Brothers Phillips,
Of Pittsburg, will be between four and six mill |
lions The failure had very little effect in
other cities.
Frankie Roberts, the midget, on whom the |
eesarean operation was performed in Syracuse |
N. Y, is dead.
"A bill was introduced in the Texas Senate |
providing for the repeal Of all patent laws
regulating the sale of public lands
In the Pennsylvania Senate a bill was in
troduced having for its object the infiction Of
corporal punishment on any man convicted Of
having beaten a woman.
O1;,r,v p..,41,o., 4 M sf.-- A.. -.
manufacturers Of Pittsburg, Pa, have sus-
pended payment Liabilities from three to
five millions.
The old banking firm Of John J. Cisco 4
Co., Of New York, closed its doors, with liza
bilities Of 81, 500, 600. and assets enough it Is
claimed, to pay in full. Unfortunate railroad
investments aad gradual loss Of business we're
the causes Of tie failure
1t is reported that Colonel Aguero and
other Cuban chiefs are expecting an expedition
from the United States
"A train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad ran
through an open switch into Stony Greek. The
engineer remained at his post and escaped in
jury whils fireman jumped from the locomO-
tive and was killed.
-Meinecke the wife murderer, escaped
from the BinghamtOn, n. y, jail through
oarelessness OF the officials, who locked up a {
dummy in his cell aud left the door Of a cor
rldor open for the live prisoners exit.
The opposition to the Nicaragua Canal and
other treaties Is rapidly weakening.
-Ex-Governor st. John, the recent prohibit
ton candidate, pronOunces the charges made
against him in connection with his canvass ut
terry false. d
The republican legislative caucus at Har- S
risburg, Pa, nominated Senator Cameron for }
reelection. 1
Great damage was done to farm property Il
generally by the tornado in Alabama and vi a
einity. A number of lives were lost. Ii
The Democrats, with the aid Of one Re P
publican, elected Schenok President Of the "
New Jersey Senate.
The Boston Board of Health have forbid y y
den the storing of old rags or paper within n
any dwelling. =,
The grinders in the Oliver Chilled Plow r.
Works, at South Bend, Ind, struck. Arming II
themselves they forced the other employees to q
quit work When the men refused to do so d
they were attacked and beaten The belts K
", re cut, and the rioters finally went to the n
engine room and forced the engineer to shut n
down. Is
"A snow storm reaching from Northern
Iowa to Northern Texas and from Cincinnati =
Ohio, to Kansas City, NO. has blocked q
trains on many roads and seriously delayed l'
the mails. III
burglars with blackened faces broke into nc nc
the house Of Mr.. MELONS, near the village Of Ga
Chappaqua, N. y. Mrs. MELONS threw one -
down stairs and the oher beat her husband vi
badly. The burglars fred at both. The vii
iaa1 6AottA WAS also ioDDeu and ureQ dt, prob
ably by the same men. n,
"A steam saw mill near smithfeld. Ohio. re,
was blown up, killing three persons, fatally in
luring two others, and wreckng the building. tol
John B. Jervis, the engineer who built the an
Jroton Aqucduct, died in Boston. He was 90 pr
years Of age. En-
The Ohio Wool Growers Association gn
sdopted resolutions calling upon all industries III
u the United States to oppose the Spanish reg
reaty, on the ground that it would destroy Du
he sugar, rice and tobacco industries and MOI
alins upon the wool growers to unite in a de- DAT
nand Tor the restoration Of the tariff Of 1867 no
"a WOOL
Gov. Sockiey, OF Delaware, Issued proc
amation saying that contagious pleuro-pneu- ~
nonia exists among the cattle Of that State, IN IN
nd ordering that all diseased animals be quar- on
ntined. mrs
"A tank Of ammonia blew upin Syracuse and ~.
ight men were dug out Of the ruins; one Of Z ,..-s
hem was fatally injured.
WASHINGTON NOTES. has
IA thorough investigation Of the Special ne ne
gents Office in the New York Custom House ~ W
promised by the Treasury Department.. ,,,
II The democratic members Of the House in Kan
lucus defeated resolution to follow the ma
l1ty Of the Committee on appropriations in
aeiding upon the business Of the session. II
The Senate Committee on Pensions re- Son
)rteo adversely on the bin to grant a pension mno
s30 a month 70 Emma De Long widow Of We'll
e late Lieutenant Commander De Long. worl
le report Of the majority merely recommends halt