Connecticut western news., 1885-03-18
NEWS OF THE wEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS

A large number of gambling houses which have hitherto openly dened the law in Louis vile. Ky, were closed by order of the Chie1 of Police.
 gomery, Ala, for the murder of his rival in a matter of love.
 The Connecticut House of Representatives passed bill permitting women to vote in any school district meeting or to be elected on school boards.
 Ten thousand miners are on strike in Pennsylvania.
 The General Term of the Court of Com mon Pleas of New York decides that Commis- sioner Ulrich; who was injured at the Spuyten Duyvil railroad disaster three years ago, Is en- titled to recover damages, although riding on free pass, because he bought & drawing room car ticket and rode in the drawing room car.
 In the trial of ex-President Fish, of the Marine Bank, of New York city, it transpired d that occasionally one security did duty for sever l loans.
 The jury rendered a verdict of not guilty in the case of Nellie Horan, charged with poisoning her father, mother and sister at Elkhosn, Wts.
 being implicated in a murder at M ,nt gomery, Tenn, and taken from the jail and lynched.
 More than eighteen million dollars dam ages are claimed by settlers for dspredations by the Indians, the claims going as far back as 1855.
 A Florida railroadcompany, to which a large tract of land had been granted in 1856, and which subsequently, allowed settlers to i'm prove its value from ten ceats to SIS an acre, now wants to seize the land. Mr. Van Wyck in the U. s. Senate opposes the proposed forced sale.
 -Mackin and Gallagher. two of the men convicted at Chicago of stutfing ballot boxes md fala ala k-1Hn Aa-- fined S5,u00 each and sent to the Joliet Gil ) prison for two years.
 The trial of dynamite shells near Wash ingtln proves successful, the shots excavating solid rock on the Potomac to a depth of six feet and blowing the fragments half 8 mile.
 A terrible explosion occurred in a cut on the extension of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway. A heavy blast had been ar ranged, winch exploded prematurely, killing three men. The men had their heads entirely blown of, and their bodies blown one hundred yards away and horribly mangled.
 "A news ag nt in Charleston, s. C., was sent t1 jail for seliug the sensational papers, in violation of city ordinance.
 The Massachusetts Senate passed to be engroSSed the bill prohibiting the sale of spirit nous or intoxicating liquors between Il p. m. and a m.
 Special adyices from Reading, Pa, relate how a stranger. having secured hospitality in the residence of wealthy widow, exploded a safe in the house at midnight expecting to se- cure large sum of money.
 Frank D. Warren, alias E. D. Lyons who. as alleged, forged 8 check for SIG, 100 in New Orleans last January, was arrested at Niagara Falls on Wednesday. A portion of the money was recovered.
 In view of the existing relations between England and Russia members of the Dominion Parliament from British Columbia are express q, olDrx ,ofA of hot province.
 Sir John Macdonald announced at Ottawa Ont, that the government had received infor- nation that the lives or several promi 1t persons had been threatened, and that plots had been laid for destroying public buildings
 The first church bell heard west of the Aneqhanies has been sent to the New Orleans Exposition.
 "A large quantity of nitro-glycerine ex- ploded near Bradford, Pa., killing two men and causing considerable destruction of prop erty.
 An extraordinary story of dead woman having rev.ved sufficiently to relate her ex- periencs iu the Rpirit world and then expire again comes from Portland, He.
 Thomas PIu,kett, sergeant in the Twenty first Massachusetts regiment. who lost both arms while defending the colors at Fredericks- burg December 13, 1862, died in Worcester, Mass He leaves a widow and two sons On recovering from his woun Is he was generously provided for by the contributions of people who honored his bravery and by O full pen sion
 At New Orleans two men convicted of the murder of "Cap" Murphy were sentenced to death, and three others who were implicated in the crime were consigned to the Peniten- hary for twenty years.
 In Q quarter-of-a-mile race in New Or leans, between John s. Prince, the champion, bicyclist, and W. K. Morgan, Prince made the quarter in 39 seconds, thus lowering the record. Morgan had ten yards start, and won the race by yard
 -Advices received from Hong Kong and To- kobama say that cholera has broken out at Ba. tayia, in Java.
 Reports from the Indian Territory are 70 the effect that the mortality among the live stocA ,4uring the past winter has been very great
 at Santiago dc Cuba of Gen. Bonachea and four of the eleven men who left Kingston, Jamaics, with him in December, will surely result in smother uprising in Cuba this year. Four mills conn cted with powder mRnu- factory situated near Newbarg, N. r., were destroyed by an explosion and two men in stantly killed. Nicaragua on account of the canal concession, and virtual declaration of war is said to have been made by President Barrios.
 While Joseph Behlman was attending to some repairs on the roof of the Gibson House in Cincinnati. he caught hold of an electric light wire, and was instantly killed by the shock.
 The famous Dr. Burchard, of New York city, has been retired by the Presbytery on 8 salary of $500 year.
 -Pleuro-pneumoniA is reported at Whining ton, Del
 lice gorges are damaging property in Iowa.
 The mysl erious explosions in the Soncy flats in New York are said tn be caused by the steam heating apparatus. They were charged to ghosts
 The Oklahoma boomers are ready for another raid. They are well equipped with arms and provisions, and they have the sym pathy of the State of Kansas. Colonel Hatch is stationed on the border with large force of United States troops. The boomers declare they mean business this time.
 Fire in the Ocean House stables at New port, R. l., destroyed thirty horses.
 "A large quantity of ingeniously made shells and caps, supposed to contain dynamite, was found on the railroad track near Jersey vile, IL
 General walthal has been appointed to succeed Mir. Lamar as Senator from Missis- sippi.
 The British Government is making inquir- les as to Canada's resources in the way of money and men in case of a war with Russia.
 A Chicago German shot his wife dead and then committed suicide.
 As 6 freight train was passing under the Newport, Ky, bridge dismanrled locomotive which was on fiat car struck the bridge aud was thrown from the car to the street. Three brakemen were carried with the wreck and two were killed