Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18
NEWS OF THEDAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

When asked what the recent storm cost the railways centering in Chicago, general traffic manager is quoted as saying that it would be within bounds to estimate the ex- penditure as equal to the profits of all the roads since Jan. l.
 Some Yale medical students dry their human skeletons on the roofs of their boarding houses, much to the disgust of the good people of New Haven.
 The bar of silver stolen from the Philadel- phia Mint has been returned the jewellers ex onerated and a-warrant issued for the supposed thief.
 Sanford Jackson was hanged at Selma, Ala, for the murder of Rufus Gill
 Another bloody atfray IS reported to have occurred at dance in Indian Territory. Everybody was drunk when the fight started. At least ten persons were shot, four fatally.
 pr. L. M Beach was hanged at Holidays burg Pa., for the murder of his wife in April last.
 All the coal mines in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio had to shut down during the blockade, owing to the failure of the railroads to handle their stock.
 The New York County Democrats expect to go to Washington 1000 strong.
 In South Norwalk, the building used as a hat manufactory by the Cooperative Hat As- sociation and the South Norwalk Hat Com pany, both organizations composed of striking matters, was burned, with loss to the matters of $S,000 They will resume business.
 While party of men were cleaning the sewer on KinZie street, near Union street, Chi cago, volume of sewer gas rushed in upon them, and before they could be helped out of the manhole at the corner of Kinzie street three of tho men were dead and two more died soon after reaching the air.
 Two twelve-year-old boys of Grosvenor, Michigan, after reading a dime novel, pre- pared sham Indian fight. Davidson had hatchet, and Parker revolver, which was &C., cidentally discharged, striking Davidson in the forehead, killing him instantly.
 Mississippi has had thu heaviest snow storm ever known in that State. The railroads were blocksded for several days.
 A boiler explosion three miles east of Harrisburg. Pa, in stone quarry caused the death of three persons.
 Resolutions of warm fraternal sympathy with Gen. Grant were passed by the Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Harris burg, Pa.
 Richard Trenke was hanged in the corridor of the county prison in Phila lelphia, for the murder of Augusta zimm, his paramour.
 "A family named Zimmer live in Calcott street, Owego, N. Y. Their cellar has been oyerrun with rats lately, aud ferret was put in few days ago to thin them out. The ami nal brought out small bundle of rags, in this the skeleton of child was found.
 Nicolas Espinosa, with two companions, !. seized the Mayor of the district of La Sierra, Mexico, and demanded $5, 900 ransom. They, however, set him at liberty after he had given them all the money in his possession and $1,- 020 which were lent him by some friends.
 The Dakota House has passed the Woman Suffrage bill by 29 to 19, and it is believed the measure will go through the Council
 The large wagon works of Fish Bros. & Co.,, of Racine, Wis, with it's contents was burned. Bat 9 few cays ago the property was inventoried at S450, ,00O.
 The Western railroads have been blocked up by snow drifts to damaging extent.
 The house of Hiram Atkins, a rich farmer of Norwich, Ohio, was burned, and Atkins and two children perished.
 In Pickens county, S. c, Dick Mulligan, while drunk, hurled chair at his wife. The chair missed her, but it hit his little daughter who happened to come in at the time, and killed her. Mulligan, who was sobered by the tragedy, went to his bedroom and cut his throat.
 In the lower House of the Pennsylvania Legislature bill was introduced imposing 8 penalty of not exceeding ten years inn prisonment at hard labor and fine not ex- ceediug $5,000 for selling, transporting. or using dynamite for other than legitimate pur- poses; also for contributing to any dynamite fuad ca soliciting contributions for such 8 fund.
 Three old women near Monticello, H., were burned to death in their shanty. They were paupers, and were afflicted with form of dementia that rendered them unfit to be alone.
 The heaviest snow storm experienced in twenty years prevailed at Chicago and other places in the West.
 Sudden darkness following a thunder storm in the daytime caused many people in Louisville, Ky, to think that the end of the Six persons were killed and many wounded by the wrecking of train near Creston, Iowa, on Monday.
 Henry George says s mighty revolution has commenced in England and that Mir. Joseph Chamberlain will probably be the leader of the new party He condemns the dynamite explosions and the rule of force, and thinks Parnell would have been more success. ful if he iocluded the people of England and Scotland in the benefits of his proposed meas ures.
 Articles of impeachment have been served upon the Mayor of Troy, N I.
 Major Steinberg, the army surgeon, who has been experimenting as to the best method of treating cargoes supposed to be infected with cholera germs. made report to Collector Robel tsoD, of New York, favoring the use of superheatsd steam.
 -Anti-Irish societies of Rochester are said to be about to aid Mrs. Dudley in her defence in the Rossa shooting case.
 It Is said that the Chicago dynamiters arc expecting to inaugurate 8 boom on March 4. Robert Emmett's day, and that they have invited O'Donovan Rossa to assist.
 -Rinderpest is reported in herd of cattle at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The House, in Committee of the Whole, considered the Post Office Appropriation bill. The clause allowing six hundred thousand dollars of the net revenue of the Post-O Office Department on foreign mails to vessels of American registry, WAS stricken out by vote of 105 to 97.
 The House Committee on Foreign Affairs, to which was referred the various resolutions relative to the recent dynamite explosions in London, decided to report that it was unbe- coming the dignity of the House of Represent atiyes to assume that American citizens had been in any way connected with 0 crime where no charge had been made, and that the com mittee was unwilling to request any officer of the Government to search for proof of guilt where there was no charge.
 Secretary Chandler informed the House ot Representatives that the cost of the changes In the new cruisers is as follows Chicago $S1, $50; Boston, $20, 1855; Atlanta, $2l, ,99I Dolphin, $15,860.
 The Army Appropriation bill as reported to the Senate by the Committee on Appropri ations appropriates S23, 949, ,052, being $2, l61, 437 less than the estimates $505, ,397 less than the appropriations made for the current year and $475,000 less than the amount of the House bill. The only increase made by the Senate Committee is $5, 900 for the library oi the Surgeon-Generals office.
 The electoral vote was counted in ioini convention of the Senate and House, and Grover Cleveland declared elected President and Thomas A. Hendricks Vice President.
 Secretary McCulloch said that he did not believe that the payment of silver by the As sistant Treasurer at New York would be re peated. The payment, he says, was owing tc misunderstanding, and the obligation to pay in gold is binding.
 The February report of the Department oi Agriculture shows that an aggregate crop oi about five and two-thirds millions of bales o1 cotton is indicated, or 99 per cent. of last years crop.
 The large frame pavilion erected near the Washington monument for the dedication ex. ercises was blown over by the wind. The stand was about 100 feet long by 70 feet wide, and was to accommodate l 1,500 people.
 The condition of h1sinaau in noporas, ;s