Connecticut western news., 1885-04-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.

sick and destitute railroad laborers. She took on board 78 men, all suffering more or less from malarial fever.
 Clark ". Sanders, who killed Emanuel Carr, was sentenced in Montpelier, Vt, to twenty years in State prison. Sanders shot Carr because of his alleged intimacy with the formers wife
 Wesley Gibson, tried for the murder of his uncle in Lincoln county, Mo-, and ae- quilted, has since confessed that he committed the murder, assisted by the deceased's wife and o negro accompice.
 Mayor Ewing, of St Louis, has been re- nominated for the office by the Republican Convention of that city.
 A railroad transfer sleigh, containing five passengers, broke through the ice opposite Poughkeepsie, N. l., on Thursday evening. Only ducking resulted.
 The ice in the Susquehanna river is twenty eight inches thick.
 A dispatch from the City of Mexico says: -tSixty-one thousand dollars have been col lected in Mexico for the relief of the earth quake sufferers in Spain"
 An unknown vessel was discovered on fire at sea by the steamship Schiedam, of the Roy Netherlands line. There were no traces of the crew to be seen.
 The Maekey Bennett cable reports 6 seri- ous renewal of the Parisian demonstrations against Mile. Van Zandt.
 In San Francisco social circles are stirred
 
 and young woman of nineteen.
 Charles Rose, a negro, was sentenced 70 thirty years imprisonment in the Peniten- tiary Thursday in the St. Louis Criminal Court for the murder of John Ingraham. In two previous trials he had been sentenced to be hanged.
 Sarah Newell, & poor orphan girl of New York, has fallen heiress to $75, 900 fortune. Little Marie Lubi, of New York, whose father tried to sell her for $1 1,000 will be adopted by MT. Blakeley Wallace.
 Joseph Nadine, an inmate of the Phila- delphia almshouse, who testified before the Coroner that Schroeder, one of the attendants, had given him the match to set fire to the building, in court denied his former story, and said he knew nothing about the act of incen- diarism.
 The graduates of Vassar College have in a short time raised S7,500 toward building a twenty thousand dollar gymnasium and ex- pect to complete the sum this spring.
 It is proposed to bond the State of New Jersey for s350,000 to defray the expense of rebuilding the State House recently damaged by fire.
 An extensive salt mine has been discovered at Clifton, N. Y.
 The United States steamship Wyoming has been detailed and fitted up for the exercise of the naval cadets on steamship and gunnery.
 At Sewickley Pa, two well diggers named
  cated by gas. They had just put of heavy blast, and Pearce started to the bottom to see its effect, when he was overcome Saunders went to his assistance and was also suffocated When taken out both men were dead.
 In Muncie, Ind, William Haynes was killed by BishopScott, Wednesday night, while stealing chickens from the lstter's henhouse. Haynes intended to play practical joke and was shot by the owner of the premises.
 In the Ontario Legislature Attorney Gen eral Mowat introduced bill which was read a first time. for the preservation of the natural scenery around Niagara Falls and surround ings. The bill, MT. Mowat stated, would give assurance that the passage of the act to per init the construction of railway along the banks of the river would in no way interfere with the international park scheme, which he favored.
 General James Mcouade died at Utica, N. Y., aged 66 years. He was twice Mayor of Utica, member of the State Assembly of 1860, Colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment of New York Volunteers during the war, and filled other prominent positions.
 Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior under President Buchanan, died at Memphis, Tenn.
 The Oklahoma boomers are adopting tac- tics to wear out the Ninth cavalry detailed to. prevent their advance.
 A trading ship of the Hudson Bay Con- pany was forced upon Charlton Island and Is hemmed in by the ice. Efforts ure being made to rescue the crew.
 MT George ". Childs, of Philadelphia, has sent his check for $100 to the Treasurer, as contribution to the fund being raised in Baltimore for the relief of needy Confederate soldiers. In the New York State Senate the bill pro- viding spring elections for New York city off cers was defeated, all the republican members except two voting against. while all the demo- crats voted for it.
 The New York Assembly by more than a two-thirds vote ordered the bill providing for payment of the awards for the lands taken for Niagara Park to 6 third reading.
 Matters are looking serious in Central America. News is received that while Barrios is advancing on Salvador at the head of an army of fifteen thousand men, President Zaldivar, of Salvador, is at Santa Ana, on the Guatemalan frontier, with ten thousand men ready to meet the first onset of Barrios. General Federico Fer nandez brother of the late President of Costa Rica, has entered Nicaraguan territory at the head of force which will join the Nicaraguan army and march into Salvador to aid in resist ing and beating back Barrios.
 A stay of sentence has been granted in the case of the alleged Chicago ballot suffers. They have been admitted to bail in $50, 900 each.
 Melville Barrett, seven years old, was hanged at Scottsville, Va, by his cousin. Mary Cooper, aged eight years.
 A negro named Glass, charged with mur- der, fatally shot two officers who were endeav- bring to arrest him in Indian Territory.
 The half-breeds of Prince Albert district, Northwest Territory, are in revolt, with Louis Rel at their head.
 Several more guests of the Langham Hotel, at Chicago, are missing and are sup posed to have perished.
 The young man Cluverius, in jail at Rich mond, Va, on & charge of murder is a near relative of ex-President Tyler.
 A suit to recover s70O, ,000 was filed by the city of St. Louis against the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, the old Pacific Railroad, and the receiver of the latter.
 The little six-year-old daughter of James Loughlin, of Croton Falls, Westchester county, N. r., found railroad torpedo. and putting it on rail struck 1t with an axe. It exploded and pieces of the tin case wounded the girl dangerously Her throat was cut, the windpipe was severed and portion of her scalp was torn from her head. She is not expected to live.
 In snow storm at sea the bark Cornwall hs Knocked a hole in the iron side of the steamer Wieland, which had to return to port. Two Quaker ladies, who have been hold ing temperance prayer crusade in Cornwall N. r., and who were in the habit of entering saloons, hotels and stores to carry out their purpose, have been fined $10 and costs by a Justice of the Peace.
 A carriage house on Smith Darrow's farm. in the town of Greenfield, Saratoga county, N. r., was destroyed by fire Monday morning, and Michael Newcomb, who was asleep in the building, was burned to a crisp. NeWcomb was seventy years old. It is thought that a spark from his pipe caused the fire. Joe Goss, the well-known pugilist, died of Brights disease, at his club house, in Boston.
 Capt. Prlndiyille, of the propeller Mich igan, reached Grand Haven, Mich, and re- ported the loss of his vessel The steamer sank, but all the crew were taken of by the tug Arctic, which was near at the time. The Michigan has been locked in the ice for nearly four weeks. The captain reached shore from the Arctic on ice. The Michigan was built in 1882, and was valued at $145, ,0O0.
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