Connecticut western news., 1885-05-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL rTEMa


 Pa German was shot in his room, it is sup posed, by the wife he deserted in Germany. He died without making any accusations.
 A New York butcher paid S5, GOO for a brass brick which he supposed was gold and had been stolen.
 -sergt. Crowley, ot New York City, was found by the jury guilty of committing rape on Maggie Morris. Tho jury were out but IT minutes before returning their verdict. Tho case created intense excitement. The prisoner receives the full penalty of the law.
 Kate Maloney, aged 17 years who had visited skating rink in Somerville, Mass, against her mothers wishes, was sentenced to ono years imprisonment in Sherborn prison on the charge of being stubborn child.
 In Brazos county, Texas, great mob of armed men surrounded the guards and de- manded the release of forty State convicts at work. The guard refused, whereupon fight ensued. in which the convicts joined with the mob The conflict resulted in victory for the attacking party, who disappeared with the convicts.
 The county seat war in Dakota has broken out afresh. mob went from Wilmot to Travers and demolished the Court House. No resistance was made, as the attack was sur- prise. Great damage was done.
 Peter Webber, the baggage master wound ed by the Harrodsburg train robber, has posi- lively identified Chesley Chambers, & quiet farmer living near South Union, as the man who shot him. Chambers broke down com pletely in the court room.
 Juror Harvey M. Munsell, who committed q misdemeanor in visiting Rossa's den during the progress of Shorts trial, in New York city, was sentenced to thirty days imprisonment and fine of $250. He was locked up.
 The house of Henry Lewiston, a Nor wegian farmer living about six miles from Owatonna, Minn., was burned and five of his children perished in the flames.
 Special az nts have been appointed to in- vestigate the condition of labor in the different States
 MT. Weaver has been sworn in as member of the Illinois House of Representatives. On joint ballot the Legislature stands-Republi- can, 103; Democrats, 101.
 Most all of the business part of Darling ton, Ind, was burned. The fire was started by burglar after he had robbed jewelry and drug store.
 A party of 700 excursionists from Atlanta, Ga, to Talulluh Falls were badly poisoned from eating ice cream.
 Over 150 families ill Plymouth, Pa, are now receiving aid, and money is still badly needed, as there are many hundreds of widows and orphans who must be provided for. Efforts will be made to raise fund of S75 900, to be used for the benefit of the destitute orphans for several years to come. Tn all. nearly $4000 has been received, but much more IS needed for immediate wants.
 Eugene B. Walton, chief of the collection department of the First National Bank of New York, was arrested on a charge of falsifying the bank accounts He is charged with taking $15,0O0.
 Larry O'Blicn, x noted New York poli- tician, was knifed in desperate fight with a gambler named Truman. Both OBrien and Truman are badly injured.
 In the Illinois Legislative Democratic caucus Morrison's name for U. s. Senator was withdrawn. The Democrats arranged to vote first for the following men Tree, Black, Har- rison, Altgeldt, Palmer, Allen, Townshend, Haynes, Judd J. l.. Schofeld, and M W, Full Ter. They are to be voted for in the order named until each receives the full Democratic vote; then three times afterward should no person be elected.
 Charles H. Rugg, the negro who murdered Mrs Maybee and her daughter Annie, at Brookvile, L. L, and who, within few weeks afterward, nearly killed aged MT. and Mrs. Townsend, of Oyster Bay, and the sexagen- arian, Seeley Sprague, at East Meadow, was hanged Friday morning in the 'tthirty-day room" in the southwest corner of the second floor of the Queens County Jail, in Long Islaud City.
 Jonathan Silliman, one of the oldest Presbyterian clergymen in New York State. died in Cornwall, N Y.
 Al the striking quarrymen at Lemont
 
 Gen Sheridan's injuries from the upset ting of his carriage proving more serious than was at first supposed, he has been obliged to remain at Santa Monica. They are not dan gerous.
 By the explosion of boiler at Dunkert's stove works in Grsyson, Ky, two men were killed and two badly wounded.
 Giovanni Azzeo, Antonio Mercurio, and Ignazio Bove, the three Italians who murdered (n-. T IL body in trunk, have confessed their connec- tion with the murder, and enough evidence has been secured to hang all three.
 The Pennsylvania Assembly passed over the Governors veto the bill ordering counties to bury all bodies of destitute soldiers and mark their graves with headstones.
 The Massachusetts House passed the bill restricting the manufacture and sale of dyna- mite.
 Gen Grant has been elected Commander of the military order of the Loyal Legion. A 12-year-old boy named Frank Harper found nitro-glycerine can in the woods near Clarendon, Pa After playing with 1t while ne dropped 1t on piece of pipe, when in ex- ploded, injuring him fatally.
 A Bouth-bound train on the Mexican In- ternational road, while approaching Aura station ran over sleeping Mexican, and on the arrival of the train at Monclova the con- ductor, engineer, station agent, and other em- -ployees were arrested and thrown into prison. 40 carpenters and 160 laborers left New York to go to Aspinwall to help build up that city. - Chicago reports say:--"Winter wheat prospects are the poorest ever seen. The spring wheat is not all seeded. Oats are not all in and the corn is yet to be planted. The only favorable fact that we can mention is that there IS no present prospect of a drouth. The most serious fact is the failure of the winter wheat crop. Its magnitude is not yet fully realized"
 The yacht Genesta has left England on her voyage to New York; in order to contest the America Cup. ,-ar
 Two sailing vessels hailing from Halifax and bound on voyages to the West Indies havs been given up as lost by the owners and friends of those on board. They carried ten men.
 Harvey Munsell, one of the Dick short jury in New York, was arrested charged with visiting Rossa's office during the trial. Horace White, of the Eceysing Post, bailed Munseu.
 During fire in Philadelphia seven fire men of one company were working on a frame bridge which gave way. The roof fell at the same time and buried the men under a mass of burning timber. They were severely in- jured.
 At cut of the New York aqueduct, near Bleepy Hollow, an accident occurred by which two men were killed and several more or less injured. The workmen struck an unexploded charge of dynamite which exploded, sending destruction right and left.
 -Another disturbance between Orangemen and Roman Catholics occurred at Conception Bay, N. F. Knives were drawn and great vio- leHce exhibited on both sides; but the authori- ties succeeded in quelling the disturbance be- fore it reached unmanageable dimensions.
 The crew of a Newfoundland sealer were rescued after being nineteen days on an ice Hoe.
 The Fall River, Mass, mills are restrict ing production.
 Vast fields of ice were encountered in the North Atlantic by steamers arriving.
 The Lemont, H., coroner's jury censures the militia for firing on the mob of coal striker&
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