Connecticut western news., 1885-11-04
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL TrEMa-

The condition of John Mccullough was reported improved by Dr. Engel on Friday. He says that crisis has been passed, and the result is favorable to the actor.
 The stage from Abilene, Tex, was robbed by masked highwaymen and the mails carr;ed Away. The driver was made to hand over his express packages at the point of the rifle, There we're two passengers in the stage at the time, but they were not molested.
 -Wm. J. Best was arraigued in Boston oourt on charge of embedding SIS, 900 in connection with his managym of the affairs of the Pac hc Bank in that city. and was dered to find sursiies in the sum of $25, 900 Tor his further appearance.
 At Philadelphia Robert J. Cook, the Yale slose oarsman, was struck on the head with hatchet in the hands of the negro jsnitor of the Press office, sustS.Sng injuries which may prove fatal.
 At the New York Board of Trade a reso lution was passed ut spscial meeting urging tho passage of Q Nation .l Bankruptcy law.
 "A moulder met with terrible death by being precipitated into pot ot molten metal in foundry at St. Louis.
 "A farmer residing at Hamilton Station, near Genesco, N. Y., was shot dead in bis home by burglars.
 James Hodge, Democrat, was was elected Mayor of Baltimore.
 Mrs. Gen. Grant has been greatly grieved and painod by the public discussion of the domt stic affairs of her daug hter, and says that all reports to the effect that Mrs. Sar.oris has applied, or contemplates applying for divorce or separation from her husband, gre entirely without foundation and cruel wounds to her feelings @ .
 In his Grant eulogy Henry Ward Beecher said 'Tn all the war but out of every 43 that di was slain by the bullet and out of every 13 by disease"
 A young mulatto postal route clerk was arrested at Louisville for robbing the mail
 Several ladies who applied for registry as voters in Ithsca were refused by the inspectors. The colored State fair at Jackson, Miss, was formally opened by President Montgomery and Governor Lowry, who made appropriate addresses.
 John Thompson was taken from jail at Kingston, Tunn., by mob and hanged.
 James Churchill, suspected of murder, was lodged in an old building used as jail in Pike county, Ark A mob set fire to the jail and burned Churchill to death.
 Smallpox has made it's appearance at Co., man, Msrinette county, Wis. The disease was introduced by French-Csnadians from Mon treal. At Eau Claire all loggers are obliged to be vaccinsted before the companies will take them to the woods.
 A great storm ragged off the coast of Labrador on the 11th inst, doing immense damege among the fishing fleet gathered there Eighty vesses were wrecked or driven ashore ani at least 70 men from the crews of the vessels lost their lives Two thousand persons are now ashore in a destitute condi- diiion.
 Ten Italian laborers were swept of ca- boose after passing the Oakdale Station, on the Massachusetts Central railroad, by coming in contact with freight train on side track. One was killed and nine severely injured.
 An encounter took place between citizens and illicit distillers at Tracy city, Tenn, in which one man was mortally and another dan gerously wounded.
 Rev. Alfred Coffee, 6 colored preacher, beat bis thirteen-year-old son to death at Mad ison, Fla.
 In New York city Wards jury was con- pleted and his trial begun. James D. Fish was the first witness, and developed new feature. He alleged that he telephoned to Ward about the check for $7l 800 that was drawn by him on the Marine Bank against an uncertifed check for $75, ,000 on the First Na- tional Bank, and that ou Wards assertion over the telephone that it was all right he certified the check and the Marine Bank was compelled to pay it.
 -Apprehensions of a smallpox plague arc felt in St. Paul and Minneapolis.
 A Connecticut life insurance company hns taken possession of the water works at Evans vile, Ind, on account of default in payment Of interest on bonds.
 Mrs. Emily Carter, eighty years old, fell into the fire at her home in Springfield, Mass, while in fit, and was fatally burned.
 Five prisoners escaped from jail at Wells boro, Pa, through hole in the wall which they had made.
 A woman picking berries in the cranberry bushes near Frankfort, Michigan, was mis- taken for 8 bear by two hunters and shot dead.
 MT. George ". Childs, of Philadelphia, was presented by the International Typo graphical Union with a get of handsomely printed and magnifcenty framed resolutt ms thanking him for the courtesies extended by him to delegates to the international conven. ton held last summer.
 -Riel's counsel has forwarded petition to the Governor-General of Canada demanding the appointment of medical commission to examine his clients mental condition, and has gone to Ottawa in support of his application
 Great prairie fires have taken place in Texas; halT million acres of land were burned over, and the cowboys were compelled to take refuge in the lakes to save their lives. The damage is serious.
 The total registration in New York city for 1885 was 215, ,898. In 1884 it was 240, 906. In 1883 it was 1892 1851, and in 1882 it was 196, ,1S2.
 Two United States officers were killed near Lumber City, Georgia. The party We're looking for moonshiners, and were pi.oted by negro who was also shot, but not fatally. The assaiants were ambushed. .
 The official returns from all counties in Ohio show that Foraker has a plurality of IS, l5S for Governor. Leonard, the Prohibit tion candidate, polled 28, 064 votes, and North rop, the Greenback candidate, 2, ,963.
 Miss Etta Villas, only sister of Postmaster General Villas, died at Madison, Wis. She was 20 years of age.
 Ex-Governor John B. Page, of Vermont, died suddenly at his home in Rutland in the sxtieth year of his age. He was native of Rutland, where he was born in the house in which he died on February 25, 1926.
 A fatal disease is killing of the hogs with frightful rapidity in Webster county, Iowa. Many farmers in the southern part of the county have lost nearly every hog they owned. The disease is not the cholera but new and strange one. The animals are attacked with Q ugh, and in day or two are dead. It attacks with equal fatality animals of all ages.
 The three Italians who were fonnd guilty Of the celebrated trunk murder in Chicago, were sentenced to be hanged on Nov. 14.
 A dramatic scene occurred in the St. Louis jail when Samuel N. Brooks, of Hyde, Eng land, met his son Hugh, charged with the Preller murder at St Louis hotel Mir. Brooks believes that his son is insane.
 Sixty Chinese cigar-makers in factory in San Francisco struck work because the firm refused to discharge their white workmen. It is learned that the Chinese Union of the city ordered the strike. The dictation by the Chinese that the "white men must go, create no small sensation on the Pacific Coast
 The exports from Canada during septem- ber amounted to $9, 450, 837. of which $S,343,- 931 was in products of the country. The i'm ports amounted to $S,354, 300, on which $1,- 701, ,589 duty was paid.
 An accident on the Elmira, Cortland and Northern Railway, in which three or more lives were lost, occurred Saturday afternoon by the collision of two trains.
 HARRINGTON NoTEA
 The Director of the Mint estimates the amount of gold and silver coin in the coun- try on July l, 1885, at Ss20, ,00O,00 of which F642eOO,O consisted of gold and $27s, s,0OO,- 0OO of silver. This amount was owned as foiows:-By the Treasury-Gold, S53, ,223, ,160 silver. S95 119,G65; total of Sl4S 342,2.5 jiy national baIks-Gold, ?165, 575, CT; silver, 1,975, 833; . total of %176 TOO. By other Ian, -f,h To ham C. ,ld