Connecticut western news., 1885-02-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.

The body of Riley F. Thedly, white, sged thirty-eight was found early in the morning on the New York, Pennsylvania and Norfolk Railroad track, near Hallwood, ,Accomac county, Va. He is supposed to have fallen asleep while drunk and to have been run over by the early express, which severed his head from his body. Captain Phelan, who was murderously dashed by Dynamiter Short, in New York short time ago, isrecovering.
 A horrible traffic in white babies, who are sold to Chinese dens for S60 apiece, has been discovered in San Francisco.
 A new railroad to run from Wilson, N. C., to Florence, s. C., will be begun next month. An Italian settlement at Auburn, N C., was burned, it is alleged by incendlarles.
 A New Haven. Conn.,, mechanic thought he might as we'll kill his employer and be hanged as to starve to death on inadequate wages. He was arrested.
 -Thirty-nine horses were burned to death at Philadelphia through livery stable taking fire. Several valuable trotters were among the number.
 In the Rhode Island Legislature George \. Wilbur was elected Associate Judge of the Supreme Court.
 The Illinois House of Representatives ef- fected permanent organization by the cleo tion of Mir. E. M. Haines as Speaker.
 A prisoner in Minnesota jail committed suicide by eating soap.
 Ratification of the Nicaragua Canal Treaty failed in the Senate for want of two-thirds majority.
 The Hummer Hill Mine, at New Straits vile, Ohio, was fired Thursday morning There is now only one mine owned by the sym dicste which is not burning.
 General Hatch surrounded the camp of the Oklahoma boomers at night, and when they awoke they at once surrendered and are now leaving Indian Territory.
 -Colored people are now leaving North Caro- lina in hundreds bound for Arkansas.
 A Boston skating rink treasurer was fined S15 for ejecting negro who desired to pur- chase an admission ticket.
 A woman living near Bristol, Conn.,, left her three children locked in the house; they began lighting matches; while the youngest was burning to death the elder children hid in terror under the bedclothes.
 In blizzard on the Newfoundland coast twenty-three fishing boats were driven to sea and sixty fishermen are supposed to have been drowned.
 A lnrge number of pers ,ns were frozen to death during the cold weather in Oregon.
 Four of family of seven persons living near Mount Lebanon, Pa., died, and the other three are dying, of poison. How they were poisoned is unknown.
 The deficit in the Island City Savings Bank at Galveston, whose president committed suicide last week, amounts to over $117,000. MT. s. s. Conant, editor of Hdrper's Weekly, left his office over two weeks ago pre- sumably intending to go home to dinner. He has not since been seen or heard from. Q The President sent Q message to the House recommending recognition of official and per sonal services to the Jeannette survivors while In Siberia.
 Arsenic has been found in the stomach of Albert Howard, wealthy farmer, who died last month near Syracuse, N. Y.
 The Indian Territory boomers have sur- 4rz4 ka rbaI out of the Territory. All fear of any further trouble is past and everybody is thankful that no blood has been shed. The boomers believe that after the 4th of March the troops will be removed and the colonists allowed to settle on the lands withaut molestation.
 The prosecution in the Toms River murder trial is devoting it's energies to building up case against Bison K. Rockwell, who, with the family of the deceased, Is accused of compIcity In tho killing of James Wainwright. The story of one of the foresters who found the body was brought out ln such & way as to bring the supposed compicity of Rockwell strongly into hght.
 Some practical joker crank caused momentary scare at the British Consuls office in New York, by leaving on the floor under heath can partially filled with harmless emery powder, with home made fuse protrudiDg. Fifty COWS in Delaware have been inocu- lated for pleuro-pneumonia. ...-
 
 Newcastle, Pa, two persons were badly in- iured.
 There is 8 great religious awakening in Central Pennsylvania; Methodists, Mennonites and Salvation Army people are making hun dreds of converts. -r.e --.... At mass meeting held in one of Delmoni- Gu s parlors, New York, Q permanent organlza- tion of gas consumers was formed for the purpose of obtaining legislative enactments to govern the use of and charge for gas.
 In the Connecticut House of Representa- tires resolution was adopted denouncing the dynamite outrage in London.
 A bill was introduced in the Massachusetts Senate prohibiting the manufacture of explo- sives.
 : The funeral of the notorious ''Owney" Geoghegan, of New York, was marked by a disgraceful struggle between the dead mans alleged wife and his sister as to who should have the first Place in the funeral cortege. The rough element was present in force, and 8 row was only averted by the hearse being driven at such pace as to leave the crowd be- hind.
 Oliver Brothers & Phillips, of Pittsburg concluded very satisfactory arrangement with their creditors, obtaining liberal exten- sions.
 In British Columbia five Indian nAen and one woman have been killed by Takowa Iu- dians, who also took two women and two ch1l- dren into captivity.
 The New York State Senate passed to third reading bill appropriating $5,000 to the New Orleans Exposition.
 A party of emjgrants, in attempting to ford Ouachita River, near Rockport, Arkansas, were washed of the ford, and three women and two children were drowned. They were Illinois people on their road to Texas.
 A suspicious-looking box was found in the lobby of the Post-ofice. at Montreal It was at once removed to the police station. The box is made of tin, and weighs three pounds.
 Tho silver vaults of the Sub Treasury at Ban Francisco are full The Secretary of the Treasury wishes to transfer from them about &40 000, GOO in standard dollars to the new sil- yer vault in the Treasury Department. It will cost F100, ,0G0, and Congress will be asked to appropriate funds for the transfer.
 At Newport, Ky, woman killed one of her children, fatally injured another and then committed suicide
 A row took place between opposing fac tions in Catholic church at Fall River, which necessitated the calling in of the police to preserve order while the services were in progress.
 A burglar caught robbing store in the Indian Territory was taken out by the citizens and 50 seriously whipped that he died from the effects.
 One of the buildings of the Whitney Arms Company, at New Haven, was burned; 120 men thrown out of employment; loss, s60, 900.
 -Ahe CMca6o sPecial ordnu Iury HaS ln- dicted 249 judges of election for complicity in the frauds on the ballot ln that city.
 Accounts from Oklahoma state that the Boomers, to the number of 600, are entrenched and are determined to resist the troops.
 serious accident occurred at Smiths Falls, on the Canada Pacific Railroad. The cars collided, crushed and took fire. Two passen- gers lost their lives and number of others were injured.
 A report made to the Bureau of Statistics shows that under the present system of culti- yation there is no danger from the exhaustion of cotton lands.
 WARRINGTON NOTES.
 The House Claims Committee will report a bill to refund the war tax levied on States and Territories in 1861 and 1862.
 A decrease of $5, GOO, 900 in the public debt took place in January. The receipts amount to about $25, 500, GOO and the disbursements tC about &11, ,OO0, ,OO0. The receipts are less thar