Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
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 Native Iowa cattle which came in contact wtth Texas oatt!c have no begun to die with every symptom of Spanish fever, and native ca,. along the trail where the strangers were ivvn are also dying.
 In Sturgis, Dakota, Ross Hlll's colorel soldier, shot and killed Dr. Lynch. a promin- ent citizen. The colored tr''ops at Et. Mead threatened to. burn the to En, and it was ne co sary to send o patrol and arrest al the troops.
 At Fossil, Ore, three children were fa- tally poisoned by carelessness.
 Police authorities of Philadelphia are sat isfied that the explosion on the Felton was caused by dynamite. The people who had it did not intend to explode 1t, but were on the use.
 At Geneva, IL, two of the three police men on duty were found dead on duty. It is believed that they quarreled and shot each other.
 The house of Isaac Johnson, ct Norristown, Pa, was entered by burglars, who bound and gagged him whilo they searched for his money.
 The mutilatcd body of the woman found some time ago in the Charles River, Boston, has been fully identified as that of the missing Mrs. Mitchell.
 A passenger train on the Natchez, Jack son and Columbus Railroad ran of the track. Three persons were killed and several ln- jured.
 Mrs. Heneke was shot and fatally wound- ed by burglars at her home in Amazonia, Mo. Andrew Kelly stepped on banana peel on Montgomery street. Jersey City, and in falling fractured his skull He died.
 "A se, turtle weighing nearly 300 pounds, was found entangled in . net Oh Rookport, Mass, and gotttn ashore. The creature is eght feet long and more than three feet broad and twenty inches deep. His fore fippers are each more than yard long, and from tip to tip they span eight feet. There is Q school of these monsters off Cape Ann.
 According to the census recently taken, the population Of Dakota in round numbers is 4l5. GOO, of which South Dakota claims 263, 900. The total number of farms in the Territory is so 900, varying in area from 300 acres down.
 "A desperado in Blanco county, Texas, killed seven persons and then cut his own throat.
 It is known that number of lives were lost in the cyclone along the Southern coast Three men were lost of Savannah pilot boat.
 Fifteen cadets of Annapolis have been ar rested for hazing.
 "A saloon in Philadelphia had its window blown out by dynamite, supposed to have been put there with malicious intent.
 The Smiths of New Jersey met in their annual reunion at Peapack, N. J. There were about three thousand of them together The South Atlantic coast was ravaged by a hurricane doing immense damage. Aleng the Florida coas. S500,000 will not cover the in- iuries inflicted. At Charleston the loss is said to be over Sl, 900, 900, and at Savannah 1t was very heavy. A number of vessels were driven 'ashore aud lost.
 Grand Master Workman Powder;y, of the Orler of the Knights of Labor, thinks that the st: ike on tke Wabaeh Railroad may be Ayerled by conference between the managers of tho railroad and the Executive Committee of the Order.
 -Ex Engineer Seymour las written letter strongly urging the improvement and deepen ing of the canals of the State of New York.
 Attorney General Cassidy, of Pennsyl- vania, will institute Q suit on behalf of the State to prevent the consolidation of the South Pennsylyania Railroad with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as being in the violation of State law.
 The marriage of Theodore Frelinghuysen, son of the late Secretary of State, with Miss Alice Coates, celebrated at Newport, was a most brilliant society event.
 The Colombian rebellion is ended. Pres. tan. the leader in the burning of Colon, is now in iail Gen. Camargo has surrendered un- cosditionally with twenty-five officers.
 Battery and Baker, the prize fighters, arr both in iail in Albion, N. F. AftIr giving bonds not to fight they did fight, Slater, gaining by foul
 A valuable horse belonging to Henry Case Q Brooklyn builder, was found on Sunda, night lying down in his stall with one of hi hind feet firmly jammed in his mouth. 1 tackle had to be used to remove the foot. The | horse died soon afterward.
 The third and last of the trial races to de eide which yacht shall be selected to meet tn, Genesta was sailed over the regular New Yorl Yacht Club course, and was at once one of thu swiftest and most exciting trials of speed evel seen in those waters. The Puritan was again the winner.
 WASHINGTON EOTEH