Connecticut western news., 1885-11-25
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL TTKMR.

Several citizens of Alabama have been stopped on the highways and robbed by armed footpads.
 Two persons were poisoned at Coalesville Pa., by drinking water from an unused well.
 --Wm. Heath, the banker of New York, who failed, was made prisoner in @ civil action brought by Mir. Giovanni P Morosini, one of Mir, Jay Goulds partners, who claims that the firm has embedded from him and converted to its own use about $500 GOO in money, stocks and bonds.
 The Knights of Labor of Texas have ar ranged to boycott the stone and granite to be usei on the new capitol, because it was cut and dressed by four hundred convicts at the quarries. As soon as the first carload arrives the boycott will be declared. About five hnn- dred masons have been employed, and the question is serious one.
 --Carslcy X Co.,, of Montreal, who sued Bradst' eets OommeIc clal Agency for $5O,0 on acconnt of an alleged false report of the firms financ' al condition, got judgment for $4,000
 Louis Somerfield, Pole, shot and killed his wife and saloon keeper at Washington, D. 0.
 The captain of the schooner John Nichols, his mate and deckhand fell overheard and were drowned in the Patapsco river.
 In the Hastings Court at Richmond, Va. a young man, convicted of having violated the duelling laws by sending challenge, was fined one cent and given one hours contine- ment ln jail.
 The thirty-one lynchers, indicted for mur- der, at Edgeheld, s. C., were released on bail for appearance at the next term, and it is generally beleved they will never be called for triAI.
 Two men seized and blindfolded woman at Cleveland, Ohio, and having secured her cnoT fn la1 hnf r. sign mysterious document.
 Henry J. Taylor, lately Assistant Postmas- ter at Rome, N. r., was fined $650 and sent to State Pri on at hard labor for eighteen months for embedding money order funds.
 The front wall of the Empire Plaster Mills, in Bethune st. N. J. left standing after the fire of last week. fell and killed one woman in the street. Five laborers inside were in jured, two of them fatally.
 --Dr. William Buckingham, well known physician, accidentally killed himself while cleaning loaded revolver.
 Joseph Groblewski, who was tried in Brooklyn for poisoning his wife with arsenic, was found guilty of murder in the first degree. Samuel B. Goode, colored, who stabbed and killed Policeman North at Wall street and Broadway was found guilty of murder in the second degree.
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 A desperate burglar named Thompson was arrested in Milwaukee after making two murderous assau ts upon helpless women in houses that he had attempted to rob at night. Two men were devoured by wolves while on thelr way across the mountains in Mon tana. Their names were John Hoag and Jacob Scheller. A companion escaped by climbing tree, where he remained until help arrived.
 In South Carolina, near EdgefieId, qua1- rel about rents culmiDaied ill the murder of all aged farmer and his two sons by 8 neighbor. The will of the late. Horace B. Clafin was offered for probate. He left his estate to his widow and his two sons, with private letter to them regarding bequests to charity.
 Tim Mccarthy, the famous New York wo- man beater. was sentenced to prison for one year and fined $500 for assaulting Kate Bar. TOW. This was his second trial and conviction for the offense.
 At the Philadelphia Lubric Company s Works, the man-hole of & large oil still was blown of, and several men and boys engaged at work in the vicinity were deluged with the burning oil. One man and boy were Turned to death on the spot, man was injured so that he died 8 few minutes after reaching the hospital and four other men are hopelessly burned. Flames ignited the buildings and the property was almost destroyed.
 An autopsy of John Mccullough confirms the medical opinion that the actors death was caused by obstructic ns in the blood V. v.ssels of the brain.
 "A family of eleven persons in Boston were poisoned by arseuic placed in the flour barrel. cook, discharged 8 few weeks ago, has been arrested.
 -Ex-Senator J. H. Mitchell, the Northern Pacific Railroad attorney, has been reelected to the United States Senate from Oregon.
 "A local freight train ran into Big Buck Creek, near Indianapolis, Ind, resulting in probably fatal injuries to the engineer and ill less severe injuries to the fireman and brake man.
 w. B. Smith, City Attorney of Butte City, M. T., committed suicide by shooting.
 At Bessemer, Wis, four miners were in. stantly killed by large quantity of ore fa'i- ing upon them.
 An official investigation touching tho treatment of patients in the lunatic asylum of Cook county, Ill.,, elici.ed evidence of 8 shock ing state of affairs in that institution.
 Two miners were killed and two others se- riously injured at the Peacock coal bank, near Pomeroy, Ohio.
 "A man and his wife were run over by tho cars on the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad near Pontiac, Mich., and instantly killed.
 Two men were drowned in Chesapeake DoJ " thO Oapn1Aluk VI hh OJ bbCA bAOOPs
 The business portion of the town of Hazle- hurst, Miss, was destroyed by fire - The loss is estimated at $100,000. The insurance is small.
 Private advices from the City Marshal at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, say there are forty-four cases of smallpox there and that panic prevails among the people The disease was probably taken there by fish ermen and coasters tIom the St. Lawrence River.
 The official returns of the Iowa election are all in. Larribees majority for Governor will be almost exactly 50 0. Hull, for Lieu tenant Governor, will have 7,50O, and Akers, for Superintendent of Instruction, 5000.
 Mrs. Loud won her suit in Boston against her banker husband, for 8 divorce. Mir. L.. was accused of abusing his wife.
 Schenectady CN. Y.) city four per cent. bonds brought $113 at auction sale.
 Mrs. Angeline Brown, of N. Y, has brought suit against physicians, claiming $10,0c0 damages for their causing her re- movai to the Smallpox Hospital when, as she alleges, she was not suffering froDa that dis case.
 At the Produce Exchange, New York, tlle foreign war news imparted 8 strong tone to the market, and the price of wheat ad ys "a iced from 13 to 21 cents on the bushel There were 10,0U0,000 bushels sold. The ad
 
 led them to cover freely.
 At Erie, Pa., the trial of Hugh Brown, s. years old, ended in verdict of guilty The octogenarian was arraigned for the murder of Charles Dunn, whose head he cut off with an axe.
 Land Commissioner Sparks's recent ruling in reference to the cutting of timber upon tlt public lands for mining uses practically shut. the miners and mining companies of Montanp out from timber, and will compel thousand to leave the country. Petitions are being signed, and & committee of prominent mining men will present the claims of the miners ai Washington.
 The village of Austin, H., was nearly de stroyed by fire, on Saturday.
 The confagration in Iquique, Peru, or Oct 28, destroyed property valued at $1 ,0OO, 900. The fire started and burned all night, ,mak ing the city as light as day. The side of the square between the Gales Anibal Pinto ant Patricio Lynch was entirely consumed, ana southward from the square to the Calle Mo quega and northward to Calle Bolivia. Among the buildings and business houses destroyed were many of the finest in the city Severn