Connecticut western news., 1885-05-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS

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 Dispatches from the Northwest point to 8 general Indian rising as being very probable Marshal Henry Auer, of New Straitsville, O., in a quarrel with Albert Guest at that place. was shot by the latter several times in different parts of the body, and he cannot re- cover. Guest was taken from jail and lynched by mob.
 At Madison, Wis, two sisters, each with an infant in her arms, were sentenced to two years imprisonment for perjury. They had tried to save & brother who was arrested for burglary.
 Howard Cooper, the negro convicted in Baltimore of felonious assault on Miss Katie Gray, of Baltimore county, was sentenced to be hanged at such time as the Governor may appoint.
 An explosion took place in the second story of tive-story brick building, in Cincin- nati, occupied from the second story up by Sullivan X Go. s steam printing works. This was followed by puffs of flame and smoke from the open windows in every story from the second story to the roof. The inmates en- deayored to escape, but 15 lives were lost, three of them by jumping from the building.
 The trial of Justus H. Schwab, in New York city, resulted in disagreement of the jury. It was stated that the jury stood four for acquittal and eight for conviction.
 Tt is again asserted that Riel is an Ameri- can citizen.
 The law against the importation of goods the product of prison labor is being rigidly enforced in Canada.
 In the Pennsylvania Senate the bill pro- hibiting the granting of free railroad passes and making it penal offence to receive as well as to grant pass, was defeated on second reading,
 Henry F. Post, alias 'Hungry Joe" was arrested in New York for robbery. The police think that he is bound for State prison this time, and no mistake.
 "A n attamnt was n he real express which left New York at II Friday night on the Hudson River Railroad. A lot of ties were piled on the track near Fort Mont gomery tunnel. part of the train was damaged.
 Mrs. A. T. Stewart has signed an agree ment to pay the sum of $15,000 annually for the support of the Cathedral See House and St. Paurs School at Garden City, N. r., trans- ferred by her to the incorporators, and has executed penal bond in the sum of S300, 900 to secure it's payment in perpetuity.
 The Central Railroad Company of New Jersey paid $25, ,000 to the estate of Cephas M. Woodruff, of Newark, who was killed in the Parker's Creek disaster.
 "A terrible disease is prevailing in Lang worthy, Jones county, Iowa, which causes with slight sore throat The soreness then goes to the lungs, and from there to the spine, when death follows It bafles the physicians, some calling it sort of ship fever, caused by impure water. The Confederate Soldiers Home near Richmond, Wa, was opened on Wednesday with appropriate ceremonies.
 In the Illinois House a resolution giving the use of the legislative chamber on Thurs day to ex-Gov. St. John to deliver temper ance lecture, was voted down. The Repub- hcans voted almost solidly against it.
 Rudolph, said to be the finest Hereford bull in the world, owned by the Wyoming Hereford Association, died after 8 surgical operation, in which 8 tumor weighing sixty five pounds was taken from him. He was valued at $40, ,0O0
 -Seventy-five families were driven from their houses in Elk City, Kan, by the flood. Five persons were drowned.
 The Worlds Exposition of New Orleans will be closed May 31. The friends of the Ex- position have raised $95,000 by subscription, to meet the Of carrying it over till next November, when it will be reopened.
 On Tuesday John A. Logan was elected United States Senator of the Legislature of Illinois The vote on the final ballot stood as follows:-Logan, 103; Tree, 96; Black, ?; Hoxie, 9; Morrison, 1.
 The seventeen-year locusts, which Prof. Reilly predicted have made their first appear ance in Illinois. They have been found in large numbers close to the surface of the ground, and are moving upward The lndlca- tions are strong that an unusually large swarm will appear in a short time. Very extensive apple OrchardS were planted Oy CaplballSLS LlllE spring, and large eruption of locusis will al most certainly kill them.
 At Lynchburg, Va, young Hairston Terry, son of Gen. Terry, Superintendent Of the State Penitentiary, who shot T. A.. Jeter, prominent business man and one of the most popular citizens of the county, for calling g dog by his sisters name, was hanged by mob at an early hour in the morning.
 Private telegraphic advices say that SenoI Zaldivar has resigned the Presidency of San Salvador, and that Gen. Figaroa has beer elected in his stead. Senor Zaldivar is reported to have sailed for Europe.
 The last gap in the Canadian Pacific Rail road has been closed and the line Is now con tinuous to the Columbia River.
 There were 15, 454 immigrants landed a New York last week.
 At Liberty, Va., Thomas A. Jeter, an in offensive and very popular man, was shot b. H. W. Terry. Jeter had named dog, givel him by Terry, after Terry's sister.
 An Italian, the boss of gang of his coun trymen, was hanged and cut to pieces over wages quarrel in Kokoma, Ind, by the me1 under him.
 A tornado passed through Rocks county Kansas, following westerly course and deal ing death and destruction along it's entir course. Nearly fifty persons were injured The Rev. Mir. Grimes wife and child wer killed. George Campbell is missing, and i supposed to have been killed s. J. Johnson brother of M. H. Johnson, banker of Kirwin was badly injured by falling timbers In stable where he had taken refuge.
 Commodore Jonathan Young, command ant of the New London Navy Yard, died c remittent fever on Sunday, aged 58 years.
 WASHINGTON NOTES
 Commodore Truxton, Commandant of Nor folk Navy Yard, has directed the foreman o shipsmiths and the foreman of laborers at tn yard to make written denials of statemen that they were members of recent Demo cratic city convention at Norfolk. If they fai to do 80 they are to be discharged. The Com modore has prohibited political discussion il the yard, and says that any employee wh takes a conspicuous part in politics will los his position.
 The United States Treasurer's statemen shows that of gold coin and bullion, there wa in the Treasury $244, ,145, 670; silver dollar and bullion, s164, 933, ,S13; fractional silYe coin, s3l, ,0s2, ,024.
 The Treasury Department purchases 6O6,OOO ounces of silver aG one cent and quarter less per ounce than the lowest price O the previous week.
 The Director of the United State Mint has ordered the superintendent of the hints at Philadelphia, New Or leans and San Francisco to purchase all mu t1lated silver coin offered in sums of $3 at tn rate they may be authorized to pay for silye bullion in lots of less than ten thousan ounces the day the coins are received at tn mint.
 The Secretary of the Navy is considering the adyisability of Investigating the expendi lures for the repair of the Mohican at Mar Island Navy Yard. It is reported that tn cost of these repairs amounted to abou $700,000.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The English governments persistent re fusal to announce the state of the peace nego tiations with Russia tends to confirm the nov universal belief that the hitch is of the utmos gravity. The guarded admission of the Secre tary for War that it is still thought advisable to concentrate the British troops now in thu Soudan for possible service elsewhere strength ems this belief.
 The French Senate, in spite of the opposi ton of Premier Brisson, adopted, by vote O