Connecticut western news., 1885-07-08
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

In an engagement between Apache h. diHns and whites thirty miles southeast of tronteraS, thirty-six Indians and sixteen Americans were killed, and several wounded. The force under Lieutenant Davis had an engagement with the Apaches. Sixteen Indians were killed and fifteen to twenty taken prisoners.
 The jury in the case of Adolph B. Sprec- kles, charged with murderous assault on NJ. H. De Young, at San Francisco, acquitted the defendant.
 An annual review of the gspin market of San Francisco gives the wheat exports for the cereal year ending June 30, at 26 ,230, ,OOO bushels, and flour at 1, 800, 900 barrels
 At tenement house fire in Cleveland, Ohio, three girls were burned to death.
 Carrie Miles and Jennie Miller, each eight years of age. were drowned in a pond near Verona, Wis.
 Surrogate Rollins of New York confirmed t, l.eferce's report giving the $40, 900 left by S TI h. Tssell, the miser printer, to his two Sro.,,o, 2 aud two sisters living in England.
 .e.. .' nderstood in Wall street, New York, at the Sin Dollar HT 0C TeaITSs 5 aTsr 'ae doors o D Government L
 month. rho h,,tohoro5 b;a ,r;ro sTJohn OarpenTM, ife's sister in New York, sud rearly killed his ,, rder in the first de- gree, notwithstanding, tho
 him insane. aat car dr;varO During the strikS of the sss> ere stonnad in Chicago, the few cars sent out N> d. by the mob and much riotibS DeesTre> waters A new insect is destroying tSe seed .. . is on the Connecticut coast, and muci1 siar& felt by the oystermen.
 The police census of Buffalo, N. T., shows a population of 202, ,9O9, against 155, 1S7 in 1880. Hereafter letters weighing one ounce may be mailed for two cents, but the half ounce rate still remains at two cents. The postage on newspapers has been reduced from two to one cent per pound. William Dorsheimer has been appointed United States Attorney for the southern district of New York, in place of Elihu B. Root, and Martin T. McMahon United States Marshal, in place of Joel B. Erhardt, for the same district.
 Mrs. Yseult Dudley was acquitted in New York of the charge of assault growing out of the shooting of O'Donovan Rossa. The pro- secution said that the District Attorney had satisfied himself that Mrs. Dudley was insane when she shot Rossa, and the jury declared the same. Very little interest was evinced in the trial.
 Five physicians testified that Carpenter, the wife murderer, of New York city, was in- sane.
 -'Larry" O'Brien refused to prosecute George T. Truman for stabbing him in New York city, and Truman refused to prosecute O'Brien for shooting him. OBrien was dis charged and Truman held for carrying con- oealed weapon.
 A; J. Dunont, late Naval Officer at New Orleans, committed suicide by shooting, at his home in Algiers, La
 In New York city Edward A. Boyd and Geo. H. Boyd, father and son, convicted of de- fraudiHg the Government by illegally import ing plate glass, were sentenced; the son to pay fine of $1 ,000, and the father 10 State prison for two years.
 Josiah Wolford, of Bedford, Pa., acci- dentally fell against the blade of an open pocket knife in the hands of friend. The blade entered his heart, killing him instantly. lin fire which occurred at Beaver Dam, Wis, three children were burned to death. A gang of tramps made raid on an out skirt of Shenandoah, Va, and stole what they could. A large number were arrested.
 Nellie Dame, aged nineteen years, residing at Freeport, H., has four husbands living. Abel Davons, Cornell University student, was accidentally killed at Livermore Falls, N. H.
 Franz Joseph Petmesky has been resen- fenced at Buffalo to be hanged for murder. A lady, with her two children and nurse, were thrown from a car platform into deep ravine at Springfield, Pa. Three of the party were killed.
 About one thousand street car conductors and drivers ct Chicago went on strike, causing much inconvenience to large number of peo- pie residing at some distance from the busi- ness portion of the city.
 Tho Cunarder, Gallia, was sighted at sea by two White Star steamers proceeding east ward under sail with broken shaft. She was accompanied by 8 friendly steamer and but slight apprehension exists regarding her safe arrival
 Admiral La Combe and the officers of the French flagship La Fibre gave an open air breakfast to distinguished company on board their frigate at anchor in the North River.
 Al-a l. s"s show the wheat crop to be by 100 per cent. letter than the estimate month ago.
 A thief stealing into store at Parkers- burg w. Va, was shot by watchman and killed.
 Officer Jacob Dudenhoffer surprised gang of burglars in store at Erie, Pa. He dis armed and ironed one man. second shot him, but, using the first thief's pistol, he re- turned the fire and killed his assailant.
 A party of six young men left the Cur nett House, Brunswick, Me-, for sail When near Bath their boat was struck by squall master of Brunswick, and B. A. Lincoln were drowned.
 The New York Press Club gave 6 reception 10 Henry B. Stanton to signalize his eightieth birthday and the sixth-one years ot his news paper work.
 The Rev. Lichner Russell, rector of the Presbyterian Church, Woodhaven, l.. l., com nlitted suicide by cutting his throat in his boarding house.
 General Cook has made preparations fol an extended campaign against the Apaches.
 At the battle of Santo Domingo, on thu Isthmus, 5,000 of Menendista's men hemmeC in 500 Nicaraguans, under Tolavera, who wal wounded. They fought thirty-two hours ant then cut their way through Menendista's lines leaving 300 killed and wounded, and took the remaining 200 into La Union in good order.
 -Villarica, Ga, was visited by 8 remarkable display of electricity. Many people wer' shocked by lightning and two prominent citi zens were killed instantly.
 Mrs. Dieter, wife of MT. John Dieter, O Gardenville, Baltimore county, Md, twas killed ny vicious COW. Mrs. Dieter was expected to soon become a mother. She leaves foul small children.
 Tho new Directory of Chicago estimate: the population of the city to be 700,G00.
 Kansas the past year has increased the number of it's newspapers by seventy-eight while Illinois has gained seventy seven.
 Reports of the wheat crop in Michigan from every county in the State are favorable and promise larger yield than that of last year.
 Gen. Grant passed Saturday night quietly Sunday morning he declared he had had tn best nights rest that he had enjoyed fo weeks
 Two men were killed and several injured while quite number of houses were partially or entirely destroyed in Polish Church row in Toledo Ohio, on Sunday.
 Mike Hines, leading catcher for the Bos tons during 1883 and 1884, but recently re leased, has signed with the Brooklyns.
 WASHINGTON NoTEa
 The reduction of the public debt durin the month of June was 0,0OO, ,OOO.
 From the month of June, 1885, the receipt of the United States from all sources wer SS7,l57015 55; June, 1884. $26, ,932, ,088 30; e1 penses for June, 1885, SIS, ,255, ,65S Il; June 1884, S16 116, 113 90.
 The internal revenue receipts for the fisca year ended June 30th is some $2 GOO. 900 shor of the Treasury estimates, which were SIS 000,e00 They would have exceeded the est mate had not the bonded period for hig wines been extended.