Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.

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 Frankie Roberts the midget, on whom the ~ cesarean operation was performed in Syracuse, N. Y., is dead.
 A bill was introduced in the Texas Senate providing for the repeal of all patent laws regulating the sale of public lands.
 In the Pennsylvania Senate bill was in- troduced having for it's object the infliction of corporal punishment on any man convicted of having beaten a woman.
 A snow storm reaching from Northern Iowa to Northern Texas and from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Kansas City, Mo-, has blocked trains on many roads and seriously delayed the mails.
 Burglars with blackened faces broke into the house of MT. Melons, near the village of Chappaqua, N. Y. Mrs. Mellons threw one down stairs and the O her beat her husband badly. The burglars fired at both. The vil- lage grocer was also robbed and fired at prob ably by the same men.
 Republican members of the Connecticut Legislature in caucus nominated United States Senator Platt for reelection. A mass meeting held at Burlington, N. S., adopted resolution urging the Dominion gov ernment and Parliament to secure without de- lay reciprocity treaty between the United States and Canada.
 United States Senator Jones was reelected by the Nevada Legislature.
 E-The Fort Wayne strikers refuse to allow freight trains to move under the double header system. All switches have been spiked. Mayor Grace, of New York, reappointed E. Henry Lacombe to the position of Counsel to the Corporation.
 A bill has been introduced in the Ohio Legislature making it penal offence to in timidate any person who enters into the em- ploy of another.
 A terrible dynamite explosion occurred at some chemical works near Somerset, Pa., on Wednesday, by which two men were burned to death.
 "A steam saw mill near Smithfeld, Ohio, was blown up, killing three persons, fatally in turing two others, and wrecking the building. John B. Jervis, the engineer who built the Croton Aqueduct, died in Boston. He was 90 years of age.
 The Ohio Wool Growers Association adopted resolutions calling upon all industries of the United States to oppose the Spanish treaty, on the ground that it would destroy the sugar, rice and tobacco industries, and calling upon the wool growers to unite in de- mand for the restoration of the tariff of 1887 on wool.
 Gov. stockley, of Delaware, issued proc lamation saying that contagious pleuro-pneu- monia exists among the cattle of that State, and ordering that all diseased animals be quar- antined.
 A tank of ammonia blew up in Syracuse and eight men were dug out of the ruins; one of them was fatally injured.
 Great damage was done to farm property generally by the tornado in Alabama and vi- cinity. A number of lives were lost.
 The Democrats, with the aid of one Re- publican, elected Schenck President of the New Jersey Senate.
 The Boston Board of Health have forbid den the storing of old rags or paper within any dwelling.
 The grinders in the Oliver Chilled Flow Works, at South Bend, Ind, struck. Arming themselves they forced the other employees to quit work When the men refused to do so they were attacked and beaten. The belts were cut, and the rioters finally went to the engine room and forced the engineer to shut down. A death at Lynn, Mass, was caused by the misuse of 8 prescription of morphine.
 A nautical training school is to be organ ized in Boston.
 Special advices from Little Rock, Ark, state that a conflict between United States troops and the Oklahoma intruders upon Indian Territory may be expected in few days.
 A collision, by which two Pullman cars were telescoped and several passengers injured, oc- cured on the Pensacola and Atlantic railroad. -Lewir Carl. living near Bethlehem, Pa, got drunk md abused his wife. His son inter- fered, whereupon- the father killed him and then committed suicide.
 -Gen. Buffers libel suit against the Boston atEON TOT 1SO,UUU, IS based upon hn bEtEclo which appeared in that paper on Nov: IS, 1883, after General B. had been defeated for Governor, and assails the Generals war rec ord.
 The exports of live stock and dressed meats from the port of Boston, per steamers for the foreign markets, last week were ], ,844 cattle, 5,167 quarters of beef and 115 carcasses of mutton.
 The Manhattan Railway Company has re- moved it's main offices from New York city to Irvington.
 A party of cowboys visited the store and ranch of James Davis at Sand Greek, Wyo- ming. and attempted to run the place. Davis killed three of the rustlers and escaped injury himself.
 Prompted by jealousy, Pole, in Phila- delphia, gave to 8 rival 8 meerschaum pipe, specially prepared with an explosive. When lighted it blew up. inficting terrible wounds, from which the victim cannot recover.
 A colony of Mormons passed through Dallas, Texas, en route to Mexico.
 A large number of West Point cadets failed to pass their examinations.
 The tug Mike Dougherty was completely demolished near Pittsburg, Pa, about ten o'clock on Sunday, by the explosion of her boiler Two of her crew were killed and others badly hurt The boat had put ashore near Bellevue.
 The Trenton potters have offered their em- ployees the English rate of wages with the tariff added.
 The Farmers Bank of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, closed it's doors The armed and organized Socialists of Chicago number 1.500 men.
 At Goldsboro, N. O., \ woman prevented two desperate criminals from breaking jail by threatening them with revolver.
 -J. F. Legate, of Topeka, Kan, brands as forgery a letter published by St. Louis paper to prove charges against Governor St. John.
 A desperate shooting affray occurre in the office of the Mascot, in New Orleans, in which the editor of the paper and two officials were seriously wounded.
 The number of passengers brought from Europe to New York during 1884 by the various lines aggregated 32O,S07 steerage and 59, 5O3 cabin. A policeman has been detailed to stand guard over Captain Thomas F. Phelan at the hospital, to guard against any possible attempt to injure him.
 Not single American steamer carried grain from New York last year.
 Recent changes of importance have been made in his Oabiuet by President Crespo, of Venezuela
 Eleven valuable Clydesdale horses were killed near Plattsburg, Ohio, in railway cut by being run over by fast train.
 WASHINGTON NOTES
 At meeting of the House Committee on Military Affairs Representative Slocum was authorized to call up in the House, at the first opportunity the first bill introduced in the Senate at the present Congress, providing for the placing of General Grant on the re- tired list At the meeting of the committee motion authorizing him to cali up the bill passed by the Senate on the 14th inst and having for it's object the retirement of General Grant, was lost by vote of 8 to 2. Those op- posing the proposition were Representatives Rosecrans, Slocum, Morgan, Wolford, Murray, Connolly, Lyman and Bayne; those favoring, Representatives Cutcheon and Steele.
 The Senate passed resoiction directing that marble tablet be placed in the room in which Vice President Wilson died, recording the fact and the date of his d cath
 The Senate Committee on Pensions re- ported adversely on the bill to grant pension of 430 a month to Emma De Long. widow of