Milford chronicle., 1885-03-06
NEWS OF THEDAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

"a little Chicago schoolgirl left her hon
ior school, but never got there. She Is b,
heFed to have been kidnapped.
"A Missouri grand jury has indicted eiqh
atVMiueht citizens for murder in the belle
saal they iynehed an lrishman, thirteen year
"A Buffalo oil firm is suing Rochester con
Germ which is backed up by the Standard Oi
company, for attempting to ruin them.
some British sailors in the cabin of ,
steamer az Baltimore were suffOcated BY Goa
gas from the stove, which did not draw; two
were killed.
= Three robbers entered the State Treas
urer's Office at Lincoln, Neb., and made the
deputy hand them out money; two Of them
were caught.
Rockwell, the slayer of Wainwright the
hunter, was convicted Of murder in the second
degree at Toms River, N. j., and sentenced
to twenty years imprisonment
"A murderOus outrage was committed on an
old farmer named Tyler Smith and his wife,
at place near Buttermilk Falls fifteen miles
from Scranton, Pa. Both were badly injured
The tramp was arrested.
Gen. Grant is so seriously i'll at his home
IN New York city, that his relatives are feeling
very uneasy.
"A car load Of powder exploded on the
corning, Cowanesque and Antrim railway near
Elmlra, n. Y, the engine and seventeen cars
win their loads Of freight, were blown to
atoms.
The Revolution in Colombia is acquiring
formidable proportions In the battle OF Bar
Fanqulla the Government troops were defeated
with a loss of 60 K He'd 200 wounded and 800
prisoners, includ ng Gen. Urrueta the COM
mander and many officers Foreign vessels
have been fred into in Carthagenia.
-Rear-Admiral George H. Preble, U. S. A.,
died at his home in Brookline, Mass. Admiral
Preble was born in Portland, Me-, and in 1885
was appointed midshipman.
AT Erie Penn Nathan Kinpsfon fall fro,,,
building upon a stake which pierced his body
through Death was instantaneous.
The constitutional amendment taxing the
gross earnings Of railroads 2]5 per cent
passed the Senate Of California The same
measure has already passed the Assembly.
The annual eclipse of the sun will take |
place on the 10th Of March that will be visible |
as partial eclipse throughout North America |
and adjacent portions Of the Atlantic and |
Pacific oceans
The strike among the spinners at the Troy |
mill, Fall River, is virtually at an end.
A bill was introduced in the Canadian
Parliament and read for the first time pro- /
viding for the punishment Of burglary by i'm
prisonment for life.
-lthas been shown by the gas Investigate on
in New York that gas which costs the COMPANY
G, 10 cents Is sold to the consumers at S2.16.
~--'-''t fire broke outin the male ward in the
AI Py Insane Asylum on Wards Island, N. Y,
W but was extinguished before serious damage
was done, although much excitement was
caused.
Unknown parties made an attempt to blow
mp Raineys Dam at Newcastle, Pa, with dyna-
mite. The dam has long caused great anxiety
because Of the ice gorging it and flooding
the town. The explosion caused much excite
ment. No damage to the dam, but much to
private property.
The immense freight depot of the Susque-
hanna Railroad, Albany, 600 feet long and
well filled with freight. was totally DESTROYED
by fire. The losses to various railroad COM
panies is S250,000.
The House joint resolution asking Con-
gress TO build a Soldiers Home in Michigan !
passed the Michigan State Senate on third
reading.
"A terrible sleighing accident occurred near
Fritz Station, Pa, resulting in the death of !
four persons and the injury Of twelve others,
three Fatally. large sleigh. drawn by four .
horses, filled with sixteen people, drove on an '
embankment about eight feet high, throwing
out the occupants. In capsiZing, many became {
tangled In the ankets and beuches, and were s
unable 10 extricate themselves. The horses h
became frightened and ran away. r
The Cuban insurgents have been tried at f
Santiago de Cuba. BOnachea and four of bis
followers were sentenced to death. -Four 9TH p
ers were sentenced to the chain gang for twelve a
years. n
Reports from Chicago say that an Irish Sc
brigade is being formed to go to Egypt and to m
fight in the interest of the Mahdi SC
-AIrs. John L. Sullivan is authority for the Fflb
statement that the champion has become -, -
dtcted to opium smoking. Some ofhsaad SUI "
Of abuse at his hands are horrilseasaeu the she
that he once becafneIsry2 S249.40, days, :
ing car on ms gOne iteRu' S432.90. d
tieo5dses sie to- u'dsual complaint C~T''1' Sore
and extravac long TOP
| there will, probably the horse is uG
Il meet; her lees al. pain to the ami Inc
blood ran down into htlOss to n nearly
fainted but rather than exp MIN to the
other passengers she made no sign of suffering.
Dewitt G. sprague, Of Washington, who
delivered the poem at the last Decoration Day |
services in New York, has been selected as poet
for the annual reunion of the Army Of the Po-
tomac, which is to be held in Baltimore on
May and Z.
In the New Orleans assassination case,
Judge Ford was convicted OF manslaughter and
Pat Ford, his brother, Of murder in the first
degree
"A strike among the employees Of the
Wabash Railroad was inaugurated at Spring
field, III.
The profits of the Montreal carnival after
paving last years deficit of $3.50 were only S14.
The striking carpet weavers of Philadel-
phia induged in riot. The police charged
and put the weavers to flight before damage
was DONE
The Prohibition party of Rhode Island
met in convention at Providence, and nom
mated a State ticket with George II. Slade for
Governor
Mail advices from Nassau, n. P, state
that dynamite scare is prevailing. and the
public buildings are being carefully guarded
day and nj ht.
"A couple who eloped from St. Louis, Mo-,
were so conscience stricken when they came
to realize their act that they committed sui
eide.
Mr.. Robert Bonner, in a letter in reply TO
an application from Mr.. Ebridge Cushman,
president of the Plymouth County Class)
Agricultural Society, to let Maud $. trot at that
society's annual fair says that Maud ). cannot
Five prisoners escaped from the city jail
at Helena, NJ. T.
The Massachusetts, State Senate passed to
be engrossed the resolution providing for BIZ
ennial sessions Of the Legislature.
"A collision between two passenger trains
on the Illinois Central Railroad occurred near
Chebanse, I'll. One man was killed and eight
or ten wounded; some seriously, but nonei II
is thought fatally
AT Norfolk Va, two large cotton ware
houses were destroyed, involving loss OF
property valued at S2O0,OOO
United States Senator-elect Eyarts paid
visits to the Assembly and Senate in Albany,
n y, holding receptions in both chambers and
being greeted with great cordially
Special Agents Bracket and Chalker, OF
the New York Custom House, received their
dismissals. and the Secretary Of the Treasury
issued notice dispensing with the services OF
Special Inspectors Moseman and Lawrence.
John W. Rubright, a sufferer from palsy,
who had been snowballed and stoned by
crowd in New York, lost his temper and hred
one shot at his torrnentors. The ball struck
an innocent spectator in the forehead killing
him instantly.
-Pugilist Sullivan's wife is suing for di-
vorce, in Boston, Mass, on the ground OF cruel
treatment Cen Butler is her counsel.