Connecticut western news., 1885-09-16
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL rTEMa

 dians visited the Chicago Beard of Trade, reaching the gallery few minutes before the close of tho afternoon session. Their appear snce in fantastic garb was greeted with shouts rivaling in vigor their own war-whoops.
 In Clarksville, Texas, Charles A. Taylor a young lawyer, became involved in difficuity with Henry Vesey, bartender in Morris's sa- loon, resulting in the death of Taylor Yesey escaped and posse is hunting for him.
 Senator Esty of Ithaca, N Y., has given $5, 900 and two village homes to the Ladies Union Benevolent Society, one of the buildings for hospital and the other for an orphanage and place where poor working women can leave their children while at day service.
 The late Edwarl Tufts of Lowell Mass. bequeathed to the Massachusetts Bible Society ST, 900, to the American Home Missionary Society SIT, ,000, and to the Seamen's Friend Society $l7, 900.
 Waller H. Lennox Maxwell, the presumed murderer of Preller was taken into the Court of Criminal Correction at St: Louis, and by agreement between counsel the case was con- tinued until Oct. l9.
 Deputy United States Marshall W. A. Ar mold in the mountains of Virginia shot and killed negro murderer.
 The murdered crook, Tom Davis, of New York left three families.
 A shocking tragedy took place in Yer million county, IL A man named Whitlock, being deserted by his wife. on account of his
  and then killed himself.
 Six hundred Chinamen, protected by six companies of federal troops, have returned to work in the coal mines at Rock Springs, W. T., and all is now quiet.
 "A North Carolina jury gave 8 passenger S475 damages against 8 railroad company for forcing him to ride in a smoking car.
 General M les reports that the cattlemen are executing with all speed the Presidents order to withdraw their herds from the Indian reservations.
 --The Commodore Perry statue at Newport R. l., was unveiled with interesting and ap- propriate eerem nies.
 A cyclone passed over Washington Court House, Ohio, and swept all before it, leveling buildings and daI aging property. The Court House was destroyed The damage to prop erty is said to be over $i,000000. Ten per sons were killed and it is claimed that nearly three hundred were more or less injured.
 Two women were burned to death in New York city by their clothes taking fire.
 The schooner Advance, of Chicago, was capsized in gale nine miles south of Sheboy- gan, Wis. Capt. Paulson, with his son and O ew, made for the shore in & small boat When in the breakers the yawl struck the bar, cspsized, and all were drowned except a sailor named Jacob Rawn.
 Miss Ida Maxwell, of Atlanta, Ga., eloped with John Shelton, and they were married.
 
 and in the flight the two Maxwells and Shell ton were all mortaly wounded
 The funeral services over the remains of the late Rev. stephen H. Tyng, D. D., were held in St. Georges Church. of which he was for so many years pastor. The casket was carried up the aisle of the church by the vestrymen and placed upon catafAlque in front of the chancel Following the vestry- men were members of the deceased clergy mans family and the servants of his house. Swx AArR plot at Greenwood Cemetery.
 Another child was found sick by the health authorities in the Hebrew private school atNo. l27 Pitt street, New York, where a case of smallpox was developed last week. Despite the efforts made at that time to break up the school fifteen children were found studying in the same room with the sick little one, who laid in the bed. They were sent home at once, and the patient, 6 two-year-old girl, was re- moved to Riverside Hospital where she was said to have measles and not smallpox.
 Perry Whitock, twenty-eight years old, went to the residence of his father-in-law, E: G. Coe, some miles south of Danville, H., and Shot his wife, Emily, twenty-five years old, and her two sisters, Maggie and Tinchie, twenty-eight and twenty-two respectively, and then killed himself. The three sisters are mortally wounded. Whitlock had previously threatened to kill the whole family, as his wife had recently left him.
 John McGrane, wealthy New Jersey builder, tried to commit suicide by drowning, but failing, shot and killed himself in his room later in the day. McGrane was one of the most popular Democrats of Union Hill. He had been member of the Town Council since 1878, and was elected each time without oppo- sition.
 The endowment of a fairly good after noon's racing at Sheepshead Bay, Tuesday, was seriously marred by fatal accident in the steeplechase, causing the death or "Buck <f Aba whi was also killed. Ford was about twenty-iVe years of age and married.
 In the local option election in Milan county, Texas, the Prohibitionists prevailed by majority of 66.
 Lawrence Brainerd, the defaulting ex- President of the St. Abaus Savings Bank, was Kidnapped at Winnipeg, Manitoba, by detec- lives, who forcibly conveyed him into the United States.
 Miss Mary Irene Hoyt. well-known as the contestant in the Hoyt Will Case, now on trial in New York, had her pocket picked on Wash ington street, Boston, of money, jewelry and papers valued at S2, 900.
 Thieves forced an entrance into the Ocean View House, ct Nantasket Beach, took the safe and carriedit to the beach, where they blew it open. The thieves obtained S1, ,000 in cash and quantity of valuable jewelry. Some papers and e100 were found on the beach near where the safe was blown open.
 A mob on Sunday night visited Pike County Jail at Murfreesboro, Ark, and made an atte mpt to shoot the Polk boys, confined for mur der, but not being able to get them in range the mob hauled & load of wood to the iail, piled it around the iron cell, saturated the wood with coal oil and literally roasted both prisoners alive, nothing was standing but the brick walls of the jail.
 At Dover, N. H., one child was killed and several persons made seriously ill by eating bologna sausage which had been poisoned
 --Rieps appeal has been dismissed, and the belief is general in Winnipeg that the half breed leader will be hanged.
 By the explosion of sulphur gas at Potts. vile (Pa) colliery one boy was killed, three fatally injured and ten severely burned.
 The locomotive of sleeping car train on the Saratoga and Champlain Railroad, collided with pile of rock that had fallen on the track near Comstock's Landing, wrecking the train badly. The engineer was killed and five others were seriously injured.
 Lieutenant Colonel Chipman, who is in command of two companies of the regulars at Rock Springs, w. T., has requested that he be reinforced by additional troops. It is sur missed that preconcerted movement is threat ened to rescue the ringleaders of the Chinese outbreak. now in jail at Green River.
 The Wisconsin State census is now com plete, and the total population of the State is shown to be 1, ,563, 930, gain over 1880 of 2t per cent. The largest gains are in the north ern half of the State, where there has been large openings of comparatively new country, due in great measure to the lumber interests.
 "A dispatch from Lyons, Wayne county, N. Y., says that the farmers are apprehensive of the loss of their potato crop by reason of a small, shiny bug that has appeared there. Il works it's way into the hills of the potatoes by going down the stalks of the plants. It then eats it's way into the potatoes and deposits eggs, which are matched within the vegetable
 -Quintar Walker, of Reidsville, N. O., Jeff his house at night to get drink of whisky In the morning he was found lying in tht yard. It developed at the inquest that h, bought quart of whisky and drank it all a once.
 WARRINGTON NOTES.
 The President appointed Mrs. Marion A