Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL TTEMa

Frauds on the Government in the im- portaton of potato starch at Chicago have been discovered through the New York Gus tom House.
 At fire in Jacksonville, Fla, four fire men were crushed by falling wall. One of them was fatally injured. $
 By the explosion of a lard tank a Nash vile, Tenn., one man was scalded to death by burning grease and another severely injured. Judge McCay, of the United States Court sustains the co coIstitutionality of the Georgia Prohibition law.
 Three men who had been castaways for months on Roncador Island, in the Oarri- bean Sea, and who were rescued by the gov ernment steamer Powhatan, arrived at New York on the steamship Alamo from Key Vest
 At Long Prairie about eight miles from Olymphia, Wyoming Territory, an insane mother and four of her children were burned to death. The mother locked the doors of the cabin in which they lived, so that none could escape, and then set the house on fire.
 "A number of fatal cases of hydrophobia have occurred in Milwaukee,
 A man, his wife and two children were burned to death at Wocdmere, Mich. through their residence taking fire in the night.
 The trisl of James T. Holland the Texan who shot and killed Davis, the professional ''sawdust' operator, in New York, was ad- journed in the Court of Oyer and Terminer until the second Monday of January. &Ssy
 Charles Dodson, lunatic, dangerously wounded his wife at their home in Philadel- phia. On being arrested he attacked and severely wounded two police officers and then cut his own throat.
 "A dastardly assault and robbery was com- mitted in Roslyn, L. l., Wednesday afternoon. The victim is Mrs. Edward Firth, widow, seventy-two years of age, and the perpetrator, 0 lahOrpr employ. The scene of the robbery is but short dis tance from where the Maybees were murdered by the negro Rugg, and the excitement exist ing in the neighborhood is only equalled by that oceasioned by his murderous exploits.
 On opening car of wheat that reached Duluth from Fargo, Dak., a few days ago, the body of a man, bloody and mangled, was found, and in a secret pocket was $475 in bills. The Socialistic seed so hberally sown by Coroner O'Donnell, of San Francisco, has taken root and grown rankly. carefully planned dynamite plot was uncovered by the police. Four of O'DonnelPs followers, two of them captains of his military organization, were arrested and full supply of dynamite and internal machines were captured at the conspirators headquarters. The evidence secured includes a list of prominent citizens who were to have been removed.
 The City Council of Salt Lake City, com posed exclusively of Mormons, has been for 
 csntemE lated uprising of Mormons for the purpose of offering armed resistance to the execution of certain alleged obnoxious laws of the Federal government and denies that any such uprising is contemplated.
 A terrific fight between 8 lion and an ele- phant, in which the former was conquered and killed, took place at the winter quarters of circus at Philadelphia.
 Kansas City, Mo, was left in total dark ness, the result of an explosion of it's gas works.
 Two colored men were hanged at Char lotte, N. O., on Wednesday, for burglary
 The body of Louis Riel was removed from Regina, with the permission of Governor Dowdney, and taken to tile late home of the dead leader of the recent rebellion, at Winni- peg.
 At Pine Run, Pa., body of striking coal miners attacked and maltreated several non- union men who were on their way to work.
 The jury in the libel suit of J. c. Coon against A. K Mcclure, editor of the Philadel- phia Times, tried at Wllkesbarre, Pa, ac- quilted the defendant but requiring him to pay inc cost of the pr secution.
 Measles of a malignant type is prevalent at Quebec Old and young are alike at tackled s
 The man, who in 1879 exploded an infer nal machine on the steamer Drew, has again been sentenced to State Prison for similar offence committed on the Delaware & Hudson R. R.
 By the caving in of sewer excavation at Akron Ohio, five men were killed and three very seriously injured some of whom will die
 The Canadian Indians are threatening trouble on account of the execution of Riel.
 Jeffrey Tyre a patient of the Lexington (Ky.) Lunatic Asylum. was shot and killed by an attendant at the institution. Four persons were drowned in Lake Champlain by breaking through the ice,
 A terrific explosion of gas occurred at the Mill Creek coliery, of the Delaware and Hud- son Canal Company, situated at Null Creek, five miles from Wilkesbarre, resulting in the death of one man and the serious injury Of several others.
 In Brooklyn Thomas J. Armstrong was set free on verdict of acquittaL He had been on trial for week in the Brooklyn Court of Sessions for shou ting his stepfather, Albert R. Herrick, on Aug 10.
 -Itis rumored that the car drivers on all the horse car lines of New York city intends to strike for an advance in their wages.
 In Boston Parson Downs and Mrs. Taber were arraigned in the District Court Both pleaded not guilty to the indictment.
 As soon as the death of Vanderbilt was known, the Wall street magnates met and formed pool to prevent . run on the stock market and values. This in great measure prevents panic in the market.
 Emmett, the actor, who has lately fallen into the habit of spreeing it so badly, has made over to his wife about $500, ,000.
 B. Gratz Brown, ex-Governor of M ssouri, died Sunday. He was one of the most prom inent members of the Liberal Convention which assembled in Cincinnati on the 1st of May, 1S72 He was the leader in the great Missouri campaign of 1870 He was born in Lexington, Ky, in 1874, graduated at Yale College and moved to Missouri in 1850. He filed many important political positions.
 In an attempt to break jail at Meridian Miss, number of prisoners were fired upon by the jailer, when Martin Stevens, one of the number was fatally shot.
 A female imbecile was burned to death through falling into the fire in the dwelling which she occupied, in Southampton county, Va.
 Two monster whales were captured of Amagonsett, l.. l., by whaling crews. One of the whales was sixty and the other eighty feet in length. Large numbers of whales have been seen around the coast lately
 "A guard of eight detectives is placed over tho tomb of Vanderbilt, in Staten Island, to prevent it's being disturbed.
 Mrs. Robert Smith, of Minn's Prairie, Texas, and her two children were brutAlly murdered by mulatto named Johnson.
 In Lancaster county, Pa, the notorious Abe Buzzard and his gang, who participated in the escapes from the Lancaster county pris- on, in 1882 and 1883, and better known as the 'Buzzard Gang" were sentenced on tho charge of jail breaking, to fifteen months ad- ditional to their old sentences, which are to be fully carried out.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
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