Connecticut western news., 1885-02-25
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

many was seized, and is about to be forced into the German army.
 A tenement house on North street, Gin cinnati. O.. was burned Wednesday night in which Nellie Brice, colored, aged twelve, per ished in the flames
 The residence of James Whidden, near Manlstee, Mich., was burned Wednesday night. Mrs, Whidden, who was alone, was burned to a crisp.
 A serious collision occurred on the vir- ginia Midland Railway on Thursday. The north bound mail due st Washington at 1925 ?. nj. ran into freight train about four miles above Alexandria, and several persons were killed. The cars of the passenger train caught fire after the collision.
 -Phelan, who was assaulted at O'Donovsn RoSss's office in New York. has returned to > Kansas City. He is glad to get home alive" -Three fruitless ballots were taken in the Illinois Legislature for United States Senator. -Depositors and all creditors of the defunct Savings Institution of Newark, \. J., will be paid in full and & surplus will remain.
 The steamer Newcastle City left Halifax for London With general cargo and I54 head of cattle She threw 100 head overheard in a gale.
 The British schooner E. v. Olive from Ruatsn for Mobile, with & cargo of fruit, was wrecked on Dixie Island and all the crew perished.
 -George Scott, of Gibson City, Ill, seventy Wears of age, lost his life on Thursday His wife was passing a red-hot stove and her clothing caught fire. Mir. Scott carried her out into the snowdrifts. He saved her life but vas so badly burned himself that he died within few hours.
 w. L. Scott, of Erie notified his miners that they must mine for 2A cents. He has been paying cents.
 The Pennsylvania Senate rejected the bill providing for the whipping of wife besters. In Providence, R. l., David Carus, aged S5, recent arrival from Dumferline, Scotland, went to bed with pipe in his mouth and was burned to death.
 James D. Fish, of New York, ex-President of the Marine Bank, was in the United States Circuit Court on bench warrant. In answer to a second indictment, charging him with mis- appropriating the funds of the Marine Bank, he pleaded not guilty. Bali was fixed at S5oh0Q.
 The head keeper of the lighthouse at Frazer Point and three assistants, left Victoria, B. C., in a boat which was capsized and three of the party drowned.
 70. A. Coffin 6 Go. s boot and shoe factory in Lynn, Mass, was destroyed by fire with loss of S750, 900.
 Near Elizabethtown, Tenn, Mrs. John Young locked her two children in the house and went visiting. On returning she found that the house had been burned and that the
 
 The ocean tramp Coniston sailed from Liverpool for New York, in ballast, on Decem- Der 24. She had neither passengers nor freight on board. She was commanded by Captain Owens and had a crew of about thirty men. She is how given up as lost with all on board Nearly half of the village of Marshall, H., was destroyed by ire.
 The propeller Michigan has been heard from. Sne is locked in the ice, twenty-three miles west of Milwaukee, unable to move. Seventeen of her crew crossed the intervening ice and reached the shore some miles north of Milwaukee. They had perilous and weari- some journey. One of the men gave out, and was carried five miles on the back of another. They say thirteen men remain on board the propeller; that they have rations for twenty five days, and ninety tons of coal, and that the ice extends westward into the lake as far as the eye can reach.
 -Ex-Gov. Moses of South Carolina, charged with obtaining SS4 under false pretences, was sentenced in Boston to six months imprison- ment in the House of Correction.
 A barn on the ranche of the Hon. Harry Oelrichs, six miles from Cheyenne, was burned with S25, 900 worth of horses
 At burial ground near Point Pleasant, ". Va, the sexton found a half dozen bodies taken from the graves and strewn about the ground.
 John Chaffee S Sons, one of the largest cotton factors in New Orleans has failed Lia- bilities, S50S, 402; assets, S1, 76S,00O.
 A case of leprosy is said to exist in the county jail at Portland, Ore.
 The bill authorizing the registration of steamships of the American Express Steam ship Company was reported favorable to the House.
 There is a growing opinion that an extra session of Congress will be found necessary. The Secretary of the Treasury replied to an inquiry of the House that in 1ST6 1880, 1882 and 1881 the expenses for supervisors of election and special deputy marshals were Sl, ,973. .916.
 The New York State Press Association will hold its next annual meeting at Niagara Falls, and the excursion will be to Toronto and 0t- iowa.
 A 'smysterious box" enclosing bladder filled with a substance of the consistency of nitro-giycerine, was sent to Police Commission CT Porter. The affair is being inquired into.
 The relief party sent to Alta, Utah, to rescue the living and bring back the dead who were killed in the recent snowslide, returned with the bodies on sleds. They rescued three persons who had been in the drifts from six to sixteen hours. They had 8 very hard time on the trip.
 Esther Thomas, aged sixty, was burned to death in Detroit. She had been smoking, which caused the fire.
 An anti-Chinese emigration bill with very stringent provisions is on it's way through the Legislature of British Columbia. similar bill, passed by the Provincial Parliament last year, was rejected by the Ottawa government.
 -Rumors that dynamiters are at present in Quebec are again prevalent and cause much excitement.
 The carnival at New Orleans was initiated by the usual entrance of His Majesty Rex, to whom the keys of the city were surrendered by the Mayor, and parade.
 The statistics of Canada's merchant mar inc show steady falling of in tonnage.
 Trade is looking up in Ohio, and many rolling mills are resuming.
 Mrs. Sharon, known in connection witt the Sharon divorce case, gets S2, 300 8 montl alimony.
 The storm of Monday was very severe throughout the country. woman wa drowned in the Brandywine and train wa derailed at Langshorne Station, Pa.
 Two train wreckers were found by Texa: marshals obstructing railroad track on Mon day and were shot. The train was signallel in time to prevent disaster.
 The Executive Committee of the New York State Agricultural Society has decided to hold the next annual fair in Albany, commencing Sept 10, aud closing Sept. 16.
 Two negroes were found obstructing thc track of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad, with the evident intention of wrecking the approaching train. Both were shot.
 Mondays storm brought New York tho highest tides ill years. Much damage wa caused by flooded cellars and basements. Tht wind wrought considerable damage to tele graph and other property. The tides swep away bridges, submerg ged railroad tracks ant seriously damaged property wherever tht storm prevailed. The storm was particular], severe on the New Jersey coast and along tn Long Island shore.
 Lucille Yseult Dudley was arraigned fo preliminary examination in the Yorkville N Y., Police Court. She waived defence and wa committed in S3, GOO bail for trial She say she is content to remain in the Tombs, ant will stop there for the present, principally t avoid unpleasant public attention. Rossa dit not appear in court.
 Several persons were found frozen t death during the late cold spell in Michigan Xircrirnin arnl0 0rntn rir