Connecticut western news., 1885-10-07
THE NEWS.
wMLRGRAPHK0 REPORTS OF WHAT Ia %RANmPRRINa OF IMPORTANCE IM @MRm COUNTRY AND KLaEwHKRR.


 HI. N. Smith, of New York, tho big bear operator, suspended, with obligations amount ing to over million, and carrying with him his brokers, William Heath & Co.,, whose lia- hihties are million and 8 quarter.
 pr. A. N Bellonger shot and killed Step ney Riley, well known colored politician, at Charleston, s. C., in an altercation.
 "A battery of boilers at the Solar Iron Works of Clarke & Co.,, in Pittsburg Pa ex- ploded with dlsas rous effect The night turn had just been relieved hy the day force when the explosion occurred. and that portion of the works m the vicinity of the boilers was filled with cloud of steam. Through the dense m'st cam shricks and groans, which told the employees, beyond the reach of danger that frlghtful calamity had overtaken number ot their fellow-workmeD. As soon as the steam cleared away rush was made for the spot where the explosion occurrC q, when 1t was ascert aimed that the mud-drum of the boilers had exploded and that the escaping steam had scalded seventeen men. Closer investigation showed that os this number fourteen were badly burned and that three were fatally in- jured.
 Tho announcement was made on the New York Stock Exchange that the firm of William Heath X Co. had failed, and had made an as- alignment to J. J. McCanlis.
 Three Salvation Army officers were fined at Nanticoke, Pa., for disorderly conduct, and mob endeavor,d to rescue them from the officers.
 MT. Edwa, ds Pierrepont publishes a letter to Congressman Warner advocating the issu- ance of legal tender silver certificates and freo coinage
 The rebels Salcedo and Estrada, belong ing to the party of Limbano Sanchez, wero shot on September 29, at Baracoa.
 Over one hundred million people rode on the elevated railroads of New York during the year ending September 30, and paid tho company over 1000, 900.
 Mr. William Page, the painter, and formerly president of the Academy of Design, died at his home near Tottenville, s. l. The New York Democratic State Commit tee selected Gen. E. F. Jones, of Binghamp- ton, for Lieutenant Governor, vice Flower, de- clined.
 Patrick Hartnett, the Cincinnati wife murderer. was hanged at the Ohio Peniten- tiary on Wedne sday. The drop fell at twenty five and half minutes after one a. m., and he was pronounced dead one-half minute later. The fall resulted in almost total decapitation, the head han sing to the body only by small strip of skin at the back of the neck. The scene was most sickening one, and 1t was with great difficulty that the execu toners could summon courage to cut the body down. Hartnett killed his wife on Jan. 31, 1851, ln Mount Auburn suburb of Cincinnati.
 Policeman Clinton, of the Thirtieth Street Station House, found woman lying in tho hallway of No. 151 West Twenty-fifth street, New York, at six o'clock in tue mol ming, ap- parently drunk. He took her to the station house, where she gave her name as Laura Lawrence, twenty years old, and said she lived in Twenty-eighth street, near Sixth avenue She was locked up in Q cell on charge Of ln- to be unconscious, and an ambulance took her to the New York Hospital Surgeon Gallaudet thought she was suffering from opium poison ing and took her to the hospital, where she died in the afternoon without regaining con sciousness.
 Miss H, nora Harwood, of New Haven, Conn.,, who was engaged to Mir. Pruyn, eloped with A. T. Hcminway, former lover. Miss Harwood is the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Harwood
 At Caledonia week ago occurred the marriage of Miss Anna Mcfarland, who enjoys fortune of s70, %, and John Barks, her coachman, Miss Mcfarland is the daughter of the late Alex Mcfarland.
 -Buddensi k, the New York mud house builder, is again Q; liberty. He gave bonds for $50, 900 and was released from the rombs. At York, Pa, a young married man who is separated fiom his wife sought out the all leged suthor of his domestic trouble and de- lIberately shot h.m, inficting what is believed to be mortal wound.
 William K Sout CT nd Frapklin Edwards, composing the firm of Soutter & Co.,, brokers, at No. Il Wall street. N. r., made an assign ment for the benefit of creditors.
 An unknown black man in Austin, Texas murdered Q colored man and his wife, and so wounded two other colored women that they may die.
 A convention of laborers in Washington Territory decid' on the expulsion of the Chinese from that Territory by peaceful means, or if necessary, by force.
 The Mayor of Fort Smith, Ark, in an al- tereation aeout woman shot and instantly killed citizen.
 A negro criminally assaulted Mrs. Walker at Danvile, Va., anl afterward shot and killed her in the prtsanc nf her child en.
 To the terrors of smallpox in Montreal has been added the wild frenzy of 8 mob. A mass of French people opposed to vaccination made serious demonstration against the Health authorities and the newspapers that are endeavoring to stay the smallpox m cpl, ienlic by resort to science. They smashed the windows of the Herdld office, damaged thC headquartcr of the Health Board in the City Hall and demonstrated against the dwellings and shops of several of tho stanch friends of vaccination. Considerable property was de- stroyed, but nobody seems to have been hurt
 Tho strike at the Cleveland, Ohio, Rolling Mills is at last ended. The men struck ou July 1, against an indefinite reduction in wages which tue managers had decided tC make. The company have agreed to restore June prices and start the mills.
 The Genesta passed the Sandy Hool hghtship under mainSail, forostaysail, jlb, jb topsail and spr,t t"psail, leaving the Daunt less out of sight. The Gencsta has now wor lhree cups.
 The following notice is post-d about tht city of Cheyenne: fair warning.-All Chna men found in the city of Chey enne after Oct ober l, will be subjected to coat of tar anu feathers, and ridden from tho city on 6 rail WorkIngmen, the Chinese must go!
 Arthur Cleveland, of Reading, Pa., s young English sculptor, made bust of Gen Grant for the county fair. and was rendered insane by his failure to win prize. He wal locked up at the almshouse, but burst the dool and escaped by jumping from 9 second story window.
 -Attorney- General O'Brien has decided that the saving4 banks of tbe State of New York cannot lawfully invest their deposits 1T Georgia State bonds.
 Considerable excitement was occasionet in San Francisco by report that an attemp had been made to blow up Her Majesty's shiI Constance with an internal machine, whicl had been smuggled aboard of her.
 The infant child of one of a party O Arabs who have been travelling in the south western part of Vermont near Bennington died, and it has come to light that the inhu man parents cut the dead body into smal pieces and fed it to the performing bears.
 Roswell P. Flower, nominated for Lieu On bu0 NEW 4OTh 0bhbe O6Ll ocratic ticket, has declined to run.
 Four Indians have been sentenced to b hanged for the murder of Agent Quinn a Frog Lake, Manitoba. Some dozen other In dians were sent to prison for from four t fourteen years for arson and horse stealing a the time of the rebellion.
 A courier from Oposwa, Sonora, bring news of 8 recent massacre by Apacle es. It i known that two men were killed and woman captured and carried into captivity.
 -The steamer City of Paatka of Charles ton, s. C., reports having passed 8 sunkel wreck of Dabcy Light, bearing west by south The wreck is in nine fathoms of water, an, only the foretopgallant mast is visible.
 Mrs. Fader, Pennsylvania bee keeper wife, was stung to death by bees. She was 3 years of age.
 The grape crop is larger this season thai ever before the New York market men say They are very cheap.
 Prominent sheep raisers in Tennessee hay