Connecticut western news., 1885-06-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.

-mr. van bOKkel6n, bno AInerlcan o1UinOAA who was imprisoned in Hayt, has been re- leased.
 A Kentucky woman asks the annulmentof or her marriage because she believes the man with whom she has lived some eight. years mas negro blood.
 A temperance convention at Atlanta, Ga, indicates the growing popularity of prohibition in that State.
 David Wayne, engineer; J. J. Cleaver, conductor and J. Dunkhouse, fireman, were killed, near Norristown, Pa., by collision Of freight trains.
 -G. Cooper, of Estellice, D. T., while stand ing in his barn, was struck and instantly killed by lightning.
 Three children of Henry Altmeyer, of fined petroleum. The oil exploded and two Of the children were fatally burned.
 -Gen. Middleton, who has been pursuing Big Bear, has found the country impossible for horses, and has returned. Supplies for the North have been countermanded.
 Charles Fitzpatrick and F. X. Lemieux have been definitely retained to defend Riel in Regina. The defence is to be insanity.
 The Jury in the case of Otto Funk, con- victed of stealing a large number of books from the public library in Chicago, and ar ranging internal machines, returned yer dict of guilty, but say he was insane.
 The annual crop report of the National
 
 crop will be IT, 359, 300 bushels short of last year, or 40, 900, 900 bushels less than estimated by Government Statistician Dodge. The es- tlmate places the spring wheat crop at 125, 50O,- 900 bushels against 135, ,825, 900 last year, and the winter wheat at 213, 400, 900, against 376,- 988, 463 last year.
 James Fl. Rutter President of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, died at his country home in Irvington, N Y. He was prominent railroad man. MT. Rutter was born in Lowell, Mass, February 3, 1886. "A Prohibitory liquor law riot took place at Springvale, Me. Much damage was done, al- though no lives were lost.
 Capt. Lawton, of the 4th Cavalry, entered 8 canon, and leaving his wagons in charge Of seventeen men started out on 8 scout The guards were surprised by the Indians, and four of them were shot dead. Two of the soldiers escaped and rejoined their command, but nothing had been heard Of the other guards. The train was captured.
 An explosion occurred at the famous Santo Tiburcio mine in Mexico. Five hundred cases of giant powder exploded. Ten persons were killed outright and as many more wounded. The mine and everything near it are com plete wreck Many lives are reported to have been lost by the wrecking of fishing boats on the New foundIand coast. @
 The Apaches on Tuesday killed four sol diers belonging to Capt. Lowden's command in Guadaloupe Canyon, Ariz. <, A man named Oshow was killed Wednesday night by an other band of Apaches six miles south of Bis bee, in the Whetstone mountains.
 In the New Hampshire Republican Leeis- lative caucus the vote for Senator was as fol- lows: H. w. Blair, 108; William E. Chandler, 37; Charles H. Burns, 15; Gilman Marston, IA; Ossian Ray, 12; E.. H. Rollins, &; James w. Patterson, 4. The nomination of MT. Blair was made unanimous.
 I1o,. ;,, kIoau bers have made their appearance in Fayette county, Ill.,, and have already begun to work on fruit orchards.
 Several cases of spinal meningitis have developed among horses in livery stables in St. Louis and at Vastiue's stable, on Lindell avenue, three horses have died within the past two days.
 The upper House of the Illinois Legisla. ture passed bill the intent of which is the discontinuance of the system of contract labor in the State penitentiaries. It provides that the work of the convicts shall be confined to such labor as may be required by the State. Influential men in the Dominion are using their best efforts to save Riel from the gallows Governor Hill of New York refuses his as- sent to the Broadway Arcade Railroad bill
 The Ohio Republican State Convention nominated ex-Judge Foraker for Governor. A serious riot occurred on Sunday at a negro camp meeting at Mount Zion Church, York county, s. 0. One man was killed, two fatally and twenty seriously injured by knives and razors.
 A tornado struck the village of Bridge water, Iowa, on Monday, the wrecks indicating that two storms met there, as there are two distinct tracks of tornadoes in the town. Only one house in the village was left standing. The loss is $60,000.
 Four of Pinkerton's detectives are in Can ada, and it is thought they are on the trail of Scott, the Manhattan Bank absconder, who got away with $160,000 cash.
 A dispatch from New River, Tenn, on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, says that tun- nel caved in Thursday on construction train. and six persons were killed and twenty wounded.
 The yacht Stiletto built on 8 new plan, distanced the Mary Powell in @ race to Sing Sing. The twenty eight miles was made in an hour and seventeen minutes the fastest time ever made. The same plan in larger yacht and on enlarged principles is expected to de velop wonders.
 The bill exempting soldiers from the operations of the civil service rules passed the Massachusetts Legislature to be engrossed.
 A courier from Bisbee, Ariz., brings the intelligence that W. A. Daniels, mounted In. spector of Customs, was killed by the Apaches short distance from that place.
 John Rowley fell 228 feet down shaft oi the Athens, Pa, coal mine, and was crushed In the confagration at Aux Caves, Hayti on May 15, 300 buildings were destroyed an6 1000 families were rendered homeless. Int loss is estimated at over $2, 100000.
 The bill to apportion the State into Con gress districts was passed in the Pennsylvania Senate over the Governors veto by two thirds vote.
 Superintendent Walling of the New Yorl Police Force, resigned to go on the retired list, and Inspector Murray was made Chief.
 -Maud s. made mile in 213% while Mir Bonner timed her. The trot took place il Philadelphia. The first half mile was made il 1O6%, and the three-quarter stretch in 1 :40&
 John E. W. Thompson, the recently-ap pointed Minister to Hayti, has sailed for hi post His instructions are to proceed a rapidly as possible to Port-au-P Prince, and t investigate immediately on his arrival thu cases of Van Bokkelen and other American citizens imprisoned by the Haytian Govern ment.
 A scouting party of cowboys under tn, leadership of Captain Chenowith, have had fight with Indians near Stein's Pass. The routed the Indians, killing two bucks and cap turing papoose.
 In New York city on Sunday one China man was killed and two wounded by marine from the Navy Yard who first insulted th Chinamen and then shot them.
 Lorenzo Colon, the African who fo forty-one days was slowed away in the hol of the brig Ambrose Light, is dead. He cou m1tted suicide by jumping from the vess while insane.
 "A condition of things bordering on famir is said to exist in Jackson county, w. Va where hundreds of families are reported to on the verge of starvation.
 Almost the entire business portion of tt town of Suffolk, Va, was destroyed by firt The loss is estimated at over $30O,000
 MT. and Mrs. Osterholz, of Charleston s. O., died from drinking water drawn frol an impure cstern.
 Charges of subiecting Louis Riel to bs barous treatment in prison were made in u Dominion Parliament.
 Tho asylum for the insane at William burg, Va., was partially destroyed by fire. Or of the female inmates wandered away ul noticed, and was afterward found drowned.
 -Pleuro-pnuemonia has appeared in shorthorn herd at DaytoL Ohio.
 -Canker worms have appeared in lare ,INa-a aI,N,1A H.I-