Connecticut western news., 1885-06-10

la Maryland victim of delirium tremens shot his two sons and his brother-in-law kill | ing the latter and one son.
 In Boston, Gilman O. Parker, master of the brig Marie Celeste, was indicted for wreck | ing his vessel of Mystic in January last. A party of 800 Canadian troops met Big | Bear and were driven of by the Indians. | Gen. Strange was in command of the troops. On and after June all vessels approach | ing Philadelphia from foreign ports or from | American ports south of Cape Fear will be
 subject to quarantine inspection at the Lizsr- \ cite.
 | The hostility which has long threatened 8 | rupture between President Diaz and ex-Presi- | dent Gonzales of Mexico has eliminated in an \ order adopted in Congress providing for the \ impeachment of the two Secretaries of the | Treasury under the Gonzales Administration,
 and also of minor Treasury officials. \ The Canadian Parliament voted $1, ,0OO, 900 | to meet expenses in connection with the rebel \ lion in the Northwest. This is in addition to \ the $700, 900 already voted.
 \ Charles H. Swink in state of frenzy at Fort Worth, Texas, fired and fatally wounded
 two men. He then fled and drowned himself. | Richard Hands. head clerk in the drug
 store of Richard '. Crawford, in Hudson \ street, New York city, was found murdered, \ sitting in his chair, in the back room of the
 store. His skull was crushed to pieces by | some blunt instrument and his throat cut from ear to ear. Revenge and robbery are
 said to be the motives.
 Following in the wake of the Northwest | rebellion comes intelligence of another erup- tion brewing on the Pacific coast. Intense ex- | citement has been aroused lately in the prov | ince of British Columbia by the new Dominion \ land regulations, and threats of secession from the confederation have been raised. The machine shops of John Elliott & Son,
 at London, Ont, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $200, 900.
 A cyclone in Union county, N. O., did
 large amount of damage.
 The Salvation Army 24 strong, were ar rested in Augusta, Me-, and lodged in jail for | several days for disturbing the peace. In Philadelphia sentence of two months was imposed by Judge Mitchell on William Gabig and James McDevitt, who pleaded guilty recently in engaging in pugillstlc con- test. Edward Hipkiss, who pleaded guilty to the same offence, was let of with thirty days.
 Gen. Grants physicians found no marked change in his condition at the consultation Sunday. Col Fred Grant said that the family had expected President Cleveland to call at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, but that he was prevented from so doing by important business which called him to Washington.
 Frank stahl, employed by the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company near Mt. Carmel Pa, got his foot fast between the rails as tram came along. He vainly endeavored to extri- cate himself, and moment later he was hor- ribly mangled.
 WASHINGTON NorRa
 The President appointed Gen. W. s. Rosecrans of California, to be Register of the Treasury, vice Blanche K. Bruce, resigned.
 Judge Mackey father of Mir. Mackey, United States Consul at Rio Grande, who in self-defence shot rowdy editor, has received the following dispatch from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ''Consul Beckford Mackey has been absolved unanimously by jury. All hon. orable citizens celebrate the event."
 The President has amended rule of the Civil Service rules relating to the examination of applicants to office by inserting after the words ''no person dismissed from the public service for misconduct" and before the words ssshall be admitted to examination within two years thereafter the following words: "And no person who has not been absolutely ap- pointed or employed after probation"
 Naval officers report a strong sentiment existing in Panama in favor of permanent occupation of the Isthmus by the United States.
 The question of 8 reciprocity treaty with the United States, in order to protect their fishery industries, is agitating the merchants of Nova Scotia.
 Reports to the War Department indicate that there are not sufficient troops in New Mexico and Arizona to effectually quen the in-
 
 The Presidents rule of denying himself to all visitors on Saturday will hereafter be fol- lowed by the heads of all the executive depart ments.
 been informed that Postmaster F. N. Hibbs of Lewiston, Idaho, issued money orders to the amount of $15, 900 or $20, 900, payable to him. self ordered banks in different cities to collect them and forward the money to him, and then absconded. He was last heard from at Victoria B. O. The amount of bis stealing is unknown ct present.
 -B. s. Snyder, the man who surrendered & pension of $72 per month, has an imitator. Commissioner Black has received letter from lady pensioner, who says she has fallen heir to fortune, and, being no longer depend ent, does not feel it right to continue to draw her pension.
 According to the records of the hydro- graphic office the amount of ice and the num- Der of bergs which have appeared in the direct path of European steamers within @ month is unprecedented. The forthcoming monthly map will contain 8 statement of the number of vessels injured by collision with icebergs | during the month, 30 far as heard from. The | list now numbers twenty-seven. The ice has not appeared south of parallel 4l, nor east of degree 40. Gen. R. 0. Drum sent the following tele- gram to Gen. Schofeld: Replying to your | telegram of this date, reporting the arrest on | American territory of Gabriel Dumont und
 Michael Dumais, Canadian insurgents, who belonged to Riers insurrectionary force, the Secretary of War instructs me to say that the military forces have no authority to arrest or detain them. They must therefore be released from military arrest" Gen. Terry released both of the men.
 Col. Holingsworth, for the past fourteen years Superintendent of the Mount Vernon estate, has refused to accept 8 reelection to that office because the vote of the regents to re-elect was not unanimous. The National debt statement for May shows reduction of about $9O00, 900 during | the month.
 The President made the following appoint ments To be Consul General-W Wendell A. Anderson, of Wisconsin, at Montreal. To be Consuls of the United States-William s. Crowell; of Ohio, at Annoy; William D. Warner, Pringle, of South Carolina, at Tegucigalpa, | Honduras.
 Col Charles Denby, of Indiana, has been appointed Minister to China. FOREIGN TTEMa | A letter from the Bishop of Tonuuin ap- pears in the Toulon Missions Cdthoiottes an- nouncing that the Black Flags are ravaging the provinces of Sontay, Honghoa, and Tuy- enquan, although those provinces are occu- pied by French troops. The inhabitants, flee
 ing from the massacre, have taken refuge in | the French garrisons. Thirty Christian Yil- | lages have been destroyed.
 | A partial potato famine and a sharp rise | in prices is threatened in England, as It is es-
 tmated that one-half of the English potato
 crop has been Iuined by frost. | About 30, 900 persons in Corea are said to | be prepared to rise against the Government
 and overthrow it, and drive all foreigners, in-
 cludlng the Japanese, from the country. A notice has been posted in prominent place in | Seoul warning the people to leave the capital, | and disturbance is expected to occur May 31,
 when, the notice says, the castle will be burned
 and it's occupants killed.
 Several of the Berlin papers have alarmist l articles over the trouble between the Sultan of
 Zanzibar and the German East Africa Con-
 pany. They hint that Germany may be com
 pelled to declare war against both England
 and Italy for melting the Sultan against peace
 fnl German subjects.
 A Nile boat carrying force of tribal | police surprised a party of Osman Digmas
 men at Adiz. fight ensued and twenty of
 the hostile Arabs were killed and number