Connecticut western news., 1885-06-24
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

A six month old baby fell out of cradle into pail of water at its parents home in Greenwich street New York, and was drowned.
 Frank Pyers underwent the sentence of the whipping post and cowhide .at Baltimore for wife beating. The tenth lash enclrcled his neck and tore his flesh.
 Prank Whitney convicted of burglary at Indianapolis broke loose from Baliff and hurled pair of handcuffs at the Judge. The police after & desperate struggle overpowered and conveyel him to prison.
 George Schneider was hanged at Hamil- ton, Ohio, for the murder of his mother.
 Perry and William Melton, father and son, were executed at Farmersville, La, for brutally killing a ne;ghboring farmer named Cherry, of whose prosperity they were jeal- ous.
 Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has re- quested, through the various chiefs of depart ments, every employee of the city to hand in written resignation.
 In the Dominion House of Commons Sir John Mcdonald said that the tendency of the correspondence between his government and that of the United States was such as to create 8 strong hope for the revival of the reciprocity treaty.
 James J. Brooks, chief of the Secret Ser vice Division of the Treasury Department has, at the request of Secretary Manning, ten- dered his resignation, to take effect July l next.
 President White, of Cornell University, in- tends to resign on account of ill health.
 Dominion merchants are urging the gov ernment to disallow an act passed by the Man. itoba Legislature, which practically absolves business men from the possibility of seizure in the event of their becoming financially em- barrassed.
 A sixty-foot dead whale drifted ashore -op- rosite the residence of Prof. Rogers, at New port, R L
 The body of Jacob Young, who committed suicide at Mount Marion. N. Y., was found in Esopus creek, near Saugerties, N. Y. Young was worth $50, 900. It is thought his daugh- ter, who went into spasms when informed of her fathers suicide, cannot live.
 The Presbyterian church at Shippensburg, Va., one of the finest edifces in the Cumber- land Valley, was destroyed by fire.
 At osgood, Ohio, a drunken negro and his wife were shot and killed by mob.
 FOREIGN rTEMS
 Lord Salisbury has definitely accepted the Premiership. It is stated that Sir Stafford Northcote has accepted peerage, leaving Sir Michael Hicks Beach to lead the Conservatives in the House of Commons. Lord Randolph Churchill will have an important position in the new Cabinet.
 The Queen has offered MT. Gladstone an earldom in recognition of his services to the Queen and the country. MT. Gladstone asked that he be allowed to forego the honor.
 It is understood that the usual Indian pub lie works loan will be increased in 1885 by f1 900, 900.
 Oxford University Convocation conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon the Bishops of Winchester, Gloucester, Bristol and Bath, upon the revisers of the Old Testa- ment and upon the Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, Mass.
 Shocks of earthquake have reoccurred in Cashmere with increased violence. It is re- ported that Z, ,281 persons have perished in the district of Muzuffurabad.
 The Yacht Genesta sailed from Gourock Bay, Scotland, on Tuesday, direct for New York amid vo1leys of cheers from the yachts which were manned in the bay and the spectc.- tors who thronged the shore.
 Prince Frederick Charles, nephew of the Emperor of Germany, has had 8 stroke of apoplexy, with symptoms of paralysis in one side.
 A desperate street fight occurred at Genoa, between procession of clericals and 8 mob of roughs. Knives, clubs and stones were freely used. One man was killed and many persons were wounded
 A dispatch from Baku, Russia, says that the Assistant Commissioner of Police of that place was 'abbed to death on Sunday, and that the assassin escaped.
 The steamer Spoke Hall, from Liverpool for Bombay, has foundered in 8 cyclone in the Gulf of Alden. There was only one survivor.