Connecticut western news., 1885-05-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.


 t-Crowley, E4e New York police sergeant, who assaulted Maggie Morris, was sent to prison, fine being refused in his case.
 -Baggagemaster Jenkins, at the Union de- pot in Pittsburg, on bursting open trunk which gave out an unbearable stenob, was hor- riied to find therein the body of man se- curely bound and in an advanced state of de- composition. The trunk came from Chicago.
 There are four British war ships ct Hali- fax-the Tenedos, Fantome, Alert and Bull frog.
 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has begun the construction of new road between Holldaysburg and Crescent, Pa. The road will be S7 mlles long, and will cost $1, ,000, 900. It will open up some rich coal and lumber tracts.
 The steamship Humber, running in a monthly line to London, sailed from New York on Feb. 15. She carried general cargo, and her crew numbered about seventy men. She has not been heard from, and it is supposed that she ran into an iceberg or was n1pped In an ice field and all on board lost.
 George Mack, who murdered Richard Parker, his employer, at Great Bend, Kansas, on Sunday was taken from the officers who arrested him and hanged by mob.
 Cornelius K. Garrison, generally called "Commodore" Garrison, and prominent railroad and shipping man, died Ut his home in New York city on Friday. He was e5 years of age.
 Capt. Davis, of the steamer Nonowantuc, from Port Jefferson, reports that during the gale small sloop hailing from Westport Conn.,, went ashore near Oldfield Light on the Long Island shore. The crew of three men were drowned.
 Thousands of large posters, in the shape of red flag with the word "Bread" printed across the face in white letters, were affixed to the dead walls and buildings in all parts of Chicago, under the direction of the Socialist organization.
 Four tramps were taken from the jail at Anderson, Ind, by about forty men, armed with long switches, and whipped until they bled. For the past ten days gang of half dozen tramps has terrorized the suburbs of Anderson. -... -Panama is all right again. General Aiz- puru has surrendered, and has given up his arms. The government troops took peaceable possession and occupied the city. All Is quiet and business is everywhere resumed. This ends the revolution.
 The steamship Humber, which left New York Feb. 15 with British mails, has not been heard from, and is probably lost.
 In Salt Lake City Angus M. Cannon has been convicted of unlawful cohabitation, after three days hard struggle. The jury found him guilty on the first ballot The defendant is Mormon President of Utah and brother to George Q. Cannon.
 The stone quarry strike at Joliet, IL, is growing more exciting The troops have been ordered out, and the local battery and in fantry are ready at their armory, awaiting orders.
 The grain yield in all parts of California will be only from one-quarter to three-quarters of that of last year, owing to decreased acre. age. What is lost in grain will be made up in fruit and wine.
 The body of Nelson Wood, one of the nine fremen who were buried under falling wall Sy1D kk0hn Niu John Groetzinger will die and the others will recover.
 Lieutenant o. B. T. Moore of the war steamer Galena came home from Panama. He was wounded by an accidental shot.
 The wife of an habitual drunkard in Buff falo, N. Y., recovered $1, GOO against liquor sell lers, whom she had notified not to furnish her husband drink
 Locomotive engineers on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co.'s road threaten to strike rather than submit to examinations for color blindness, etc, which they deem unnecessarily severe.
 -Adolph Hess, living at Concordia, Ohio beheaded his child, beat his wife to death and hanged himself.
 In Mt Vernon Mo, on Sunday, John A. Tennis, merchant, and George Moore 3 farmer, shot each other to death on the street. Jealousy was the cause.
 
 B. Clawson, of Salt Lake, the defendant said: ssMr Commissioner, it is not necessary to ex- anime any witnesses in this case. admit all the facts as set forth in this complaint" The Bishop had said before that he would not run, neither would he permit any member of his family to run.
 MT. Isaac ". England, publisher of the New York Sun and one of its largest stock holders, died at his home at Ridgewood, N. J. He was ffty-three years old He was born in England in 1832 and came to this country in l848. He was printer and editor and most successful publisher.
 An epidemic of a disease resembling typhoid fever is raging in Plymouth, small town three miles from Wilkes Barre, Penn There are upward of 600 cases of sickness. Twenty-nine deaths occurred in two days. The disease is due to the bad sanitary condition of the town.
 Eighteen more bodies have been taken from the ruins of the Vicksburg Hotel, making 32 found thus far It is now feared that there are many more buried beneath the ruins, as the city was full of strangers from the sur rounding country who visited the city to wit ness the hremen's parade.
 Three Russian barks are in Hampton Roads for orders. They have unbent sails and are waiting until war is declared or peace as- sured.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The President to-day appointed Anthony M. Kelley, of Richmond, Va, to be Envoy Ex- traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Austria, Hungary, instead of Italy, where he was first appointed
 The total issue Of postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards during April ag- gregated 271,O68,819 as against 264, ,645, 200 during the corresponding month in the pre- ceding year. The number of stamps issued showed an increase of 13, 000, 900, while the issue of postal cards fell of 4,000 900 and stamped envelopes 5000, 900.
 During the month of April Postmaster General Villas appointed 600 postmasters at fourth class offices. The greatest number ap- pointed on any one day was 133 on April 27. The majority of the appointments were made to fill vacancies.
 The Commissioner of pensions rendered Q decision, subject, however, to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, on the pension application of Mrs. Emma De Long, the widow of the late Lieut.. Commander De Long of the Jeannette. The Commissioner holds that the order of the Secretary of the Navy detailing Lieut.. De Long to special duty at New York, and then to the command of the Arctic explor- ing steamer Jeannette changed his status from that of absence on leave into that of active duty, and therefore entities his widow to pen sion.
 The Department of State is informed by the United States Consul at Colon that the mails from the United States and elsewhere for Bogota, Carthagena, Barranquilla, and the in- terior of Colombia for two months or more were destroyed by the fire at Colon on March 31.
 The President appointed James O. Cheno- with, of Texas, to be First Auditor of the Treasury vice R. M. Reynolds, of Alabama, re- signed by request.
 The Secretary of the Treasury, appointed @ committee to make an examination of the books and assets of the office of the Treasurer of the United States, incident to the transfer of the office from Mir. A. U. Wyman to MT. O. N. Jordan.
 The Superintendent of the Panama Rail road sent the following cable dispatch:-"The American forces occupied Panama as 8 case of necessity. I understand Washington orders are to withdraw as soon as possible. This will be fatal if carried out. will withdraw every American employee and proceed with them to New York. Transit cannot be kept open unless Panama is held by United States forces or by 6 good government"
 Secretary Manning has issued an order