Connecticut western news., 1885-04-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL ITEMS.


 first execution in that State since the restora- ton of capital punishment
 Some tramps called at the ranch of Senator Stanford, at YIna, California, and were driven away. At daylight the stables were discovered to be on fire. They contained 1l5 horses and mules, al of which except four were burned to death.
 The Grand Jury of New York found iudiet. ments against the builders and sub-builders of the buildings which fell. and they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
 -Ex-Mayor De Bevoise, of Long Island City, who has been confined some time got & verdict of mot guilty" by direction of the Court, the prosecution having failed to present good case.
 A new government survey of New York harbor will be besu next month.
 Several fraudulent Alabama claims have been discovered.
 Mrs. Hattie F. Bevan, lady well known in social circles, died suddenly Tn Baltimore. She had been under medical treatment for some time, and had also been using hair tonic containing aconite. She took large dose of the tonic by mistake
 In the United States Court in Cincinnati the Hon. John F. Mckinney, of PiQua, Ohio, was convicted of having received excessive fees for collecting pensions It was proved that he received S1S0 for obtaining pension of $l, TOO. He was member of the Forty-second Con- gress.
 -Lieut Charles H. Judd, the navigating of- fcer of the Galena, who with Cadet Richard son was seized and held for while ss a host age by Prestan at Aspinwall, had not been well for month before he was thrown into the calaboose, and has now come home with his mlnd disordered. The office of the Buffalo, N r, Express WAS burned Thursday evening, the inmates barely escaping with their lives. Fifteen or twenty girls ard men had to descend the fire escapes, the flames having swept up both flights of stairs. The estimated loss is S250, 900; insurance, $l9S, 900.
 At Anaconda, M. T., 6 wash house was blown up by giant powder. Four China men were killed outright and another fatally injured
 The St Louis mystery is settled. It is now known that the murdered man was Preller, and there is no doubt that his companion, Maxwell, was the murderer. Maxwell, it Is known, left St Louis for San Francisco, and sailed from the latter port on the Sydney for Australia. He took about g., 900 from the murdered man. The San Francisco officers expect to capture Maxwell at Honolulu, where the Sydney will stop On her trip.
 The appearance of a mad dog in Milwau- kee. Mich, caused great excitement. An effort to run down and kill him was not successful until twelve children and one man had been bitten. The police fear that there are other eases not yet reported. Some of the bites are quite severe.
 
 American Legation at Rome, Italy, who was left in charge of affairs by Mir. Astor, and who had been ill for some weeks, IS dead. Mir. PierTepont was the only son of Judge Ed wards Pierrepont, of New York city.
 The mutilated body Of an Englishman named Preller, packed in trunk, was taken out of . room In the Southern Hotel at St. Louis. He was wealthy, and making tour of the country. He was murdered by 6 compan- ion named Maxwell, for money.
 Mary Moore died at La Crescent, Minn., after fast of sixty-four days.
 The LiIley Hotel, the Allwright House, and Struther's bathing houses at Sea Isle City, N J., were burned to the ground.
 The Pennsylvania House of Representa- lives has passed the bill authorizing PhiIa- delphia to borrow SS, ,0O0,000 to improve its water supply.
 In South EorwaIk, Conn.,, the hatters' strike has finally ended, the contending parties assenting to terms of settlement agreed upon by committee of arbitration which was ap- pointed some weeks ago.
 The bases of peace have been accepted by San Salvador and Guatemala HostiIites have ceased in Central America. A general amnesty has been proclaimed, and awaits the approval of the allies. The pIenipotentiaries viii meet in Acajutla to arrange definite treaty of peace.
 A mob at Union City, Tenn, took two ne- gro thieves and hanged them to tree. Last month three negroes of the same band of burglars who killed T. M. Montgomery were hanged on the same tree.
 A Lieutenant of the United States army, who has been stationed at Fort Porter for the past year, has disappeared. It is said he ran Tn debt and sold his pay for the same month 10 two parties. He is supposed to have fled to Canada
 -Huer's piano factory in New York city was burned Tuesday morning. A floor of the building gave away and nine iremen went with sL into the ruins. All were severely in 1ured, and some 1t Is feared fatally.
 While seven men were clearing the brick out of the smokes ack of 8 mill in Ascoda, Mich, the bottom gave way and the seven men were buried under 60, 600 brick. Five were killed outright and the others fatally in- jured.
 Judge Fleming re-sentenced Charles H. Rugg, the Maybee murderer, to be hanged on May Is next Rugg trembled violently and his ef es filled with tears as the sentence was pronounced, but he refused to say anything about the sentence.
 James Giblins, aged IT, overexerted him self in skating rink in Paterson, N J., and was taken with an appoplectic attack, of which he died.
 The people of Arizona are greatly excited over the reported appearance of raiding Apaches in that vicinity. NJ. I. Cunningham and Charles Croach, ranchers, are missing, and are believed to have been killed by the Apaches.
 A colored man in Tennessee has recovered damas es against railroad company for being eyicted from car by fellow passengers, who wished him to take another car.
 At Liberty, Va, colored woman who was abont to be committed to the grave was rescued by the doctor, who administered restoratives She is likely to recover.
 Kate Smulsey, the faster, of Fort Plain N. Y., died from consumption, not starvation: so the post mortem by the physicians shows.
 m. IL Friday on the charge of eounterfeitiDg silver dollars. Thirty-two counterfeit coins were found in his possession. They were largely composed of pewter or some other metal cheaper than silver.
 The evidence in the Marie Seibel case in New York city shows that Dr. Mayer huI riedly granted the death certificate without viewing the body of the poor girl because, anticipating more aristocratic patient, he twas not going to risk carrying contagion to this innoce mt lady for the sake of a common servant girl"
 According to the government reports the wheat crop of the United States has been greatly reduced in acreage and is of poorer quality than for three years.
 Willie Donovan, the roller skating cham pion, died from acute pericarditis, following an attack of pneumonia, induced by reckless ex- posture after his six days race.
 The Connecticut House of Represe ntatives rejected, by partisan vote, 8 proposed con- stituuonSl amendment designed to abolish the law thAs majority vote shall be necessary to elect State officials.
 The strikers in Chicago have agreed not to gather in large numbers around the reaper works on condition that the private detectives shall not again be brought upon the scene. An iron bridge spanning Indian Creek. on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, preeipitated a train into the water. twenty-five feet below H. H. Fuller and Benjamin Fuller, brothers, were killed.
 WASHINGTON NOTEa.
 "A delegation of colored men from Virginia presented to the President a petition asking him to appoint to positions in their State men who would not use their offices for political purpose+ The President received them cor dIally, and replied that: 'The day will come which l, tor one, will be gad to see, when something better than race or color will divide