Connecticut western news., 1886-07-14
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 The Denver, Col, Academy of Music was burned.
 Portland, Me, will begin the second hun dred years of it's existence.
 Sam Archer, a noted robber and murderer, was hanged at Shoals, Ind.
 The Island of Jamaica was swept by Ia tornado, doing serious damage.
 A severe hurricane on the Florida coats did serious damage to shipping.
 Many accidents attended the celebration of the Fourth Of July in New York.
 Two little boys and 8 youth who went to assist them were drowned at Lowell, Mass.
 -Chacon, the Cuban mulatto, who shot Mrs, Williams. was hanged in New York on Friday
 Bay windows are being torn down in Bos- ton, Mass, as illegal architectural excresen- ces.
 The payments in support of the strikers on the Gould system in the Southwest have ended.
 The Kansas Republicans have renominated Governor Martin and Lieutenant Governor Riddle.
 The cavalry men of both armies, during the civil war, fraterniZed on the Gettysburg battlefield.
 Reports say that the hop crop throughout Montgomery county, N. Y., will be almost 8 total failure.
 In order to select the Galatea's rival, the trial races of the sloops will take place about August 15.
 After . long drought in Wisconsin rain set in at Milwaukee and extended pretty generally over the State.
 At fire in Chicago on the 9th two men were burned to death, and four 6remen were severely burned.
 A tramp named Fred Felis was instantly killed at Foster Brook, Pa., by an explosion of tre-glycerine.
 -Colored Knights of Labor have struck near Little Rock.
 A monument to the Orange County sol diers who fell during the war was dedicated in Port Jervis, N. Y.
 The Post Office safe at Minneapolis, Minn was broken open and robbed of $20, 0o0 in money and stamps.
 Temperance notwithstanding beer. made ID. l., per cent of alcohol.
 Four children locked in by their parents were nearly suffocated in Chicago by their residence taking fire
 -Dr. Gallagher, medical practitioner in New Haven, Conn.,, was indicted for murder the result of malpractice.
 More than s6s, 100000 was invested in business enterprises in the Southern States during the past six months.
 p. J. Creiger, while riding through lonely woods near Mount Vernon, Ky, was shot from an ambush and instantly killed.
 -J. W. Smith, a colored waiter on the steamer Massachusetts,, committed suicide by leaping into Long Island Sound. .-Charles Reynolds, proprietor Of hotel at Wilmington, Del was stabbed probably fatally by tramp who demanded money.
 Nicholas Bauman took his infant from the cradle in Buffalo, N. Y., and dashed it's head against the wall. The child will die.
 A log raft of four hundred feet long and containing $500, 1000 feet of timber, is at St. Johns, awaiting towage to New York.
 During heavy gale which prevailed off the entrance of the Columbia River in Oregon, seven salmon fishermen were drowned.
 The railroad yardmaster at Gretna, La, eloped and married 6 pretty Jewess, to the great annoyance and anger of her family.
 The gathering at Gettysburg, on the 4th and 5th, was very large, the town and camp being crowded by visitors from the vicinity. The cases against the St Louis anarch ists, indicted for indorsing the action of the Chicago bomb throwers, have been dismissed. By the carelessness of a clerk in the Bos- ton (Mass Post Office that building was del used with water from fire plug on the third floor.
 Mir. Charles Marsh, of the dry goods firm of Jordan, Marsh X Co.,, of Boston, died at his summer residence, on the Jerusalem road, Cohasset.
 Confederate cavalrymen are assembling Gettysburg to fraternize with the Boys in Blue at the reunion of the cavalry corps on that field.
 A fire involving loss of over $2O0, ,OoO was caused in Harlem, N. Y., by drunken man, who set fire to fireworks in front of store with cigar.
 John W. Kraser was crushed to death and two others were injured at Shenandoah, Pa,, under pile of lumber upon which they had been playing.
 A driver of 8 coal cart was killed while at- tempting to cross the railroad tracks at Bridge port, Conn.,, and his horse and vehicle were torn to pieces.
 -Ex-Aderman Waite, one of the men ar- rested for the 1884 affair in New York, has been locked up for safety, as he feared his life was in danger.
 A young woman separated from her hus- band committed suicide in Chicago rather
 
 had no divorce. A switch carelessly left open caused col ] lision near Tamaqua. Pa., involving serious injuries to several persons and large destruc- tion of property. John King. 8 Kentucky desperado, took forcible charge of train running between Greenwood and Pine Knot in that State and killed the conductor. Obadiah Rumsey, a railway conductor, was thrown from the engine at 8 railway cross | ing near Plymouth Pa. The cars passed over him aud he was killed. Father John E. O'Sullivan sentenced to eleven years imprisonment for an assault on Abbie O OConnor at Syracuse, N. r., has been granted stay of proceedings. Hugo Michael, a farmers son, ran away from his home, near Appleton, Wis, lost his | way in the woods of Taylor county and starved to death. His body was found. | The total assessed valuation of real and personal estate 1n New York City, as reported | by the Tax Department, is $1, APO, 96S, ,2S6, an increase of S49, ,85l, ,2S3 over that of 1885. | A freight train on the Grand Trunk Rail- road collided with 8 COW near Omemee, Cana | da- The cars were derai,ed. one brakeman was killed and the fireman was scalded. The Liquor Dealers Association, of New York, demand that the Mayor shall close al business places, including barber's, groceri and butchers snops, as he has the saloons.
 -Ofa family of fifteen persons in Providence thirteen were poisoned by something deleter ious on the breakfast table. All were be ieved to be out of danger at the latest advices
 -S. Hopkins brutally as aulted his niece Miss Lester, aged Is years, near Hays City Kan, and fled but was overtaken by the en ragged father of the girl and shot down at sight
 Three boilers exploded at the colliery O tue Delaware and Hudson Canal Company near Wilkesbarre, @, Pa, wreckipg the buildins and fatally injuring the engineer and fireman
 John l.. Sullivan acted as pitcher at baseball game at the Polo Grounds and Jo, Ellinsworth, the Rockland County Dumpling pitched against Sullivan. The Dumping won
 Five of the Widow Landgraff boycotters