Connecticut western news., 1886-09-01
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| William O'Brien, of Attleboro, Mass, has
 been arrested, charged with & fatal assault
 upon Mrs. Elizabeth Brady, of Norton | Constant Bcnoit, a Swede, twenty-seven years, attacked by ferocious boar on a
 farm near Knoxville, Tenn, and almost torn
 to pieces.
 Mrs. Robinson, the alleged poisoner, of
 Somerville, Mass, and her alleged accomplices, | Deacon Smith and Dr. Beers, have been held | for the action of the Grand Jury.
 William Lawler, railroad Aagman in | Lowell, Mass, sustained serious, but it is | hoped not fatal injuries in a successful effort | to rescue a deaf and dumb child that had got | upon the track.
 | General John Newton has been placed Oh | the army retired list, and succeeds Rollin M.
 Squire as Commissioner of Public Works of | New York. He has taken formal possession of | the department.
 | In New York the Belt line strikers went to | work on basis of twelve hours work per day, and on the Broadway road the company gives | up the extra trip and the men drop twenty-five | cents a day from their wages. A fire broke out at Crandall's toy factory at Montrose, Susquehanna county, Pa., and be- fore the progress of the flames could be check ed thirteen business blocks and two residences were destroyed. The loss is estimated at S75, 600.
 The hog cholera in Indiana will entail loss to farmers of many thousands of dollars The prevalence of the disease last summer led | many farmers to sell their hog crops early. Those which remain are dying off by hundreds
 daily.
 Adam Herbert threw quantity of nitric acid on his mistress, Nettie Tucker, at Long Branch, N J.. and burned her terribly. He was arrested and held in light bail, and there is much dissatisfaction at the lenity of the magistrate.
 A decided sensation was caused in Sum- | merville, $. C., by shock of earthquake, about half-past eight in the morning. The shock lasted several seconds, and was preceded by a dull rumbling, followed by sound as of cannon fired at & distance.
 The bark Virginia, of Bath, Me-, Captain J. M. Allen, was struck by hurricane 100 | miles east of Cape Hatteras dismasted and waterlogged. After drifting for five days the captain his family and the crew of fifteen men were rescued by the bark Allen Wilde, Captain Powers, and brought to New York.
 0W1lle Sells, boy, was sentenced to death at osaSe Mission, Kan, for the murder of the family of which he was member.
 A boy named Walter Candy, four years old, of Fort Worth, Texas, died in terrible agony from hydrophobia, the maidstone test having failed in his case.
 The new torpedo boat Peacemaker, which IS making a sensation, was exhibited in the presence of crowd of people on the Hudson rlver. Among her feats was a dive under the passenger steamer City of Kingston which was passing up the river.
 Some twenty coasters were lost in the Texas storm and 1t is known that many seamen were drowned. "'A'
 During severe gale off Newfoundland number of fishing vessels was wrecked with serious loss of life.
 Ten American vessels have been seized by the Domfnlon cutters since the fisheries troubles neoan, and suits are pending against most of them. ''N' -'-0'' oi Two negroes, charged with murder, were r eaAsn 3 rom the Jall at Magnolia, La., by mob oi lynchers and hanged from a bridge outside the town.
 -Ma]or Levi Lylrand, citizen of Edgefield county, S C., died in great agony from hydro- pnobla resulting from the bite of Q dog re- celved last May.
 A mall coach was stopped and plundered s2, on Manitoba highway by masked robbers. me passengers had only small sums of money but this was taken A colored boy named John Walker, four- teen years old, was arrested in Boston, Mass, cnarged With attempting to poison his father, well known colored resident.
 A fire at Saratoga, N. Y., destroyed the uIrelSht depot of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and number of railroad cars involving loss of S100, ,0OO to the company.
 frank B. Campbell, discharged Chicago cierh, presented revolver to the head of Mir Carruthers, his former employer, and com peiied h1m to draw him a check for $50. He was arrested.
 The condemned anarchist, A. B. Parsons, IePIylnS to General Master Workman Powder iys denunclation of anarchy, denies ever hay ing advocated or favored the destruction of life and property.
 The rear coach of a northbound passenger train on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Rail road jumped the track near Lyons. Texas re- sulting in the death of Mrs. Lockett. passen- ger, and In injuries to fifteen other persons @Ihere IS curious mystery about S35.- OVo worth of bonds which were advertised as na'lng been stolen from the mails between New York and St. Louis. The same bonds were thought to have been lost on the Oregon. -The Rev. James 0. Beecher, of Coscob, Conn, half Brother of Henry Ward Beecher. committed suicide at the Water Cure in El mlra, N. 1., by shooting himself through the head with small rifle. He had been suffer- ing under severe mental trouble for & number of years.
 ,,11Brigadier Generals Louis Fitzgerald, Jas. McLeer, Amssa J. Parker, Jr, and Peter c. Doyle were elected to the command of the newly,created First, Second. Third and Fourth Drlgades of the New York State militia, with headquarters respectively at New York, Brook lyn, Albany and Bnffalo.
 The strikes continued on the Broadway ana Belt lines, New York; with riotous dispo- sltlon shown by the strikers and others having no interest in the ''tie-up." few cars were run on the Broadway line under police protec- tlon 4 disturbance on the west side resulted in case of probably fatal shooting. and two cars on the Third avenue line were destroyed. Senator Evarts, Charles O. Perkins. a resident of Boston, and Miss Jennie Matthews daughter of Judge Stanly Matthews, of Gin clnnatl, were out riding at Windsor. Vt. Com- Ing from the farm of Senator Evarts, and while crossing the bridge, the horses became fnghtened, and the carriage was thrown down an embankment, killing Mr. Perkins. Senator Eyarts was hurt and Miss Matthews badly bruised. WASHINGTON. The receipts on account of the postal ser vice during the quarter ended March 31 last were Sll ,53S, ,631, or an increase of S554, ,9S2 over the receipts for the corresponding quarter of the proceeding fiscal year, while the eypend- itures were SIP, 769, ,43S being S1, ,220, ,S07 in | excess of the receipts and S224, ,591 more | than the expenditures for the corresponding | quarter of 1885. The total decrease in the | excess of expenditures during the quarter as | compared with last was S247, ,634. FOREIGN ITEMS. | Two hundred of the Twelfth light infantry, | Prince Albert's regiment. with seven officers, | that had been stationed at Birr, Ireland,
 marched to Fortuna. They were unable to | obtain transportation owing to boycott1ng. | The Birr branch of the National League con- | currently with the march issued manifesto | forbi,lding all kinds of aid to the soldiery.
 THE TEXAS DISASTER.
 Thirty-Eight Lives Already Report.