Connecticut western news., 1886-06-16
NEWS OFTHEDAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Utica, N. Y., had an sso,OO0 fire in her business centre.
 | The late John Kelly left S400, 900, and by l his will this all goes to his wife. | The Apsches are displaying great activity in the mountains of Arizona and sonora. | Four horse thieves were captured and | hanged by vigilantes at Limestone, Idaho.
 Mrs Garfield won the suit brought against her for damages by woman iu Cleveland. | Several wholesale dealers in Boston have been arrested for selling adulterated molasses.
 The greater portion of Rawley Springs, Va, including two hotels, was destroyed by fire.
 Anne Walsh was fatally burned in Fall River, Mass. while lighting the fire with kero- | sene.
 An insane mother in Stafford. Yt., mur- | dered her four-year-old child to spite It's father.
 The settlement of the Fort Dodge mil. tary reservation involves some singular trrns- | actions.
 | The day for the commencement of the trial of the Chicago anarchists is fixed for the 21st inst.
 Two men were killed while stealing ride on the Union Pacific freight train at Elkhorn Station. Neb.
 The Canadian vessel Nipigon. seized on the lakes, has been released by order of the government.
 Three incendiaries were sentenced at | Schenectady, N. Y.. to ten years each ln Dan- nemora Prison.
 A military company from Stoneham, Mass, l ordered into the State camp, refused to ride | on boycotted railroad.
 The Massachusetts Legislature has in- creased the good conduct communication for all state Prison offenders.
 Five men were arrested in Chicago for setting fire to the buildings in which eight lives were lost recently.
 The lottery laws of New England have compelled the closing Of an Odd Fellows char ity fair at Concord, N. H.
 The street car company, of Pittsburg, | Pa., call on the United States courts to punish | the strikers on their lines.
 MT. George W. Childs and Mir. A. J. Drexel each presented 5000 to the Interna- tional Typographical Union.
 The sparring match between Ellinsworth and Fcgarty in Jersey City, at the end of ten rounds was declared draw.
 A party of five Mexican wood teamsters were fired upon by band of hostile Apaches in the Whitestone Mountains, A. T.
 Drivers on the Cross-town lines in New York ordered out on strike because a starter had been discharged, refused to go.
 The Ancient and Honorable Artillery | Company, of Boston, celebrated their two hundred and forty-eighth anniversary.
 Dennis Boyd, colored, was hanged at Belleville, Bossier parish, La., for the murdel of David Haas. on Christmas Day, 1881.
 The annual Convention of Bankers to be held in Boston during the coming month will be gathering of great financial import.
 Thomas May who died day or two ago in jail ip Western Ontario, left written confession that he had murdered three men.
 Thomas A. Doyle, Mayor of Providence, | R. L. was stricken with paralysis, and died, He was Mayor of Providence for many years.
 Edward McManus, a land agent, arrested on 8 charge of forgery at Cleveland, Ohio, ad | mitted peculations to the amount Of S30, ,000. Fine salmon as high as ten pounds in | weight have been caught in the upper Hud son, the result of the Fish Commissioners | work.
 The police of Amesbury, Mass, locked up | four prisoners with ten gallons of cider seized by the authorities. They now mourn the loss of the liquid.
 A statue of Daniel Webster, the gift of Benjamin P. Cheney, of Boston, is to be un. yelled in the State House Park at Concord, N | H., on the 17th inst.
 An office boy in Boston stole $34O, ,O0O in securities, but could only use $50 of his booty. | For three days 8 box with the valuable papers was kicking about an area.
 At Sarnia, Ont, the house of an advocate of the Scott Liquor law was wrecked by an ex- | plosion of dynamite, supposed to have been |
 The Democratic Congressional Convention of the Second District of Maine nominated ex. Gov. Garcelon for Representative in Congress. The State platform was indorsed
 A fire at Litchfeld, Conn.,, destroyed the | Mansion House. the Court House, the Enquirer printing office and several stores and private | dwellings. The damage was S1000O0.
 Indians attacked Jones Brothers ranch , l near Rockers Hot Springs, Arizona. The owners made an effective defense, killing | three of the lpdians whom they scalped. The Grand Secretary of theI Ma sopic Grand | Lodge of Wisconsin. who retired in disgrace, | having embedded the funds of the lodge to 8 large amount, has been formally expelled. | The citizens of Passaic, N. J.. assisted by the State dignitaries and military, celebrated the two hundrcdth anniversary of the transfer | of the Acqusckanonci tract by the Lords Proprietors.
 The International Typographical Union at their late convention decided not to anal. gamate. as & whole, with the Knights of Labor. but will put its shoulder to the same wheel and help it along.
 A wealthy gentleman, of Philadelphia, leaves his fortune to his daughter and her husband for life and on their death to be used for the erection of home for unfortunate wholesale merchants.
 The dangerous foreign clement of society in Milwaukee are attempting to burn the resi- dences of officers of militia who were engaged in putting down the recent rio:s. Several at tempts of this kind have been made. l A man working at chute in sugar re fnery at Williamsburg. N. l., slipped and fell with the sugar. A fellow workman who wen to his rescue also fell in. The lstt was suffo cated and the former seriously injured. | A tramp named Miln went into Gcors, | Niedrours restaurant in Goshen. Ind, ords re( breakfast and refused to pay for it. He wa | shot in tie back in an ensuing scufie with fh. proprietor. and will die. Niedrour is in jail.
 The committee of miners intrusted with the adoption of measures for the recovery of the bodies of the iwenty-six victims of the great disaster at the Nanticoke (Pa. mines will report adversely to further efforts in that direction.
 | In the Alabama Democratic State Conven. ton Thomas Seay for Governor received 6 large majority over both competitors, and was nominated by exclamation Resolutions were adopted Endorsing President Ceveland's ad ministration.
 A down stage of the British Columbia E1 press Company was stopped the Cariboc road by masked highwaymen. armed with Winchester rifles, who seized the treasure box, but overlooked package containing $lO, 900 in their hurry.
 Special reports from Fargo, Grand Forks Blanchard and other Dakota points fail tC confirm the sensational reports of injury tC the wheat by the frost of Sunday night. Vege tables were badly nipped, but grain is suffer ing more from drought than frost
 The jury in the East St. Louis strikers cases at Belleville, H., returned & verdict oi not guilty. There are said to have been three votes for conviction on the first ballot. Thir teen men were trial and the verdict was