Connecticut western news., 1886-02-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL TTENa

ucoSe ml @ sASter, ana lt Will prooaoly be . month before the remains of the unfortu- nate miners can be reached.
 An engineer and two fireman were killed by collision near Mill Spring, Mo.
 The directors and one ex-director-of the Cincinnati Indrmary are charged with fraud in it's management
 The Canadian Pacific Railway is establish Ing line of steamers from Vancouver to San Francisco for purposes of competition with Amer ican lines.
 The Rev. Dr. Armstrong, of Atlanta, Ga, has been found guilty of violating his ordins- ton VOW.
 A revival in Connecticut has rendered two persons temporarily insane, one of whom attempted suicide.
 Massachusetts Is endeavoring to pass . law making it misdemeanor to sell or give tobacco to any minor under Ixteen years of age.
 The governments of the DomiHion, and of Quebec will extend s4 900 relief to the Gaspe fishermen.
 A dynamite magazine at shAft No. 22. on the New York aqueduct, near Fordham, N. Y. exploded at night with terrific force. A watch man named McGinnls is believed to have been killed and much damage was done to property within radius of 8 quarter of mile.
 Edward Crowell charged with forgeries to the amount of S220, 600 at Cleveland, Ohio,
 
 that city.
 A runaway team upset the sleigh to which it WAS attached, containing . farmer and his fam ly. rear Winfield, Pa. One Of the occu- pants was instantly killed and the other two were fatally injured
 A rabid dog in Parsons, Kan, bit several persons. young and old 8 few horses and many dogs before 1t was killed.
 The Chinese on the Pacific coast are being subjected to an organized boycott, which is being carried on with systematized vigor.
 Samuel Williams and his wife were burned to death in their home at Trenton village, N. '.
 A passenger coach was thrown of the track near Waterford Junction, N. r., injur- ing several of the passengers-
 Two miners were killed It No. slope of the Stockton (PA) mines by heavy fall of coal
 Christian DNubenspeck and his wife, and Mrs. Harper, of North Washington, Pa, while sleigh riding were struck by . locomotive, and all three received probably fatal injuries.
 An aged colored couple were frozen to death In Washington, and at ChaplrAn Sta- tion, of the Canadian Pacific Railroad man met . sim lar fata.
 Miss Louisa Perkins is suing E. J. Bald win in the Los Angeos Gal courts for s5OO,- 900 for breach of promlse of marriage.
 The Western Society of Psychological Re search has decided to rent an alleged haunted house aud invest gate the cause of the ghostly disturbances.
 "A halt has been made in the Ohio Senate fight Till the investigating committee of three democrats and three republicans shall report on the Cincinnati election.
 A refractory prisoner In the Riverview PenitenrtIary, Pittsburg, stabbed and seriously tnjured three of the keepers
 The Rhode Island Legislature is engaged Tn amandiDy the diyorr>e lnwa of that Stata
 Mrs. Philips, of Chicago, having been di- vorced from her first husband and remarried, recently deserted her second husband and re- tu,n d to live with her first. She is now to be made respondent in another divorce case. Andrew Haight, . we'll known circus man, but little hope Is entertained for his recovery. A boat from the Anssr:an corvette Donau, containing a midshipman and eleven sailors, was run dIwn in the North River, New York harbor, at night by railroad float lowed by the tugboat Blanche Page, and the midship- man and five of the sailors were drowned. The launch was disabled and Heating down she stream.
 The drivers, conductors and stablemen of the Broadway, Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Avenue surface railroad lines in New York struck for . reduction of their hours of labor to twelve per day. The companies held out for . few hours, and then, one after the other, consented to yield to the demands of their employees.
 The ..agent of Wisconsin brewery con- victed of selling hquor without license was on appeal adjudged not guilty because Unit States hcense allows sales in the csiginal packages anywhere.
 The brothers Edward and Henry Kahout, who Set fire to the tenement No 4i4 east Sixty fourth street, New York, in which Mrs. Fiaila and her two children were burned to death, on November 23 last, were convicted of arson in the first degree and sentenced by Recorder Smyth to imprisonment for life.
 Tho Board of Estimate and apportion- ment of New York city has authorized the pur- chase of the indices of the County Clerks office from Robert J. Leaycraft for e30, 900. A fire at Jackson, Miss, destroyed the principal hotel, the bank and several stoie- houses, involving loss of Sl0O, 900.
 Mira Dusenburie, the wife of physician of Ronesdale, Pa, was killed on Saturday, near Tampa, Fla, by her insane son.
 Nearly half . million dollars of the assets of the defunct Townsend Savings Bank, of New Haven, Conn.,, were sold at auction for less than i've hundred dollars.
 The lack of punctusity in the Rhode Island Legislature cannot be punished, as was found after . long debate, because the Speaker is one of the delinquentA
 The marriage of Thomas A. Edison, tho electrician, to Miss Nina Miller, of Akron, O., to take place on the 24th inst, Is announced. The postmaster at Quincy, Ark, for dis courtesy in office. has been driven from town; but taking refuge in the residence of rela- tive near by is besiegei by the townspeople, and shots have been exchanged.
 A s25O, GOO fire took place at the railroad depot In Grand Haven, Mich.
 "A young man in Chicago was burned to death by matches in his pocket taking fire.
 In \ collision between two engines on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, near Scranton. Va, Fireman Gillin2s was instantly killed and four other men seriously injured.
 The Deadwood and Rapid City O. T. :, mail stage was robbed near the latter place and several registered letters carried oil.
 Boiling Parker, of Nansemond county Va, killed his sister and fatally wounded hn wife with an axe.
 Thomas Higgins was burned to death while intoxicated at Girardsville, Pa
 -Smailpox is prevalent in several counties of the Province of Quebeck.
 By the bursting of . steam drumhead in . cotton press at New Orleans four men and 6 boy were badly scalded.
 The annual report of the order of United Worknen shows that during 18.6 fourteen lodges were instituted aud 4,05S beneficiary certificates written. The present member ship is 20, sS1. net incre ase of }. .207. There was paid for death claims AIS, 900, and about 900 was collected on special relief call The order is in . most douriAhing condition financially and otherwise.
 In New York Harry Hill, the noted div keeper, testiied that he has been obliged t pay officials large sums of money for police protection.
 Four unknown men attempted to eros the Ohio river, near Evansville, in ekiff About midway they encountered heavy ice foe, and men and boat disappeared.
 Jake Schaefer. Americas representative ii the great match game against Maurice Wig naux, of France, for e5,0O0, is still the cham Pion baIk-lins billiard player of the world He won the late match, making 5000 point to VIgnau1is 2,S38 Schaefers average wa 20; VIgnaux's 19, with fraction in both cases
 In Cleveland, Ohio the janitress of th Crocker block looked into the experiments oc