Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
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 GENERAL rTEMA
 At Germantown, Cal, two heavy shocks of earthquake following each other in rapid suc- cession were felt.
 At. Kingston, Pa., tally-ho coach with pleasure party on board was upset and two of the party killed, and three others fatally in- jured.
 At Charleston, s. O., the work of rebuild ing has commenced. Masons readily obtained S6 day for their work. Miss Minnie Charland, aged twenty-one years, living with her adopted parents on McKinstrie avenue, Detroit, Mich., on learning of her true percentage, committed suicide by drowning.
 An armed mob visited the jail at Green vile, Texas and took from there John Smith, prisoner charged with the killing of Deputy Sheriff Adair, of that place and hanged him. No resistance was offered to the mob through out the affair.
 Frost has damaged corn, vines and fruit in New Hampshire.
 1-The work of fortifying Dominion of Can- ada ports on the Pacific coast has begun -The three anarchists recently arrested in Chicago for threatening the jurymen who con- demned their fellows have been set at liberty, the witnesses being afraid to testify against them.
 The explosion of portable boiler attached to threshlng machine on farm in North Greenbush, near Troy, N. Y., caused the death Of three persons and serious injuries to two others, as well the destruction by fire of the barn and its contents. There is a shortage in the supply of nat ural gas in Pittsburg, Pa., and several facto- J0d CTS were obliged to eat cold meats. Some peo- pie attribute the decrease in the flow to the earthquake, and the officials of the companies are now investigating the cause. Charles Luther, aged ffty-six, of Reading Pa, was run over by 3 train and killed. A fire in South Royalton, Vt, destroyed | nine business stores and fourteen residences Loss $16O,OO0.
 s-The earnings at Sing Sing Prison, N. r., fol August were $19 067.6 .6S expenditures $13, ,067 6t | profit SC, 6,00O.02.
 The tax upon personal and real estate i, New York city was fixed by the Common Coun 1 cil at 2.29 per cent.
 | "A shooting array occurred at . negro fes | tival at Hearne Texas, in which one man we killed and three others woundedi | "A company of English capitalists propos to build railroad from Tu1pan to the city o | Mexico at an estimated cost of $25, ,OOO, 900. | General Master Workman T. v. Powderl | absolutely refused to consider the matter O. accepting Congressional nomination in hi | district.
 Anthony Gillispie, storekeeper, riding ol business to Shamokin, Pa, was shot dead iron his horse and robbed, and his body dragged in to and concealed in a roadside thieket.
 A white woman lay dead in negro tene ment in New York city for four days, and negro with whom she had lived was arreste on suspicion of having caused her death.
 The Knights of Labor embraced in Dis trict Assembly No. 49, of New York city, ar about to purchase Pythagoras Hall, in Cana street, as 8 permanent headquarters, at 6 cost it is said. of $70.O00.
 "A lightning bolt struck the barn of Hum phrey Hoag, of Marcedon, near Palmyra, N. Y. setting it on lire and killing . grandson o Hoag's.
 Thomas Councilman, . farmer residin, near Perry Iowa, fired upon party of young one of the trespassers.
 The Grand Bank schooner Meteor, whici has just arrived at St. Johns, N. F., report, that in dense fog and sudden gale on Au gust 1S she lost six dories, containing in all t men.
 George Kratel, . butcher living nea, Cleveland, Ohio, attempted to take an appl, from the throat of a COW, and was bitten fol his pains. He died from the effects of tn, bite, blood poisoning having set in dirsctl, after he was hurt.
 A most terrible thunder storm passed ove Rochester, N. Y., Monday. Within thre hours nearly three and half inches of wate fell. Cellars were flooded in business house and private residences all over the city. Thou sands of dollars of damage was done in tn ] former. The lightning struck in severa places.
 -Dr. Cyrus Edson, of the New York Healtl Board, . dozen policemen, and eight milk in sPectors were at the Erie ferry et midnight brought into the city from Orange and sulIi van counties. Forty-five thousand gallon enter the city by that ferry every night, an over 900 gallons were dumped in the gutter.
 A hurricane swept over the Baham Islands on the night of the 22d of August The gale came from the southeast, and ble, with great violence for several hours. nun Der of houses were blown down and other J were damaged, and considerable injury wa . done to fruit trees, fences, etc. Many vessel were lost. and it is feared that there is seriou loss of life.
 WASHINGTON. The public debt statement shows the r auction of the public debt during August
 be s1 ,9iO, ,899.03, and the total cash in u Treasury S474, ,27o, e5l.T4. MT. Bayard telegraphed Mr. Sedgwick h disbelief of the published rumors respectin
 his acts in Mexico, and ordered him to CO
 unue h1s investigations.
 The annual report of Supt. Bell of u
 Foreign Mails Office, will show that the tot
 cost of the service for the fiscal year ende
 June 30, 1886, was $355, TT, which is an i
 crease of $23, 673, or 7-10 per cent over la
 year. This increase is due to the increase
 the weight of mails conveyed, as the contra
 prices were the same as last year. The average receipts from Internal Rev
 nue during the month of July last were $s
 7S5, 4SS, an increase of S9OS 29O as compare
 with the receipts during the correspondir
 month in the preceding year. The reven,
 collected on spirits was s5,05s 435, an increa
 of $59S, ,344; on tobacco, $2, 9SO, ,942 an increa
 of f$l3S, 944; on fermented liquors S2, ,26S, 9S7,
 increase of S162, 7i9, and from miscellaneo, ! sources SHES, an increase of $S, 2S2.
 FOREIGN ITEMS. , The men who fought in the German wa of 1866 and 1870 are being retired.
 It is believed here that the Ameer of A = phanistan is meditating an attack upon Kafir
 tan.
 The harvests of New South Wales are ve
 promising. The best yield since 1870 is e
 pccted.
 In railway collision at Modling, eig
 miles from Vienna, Austria, seven perso
 were killed and twenty-two wounded.
 A number of men who were engaged
 the recent riots in Belfast, Ireland, have be-
 sentenced to terms of Imprisonment rangil
 from two to nineteen months.
 The latest reports from Osaka al
 Hiogo state that, while the cholera epiden , in Osaka and Hiogo is decreasing it is steadi !. increasing in the province of Kanagawa al ~ the port of Yokohama. The number of deat
 from cholera for the month of June was ty
 thousand seven hundred and two, and for u s the first half of July one thousand seven hu s dred and ninety three.
 The harvest reports for Austria-Hunga
 show that the yield of wheat is from $500, 0
 to 100000 hectolitre below the average; u
 yield of grinding barley 5000, 900 hectolit
 below the average, and of rye $500, 900 he
 tolitre below the average. There is 0 mediu