Connecticut western news., 1886-06-23
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 The free baths of New York have been opened.
 Two boys were buried alive in cave-in
 Chandon, Ohio.
 The statue of Daniel Webster was unveiled In Concord, N. H.
 The attempt to enforce the Sunday laws In Portland, Me, was failure.
 Governor Hill, of New York has refused his signature to the New York Excise bill. Four horse thieves were captured and hanged by vigilantes at Limestone Idaho.
 George Williams shot his wife dead and then committed suicide st Fl Paso, Texas.
 Mary Adams was burned to death by the explosion of oil gas st her home at Harper Kan.
 A loss of over $500, ,000 was sustained by the burning of large packing house in New Haven.
 In midnight riot after drunken car ousal in Wayne, Michigan, four men were fatally shot.
 David H. Converse. aged sixty years, &C., cused of wife murder, cut his throat in his cell at Lyons, N. Y.
 Two small schooners were driven ashore at Seabright, N. J., during the storm. The crews were saved.
 Five Mexican smugglers, with dozen loaded pack mules, were captured near Dorn- ing, New Mexico.
 Reports from London says that Dr. Oliver W. Holmes is being ioniZed, and is the guest of all the notabes of England.
 Counsel for the murderer Maxwell in St. Louis obtained an extension of time in which to file reasons for a new trial. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of Boston, celebrated their two hundred and forty-eighth anniversary. William Close and Horace Gaston, while cleaning out an old we'll, were suffocated to death by fire-damp at Fort Wayne, Ind. Dennis Boyd, colored, was hanged at Belleville, Bossier parish, La., for the murder of David Haas. on Christmas Day, 1884. The annual Convention of Bankers to be held in Boston during the coming month will be gathering of great financial import. Thomas A. Doyle, Mayor of Providence, R. l., was stricken with paralysis, and died, He was Mayor of Providence for many years.
 The Democratic State and District Con- mittee of Vermont voted to hold the State and District Conventions at Montpelier on July 21. The Salvation Army was disturbed by Q street crowd in Williamsport. They were badly handled and their instruments spoiled, A secret convention of the Brotherhood of Photographers was held in Kansas City, Mo-, and the body decided to join the Knights of Labor.
 Tive men fell, with the scaffold around tn top of chimney, in Dover, N. H., distanc of eighty-si1 feet, and two were seriously in jured.
 John Barnett, farmar, of Ypsilante, Mich, shot his wife and mother-in-law, killing , the former and dangerously woundlng the latter.
 The congratulations over the result of the recent elections in Nova Scotia all point to the | hope of separation from the Dominion gov | ernment.
 Rev Henry Ward Beecher sailed for Eng land Saturday, and the Grand Republic with . crowd of friends accompanied him down New York bay.
 Gen. Schofield notified tie New York Park Board that the United States troops guarding | the tomb of Gen. Grant, at Riverside Park, | will be removed June 30. Minnesota and Dakota have been visited | by more cyclones, and great damage was done. | The loss of life was small, but many persons were more or less injured. Eight young men while fishing on Long | Pond Lake, near Hazelton, Pa., were thrown | into the water by the capszing of their boats. | Two of them were drowned. | A workman excsvating for reservoir at | Huntington, Pa., discovered an earthen pot, | securely sealed, filled to the brim with Ameri : can and Mexican gold coins. Six fishermen, lost in dories on the Banks of Newfoundland, in the fog, have been picked up by French vessels and landed in safety at St. Pierre, Miquelon. | A fire at Litchfieid, Conn.,, destroyed the | Mansion House the Court House, the Enquirer printing office and several stores and private dwellings. The damage was $lOO,0OO.
 Indians attacked Jones Brothers ranch, near Rockers Hot Springs, Arizona. The owners made an effective defense, killing three of the Indians. whom they scalped. | Judge Holman was renominated for Con. | gress at Greensburg, Indiana. Four ballots l were taken, the last ballot standing 121 to 50 | Wm. P. Hepburn was renominsted in Iowa.
 Thomas Stacey we'll known citizen o | Brownsville, Ohio, and his son William, age( nine years, were killed by lightning standing beneath 8 tree during furious thunder storm
 Governor Hill. of New York. vetoed th' bill providing for spring elections and tn, choice of Aldermen in New York city on | general ticket under cumulative system O. voting.
 A mattress factory at Chicago was burned | to the ground. Two women were fatally in jured by jumping from the building. Som, | girls are missing and believed to have beer burned.
 | An attempt was made to wreck train or l the Central Vermont line at Montpelier June. | tion, Vt., by five tramps who had been dis | lodged from freight car. The tramps were arrested.
 | At the Sturtevant House, New York, W l B. Thompson shot and killed his wife and then shot himself. Thompson was surgeon on Stonipgton line steamer and had lately married.
 Bunker Hill Day was celebrated with be | coming honors in Boston. There Twas the l usual large favorite and interesting ceremon
 res. All buildings in the city were handsomely | decorated.
 The citizens of Passaic, N. J., assisted by | the State dignitaries and military, celebrated l the two hundredth anniversary of the transfer of the Acquackanonck tract by the Lords | Proprietors.
 An attorney in Kansas City named Carlisle | in an attack upon pr. Munford of the Times tired five shots into crowded street car shooting pr. Munford, young girl and g passenger.
 An engineer of the Pittsburg and Western | Railroad. two brakemen and fireman were | xii ed and & conductor seriously injured by | the breaking of car axle on the line, neal Foxburg, Pa.
 l The International Typographical Union | at their late convention decided not to anal 1 gamate, a whole, with the Knights of Labor but will put its shoulder to the same vince and help 1t along
 There was a sad drowning accident on tn.
 HackeEsack river. near the Pennsylvania rail road bridge, Sunday. A party of eight wen for sail, the boat capsized and three of tn, party lost their lives.
 | A wealthy gentleman, of Philadelphia leaves his fortune to his daughter and her husband for life and on their death to be uset for the erection of home for unfortunate
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