Connecticut western news., 1886-11-10
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 Notes. Etc.. Eta. Scientists note the discovery of two new asteroids, Nos. 262 and 263. -Gatling guns are to be adopted in the ar- mament of the Canadian militia. Socialist Aveling is pleased with the New York city election, but thinks that Henry George must widen out if he wishes to con tlnue leader.
 Christopher Pagan, under life sentence for murder in the State Prison at Wethertield, Conn.,, deceived his keeper by placing dummy in his cell and escaped. Another earthquake was felt in Southern States. It was most severe in Savannah, Ga., and Columbia, s. O. Very slight damage was done and no casualties are reported. pr. James M. Buzzel, an electric physician was committed for trial by a coroner's jury at Portland, Me-, charged with causing the death of Carrie M. Cotton, of Gorha..., in that State.
 District Attorney Maritime of New York, says an indicted ex-Alderman will be tried, probably, before the end of two weeks. The McCabe case will also be disposed of finally. The Squires and Flynn trial will go over to January probably.
 A desperate fight occurred between a gang of riotous tramps and number of citizens at Annville, Pa., in which revolvers and knives Du. their assailants were wounded, and one of the latter captured by the police.
 In Chicago Mrs. John Rushton was d- vorced from her former husband, Frederick Roberts, some time ago, and kept their child. Roberts called at her rooms and demanded his child, and when the woman refused he threw kerosence over her and set fire to her. Tho woman ran to the floor below and a neighbor succeeded in extinguishing the fire which en- veloped her, but not until she had been fatally burned about the arms and body.
 Governor Hill, of New York, names the 25th inst. as Thanksgiving Day.
 The expenditures from the Peabody edu- cation fund the past year were $62, ,365.
 A father fooling with pistol in Long Island City lodged bullet in the head of his only son.
 Satisfactory results were obtained in the tests of the new six-inch and eight-inch steel guns at Annapolis.
 Trouble is feared in Chicago if Pinker- tons men are employed to guard the stock yards against the strikers.
 It is reported that efforts are being made to secure R. G. Ingersoll as counsel for the condemned anarchists in Chicago.
 George De Haven, engineer, aud Charles Given, brakeman, were killed by the explosion of locomotive boiler on the Texas and Pacific Railroad near Davis Station, La.
 The captain and one of the crew of the schooner Alice M. Stouples were drowned on the Grand Banks and one of the crew of the Gertie Evelyn was knocked overheard and lost.
 American refugees in Canada will be in- terested in the trial of an alleged embezxer from Kansas under Dominion statute that makes it a crime to carry into Canada property stolen or embedded in other countries.
 Miss Orville Weed, young lady residen { of Rochester, N Y., committed suicide by shooting herself through the head at the home nf Matt Nr t1&ax tl,. .~eN where she had been sojourning as guest.
 John Hart, colored, charged with con- piicity in the murder of 8 young cripple named Waldrup, in Lee county, Ala, was seized by a mob who brought him to the scene of the murder for the purpose of burning him at the stake.
 -Ex-Alderman NTcCabe was proven to be in sane by the testimony of several experts in mental disorders and by his wifes account of his behavior, and the jury found accordingly. He will remain under bond to appear for trial for bribery unless committed to an asylum.
 Chicago butchers arc firm in resisting the packers demand for ten hours as days work.
 Two laborers were instsnt3Y- killed and two fatally injured by a freight train at Ham, kins, N. Y.
 One lady, recent recruit of the Salvation Army, has given 7,500 towards the erection of the 'barracks" in Chicago.
 A Dll mas passed the lOWeT uotlSe oi tiic Vermont Legislature which allows women who pay taxes to vote. It will pass the Senate.
 A terrible disaster by fire occurred at Loogoolee, near Shoals, Ind. During the night the Pipher House was suddenly en- veloped in flames, and two men, John G. Gates and John Durch were burned to death, Michael Tracy was fatally injured and several others seriously burned. The captain, mate and four of tho crew of the Spanish bark Tres lost at sea October 10, were found floating on piece of the cabin fifty miles south of Tortugas on October l4 by the schooner Anna B. Hutchinson and taken to Key West. The other seven sailors Of the ill-fated bark are supposed to have perished. in Charleston, $. o.
 St. Johns Military Academy, at Haddon- field, N. J., WIS burned. Tt is claimed that in fight in Sonora, A. T., fifteen men were killed. Seven villages in the Friendly Islands hay c been destroyed by volcanic eruption. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher returned home after five months absence in Europe Several lively encounters with a gang O: masked and armed burglars took place in De troit., Mich.
 | owing to the lockout in the knitting mills in | the Mohawk Val ey.
 | All the Chicago packing houses returned | to the ten hour schedule on Monday. Wages | were increased slightly. The brig W. c. Werner was wrecked on the Jersey coast, near Bay Head. All on board | were rescued by the life line. l Three seamen and lady passenger were drowned in tho wreck of the schooner Mary | Brown off the Newfoundland coast.
 Six United States prisoners were sentenced l to be hanged at Fort Smith, Arkansas, Friday | Jan. 14, for murders committed in the Indian Territory.
 | Two men who had chung for four hours te their capsized boat at Cape May were takel unconscious fir, m the dangerous sea by two brave yachtsmen.
 The death of Blackwells (N. Y.) Island prisoner shows that the man was sentenced | for lntoxication while suffering from fata fracture of the skull.
 At Shelbyville, H., woman supposed tt have been hired by liquor men attempted tC murder the wife of Rev. J. l.. Danttsitt, con ductor of prohibition journal.
 The proposed transfer of the lease of tht labor of the convicts in the Louisiana Peni | tentiary tS New York syndicate has been for bidden by Governor McEnery.
 Grain receipts by lake at Buffalo for the current season make 8 total of more than | eighty-two million bushels being slightly ovel | fifty per cent. in advance of 1885.
 MT. Henry Bergh, of the New York So- | ciety for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is | the victor in the suit to set aside the probate of the will of Miss Melton, which gives the ociety S15O,000.
 ! An extra freipbt train on the Wast Ierse1