Connecticut western news., 1886-03-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
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 The spectacle of reconciled wife clingine 10 the husband who had tried to kill bef caused his acquittal at Homer Ga
 Captain Reynolds, of the whaling schoon- CT Aurora, of New Bedford, and his crew of twenty-one men, picked up at sea by the steamer Wesser, have been landed at Balti. more, Md.
 sam Ney'ton, Choctaw Indian, was shot to death, in accordance with his sectence, for the mrrder of his wife,
 The strike of the Texas Pacific will prob- ably extend to the whole Gould system. The Knights o. Labor are endeavoring to enforce the Mallory boycott against all the lines.
 The trouble at the Mccormick Reaper works In Chicago Is said to be nearly at an end. The men are resuming work, and the demands of the strikers have been complied with.
 The Chicago bakers are organizing for great strike.
 "A quantity of smuggled American duck has been seized in Kingston, Ont.
 In the case of Holland, the Texan, who shot and killed Davis, the noted confidence man, the jury were out but few minutes and returned 8 verdict of not guilty.
 The strike terminated on Friday, at o'clock, by the officers of the various lines agreeing to the demand of the men for g pay I0r days work of twelve hours. On the bleecker street and Twenty-third street lines, however, there Is still some disafection amone the men because of the presence of an ob- noxious subordinate official. The drivers when they came out with their cars had their horses adorned with flags and carried broomr on the platforms.
 The missing fishing schooner Virginia Dare. of Gloucester, has been given up as lost. The Dare sailed for the Grand Banks hallbut grounds on Dtc. 24, and has not been heard from since. She undoubtedly found cred in the great gale the week after her departure. She carried & crew of fourteen. Including this crew, seyenty-fve men have found watery graves from this port since Christmas.
 "A school teacher, near MarceiIus, mlcn.. was attacked by an angry parent, who cut his breast open with razor.
 Roman Nose, an Indian in confinement at Fort Leayenworth, attempted suicide by hanging.
 The manufacturers of Rhode Island have combined and subscribed & fund of $1 ,00O, 900 to fight the labor organizations.
 The Chinese exodus from San Francisco has begun in earnest Fourteen hundred left for the Flowery Land, and hundreds more are coming East.
 he intends to prefer charges against Commis- Goner Squire.
 An old lady of eighty was burned to death at her home in Raleigh, N. c.
 An explosion of dynamite occurred in shaft 16 of the New York aqueduct, by which one man was kill ed and four others seriously injured.
 Junction division, Grand Trunk Railway, near Belleville An express train fell distance of forty feet, striking upon the ice, and six pas sepgers were seriously injured.
 The boy who has been suffering from hy- drophobia and was supposed to have recoy- cred, at Cadillac, Mich, had relapse and ls dying from the terrible malady.
 A sailor who attempted to desert his ship in the Delaware River was found dying in the ice by the crew of a tugboat
 One of the assassins engaged in the at tempted murder of the United States officers in Utah was arrested.
 The German government protests against the jurisdiction of United States courts over the children of parents not fully naturalized.
 The importation of French ship carpen- ters to end strike at Detroit has failed, and itis proposed to prosecute the firm for im- porting contract labor. A child was torn to pieces by savage dog in Chicago.
 John Miller and Joseph DunkfeIler, tray cling hucksters, were found frozen to death in their wagon, near West Milton, Pa
 Eli Beardon was twice tried for murder at Harrison, Texas and was twice convicted and sentenced to death for the crime. A third trial, granted on appeal, has just resulted in his acquittal.
 The fund for Mrs. Gen. Hancock has reached $40.000- Two burglars arrested and sent to Wheat on, ILL, have been recognized by lad as the robbers who murdered his mother. Mrs. Den- low, and nearly killed his father in November, 1884.
 A syndicate with s2O OoO, 900 capital, on paper, has secured & monopoly In the manu- facture of cotton seed oil
 A brilliant meteor is reported from True mansvile,N N Y.
 An aged lady, who is s1-posed to be de- ranged, set fire to her house and cut her throat in wilbraham, Mass, b;.t failed of suc- cess in both attempts at destruction.
 Three men were killed in an explosion at the Miami Powder Companys works, near Xenis, Ohio.
 The husband of Mrs. Graham whose body was found in we'll hole near Springfield, H., confessed the murder and exhonerated his second wife and her mother from any knowl- edge of the crime.
 Gen Stone wants 515, 900 more to set the Goddess on her pedestal, and asks the wealthy ladies of the land to make up this amount.
 One fireman was fatally and several others very dangerously injured at fire in Beorovis Block, Nashua, N. H. The whole block is m ruins. The total loss is about Sl00, 100. About three o'clock one of the large chimneys which had been attacked by the fire, and from which 1u support had been burned, fell and several nremen were buried under the mass of heated bricks. One was killed and others severely injured.
 The singular spectacle of an infant bap- tsm Ill jail is reported from Atlanta, Ga.
 "A tobacconist in Hughesville, Pa., died rom the effects of drinking wood alcohol.
 l. against Americans for the acts committed against their countrymen here. President Cleveland sent message to Congress recom- mending the consideration of claims for in- demnity presented by the Chinese Minister on account of the recent anti-Chinese outrages in the West.
 Mir. William Heath, the head of the late firm of William Heath & Co.,, bankers and brokers of New York, who failed last fall died at his home at Lakewood, N. J.
 By 8 succession of snowplow accidents on Eastern railroads three men were killed and four others injured.
 Texas celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her declaration of independence. "A strike was inaugurated on the Texas Pacific which is expected to spread over the entire Gould system.
 During the gale of wind fire broke out in plaining mill at Troy, N. Y. The walls fell and six persons were severely injured.
 Presiding Elder Lugg, of tte Methodist Episcopal Church, of Janesville, Wis, reports two remarkable cases of faith cure that have come under his personal observation.
 The accident on the Northern Railway st Thornhill, Canada, was serious. Besides the news agent, who was killed, twenty persons were more or less injured. The night was in tensely cold and many of the wounded were frostbitten. A farmers team took fright and ran right into the train, one horse jumping in between the tender and baggage car. The baggage and mail cars and passenger coach Left the track and rolled down forty-foot ambankmant. The baggage and mail cars