Connecticut western news., 1886-12-15
THE WORLDS NEWSN BRIEF
Interesting Gatherings from
 ell Points.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE OLD
 WORLD AND THE NEW.
Latsst Dsnestie Nstss-Wa4hlnGtsn Newa Notes and Gsssip-HoFsiEa NowS
 Notes, Eco, keD.

| icSt oI ana QfTeSteu SIX Ol tne | SanS-four men and two women. | President Bartlett, of Dartmouth Col | leSc, met with un accident. frncturing his | right arm between the elbow and the shoul-
 der He will probably be confined to his 1 house for some time.
 | The eminent comedian, John E. Owens, | died at his residence, Aigburth Vale, near l Towson, Mid. For two or three years Mr. | Owens has been in very poor health, but his | sickness did not develop any alarming symp-
 toms until a short time before his death. Pilot Malcomb rescued the crew of tho
 bark Cremona and foregoing the prospect of | piloting an incoming vessel into the harbor, | made for New York without loss of time. | Representative Dowdney of New York died Friday. After the reading of the journal of | the House. Mir. Campbell of New York an- | nounced tho death of his colleague and offered | resolutions expressive of the regret with which | tho announcement of the death had been ts> | ceivcd by the House, and providing for joint | committee of tho Senate and House 10 attend | the funeral.
 The bill introduced by Senator sewell for the redemption of trade dollars provides that for period of six months United States trade dollars, if not defaced, mutilated or stamped, shall be received at their face value i'll pay mcnts of all dues of tho United States. f6r the same period holders of trade doilars on presentation of the same at the United States Repositories may receive in exchange like
 amount in face value on standard silver dollars
 or subsidiary coin. The trade dollars received
 shall not be reissued, but shall be recoined into standard dollars.
 --ghe Garfield monument ct C-nclsnd, Ohio,
 is nearly completed.
 -Herzog's Opera House. at Washington, b. C.,was totally destroyed by fire Tt is decided that no pardon willbe grant.
 ed to Fish, the Now York broker.
 Mrs. Cverb~ugh, of ShandaSen Centre, in
 the Catskil Mountains, shot and killed beay
 weighing 226 pounds when dressed.
 -"Doc" Wilson's sisters and his mother dc
 clare his story that he is Moons son untrue,
 and intimate that he is not fully sane.
 A New Jersey farmer named Nagley shot an unlawful visitor at his house, but in the
 struggle which followed lost an eye and was
 badly bitten by the intruder.
 7Alfrcd Lavoic and his son.. aged twelve,
 of Larignal, went hunting. Not returning,
 neighbors started into tho woods in search of
 them and found their bodies partly desoored
 by bears.
 Tho official canvas ct Michigan shows that
 SS6, SS5 votes were cast for Governor at the late
 State election, as follows: Luce 1sl 474; Yaple,
 t74, 042; Dickie, 25, TO; scattering, 1Q0 lGco's
 plurality, 7,4S2.
 General Benjarsin F. Butler, in the suit
 brought by the National Soldiers Home to re-
 cover $l5,pSO uRecccuuted for by him as .
 treasure, was defeated, and the jury awards
 the ".omo S16, 537.5O.
 ,.-Iatner LuHy> Oi ot. agnes Roman Cath
 ohc Church, Brooklyn, says he spoke jocularly hs to the reprehcnsible habit of wearing ha,,ss among girls, but at the same tima meant what hc said. He regards them O, disiigurements,
 not as Ornaments.
 Thomas W, Dawson, one of the largest 'e'sher manufacturers in the country and pronlnent and active citizen of Newark, N. J., dieG suddenly of heart disease. He went down
 to looa at the furnace and fell dead near the
 furAace door. Hc was native of New York.
 The loss by fire in this country during No- sember amounted to Sl0,OO0, 900, an increase of one-third over the corresponding month iast year. For eleven months of tho ycar the destruction of property by fro aggregated the enornlols amount of $1QS0OO, ,OOO or almost one-tenth of the national debt,
 .-EarthQuako shocks have taken place in
 Missouri and South Carolina.
 All the English transatlantic steamship lines out of New York are now selling prrpaid steerase tickets for S15.
 The first officer and fcer seamen of the steamship Knickerbocker lost their lives while trying to aid Q disabled bark in the Gulf.
 -Gov. Lee, of Virginia, respited Thomas l. Ciuver'as, condemned to be hanged on Friday Jan. H.
 -A wholesale firm in Boston failed with lia. Entities of more than s92,0D0 and shows assets, including S50S in cash, amounting to only about $50. The Iowa Dairymon's Association have de. clded to patronizo no dealers in dairy products who handle olcomargarinc or other substitutes for butter.
 James Collmorc, B msn,cr of New York, whlle urtluk It Is Sllegcu fell upon a bed in
 hls efforts to beat his wife and crushed lis
 newly 3oru infant to drath A man attacked Deputy Cassc in the lobby of the French Chamber of Deputies and tried
 to stab him. Tho Deputy was rescued by
 trends The nssailant was arrested. --DespaN.hcs from Brisbane, in Queensland, state tbat tho steamers kcilawarra and Helen Nichol tave collided oG Queensland resulting | in tpf drowning of forty-two pcrsous. A terrible explosion of dynamite occurred at the Backloone Tunnel, on tho Frisco cxten sion, Arkansas, by which two men were iu | stantly killed and three wounded, one fatally It is reported that the British Gorcrnmcns
 will dccitne Frances proposal to neutralisc tht. Suex Canal except on the condition that tho | British fleet be allowed free passage in tn,e of war.
 | A boiler of locomotive exploded on thu | hne of the Beech Creek Railroad at Jersey | shore station, fourteen miles above Williams | killed.
 | -Four negroes in York county, S. C., killed a boy who detected them stealing his fathers | cotton. The men were arrested, and a con- | fession made by two of them revealed an OK | tSHslNc ~ | 10 Kill any person detecting the conapirators iD | the act of theft.
 | A jury was finally obtained in the case of Arthur J. McQuadc, of the New York Board
 of Aldermen of 1884, who is on trial in Part | l., of the Court of General Sessions. for hay. i ing accepted a bribc to vote for the granting | of a franchise to tito Broadway Surface Rail. ] load Company. The quest for jury lasted { eight days.
 | A. O. Norton a merchant of New Haven, | Conn.,, was fined $50 and costs ill the City | Conrt for giving his customers chance to
 guess at the number of seeds in a squash. Tho | nearest guesscrs were to receive prizes He | was arrested on tho charge of disposing Of | goods by chance. He took an appeal to tho | Superior Court
 | James A. Wales, the well-known cartoon
 ist, died from an overdose of bromide of
 potassium, accidentally taken.
 Burr Woods, while walking around a salt
 factory near Pittsburg, Pa., fell int, 8 vat
 of scalding brine and was fatally parboiled l A young man in Cynthiana, Ky, killed
 himself because accused of stealing S5. His
 father died of grief over his act and his aged
 mothers life is despaired of.
 Thomas J. Cluverius, condemned to be
 hanged on Friday at Richmond, Va., for the
 murder of Fannie Lillian Madison, is refused | pardon or communication of sentence by Gov l ernor Lee.
 | Tho mother of the murdered girl, Fannie
 Lillian Madison, has written letter to Gov
 ernor Lee, of Virginia, with regard to the con-
 demned Cluverius, and insisting that he
 should be hanged.
 Congressman William Thompson Price
 died at Eau Clair, Wis. He was born in
 Barre township Huntingdon county, Pa.,
 Juno r., 1924, and was therefore in his sixty
 third year at the time of his death. He was
 largely interested in lumber.
 Several of the men arrested for particlpat
 ing in the riots in Dublin last autumn have | been tried and convicted. Their sentences ! were deferred.
 | Mir. Joseph W. Harper. United States Con-