Connecticut western news., 1886-10-27
THE WORLDS NEWSI BRIEF
Interesting Gatherings from
 all Points.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE OLD
 WORLD AND THE NEW.
Latest Domestic NOtes-WashinEton Nows Notes and GOssip-Foreign News
 Notes, Etc., Etc.

Chicago.
 Prince komatsk uncle of the Mikado of Japan, who has just arrived ill San Francisco, | will visit New York
 4, The Universities in convention arc agita- l ung change in their creed, and decided to commence foreign mission work. The starchers in one of the laundries at | Troy have struck, and there fears of | general strike or general lockout. | The boiler of saw1nill at Citronelle Ala. exploded killing two men, and wounding two | men and boy. The cause was lack of water | General Sheridan has been elected com | mander of the military order Loyal Legion, to hl; tie vacancy C. u ;ed by the death of General | Hancock.
 The Cerneau rite has been condemned bv the Grand Lodge of Masons of Ohio, and aei- | mission IS denied it in every lodge room ill the | jurisdiction.
 | The Free Masons of Kentucky considered | the proposition f mak h., the sac of rum as average & Masonic onence, but postponed | acton for one year.
 | Colonel Gilder's Arctic exploring party was reported as p 'oceedlng to Oxft r l, at which | place, or at lorA Factory, Colonel Glider ex- pected to obtain new crew.
 David Evans. asel fifty years, and his son | William, residing at Millport, near Reading Pa., were buried alive sor1e one hundred feet In cavern at Slatington, in that State. "A mob of masked men in Pickens county. ala., went to the jail, overpowered the tailor, s'oh out three negroes charged with arson. and hung them to the limb of a neighboring | tree. | A 610pound shell was accidentally exp oded at the Government Proving Ground, Sandy | HOOK. First Lieutenant Medcalfe and Private l Joseph King were instantly killed and several men injured.
 --I hiladelphia mill oNncrs threaten lock cut Ii the strike at FrankIord is not settled by | l1olrc o1,o,,f l. and sixty mills and throw some seventy thou sand hands out of work. The jury in the libel suit of Mary Berkery. of Gloucester City, N. J., against the Camden Dday Post gave verdict in favor of the plain tiff of six cents damages. The plaintiff will have to pay the costs of the suit on both sides President Cleveland, accompanied by few members of his Cabinet, officially visited the agricultural fair at Richmond Va and was enthusiastically welcomed. To Governor Lees eloquent address he returned Q pleasant reply.
 A band of anarchists in Chicago used A. Catholic church for a drill room at night, stored bombs under the altar and hid arms md dynamite in other parts of the building. A Pole revealed the plot, the deadly material vas found and seized, and 9 number of arrests have been made.
 A Harvard student, charged with theft, pleaded guilty and was punished by fine The amount paid by Judge Hoadly on his pond Tor the defaulting assignee of Archbishop Purcell s62,5OO) is to be paid at once to the creditors.
 The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor closed it's session at Richmond. reso- lution was adopted asking mercy for the con- denaned anarchists.
 The will of the late Samuel J. Tilden was admitted to probate at White Plains without opposition. An attempt to break it is to be made by some of the heirs
 The registration in Brooklyn, N. r., is 10S, gro, against 1O9 S42 in 1885.
 The surveying schooner Annie was wrecked on reefs on the shore of Newfoundland and one of her crew was drowned.
 The last saloon in Atlanta, Ga., has closed for good and the brewery has shut down. Prohibition IS now in full force.
 -George F. Edmunds received majority in each branch of the Vermont Legislature in the election of a United States Senator.
 One man was killed and six injured by the falling of cage at shaft on the New York aqueduct, near 176th street, New York. -The greater part of the business portion of Oakland, H., is in ruin. A fire. destroyed whole blocks. The loss Is over $500, 900. Constant Dephflander, young lunatic, residing near Pacific, Mo-, fatally wounded his mother with revolver and then shot himself The Knights of Labor increased the sal aries of their officers, raising that of the Gen. eral Master Workman from $1 800 to S5,0OO per year.
 Work upon the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor is rapidly nearing completion. Applications are pouring in daily from all parts of the country for participation in the parade.
 Two horses, harnessed to farm wagon, took fright at Greshville, Pa., and running away fell over an embankment. Mrs. John Brunner was instantly killed and the other oc- cupants of the vehicle were seriously injured. | In New York City Irving Hall endorsed the nomination of Henry George for Mayor, and nominated the following county ticket l: For Register, Dr. J. H. Demarost; for Justice | of the Supreme Court. Edward Patterson; for | Ecclesine; For President of the Board of | Aldermen. Robert B. Mooney. Accidents in the Lehigh Valley of Penn | syivania are suffering from drought | The packers strike in Chicago is ended in withdrawal of the demand for eight hours. President Cleveland sent S1OO for the re- lief of the sufferers by the storm in Buffalo. | One hundred girls left their work in a fac | tory in Brooklyn because of the insults of the | sub-bosses.
 | There is much suffering among survivors | of the flood at Sabine Pass and Johnson's Ba- you, and another appeal for aid is put forth.
 -Sol. Sayles, brother of the flown Ex-Alder-
 man Sayles, paid S25, 900 into the General Ses-
 sions, of New York, to redeem his bond. Ex-
 Alderman McCabe was put in jail and his trial
 set for Thursday.
 -Eastport, Me-, both during and after the
 fire, was robbed by piratical fishermen from
 New Brunswick. The arrival of the cutter | Woodbury prevented bloodshed and afforded
 the suffering town protection.
 The journal of the House of Representatives | for the first session. Forty-ninth Congress. has just been issued by the Public Printer. For
 the first time in Congressional history the ] volume of matter was so bulky that it had to be bound in two parts of sixteen hundred pages. Never before has the journal of long session contained over twenty-two hundred pages The one just printed has thirty-two
 hundred.
 The District Attorney of Arizona recently represented to the Attorney General that suffi- cient evidence was obtainable to convict Ger
 onlmo and his braves of murder before a civil
 tribunal, and Governor Zulick of Arizona re-
 quested the President to cause the military
 officers to surrender the hostiles to the civil
 authorities of the Territory for trial. Not
 withstanding this request Il action of the
 President in ordering the confinement of the
 Indians at Fort Pickens, Fla, is ac,epted at | the War Department as conclusive evidence o1
 the intention of the government to treat them
 as prisoners of war and not ordinary marau-
 devs amenable to civil jurisdiction.
 General Gourko is to replace Genera
 haulbarr as military agent in Bulgaria
 -Russia has completed the Merv and Oxus
 Railway to within five stages of Sarakhs
 General Sir Frederick s. Roberts. com-
 mander-in-chief of the British forces in India.
 will take command of the army of occupation
 in Burmah.
 THE BOARDER'S PUNISHMENT.
 The boarders at broakfast were jolly, alas
 s lid Jones, you had better the oleo pass,
 Then funny Smith cried, I'm hash aimed O
 you, Jones,
 For os.tino mn pIate-do tripe picking thes,