Connecticut western news., 1886-10-13

The Probate Court at Detroit decides it has no power to remove mother from the guardianship of her minor children, but it can protect the property of those children by naming guardian of their estate.
 The Dominion government is expected to make formal demand upon the United States for reparation to George Hathaway, British subject arrested in Wyoming Territory as . deserter from the American army.
 Mrs. Yellig went to a Creek near Rondout, NY, for water. Arriving there she noticed the body of child floating ill the creek, and pull ing it ashore, found it to be that of her own four-year-old son Charley.
 The Chicago Eoening Journal prints in> tervlews with large number of people respect ing the sensational story which iptimated that Emory A. Storrs died from poisoning. The inference drawn from them is that there is no foundation for the statements published as to the manner of the lawyers death.
 A vessel arriving at Gloucester, Mass.. Ina, two cases of what is believed to be cholera on board. ..-The cattle plague is not decreasing, and there appears to be some laxity ill the quaran- tine at Chicago, Ill.
 A shut down of the mills at Frankford, Pa., and vicinity throws about 8 thousand operatives out of work.
 A thief, caught in the act, in Chicago, H., after being locked up, stabbed himself ten times, inflicting fatal injuries.
 The Vermont Legislature has convened It will, on the 18th inst, elect successor to Mir. Edmunds, United States Senator
 Freight brakemen on the New York. Penn- fVlvanla and Ono Railroad struck for an in- crease of pay. and tho freight on U line is delayed.
 A box containing thirty pounds of giant powder exploded ill the 800 level of the Gale donia Mine, Dakota. Four men were killed outright. The five men had gone to sleep on box used for powder when spark from one of their pipes fell among tho scraps
 Four grocers in yCincinnati were fined::s5o each for selling bogus butter without having posted in their stores Limitation Butter Sold Here"
 The President has appointed James A. Hanlon, of Medina, N. Y., to be Collector" of Internal Revenue for the Twenty-eighth Dis Rochester,, vice Fl. s. Pierce, suspended
 -El Paso, Texas, is again excited over an alleged Mexican outrage. Columbus Brown, who, it is claimed, was unjustly convicted at Paso del Norte of attempted theft, was placed at penal labor, and escaping across the Rio Grande was recaptured on American soil by Mexican officers, since which time he has been kept hidden.
 Auditor Williams, of the Treasury, has brought suit againt the sureties of the late F. r. Burmeister, pension agent at Philadelphia in 1867, for deficit of SIT 900 in his accounts. Burmeister died in 1869.
 --Atterney- General Garland, who returned to the city Saturday night, resumed his duties at the Department of Justice. He is very much improved in health, and says he never felt better in his life. He had long and pleasant interview with the President and afterward received great many visitors at the department. Solicitor-General Jenks, who acted during his absence, has gone to Penn- sylvania to attend to some business before the Supreme Court. He will be absent about week.