Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
NEWS OFTHEDAY.
GENERAL ITEMS.

.ANN w O OE 1 hL LA 1s
 GENERAL ITEMS.
 "A negro ruffian was shot and killed by 8 mob near Auburn, Ky.
 Organized bands of outlaws have been discovered in Wisconsin. Three lives were lost on the Potomac River by the capsizing of 6 schooner.
 Frederick Fieg, aged sixty-five years, hanged himself to an apple tree near Trenton, N. J.
 -Sallie Skratorck was fatally burned in Baltimore, Md, by the explosion of 8 kero- sene can.
 A schooner libelled for back taxes at De- troit Mich, was stolen from the authorities by her owner.
 Two thieves who stole a team of horses, were caught and hanged by vigilantes in Car roll county, Ark.
 Attempts were made to fire the Albany House, the Waverly Hotel and the Coleman House at Far Rockaway.
 The secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health says the danger from cholera thls year is greater than ever,
 -Immense damage has been done in the Mississippi valley by the breaking ot leVees, number of lives were lost.
 The Canadian government announce that no more Yankee schooners seized will be re- leased without the penalty.
 A band of hostile Apaches attacked . ranch twenty miles southwest of Pontano, A. T., and killed eight persons.
 An explosion of giant powder completely deprived Miss Lizzie Cornett of the sight of both her eyes at Phoenixville, tPa.
 During a severe thunderstorm in the vicinity of Middletown. N. Y.. 8 farm hand was struck by lightning and killed.
 A mad dog in Pullman, H., bit several children end policeman. The victims will go to Paris to be treated by M. Pasteur.
 The partisan troubles in the Ohio Senate are likely to be resumed over the committee reports on the Cincinnati election frauds. The jamming ice and the recent flood had telling effect on the lighthouses along the St, Lawrence. many of them being destroyed. Captain Alfred H. Brotherton, of the brig o. B. Stillman, has been convicted at Balti- more, Md, of conspiracy to cast his vessel away,
 In fight between . gang of moonshiners and Deputy Marshal at Manchester, Tenn, two men were killed and four mortany wounded.
 Two Cornish miners while working on shaft in the Granite Mountain Mine at Phil- hpsburg, Montana, fell into deep pit and were killed.
 The execution of Robert Fowler for the murder of Miss Lydia Burnett took place at Louisville Ky, in the presence of five thou sand people.
 A new comet is reported to have been dis covered by Mir. Brooks, of Phelps, N. r., This secures the first Warner comet prize to the discoverer.
 A report from Magdalene, Sonora, Mexico, states that party of Apache Indians killed 8 number of rauchers in that State, together with several women.
 United States troops and thirty Mexican troops the whole under command of Major Refs, are in active pursuit Of the hostile Apaches in Arizona Jefferson Davis delivered brief address to large assemblage st Montgomery, Ala, preliminary to laying the corner stone of the soldiers monument there.
 William Albertee obtained verdict of $25, 900 against the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, at Newburg, N. r., for personal injuries.
 The big gun cast in Boston having cooled sufficiently to allow its removal from the moulding pit. is reported perfect up to its present stage of manufacture.
 A band of marauding Indians made 8 raid on 8 portion of Pinta county, A. T., and mas sacred two brothers named Owens and the wife and child of A. L. Peck, aranchman.
 A family of eight, together with two other persons, were poisoned in Reading on Sunday night by ham, of which they had partaken freely The ham was bought from . city butcher.
 Mrs. Lye, the wife of farmer living near Dresden, Ont, and her 3-year-old child were drowned in the river. The child fell over an embankment into the river and the mother sprang at.oT it.
 The Illinois Central road had washout south of Jackson, Miss. special train sent to repair the damage ran into tho washout- The conductor and the fireman were killed and the engineer was badly hurt.
 An incoming freight train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad was wrecked cs.= 5ans.s Cffy and brakeman and fireman killed. It Is believed that spikes were drawn from the rails by malicious persons.
 The Marquis de Mores, the famous COW boy of the West is to have hundred meat shops scattered over New York city. He will bring dressed meat all the way from Montana and Dakota to supply his shops.
 At Hackettstown, N. J., Janitor Titus was arrested at his home on warrant issued by Justice l.. w. Youngblood, accusing him of murdering Matilda Smith while he was at tempting to commit an outrageous assault.
 An American fishing vessel has been seized at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, for infringe ment of the fishing laws. The affair has caused commotion in Canada, and 8 Cab met meeting has been called to discuss the situation.
 The fishermen of Gloucester, Mass, are opposed to any treaty with Canada which shall affect any of their present rights. They are indignant at the threat of the Dominion 
 sells if they enter any Canadian port.
 Tn Port Huron, Mich., Henry U. Smith, A prominent farmer, while drunk tried to enter the house of G. c. Meisel, well-known mer- chant to escape heavy rain storm. He was takea for burglar, and shot by Meisel. The Coroner's jury rendered verdict of justifi. able homicide.
 Charles Ogden Ferris, the California claimant to the Tichborne estates, sailed fol England To an English officer, who messed with Tichborne in Ireland, he could not recal the names of any cffi"ers except Captain Gun ing the Orton trial.
 The Hoboken cgarmakers indicted for con. spiracy for boycotting a cigar manufacturer were acquitted in the Hudson County Court of Sessions. The first ballot showed sever for conviction and five for acquittal. After deliberating for three hours the seven yielded and the boycotters were discharged.
 Cardinal Tasehereau, of Canada, promul gated pastoral, in which he condemns the Knights of Labor. on the ground that the or der IS inimicsl to the welfare, safety and sta bility of society, and hostile to those rules ol the Roman Catholic Church which prohibit, it's members from belonging to any association entaillng secrecy.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 The Senate Committee on Commerc voted to make . favorable report nn a ney Atlantic and Pacific Ship Railway bill as 8 sub stitute for the original Ship bill.
 --Brigadier General Thomas H. Ruger ha been assigned to the command of the Depart ment of the Dakota, and Brigadier General Fl. Potter to the command of the Departmen of the Missouri.
 MT. Belmont's bill appropriating s147 74S as indemnity for the losses suffered b Chinese from mob violence at Rock Springs in Wyoming Territory, ill 1882, was unan mousy adopted by the House Foreign Affair Committee and will be reported to the Hous for action