Connecticut western news., 1886-09-29
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GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS A merchant of Creswell, N. O., was shot dead in his store by burglars. Mrs. c. H. Randolph, bride of few weeks, committed suicide by shooting herself at Baltimore, Md. Charges of defrauding the city treasury of 6oston oy ofhclals are to be investigated by | Council committee. The Troy, N. Y. Board of Aldermen are directed by Judge Peckham to confirm the tax levy or answer for contempt. The family of George M. Bartholomew, the Hartford defaulter, have received letters from him by way of New York. Felix Basse and Frank Blackburn were killed by falling rock at the Jaysville iron mines, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. The Freemasons of Philadelphia have cell | ebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the independence of their grand lodge. -Four prominent city officers of Cincinnati have been arrested on charges of embedding clty funds by means of false vouchers. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Eel lows voted to remove the headquarters of the order from Baltimore to Columbus, Ohio. An unfortunate occurrence marked the close of the Knights Templar festivities in St. Louis. Sir Knight was killed by accident while getting upon train. Reports from New Orleans state that the orange crop Tn Louisiana is complete failure; that there will be none of the fruit for ship ment and barely enough for home consump- | tion.
 President Cleveland has returned to Wash ington after his six weeks vacation. An explosion in the Moosic Powder Mill at Jermyn, Pa, instantly killed two workmen. Two Chinamen were killed by the explosion of gun cotton and nitro-glycerine at West Berkley, La.
 John Emery, an engineer, was fatally scala ed by the bursting of boiler in nail factory | at Wheeling, w. Va. Congressman Kelly was nominated for the fourteenth time in Philadelphia. He accepted with his usual grace, Severe storms have taken place in Wiscon- sin, Michigan and adjacent localities, and much damage has been done. The loss of British schooner of New foundland is marked by the drowning of two lady passengers, while all the crew were saved. Three deaths resulted from the crush at dant upon the grand parade of Odd Fellows in men in line.
 The prize drill and the monster-features in the Knights Templar display at St. Louis were attended by one hundred and forts~seyen thousand people.
 Mary Davis, the little negress charged with having poisoned the tea in the boarding house crime st Winchester, Mass ,-George M. Bartholomue, president of the Charter Oak Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn.,, alleged to be defaulter to the amount of nearly half million dollars, has fled to Canada.
 Martin Irons, the leader of the strike on tne 6ould system, denies the charge of drunk enness, and says the arrest in Kansas City was part of 8 scheme to injure his reputation and tlat of the order to which he belonged. In the Criminal Court of St. Louis the dates fixed for the hanging of Hugh M. Brooks, alias Walter H. Lennox Maxwell the chloro- former, and Chic Chiagial and Chic Coon, the Chinese highbinders were postponed, the former for sixty and the latter for thirty days, in order to allow transcript of the cases to be made before the appeals are taken to the Supreme Court.
 A ripple murder occurred in Florida. Three men were shot down in cold blood neal | Key West, by coal burner named Cooper. -Gov. Ireland, of Texas received notice to- day that the attorney for Arresuriss family had forwarded for his approval papers claim ing $1OO, 900 indemnity from the Mexican Gov. ernment for the brutal murder of Arresuris. The house of Mrs. Kate Jones' a widow, of | fifty years, who lived alone, was destroyed by | fire. WheE the flames were subdued the life. less body of Mrs. Jones, horribly burned and dlShgured, was found on the second floor. The | unfortunate woman was last seen crying for | help at the window near which her remains lay, but 1t was supposed some one had rescued | her.
 | At Taunton, Mass, sleeping car company
 was cast in damages Ut the suit of passengers
 whose money had been stolen in the car. | The schooner Rosila B., from Boston for
 St. John, N. B., was wrecked upon the rocks | of Point Lappeau on Sunday night. William
 Robahe, of Greonvine, Me-, one of the crew, | was drowned.
 l Another severe shock was felt in Charles
 ton, Summerville, Columbia and other places | n, 0nY1fh olino oy,1 Hxryo ok
 shocks of earthquake, with very marked effects,
 are reported as having occurred at Bridgeport, .onn.
 | Slight tremors of the earth continue to be | felt at Somerville, s. O. l The Italian United Societies of New York | city paraded Monday, in honor of the entry
 of the Italian troops into the city of Rome in
 1870.
 A disastrous fire broke out in the business | portion of Council Grove, Kansas, town of
 four thousand inhabitants. The loss is over
 $l5O,OOO.
 Best Brown and William Ford were caught | m squall while boating on Lake Ontario.
 Their boat was capsized and both were
 drowned.
 Samuel G. Smelling, ex-treasurer of the l Lowell Mass. Bleachery, has pleaded guilty
 to the charge of having embedded $100, 900 of
 tie funds of the company.
 A train of twenty cars, containing live I otoCA ATOm MOutauA, Ou Cue way tO CQlCagO,
 jumped the track owing to broken f1ange on
 the forward wheels of the locomotive. The
 wreck was complete and many cattle were
 killed.
 | "A party of hunters tell story of ha~l 2
 discovered strange lake on mountain tor
 near kinzua in Pennsylvania so infested with
 rattlesnakes that the rattling agitated lhe sur
 face of the lake when the reptiles were dis | turbed.
 Martin Irons, the leader of the Knights of
 Labor strike on the Missouri Pacific Railroad
 was arrested in Kansas City to answer to the
 charges found against him in the indict-
 ment for complicity in tapping the private tel
 egraph wires running into Vice President
 Hoxie's residence.
 hill, milkman, desired to wrestle with Chas
 Owens, 6 painter. He was gratifed. The
 man of paint thumped the floor with the head
 of the man of milk. A charge of homicide
 will be preferred against Owens, as Underhil
 died from injuries caused by the humping.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 Acting Land Commissioner Stockslage
 has rendered decision in the case of an In
 dian claiming land in Washington Territor
 against the claim of the Northern Pacific Rail
 way Company, in which he holds that the oc
 cupation of land by the Indian prior to tn
 filing of the company's map of definite location [, was such a claim as excepted the tract iron
 the grant.
 FOREIGN. A rumor is current in London that plo has been discovered to assassinate Prince Alex
 ander, and that two men have been found wh A~-