Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
NEWS OFrHEDAY
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 Two little children were burned to destf near Pittston, Pa.
 An aged farmer st Ware, Mass, hanged himself to end his sufferings from nervous prostration; another living near Cstswissa. Pa, stabbed and shot himself because his housekeeper would not marry him.
 An unknown man committed suicide at Niagara Falls, by deliberately jumping into the river from small platform at the north end of Cedar island, and boldly swimming right over the cataract. The act was wit messed by a lady and gentleman, who happened to be near the pagoda on the island at the time.
 The total cut of ice on tho Kennebec River In Maine this winter is estimated at about 50O. 900 tons, shortage of about 400, 900 tons compared with last winter. There are 15O.0a tons of old ice on hand.
 -Advices from Labrador state that below Esquimault Point to Blanc Ssblon the people are starving. They killed in January live hundred dogs and ate dog meat every day to save themselves. Late last November ship was sent from Newfoundland with load or provisions, and in great storm she was lost and never heard of.
 Tho steamer Ike Bonhsm b 'ew up, eleven miles below Eicksburg. Miss. The mate, and several n ;groes were killed, and the pilot, en- gineer, and 8 number of deckhands were severely wounded.
 The Dime Savings Bank of New Bruns- wick, N. J., has been closed. Arthur G. OSiby, the secretary and treasurer, is short in his accounts, it is ssid to the amount of SSo,0OO
 A marriage between two cousins, perform ed by Presbyterian clergyman in Montreal vas declared null and void by Archbishop Taschereau, and now, at the instigation of the Church, the courts have rendered similar decision.
 The adoption of dogs grease as cure for consumption, though we'll known, astonished Chicago people.
 A mutinous convict in Pittsfeld, Mass, JAil was ins' antly shot and killed by keeper whom he attacked in the corridor.
 Governor Hill has nominated Dr. Charles Phelps for health officer of the port of New York, and Dr. John H. Douglass, Marshall B. Blake and Charles s. Higgins for Quarantine Commissioners.
 Five men, the crew of the tug John Mar kee, were all killed and the boat was totally destroyed in Boston hsrbor by the explosion of the boiler.
 A party of Apaches supposed to be DOT ton of Geronimos band, are destroying prop erty and lives in Northern Mexico.
 King Rex, by the kind permission of the munlC1p4l 8utnOr1tleS or NeW OrleanS, tOOk entire possession of the Crescent City for two days during the Mardi Gras.
 The Excise Board of Boston has raised the price of liquor licenses for 1886 thirty-three and oue-third per cent. Hotel licenses are nov $500 each.
 Free miners in Kentucky say they will take no steps against the convict workmen for two weeks thus giving the Legislature time to take action in the matter.
 An old lady named Elizabeth E. G. En- erson died recently after fifteen years of se- clusion and apparent poverty at Rochester, N. Y., leaving legacies to the amount of $15O, The three Schoolcraft brothers, on trial At McLanesboro, H., for the murder of John Mann, have been found guilty and sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment each.
 The Eastern soft coal miners have inau- gurated general strike. Ten thousand men are affected.
 The late John B. Cough was worth s1oo, At Fort Townsend, ". T., two men at lacked an inoffensive Chinanan, and after beating his head against the rocks and fear lully maltreating him, tore his queue out by the roots and left him for dead. The citizens or the place are greatly incensed over the un- provoked assault, and officers are in pursuit of the perpetrators.
 The noted French's hotel in New York has been sold for $522, 900 and will be opened e hotel again.
 At Parsons, Kansas, a tramp who went to school house to keep warm was whipped orutally by the citizens and sent adrift.
 The American hotel in Boston was par 0a1V destroyed by fire, with loss of s20O, 900. Five hundred men and boys have been thrown out of employment by the lockout at the Knickerbocker Colliery, operated by the Phnadelphis and Reading Coal and Iron Con- pany.
 "A family of seven persons in Dubuque, IOWA were taken suddenly ill, and from the trichiniasis. small quantity of the sausage used ny the family upon being examined was tound to be alive with parasites. Three mem- oers os the family arc critically ill.
 The Knights of labor are boycotting sev- sral business places i, Troy, N. Y. Over two hundred members of the Order have been di- vided into sub-committees and they have vis- tied the boysotted stores. In one instance the clerks were kept busy all the evening pulling down the goods and putting them up. Regu- iar customers were shut out by the operation ct another store. The girls belonging to the Order stood outside and tried to induce peo- pls not to enter to make purchases.
 "A $l, ,0OO, 900 fire occurred in Akron, Ohio. An immense mill, railway depot and other property was destroyed. An elevator with loO,ooO bushels of wheat went with the rest
 -Dittmar, Hexter t Co.'S dynamite manu- IN. IL, exploded, and nothing was left of it but sphnters and broken timbers. The watch man, Heinrich Hieman, went up with the fac- tory, and search was made in all directions Tor his body, but not vestige of 1t could be found
 -Prohioitiorists in Marathon, Ia, went in torce to drug store where whisky was sold, destroyed thirteen packages of liquors, forced khe druggist to pack up and ship away the rest of bis goods, and close his store.
 It is now believed that nine persons were aboard the hfeboat which left the steamer !diewild at Stamford during the storm of Fri day morning, Feb. 26, and are supposed to have been lost.
 -Holland, the Texan who shot Davis in New York, cannot take his $500 or his re- volver with him when he goes home. A dino museum offered him large sum to pose as curiosity.
 General Master Workman powderly, head of the Knights of Labor, severely criticises hasty strikes and calls for more moderation and arbitration.
 A frightful succession of explosions of ore damp occurred in the Uniondale Colliery, near Dunbar, Pa. Fifteen miners were vic dms of the disaster, two were instantly killed and several of the injured cannot recover.
 MT. Caleb B. Meeker, late General Pas senEer Agent of the New York, Connecticut and Harlem River Railroad, died at his home in Schenectady of peritonitis, resuiting from .uDcoIS& SuoPny, iroui Wnicn ne nas suuered tor i've years, during the last two of which he was . helpless invalid.
 The New Jersey Assembly, by . large majority, passed the bill practically prohibit ing the erection of . bridge by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company over Arthur Kill to reach its proposed terminus on Staten LlAnd.
 -MrA Cope, whose husband was killed at the Uniondale Coliery, Pa, on Monday, has since lost two children-the boy who was then Injured and an infant
 Nineteen of the Oregon ant-Chinese rioters are now in custody.
 The murderer Adams, sentenced to be