Connecticut western news., 1886-03-24
THE NEWS.
cEhE1RAPRIC REPORTS OF WHAT IS tHANSPlRlNG OF IMPORTANCE IN Thls COUNTRY AND ElsEWHRRR.
GENERAL ITEMS.


 THIS COUNTRY AND ELSEWHERE.
 GENERAL ITEMS.
 The Pennsylvania Fish Commission has just distributed fifteen millions of young white Ash in Lake Erie.
 The fer boats Baltimore, of the Pennsyl. vAniA line, and LackaWaus, of the Hoboken hue, came into collision on the North River. The Ba timore st, uck the other boat bow on and carried away her hood and cabin, cutting into her deck and injuring fvo passengers, two of whom had to have limbs anputated.
 The Mayor of Seattle, W. T., says no (hInamen were forced to leave that city; that the c lesta's who left, being too poor to pay fm their passage, W, re glad of the oppor tanity offered them of free transit to San Erapcisoo.
 A beautiful blonde has been arrested in n nnefsee as tho accomplice ip defalcation of el00.c00.
 The City Hail at Fall River, Mass, has been reduced to ruins by fire. The loss is over &25O, coo.
 -G orgc l.. Prinsle, farmer residing near Aiekshinny, Pa, WAS struck with lightning aud killed.
 -G. N. Sparks, aged fourteen years, was crushed to death at Warren, Pa, by pile of wood.
 By an explosion of natural gas at Mur- persons were injured, three of them fatally. The explosion was followed by fire which destroyed eeven dwelling houses.
 In New York Alderman Henry ". Jaehne was arrested on . charge of bribery in con- nsotlon with the granting of the Broadway raailroad franchise. Inspector Byrnes says that Jahne has made full confession to him, impiicat ng Aldermen and other persons
 -Nicholas O'Connor, who saved two chil- dren 1T n death under the wheels of loco- motive in Jersey City and nearly lost his life, will probably recover.
 Three oil tanks on freight train on the Cast Madonoy tunnel railroad. near Reading rs. caught fi:e and six employees were sev- ereiy injured.
 The wife of Eugene Bohrman, of Avon dale, 10, cut her son All ert's throat from ear to ea,, dangerously wounded another with . hammer, ani then killed herself.
 Tho wife of Brig. Gen. Gomez, Federal Commander of the Mexican Troops, eloped with her nephew to New Orleans. She took 41 900 belonging to her distinguished hus- band and all of her valuable jewelry, carry ing them in . small shopping bag.
 Capt James I. Waddell, Commander of the MarylAnd Fishery Forces, but better known e Commander of the intrepid Con federaAe cruiser Shenandoah. died at Annap- o,is, Md., on Monday night, ot congestion of the brain. He was . native of North Carolina, aged si1ty-two years, and brother of Alfred NJ. of Representatives for three terms from that Stats
 -Mrs- Elizabeth Davis Bancroft, wife of Geo. Bancroft tho historian. died on Tuesday ,- at Washington, D. O., at her residence on H' h.l Ro- week and her illness had confined her to her bod more than month. She was eighty-two years of age and had long been in delicate health. She wss the daughter of Judge Davis, the first United States Judge of the District of Massachusetts appointed by President Wash ington.
 The suit of Major Dugas, of the Sixty fifth Regiment, against Edmund E. Sheppard, editor of the Toronto Morrvng Mael was txled. Tho action was to recover 356, 600 for libel Judgment was given against the de- fendant for the full amount claimed. The libel consisted in alleged false publications re- GardiDg the conduct of the plaintiff in the Riel rebellion in the Northwest last year.
 The explosion of naphtha in the great linseed oil mills shook Toledo and awakened au its people to witness the destruction of the mills Four persons were slightly injured.
 Two women with male companions, on entering their house ip Chicago were robbed by masked burglars, who had previously raul sackcd the house.
 sion of sentence was illegal; but in case of suspension no other judge could order it into eifect.
 "A Committee of the City of Montreal Council has decided to raise $1, ,00O, 900 by means of bonds for paying off the deficit in. cured by the smallpox epidemic and for making sanitary improvements. This whl make the total debt of the city SIS, COG, ,000- 6j per cent more than the provincial debt.
 One of the owners reports the supposed loss Of tho three masted schooner s. H. Levin. The schoo or left Philadelphia for Palatks, Fla, on Aug. Is last, was lowed to the Break water, and set sail Since that time nothing ba. been heard from her. Her crew consists oY nine persons, all of whom are given up for lost.
 The trial of Mrs, Mary Wileman for mur- dering her u band by poisoning came to an end ct Little Valley, N. Y.. with verdict of murder in the fir.t degree. The woman was b
 The New York Grant Monument Fund has reached nearly sl25. GOO.
 Patrick Ford and John Murphy. the con victed murderers, were hanged at New Or leans, but they hardly felt the pressure of the were nearly dead when carried to the scaf- fold. The sight was Q shocking onc.
 Sadie, seven-year-old daughter of George Taggart, died at Newturg, N. Y, from oonvulsions caused by jumping the rope. She was first tare with paius in the hips and tending physician says there can be no doubt as to the primary cause. She was ordinarily strong, healthy child.
 Two little children were burned to death near Ftts,on, Pa.
 An aged farmer at Ware, Mass hanged l E.. prsssrstion; another living near Catawissa, Pa, stabbed and shot himself because his housekeeper would not marry him.
 An unknown man committed suicide at Niagara Falls, by deliberately jumping into tue river from a small platform at the north end of Cedar island, and boldly swimming right over the cataract. The act was wit messed by lady and gentleman, who happened to be near the pagoda on the island at the time.
 Second Comptroller Maynard las dis allowed two claims of John Roach, one of e96, 8fO for extra work on the United states monitor Puritan and the othcr of SEQ, 274 for watching. care. towing and pilOtage of the monitor Roanoke from March 17, 1871, to Sep tember A. 1853.
 Captain Brown, of Canada, is fitting out the steamer LAnsdowne. She is to carry two kix- pounders. He claims that he is simply going to look over the fisheries. It is no se- cret that he is going gunning for Americans who are trespassing on tho Canadian fisheries. It is his intention to enforce the provisions of the treaty of 1913.
 Later particulars from the Michigan and Ohio Railroad accident near Marshall, indi- cate worse injuries than at first reported. There were thirty passengers in the one coach, uearly au of whom were more or less severely injured
 --Dr Austin Flint, the noted physician of Now York, was stricken down shortly after ieav ng the Bellevue College and died of apo piexy.
 A car on the New Haven and Westville Street Railroad was crushed between pass enger train and freight train in Meadow .<reok khrou0h tho fau of a Ten