Connecticut western news., 1886-01-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL. ITEMS

has been practising law for a number years. He says he is on short visit to attend to some business for American clients in Paris.
 The Connecticut Supreme Court rendered . decision sustaining the action of the New Haven Selectmen in refusing to register . Yale student on the ground of non-residence. The troubles in connection with the Polish Catholic Church at Detroit Mich., continue, and, As the disaffected Poles are known to be purchasing firearms, the police have been mo- tified to be on the alert.
 At Charleston, s. C., an Italian shot man who interfered when the former was beating his wife, and afterward committed suicide.
 Charges of inhum unity toward patients in the Louisville City Hospital have been pre- ferred against some of the visiting surgeons as that institution.
 Two negroes, who were caught in the act of setting fire to 8 quantity of cotton near Crawford, Miss, were taken from jail by mob and hanged to 8 tree.
 Tt is reported that S,nor Caceers is can didate for the Pes dency of Peru.
 Three masked men entered the engine room of the Marshall Coal Company's works at Erie, Colorado, captured the engineer, took him several hundred yards away, tied him and then returned and set fire to all the coal in the company's hoisting works.
 The maximum estimate of the value of the estate left by William H. Vanderbilt did not exceed two hundred million dollars. A careful count of the securities in the Vanderbilt safe in the vaults of the Lincoln National Bank shows an aggregate of three hundred and five million dollars.
 At Stackleye Prairie, Texas. man who had been arres, ed for disturbing Christmas entertainment shot and killed the deputy sheriff who had him in charge
 A dastardiy attempt was made by train robbers to low up the bridge of the Southern Pacific Railr ,ad over the Rio Grande by the use of dynamite.
 A freight train on the Chester Gre, (Ps.) Railroad was derailed, killing the engineer and injuring the conducto" and brakeman.
 -Between eight and nine o'clock on Tuesday an awful steam boiler explosion. with frightful results, took place on the old Book farm, in Providence township, Lancaster. Pa The boiler was used for running machines for cut ting feed Three farm hands were killed, and the barn with all its contents, including many head of live stock, were burned.
 The will of the late Wm. H. Vanderbilt was admitted to probate on Tuesday with no objections.
 MT. William E. Page, agent of Adams E1- press at Golden City, Mo-, robbed the com pany and attempted tu escape in his wife's dress. He was captured.
 It is thought that the bodies of the en- tombed Nenticoke miners will never be re- covered
 -Advices from Newburg, N. Y., give par ticulars of the trial and suspension Of a Meth odet clergyman for performing the marriage ceremony at the wedding of the daughter of brother minister against the consent of her parents.
 Shortly after twelve o'clock at night the boilor of the Mobile, Ala, Oil Works exploded with terrifi, force demolishing the building.
 ree enpiosons of es ssesm ,h and gas ds dobmaa badly charred, and a number of others were very badly injured.
 Some unknown persons foroibly entered ; St Elizabeth's Catholic Church, It Chicago, and wantonly mutlated numerous large oil paintings, beside committing other acts of vandalism.
 The Peniteniiary Commissioners are typhoid fever in the Albany, N. Y., Peniten- tiary. Many deaths have occurred,
 R. ports from New Mexico say that dozens of families ave been massacred ln different parts of the Territory, and the news or their death has never spread beyond the immediate vicinity, ow ng to the long distance ana sep aration from the outside wo:ld-
 Eight vessels were wrecked on Grand Mannan in the late storm. Many lives were lost
 "A shooting afray took place at New Columbia, Ky, in which two of the particl- pants were k1eI
 At Gainestown. Clark county, Ala, regro. who brutaliy murdered Miss Carrie BIycr at that place on the 18th inst, was c ,ained 70 8 tree st the spot where the crime was committed and slowly burned to death by . crowd of indignant whites and blacks.
 Shipping suffered grea'ly in the recent gale, and thu summer resorts on the New England coast were damaged considerably.
 A colored woman was burned to death by exploding kerosene at Norfolk, Va
 A decision in favor of the plaintiff in the suit of the late ex-Senato- Sharon against AL thea Hill, brought to declare void the al- legged marriage contract was rendered by Judge Sawyer in the United StLtes Circuit Court of California.
 At a fire in Georgetown, Mass, three men were killed by falling walls
 The Poles in Detroit have been having another litt'e TOW over their church affairs. A tumult occurred in which a number of the Poles were fatally injured.
 There was serious accident on the New Haven Railroad at Pc hamvil e Station, N Y., the Boston express being wrecked shortly be- fore daylight. The fireman was killed and several passengers were injured.
 Mayor Murphy. of Omaha, Neb.. died after . few days illness. The doctor in at tendance says the cause of death was poison irg, the result of eating chicken which had been frozen and then allowed to become par tially decomposed.
 A prisoner confined in jsl at Albany, N. T., while suffering from defrium tremens set fl to the bed in his cell and was probably fatally burned.
 The American whaling bark Amethyst, of San Francisco, is supposed to have teen lost on her way from the Arctic Ocean. The last ship to arrive thinks he got down 10 Behring Sea The Amethist had on board . crew of forty men. If the ship has been lost on the oa some of the islands of the Behring Sea, in which case unless assistance is rendered im- mediately they will all freeze to death
 It is now ascertained that the portion oi the mine at Nanticoke, Pa., where the accident occurred will have to be abandoned altogether and the twenty six men who now find grave in it left there for all time to come.
 In Milwaukee, Wis, Mrs. l.. A. Bradle, died from blood poisoning, having puncture6 her thumb with the fin of | fish while dressing ia for the table week ego. Her husband | also dying, having cut bis finger with 8 razo while removing loose piece of flesh from hi wife's thumb.
 The Newfoundland Executive has issued proclamation forbidding an Orange procession in Harbor Grace and other places. Numerou afidayits were made affirming the certainty O disturbance of the peace in the event of a pub lie demonstration or procession.
 At Foxboro, Mass, an aged widow wa founi murdered in her cottage under circun stances which left no room to doubt that mo tives of robbery prompted the deed.
 At the Bridesburg Manufacturing Con pany's building in Philadelphia, as the elevs tor was dece0ding, the chain broke causing th car to fall Edward T. Peters, lad employe in the place. while looking up to ascertain tn cause Of the noise, was struck on the nee with the chain and decapitated.
 The value of exports from the Unite States for the month of November, 1885, wer S67, ,331, ,S39, against S78 8O4. GOT during tn same month ill 1884; for five months endin November 30, 1885, S27S, ,027, 047, as compare with S3l4, ,5G9, 75S for the same period in 183- and for twelve months ending November 3t 1885, S705, 707 044, against S733, ,633, ,6s6 fo the same time lat ear. The values of in ports during the same period were as follow