Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
NEWSOFTHEDAY.
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMa- County Clerk Charles E. Loew, of Now York, is dead.
 .--Canonchet R. L,.has been purchased by Mrs. William Sprsgue.
 An epidemic of glanders is said to pre- vail in Cambridge. Mass.
 kills Moorman was hanged by mob at Axton, Henry county, Va
 Four little girls were terribly mangled by bulldogs at Liudenville, Ohio.
 A young man died from the e1ertion of polo playing at Marlboro, Mass.
 A runaway team in Danbury, Conn.,, in iured, more or less, seven persons.
 Three hoseman were seriously injured by . falling wall at fire in Troy. N. '.
 The live stock raisers of the Northwest are in convention 1t Miles City, M. T.
 Two men were crushed to death at Lan- caster, Pa, by tho falling of . derrick.
 ---Ex-President Arthur is very low, and doubts are entertained of his recovery.
 Lena Ruth was burned to death at St. Louis, Mo, by the explosion of an oil stove. A woman who had been missing since Fri day last was found dead in her bed in Boston. Two old ladies missing their road. fell into quarry and were drowned at Lement, Ill.
 Two persons were burned to death dur ing fire in the jail building at Cornwall, Ont
 Owing to the floods in Ontario traffic by tho Canadian Pacific Railroad has temporarily ceased.
 Burglars murdered storekeeper at Boli- var, H., and burned the store to conceal their crime.
 The one hundred and eleventh anniver- sary of Concord and Lexington was duly cele. brated.
 A pensioner in Stamford, Conn, who re- gently received g, 900 arrears, is now missing with his money.
 Another mail pouch from the lost steamer Oregon has been recoyered-this one on the coast of Virginia
 A man in West Virginia, after turning his wife out of doors, murdered 8 neighbor for giving her shelter.
 The Dominion government has reduced the canal tolls on grain from the lakes to Mon treal to two cents per ton.
 "A manufactory of counterfeit coin, clever ly hidden, at Fort Keogh, NJ. T., was captured by United States officers.
 An immense crevasse has occurred in the Mississippi levee near Helena, Ark, and thou sands of acres are flooded.
 An old man in New Orleans in 6 fit of jealousy shot his young wife, wounding her twice, and then killed himself.
 The jury in the General Shaler trial in New York disagreed, eight jurors voting for acquittal and four for conviction.
 In Danbury, Conn.,, the placing of a crooked pin in 6 young mans chair, has re- suited in his acquiring spinal disease.
 Two brothers named Weaver were forcibly taken from the custody of the sheriff. at An thony, Kan, and shot to death by lynchers.. The sealing steamer Resolute was wrecked. Her crew of about thrae hundred and fifty men had a narrow escape from almost lnevi- table death.
 Judge Van Brunt, of New York, annu'led an Italian marriage because the age of the bride, who was only thirteen, was given as seventeen.
 The Montreal flood is the worst ever ex- perienced by that city. and the loss to the wholesale merchants alone will aggregate Sl0, ,0O0,0 900.
 "A Connecticut conductor, finding five un- rulv tramps on his train, rallied all the hands ane compelled two of the nomads to leap into an icy lake.
 Montreal is rapidly recuperating from the effects of the flood, and 1t IS now proposed to erect levee that will prevent & re pitition of the disaster.
 The execution of Robert Fowler for the murder of Miss Lydia Burnett took place at Louisyi le, Ky, in the presence of i've thou sand people.
 While eight kegs of giant powder were unloading at Clin:onvile, Wis, one keg was dropped and the whole mass exploded. Sev- eral men were killed
  Brakeman Ma thews, train hands, were prob ably fat ally injured on the Pennsylvania Rail- road, near Hermanvlle.
 Keeper Laverty, of the New Jersey State Prison, was found guilty by the Court of Inl- peachment on two of the seven articles pre- sented against him by the Assembly.
 At Newcastle, Ps., Mrs. Hogue and wo- man visiting her were standing in the door of Mrs. Hogue's house watching tLe storm, when a stroke of lightning killed them both.
 -The dead bod es of three boys, who had been missing from their homes for several months, were discovered under cave of sand on the banks of the river at Quincy, ILL
 Two daring adventurers attempted to shoot the Lachne Rapids near Montreal in 8 small toat. Their craft capsized, but they were rescued in the smooth water below.
 The New York wife murderer, John Car penter, who so frightfully butchered his wife nearly two years ago, and who was under sen- died.
 Four little girls were prostrated by light ming at Freeland, Pa; mule driver was killed at Shenandoah, and other casualties oc- cured in New York State from the same source
 years of age, was found in the public school grounds of Brunswick, Mo, under circum- stances indicating that the deceased was the deceased was the victim of 8 murder.
 Miss Amalia Morosini, the youngest daughter of NIT. G. P. Morosini, who was bit ten by dog st Elmhurst, the family residence at Riverdae-on-the-Hu Hudson, has sailed for Paris to put herself under Dr. Pasteur's treat. ment.
 The Grand Jury of New York rendered in dictments for conspiracy against seven mer who brIbed the Aldermen Of 1884 to grant tho Broadway Railroad franchise. The Alder manic trials will begin with that of Jaehnt within two weeks.
 A terrible explosion of molten metal oc- cured at tue mill of Singer, Nimick & Co !, in Pit.sburg, Pa, on Saturday, burning about twenty or twenty-five persons, some of them fatally. None were killed outright. Experi. n1ents were being made at the time.
 In the South Boston schools about sixty boys demanded of the teachers that there be but one sessIon per day. The demand being refused they played truant and forming in line marched to the city iu the hope of per suading some of tho scholars there to join them. Tie boys were captured, taken back to school and soundly whipped.
 The steamer Colombia, which exploded h=r boiler at Tumaco, on the Isthmus, had on board ffty-four passengers, Of whom ten were instantly killed and five died soon after, while nineteen were very seriously wounded. The scene presented at Tumaco was most heartrending, and two instances are noted ot aged mothers dying of grief at the loss ol their children.
 The bodies of the twcnty-six men wh1 perished in the mine at Nan.icoke will never be taken out of the bowels of the earth. Il was discovered by bore hole that thst por- on of the mine where the men are is com pletely fl ed up with water and qnicksand and that all hope of rescue Is gone. The mine will be walled in and monument erected or the surface to tell the tale of one of the great est disasters that ever occurred in the coal re- gions.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.