Connecticut western news., 1886-04-14
NEWS SOFTHEDAY.
GENERAL ITEMS.

grafton will remain as they are.
 The British schooner Beta was wrecked oh Newburyport, and several lives were lost. The Connecticut Senate has defeated the proposed changes in the insurance laws of that -Pauper immigrants are being sent back to Europe by the authorities of Erie county, N Y.
 By the capsizing of the river steamer Mountain Boy at Owensboro. Ky, three men were drowned.
 The damage done by the late rains and freshets in Georgia is estimated at over two million dollars.
 The Spanish government has ordered the immediate enforcement in Cuba of the new tax on cigars.
 The residents of Guaymas, Mex, rose in riotous disorder and drove away all the Chi nese residents
 Rhode Island has adopted prohibitory amendment to the State constitution by moro than . three-fifths vote.
 John A. Bailey, farmer of Owen Sound, Ont, and his hired man were brutally mur- dered by parties unknown.
 The people of Norristown, Pa, are taking active measures toward the erection of suit able memorial to the dead soldier.
 The through rate of fare from Chicago to San Francisco is only Sl6 through the war be- tween the transcontinental lines.
 The Boston Iron Foundry on the fourth attempt succeeded in casting 53-ton gun. It is believed that the casting is 8 success.
 The estimates for muui pal appropria- hons in Boston for the coming fiscal year have been cut down moro than S4, 900, 900. One coach on express train which caught fire was burned at Cleveland, Ohio, to- gether with heavy mail and two corpses car ried as freight.
 "A Virginia jury has assessed damages against the State for distress and seizure for taxes, after payment had been rendered in State interest coupons.
 York, was arrested at Palatka, Fla, by two de- tectives from Inspector Byrnes' office. They left Jacksonville for New York.
 J R. Bodwell, of Hallowell, the great granite man, is . candidate for the Republi- can nomination for Governor of Maine, al- though he will make no personal effort to se- cnre it.
 A fishing dory, from the Banks of New foundland, drifted into Louisburg (Cape Bre- ton). Two of it's crew of four, were dead and the others had sustained life by eating por- tions of the remains.
 Dispatches from Bentonville, Ark, re- port . fight between 8 sherlfs posse and party of horse thieves near that place, in which one of the latter was killed and & dep uty mortally wounded.
 A destructive fire burned . number of lumber yards, mills and dwelling houses in Lacrosse, Wis. One thousand men are out of work and 400 people homeless. The damage is estimated at s1, ,OOO, 900.
 Four lives were lost during . fire ill the Planters House, St. Louis, and the hotel had . narrow escape from total destruction. The unfortunate girls were smothered in their beds. They worked in the hotel.
 A cyclone swept across 8 portion of Bull lock county, Ala, and in the path struck 8 ne gro church, in which funeral was going on. The church was blown down and four persons were killed and ten badly injured.
 Reports of drowning in various portions of the State of Alabama during the floods foot up 20 persons, all colored but one. Four of these were . woman and three children in . cabin on the Cahaba River, it floating of with them.
 Lieut. West, U. s. A., connected with the Lighthouse Service, has been instructed to place hghtship near the wreck of the Oregon. As soon 6 the weather permits the vessel will be put in position. She Is to be called the Oregon Lightship.
 Frank Dangler, one of the witnesses in the Mipgo Jack case at Eatontown, N. J., who had ( fresh scar on his nose on March 6, the day after the Iynching, and who is suspected of being one of the lynchers, WAS arrested at South Eatontown.
 The Superintendent has sent requests to all officials along the New York State canals to arrange for the opening of the canals at the earliest period practicable, if possible by April 25. This will be governed by the opening of the lakes and straits.
 The State Board of Health of New Jersey appointed Dr. William K. Newton, of Pater- son, inspector of oleomargarine under the new law passed this winter, which provides heavy penalty for selling that article repre- senting it to be genuine butter.
 The New York East and Newark confer ences of the Methodist Episcopal Church adopted a memorial to Congress urging the observance of the treaty of 1880 with China, and the enactment of stringent measures for the protection of the Chinese resident in this country.
 Reports have been received from Labra- dor to the effect that the people living be- tween Esquimau1 Point and Blanc Sablon are starving, and keep themselves alive only by eating the flesh of dogs, 500 of which have been killed. It is feared unless aid is render ed them that from 100 to 160 of these people will die this spring from starvation.
 Large numbers of laborers are arriving at Panama from New Orleans to work on the canal, and Mir. Robert Smith, colored man, is there in the interest of his countrymen, and will report on his return that they are well treated and paid. They appear to be well united to the labor and quite contented. ..Worl on the canal is being pushed forward In New York city Ex-Ald rmen Pearson and Kirk were arraigned in General Sessions and pleaded not guilty to the charges o bribery. Ex-Aderman Waite was accepted a! . the penalty attached to the offence. Bott Pearson and Kirk were admitted to bail in thu sum of S25,0OO which they readily found Kirk is worth S500.0O0.
 The mercantile agency of R. c. Dun Go reports that the business failures in thu United States for the past quarter numbered 3,2O3, with liabilities slightly over $29, ,000, GOO. The number of failures for the frs quarter in 1885 was 3 658, with liabilities o SIG, 900, 900. The liabilities for the quarte just ended are less than these in any rimila period since 1873, the decline in the Midd. States being very marked.
 -lhe floods in the South have been mucl more serious in their results than supposed It is now known that fully hundred live were lost in Alabama and Georgia Planter along the river have lost all their horses mules, and COWS, and the damage has beel most serious Over 300 negroes were taken t. Selma, being taken from house tops. On family of . woman and five children lost thei lives. All the drowned were colored people
 A mad dog scare prevails in Pope county Arkansas, where numbers of dogs affecte with rabies are at large. Several people hav been bitten. Two or three cases of hydro phobia are reported. Calvin Alewin was bit ten by bulldog, and his arm and his shoulde sent for x maidstone, which was put in boilin milk and placed on the wounds. It adhere for five hours. The local physicians an neighbors witnessed the operation. The mad stone is being used in similar cases and, is said, with success.
 -i frightfuI accident occurred on the Hoos ac Tunnel line about seven miles from Greer field. A train consisting of baggage cal smoker, mail, sleeper and two passenger car left the track owing to washout or & land slide, and was hurled down the rocky embant ment to the Deerfield River below, distanc of two hundred feet. The train at the time ( the accident was running at the rate of twent miles an hour, AS the cars struck they too fire, and terrible scene ensued. numbe of persons were killed, and others so severel injured that they cannot live.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 The bill appropriatiug $500, 900 for u erection of monument to Abraham Linco