Connecticut western news., 1886-02-03
NEWS OF THE DAY
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 charged them. They stood ten for conviction and two for acquittal.
 The defence of Mrs. Fannie Strass Hoex- ter, thas she was compelled by her husband to sign 8 mortgage, was oyerruled by Judge Van Worst, of New York.
 A fire in Franklin, Pa, destroyed the Opera House, City Library aud Reading Room.
 Two families of "Rovers' consisting of nine persons, were found frozen to death in the pralr near SAls Bois, ]. T. Their teams were also found dead in their harness. During tke cold storm 8 mother and two children froze to death near Ceredo, W. Va. An old lady, ayed ninety years, committed suicide at Hartford, Conn, to avoid being compelled 10 go to the woihhouse.
 General Pope thinks the Mexicans who fired on United States Cavalry and Killed Cap tain Crawford were renegades ard not reSn- lar troops
 Charles Fischer, 8 discharged workman, fired as For, man S,einhiller and immediately Afterward shot himself dead at New Haven, Conn.
 A well-known gambler, named John 5. Macoy, was found dead at Louisville, Ny, with bullet hole in his head and his skull crushed in with blow.
 A sensation was created at the trial at Paterson, N. J., of Thomas Dowling for shoot ing of Lawy- Ward by the appearance on
  the charges made by Bowling against Ward, which led to the shooting, were true.
 Pierre Lorillaid has decided to retire iron, the turf and will sell his racing stock by pub- lie auction on February 27.
 The bodies of eleven more of the victims of the disaster at Newburg, W. Va-, have been recovered.
 John 0. Kimbal, his wife and three chi- dren, on their way home from Dodge City, Kan, were caught in 8 blizzard and frozen to death
 The Relief Committee of the Nanticoke mine disaster report the amount received at t9,2SS26 to date. A man poisoned by morphine at Malone lived two weeks before it killed him.
 The New York Senate passed Mir. Com stocks resolution for an inquiry into inc Broadway Railroad franchise.
 At great meeting in Philadelphia moro than e5, 900 were collected for the Irish Par iamentary fund.
 More snow slides, destructive or much mining property, are reported from Colorado. The New Jersey Senate passed . resoiu- ton against the proposed Baltimore and Ohio bridge at Staten Island.
 The premiums st the annual sale of the pcws Tn Talmage's Brooklyn Church amounted to about S5, COO.
 
 sion a. Ncwburg, W. Va, was the result of tbe negligence of the superintendent Tn refusing to nt in ventilating fans when ordered to do so. Twenty-two bodies in all have bee n found Cal Simpson, the murderer of Mrs. Graves, was taken from all at Henderson, Ky, and lynched by 8 mob.
 Much alarm prevails in the neighborhood ot Shenandoah, Pa-, extensive caye-lns being expected with the first thaw.
 Snow drifts containing trees and rocks cucumber the Oregon railroads.
 The State of Georgia claims $22. 040 from the Pullman Car Company as back taxes and penalties on it's business in that State for t.elve years.
 Henry Proud6tt, an Indian, is on trial the second time for the ID urd.r of his house. keeper.
 Five Chileans, who were employed in the mines at Mocha were recently sent, in the GUS tody of guard of thirteen Indians, to the Judge of the Tarapaca sub-delegation to be tried for robbery. Tho Indians mas acred them with the wife and child of one of the prisoners.
 Many ladies of Fair Haven. Conn.,, pro- pose to boycott all who do not jon them in opposing the granting of 8 liquor selling It. cense.
 Many Hungarian or Slav workingmen are leaving the an hracite regions for Europe.
 The New York State Assembly passed, by . unanimous vote resolutions favoring .he suspension of the Silver Coinage act
 -Eigbt prisoners broke jail at Seguin, Texas. Five were recaptured but three of the most important criminals effected their escape. pr. Samuel Price and William Powell, of Chattsnooga, Tenn, became involved in . quarrel in the house of the latter, which re- suited in both parties receiving fatal injuries. The bill providing for the admission of Washington Territory into the Union as a State has been favorably reported in the Sem ate. It provides for adding to Washington the 'pan handle" of Idaho by carrying the southern boundary to Montana, where the Bitter Root Mountain range forms 8 natural barrier.
 A bill will be reported by the House Com mittee Agriculture making the Commis- sioner of Agriculture Cabinet officer and providing that the department shall be known as 'The Department of Agriculture and La bor"
 The Court of Claims decided the case of the Choctaw Nation against the United States, and rendered judgment in favor of The Nation for &3S6, 605. This will now go to the Suprsme Court.
 -Fiudlay. Ohio, has gas vel! giving out tea million feet daily--the biggest in the world.
 George Fisher, while cleaning hopper in brewery at Cleveland, Ohio. was suddenly buried in an avalanche of malt and sufocated to death.
 "A man named Mallon died on Friday at New Haven, Conn.,, from . draught of oil of vitriol which he took in mistake for whiskey. "A terrible snow and blizzard blockade prevails throughout great part of Iowa. Several passenger and freight trains are showed fin, and much suffering among passengers is reported.
 "A bill in troduced in the Connecticut Legis. 1ature requires insur ance companies in case of total loss to pay the full policy.
 Four masked burglars put in . nights work in Tarrytown on Thursday night. They robbed three houses in which there were only helpless women and old men, and secured considerable booty.
 "A terrible tragedy took place in . d,srepu. table house in Manchester, Ky. In the fight the four men who took part in it were al killed
 Physicians in this country are watching the cultivation of hydrophobia virus in New ark with interest, but they say 1t IS too son to decide on it's merits.
 The ferry houss of the West Shore Rail- road and the Weehawken Ferry comp mics, foot of West Forty-second street, N. l., was burned. Loss Sl0O, 900.
 Examination into the circumstances at tending the death of MT. and Mrs. Bates, at AltenUurg, Ont, shows that the aged couple were murdered and robbed Of 8 large sum of money.
 An unusual immigration is report d from different parts of West Virginia, Pennsy lvania and Ohio into Arkansas for the purposes oi permanent settlement
 Mrs. Lucy Carpenter, a bride o, ,wo months, was burned to death at her home in Winchester, Va.
 "A collision between passenger train and an engine and tender, near Newmarket, On. taro, resulted in the killing of fireman and injury to several of the passengers.
 In Buff ,lo Alice Hunter, l4 years old, was arrested on charge of arson. She desired to go to party WI h the family of her empl yer.