Connecticut western news., 1886-06-02
NEWS OFTHEDAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

NEWS OFTHEDAY. GENERAL ITEMS- Tho Northwestern crop reports are fatter- ing
 -Twenty-one indictments have been found against anarchists in Chicago. Fire destroyed 8 church, hotel and several other structures in Franklin, Mass. The First NJ. E. Church, of Elmira, N. r., was destroyed by fire. Loss, S70,000. Two colored students, were drowned while crossing Massie Creek, near Xenia, Ohio. The date for the dedication of the Bar | thodi Statute of Liberty is fixed for Sept. Sd.
 The village of Runkels, Wis.,, on the Val ley division of the St. Paul road, has been to- ! tally destroyed by fire.
 The Yarmouth ship William Low, Capt.
 Hebbert, was wrecked at West Scatary, c. B.,
 and two of her crew were downed.
 Millions of money are to be laid out for | railroads in Canada, in order to bind the provinces together with iron bands. Sheriff Grant of New York has only re- : ceived SAGA. 065 thus far on the judgment for
 over s1, 100000 rendered against Warner.
 William Smith, engineer, was instantly killed, and three other employees were fatally
 injured by the explosion of saw mill boiler at Lima, Ohio.
 Mrs. Riel, widow of the Northwestern
 leader, Louis Rie died at her home in St. Vital, Manitoba, after & lingering illness of | two months.
 Pension Examiner Aver, of Lowell, Mass, | under indictment for corruption, etc., in of.
 flee, having fled to Montana, his bail was de- clared forfeited.
 -Iguatius c. Grubb. of Wilmington, Del,
 has been appointed to the vacant Judgship of the Superior and Criminal Courts of Della
 ware by Governor Stockley. An Ex-Mayor and the Common Council of nf Anne rIor,, hov haor i,,li cfo1 for violation of the city charter restricting tho expenditure of the public moneys. Mir. J. K. Walton, one of the wealthiest men in Union county, Ill.,, was found dead in his barn at Anna, Ill, shot through the head. It is supposed to be the work of tramps. Miss Frances Folsom, the lady who is publicly reputed to be the fiancee of Presi- dent Cleveland, arrived in New York on board the Red line steamship Noordland, from Ant werp.
 Captain Gomez, the skipper who so oruel- ly treated his passengers from the Cape de Verde Islands, received sentence in Boston to
 pay fines of l3,000 and be imprisoned three | months.
 Alderman Michael Duffy was arrested in New York on complaint of the District Attor- ney, that he had bribed Alderman Waite to vote for the Thirty-fourth Street Railroad franchise.
 In New York the Third avenue strikers have decided to order strike in all companies in which Vice President Hart has an interest. Twelve men were called of the Church street one-horse car line.
 The New York Seventh Regiment Veteran Association will visit Providence, R. l., on the 24th of June to participate in the two hum dred and fftieth anniversary of ths settle ment of that city.
 Springfield, Mass, celebrated the 1.-two hundred and tiftieth anniversary of it's settle ment. Gorham, Me-, held & jubilee meeting and parade because of it's one hundred and tiftieth birthday.
 The forest fires in Northern Michigan are the most serious of the kind that have occurred this season. Thousands of acres of pine tim Der are burned, many farm houses destroyed, and the loss is serious.
 It is believed that the lockout in the Troy laundries and collar factories will soon be ended. One of the locked out women is be- lieved to have committed suicide through brooding over lack of work.
 Stephen Pearl Andrews died in New York city after long illness, aged seventy-four years. He was born in the town of Temple ton, Mass, the 22d of March, 1872, and was noted as a prominent abolitionist in his day.
 Three brothers named Wright-aged re- Speclively twenty five, twenty-three and nine- teen years, and James Hannis started out in their own yacht for sail down the river at Camden, N. J., and have not since been heard from.
 A terrific explosion, resulting in the death of two mon occurred at the United States Dyua mite Companys mills, near Toms River, N. J. There have been several explosions at that mill before, but none has hitherto proved fatal to life.
 Counsellor Richard s. Spofford of New buryport, Mass, attorney for the American Fisheries Union, says that the inland fisher men will unite with New England in opposing future treaties with Canada bearing on that industry.
 General Miles has not offered reward for the heads of Indians on account of the War Department. The reward has been offer and the money raised by citizens of Tomb stone who requested that 1t be paid through
 General Mills.
 A disastrous fire occurred in the large six story brick and stone structure at the corner of Congress street and Wabash avenue, Chi cago. The loss will approximate fully Sl ,000,- 900, and falls principally upon book publish CTS and printers.
 The Mayor of Milwaukee rescinded his re- cent proclamation prohibiting labor parades so far as to permit the Knights of Labor to turn out Sunday. No red flags wereBcarr ed, how l ever. Over 10. 00n men paraded aud everything
 passed off quitely. The officer in command of the U. 8. troops states that the recent Expectations on
 both sides of the line iu the vicinity of Nogales vera undoubtedly committed by ex-scouts, the late depredat;ons. Professor Brooks, of Phelps, N. r., dis covered still another comet in right ascension, llh. Sim. 15s.; declnation north deg. 5o
 min. 15 sec. It is large, but faint with slow motion southeast. Professor Brooks has dis covered three comets. The Methodist Episcopal Conference in ! Richmond passed resolution praying the at | tentlon of the President of the United States | to the international treaty with China the dis | regard of which threatens vio,enca to the mis- sionaries of the Church of that country.